Summary of Canadian Arrests - June 2, 2006 (Pics Attached) Individuals Arrested * On Friday, June 2, 2006, members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team arrested 12 male adults and five youths on terrorism-related charges. * According to the RCMP, the arrested individuals are o 1. Fahim Ahmad, 21, of Robinstone Drive, Toronto, Ontario o 2. Zakaria Amara, 20, of Periwinkle Crescent, Mississauga, Ontario; o 3. Asad Ansari, 21, of Rosehurst Drive, Mississauga, Ontario o 4. Shareef Abdelhaleen, 30, of Lowville Heights, Mississauga, Ontario; o 5. Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, of Montevideo Road, Mississauga, Ontario; o 6. Mohammed Dirie, 22, Kingston, Ontario; o 7. Yasim Abdi Mohamed, 24, Kingston, Ontario; o 8. Jahmaal James, 23, of Trudelle Street, Toronto, Ontario; o 9. Amin Mohamed Durrani, 19, of Stonehill Court, Toronto, Ontario; o 10. Steven Vikash Chand alias Abdul Shakur, 25, of Treverton Drive, Toronto, Ontario; o 11. Ahmad Mustafa Ghany, 21, of Robin Drive, Mississauga, Ontario; o 12. Saad Khalid, 19, of Eclipse Avenue, Mississauga, Ontario. * According to Luc Portelance, assistant director of operations for CSIS, the detained suspects are all males, Canadian residents "from a variety of backgrounds" and followers of a "violent ideology inspired by al Qaeda." o Speaking before the Canadian Senate on Monday, CSIS deputy director Jack Hooper had warned: "We are seeing phenomena in Canada such as the emergence of homegrown second- and third-generation terrorists. These are people who may have immigrated to Canada at an early age who become radicalized while in Canada. They are virtually indistinguishable from other youth. They blend into our society very well, they speak our language and they appear to be, for all intents and purposes, well assimilated." He added, "All the circumstances that led to the London transit bombing.are resident here and now in Canada." Acquisition of Explosives and Weapons * According to RCMP Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell, "This group took steps to acquire three tons of ammonium nitrate and other components necessary to create explosive devices. To put this in context, the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people took one ton of ammonium nitrate." * According to the RCMP, the men also acquired weapons. o McDonell noted: "[the group] had the capacity and intent to carry out these attacks.Our investigation and arrests prevented the assembly of explosive devices and attacks being carried out." Attended Training Camp in Canada * Open sources report the men traveled to a training camp in Canada and made propaganda videos. Possible Targets * RCMP Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell stated, "[these] individuals.were planning to commit a series of terrorist attacks against solely Canadian targets in southern Ontario." o Open sources report that CSIS' Toronto headquarters was on the terrorists' target list. * Media reports state that "the suspects allegedly planned to target the spy service because many of them had encountered agents early in the investigation, when they were interviewed and put under surveillance. They also were allegedly angered by media reports accusing CSIS of racial profiling of Muslims." * Further, some of the group's members had even been spotted taking notes around the building, and at least one had reportedly visited the basement. o According to open source reporting, the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa were also a possible target. o Additionally, press reports state that that the men had filmed around the Keele subway stop and beneath subway car seats. o The target list also reportedly included a "smattering of other high-profile, heavily populated areas." Role of the Internet * According to open source reporting, the investigation began in 2004 when Canadian authorities tracked local teenagers on jihadist sites, "reading and espousing anti-Western sentiments and vowing to attack at home, in the name of oppressed Muslims." o The men were "allegedly spurred on by images of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan and angered by what they saw as the mistreatment of Muslims at home." 2005 Arrest for Weapons Smuggling at the Peace Bridge, Link to One of the Suspects * In August 2005, Fahim Ahmad, who was arrested in Friday's raids, rented a car for Yasin Mohamed and Ali Dirie to go to the U.S. * The licence plate was flagged for possible narcotics involvement so it could be pulled over upon its return to Canada. o On August 13, 2005, the CBSA pulled over and searched the white Buick. * During the search, a customs officer discovered a loaded Highpoint .380 caliber handgun inside Mohamed's waistband and ammunition inside his pockets. * Officers later discovered two loaded handguns taped to Dirie's inner thighs - a Millennium PT 19mm and a .380 Caliber Jennings. In his socks, they found a magazine for a semi-automatic handgun and several rounds of ammunition. * After claiming they were buying the guns for their own "protection," the men pleaded guilty in October 2005 and were given 2-year sentences. o St. Catharines Crown attorney Ron Brooks told the court, "whether they were mules, whether they were going to use them for their own protection, which is all we have right now, we have nothing to indicate that they were going to be sold." o The incident was reported in the media at the time. See: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/13/canada.weapons/index.html Links to Georgia Arrests * In March 2006, U.S. authorities indicted Syed Haris Ahmed, 21, a student at Georgia Tech, for providing material support to terrorists. In April 2006, Bangladeshi authorities arrested Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen of Bangladeshi descent who had attended high school in Ontario, and transferred him to U.S. custody for making false statements in connection with a terrorism investigation. * According to court documents, Ahmed and Sadequee boarded a Greyhound bus in Atlanta on March 6, 2005 and traveled to Toronto to meet with three men who were the subjects of an FBI international terrorism investigation. Court papers described these men as "like-minded Islamic extremists." * FBI spokesman Richard Kolko acknowledged that some suspects arrested in Canada "may have had limited contact with the two people recently arrested from Georgia." o Ahmed told authorities that "during some of these meetings, he, Sadequee and the others discussed strategic locations in the United States suitable for a terrorist strike, to include oil refineries and military bases." o They also "plotted how to disable the Global Positioning System in an effort to disrupt military and commercial communications and traffic" and discussed plans to go to Pakistan to train at "terrorist-sponsored camps." * The FBI claims Ahmed "later traveled to Pakistan in an attempt to receive just such training." More on Ahmed/Sadequee * According to federal prosecutors, Ahmed, Sadequee and a third man traveled to "the mountains of Georgia to conduct military-style training exercises." * Federal prosecutors further allege that Ahmed and Sadequee traveled to Washington D.C. in April 2005 to make "casing videos" of the U.S. Capitol, Masonic Temple, World Bank and a fuel storage facility and were preparing to send the videos to "overseas brothers." o Open sources report that the investigation of Ahmed and Sadequee was linked to the arrests of three men in October 2005 in Britain, where the police seized images Sadequee made on his trip to Washington along with computer images containing instructions for making car bombs and suicide bombing vests. British Investigation Linked to Ahmed/Sadequee * In October 2005, British authorities arrested Waseem Mughal, from Kent, and Younis Tsouli, from west London, both 22, and charged them with conspiracy to murder and to cause an explosion. A third man, 19 year old Tariq al-Daour, from west London, was held over fundraising offences under the Terrorism Act. o Mughal is accused of having a recipe for rocket propellants, guidance on causing an explosion, and a DVD entitled "Martyrdom Operations Vest." He was also accused of having two pieces of paper in his bedroom - one with the words in Arabic "Welcome to Jihad" and the other "Hospital = attack." o Tsouli allegedly possessed a video showing how to make a car bomb and a video slides film showing a number of places in Washington DC. * At the time, press sources reported the plotters may have been targeting the White House and Capitol complex using homemade bombs. * Younis Tsouli was later identified in press reports as Irhabi007 (Terrorist 007). o Irhabi007 played an active role on a number of Arabic and English-language jihadist websites and distributed audio and video clips of Al Qaeda's leadership, including Osama bin Laden, Ayman al Zawahiri and Abu Musab al Zarqawi. One press report identified Irhabi007 as "the top jihadi expert on all things Internet-related." o Open sources report that British officials found stolen credit card information at Tsouli's home. They later found that the cards were used to pay American Internet providers on whose servers he had posted jihadi propaganda o According to press reports, "Irhabi posted a 20-page message titled 'Seminar on Hacking Websites,' to the Ekhlas forum. It provided detailed information on the art of hacking, listing dozens of vulnerable Web sites to which one could upload shared media." * In July 2004, Irhabi007 hacked an FTP server operated by the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department and transformed it into an Al Qaeda message board. * He posted dozens of jihadist audio and video files so that others could freely download them. * He also later hacked a server belonging to George Washington University. British Investigation Linked to Bosnian Terror Plot * In October 2005, Bosnian police arrested Mirsad Bektasevic, a 19-year-old Swedish citizen, and Cesur Abdulkadir, an 18-year-old Turkish national, in Sarajevo on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack. Police also arrested Bajro Ikanovic and Almir Bajric, both Bosnian citizens, as well as a fifth suspect. o During a search of the apartment Bektasevic and Abdulkadir shared, police found a bomb belt, explosives, firearms and other military equipment. A videotape of masked men begging God's forgiveness for a sacrifice they were planning was also found in the apartment. o They were also trying to set up training camps in the hills near Sarajevo, according to press reports. * Open sources report the men may have been targeting the British Embassy in Sarajevo. * Media reports assert that Bektasevic ran a Web site on behalf of Abu Musab Zarqawi, and had pictures of the White House in his computer. o Bektasevic operated under the code name Maximus and reportedly kept in touch with Tsouli, Maghal, and al-Daour. * A week after the Sarajevo arrests, police in Copenhagen detained four men ages 16 to 20 and said they had planned suicide bombings somewhere in Europe. o Police spokesman Joern Bro commented, "We had a very short period to investigate, but our information indicated that their action was imminent." * The Danes alleged that the Copenhagen suspects had been in contact by phone and e-mail with Bektasevic. 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