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The RCMP arrested a group of ''home grown terrorists'' they had been tracking on the Internet.
The chain of events began two years ago,
sparked by local teenagers roving through Internet sites, reading and
espousing anti-Western sentiments and vowing to attack at home, in the
name of oppressed Muslims here and abroad.
Their words were sometimes encrypted, the Internet sites where they
communicated allegedly restricted by passwords, but Canadian spies back
in 2004 were reading them. And as the youths' words turned into
actions, they began watching them. ...
... spurred on by images of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan and angered by
what they saw as the mistreatment of Muslims at home — became
increasingly violent.Police say they acquired weapons, picked targets and made detailed plans.
TheStar.com - How Internet monitoring sparked a CSIS investigation into a suspected homegrown terror cell
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I for one am shocked over this apparent violation of
Canadian's privacy. Making matters worse - authorities picked nice Muslim boys to monitor for their terrorist activiy. And, shoot, Canada is famous for the ease in which guns
may be had. This whole thing smells, don't you agree?
I think they have it wrong. Those guys have nothing to do with (terrorism)," said Scarborough Imam Aly Hindy.
Hindy
has been a high profile critic of the RCMP and Canadian Security
Intelligence Service, accusing the federal agency of targeting Muslims
who criticize the foreign policies of Western governments.
He believes this is what led to the arrests yesterday."Because they are
young people, and they are Muslims, they are saying it's terrorism," he
said in an interview last night. - Men attended Training Camp
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See? What I said.
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