CSIS on alert over Lebanon: report By FABRICE DE PIERREBOURG, SUN MEDIA - Sun, January 28, 2007
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2007/01/28/3466756-sun.html MONTREAL -- Canada's spy agency feared that last summer's conflict between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon might lead to violence in Canada, Sun Media has learned. Much of that concern centred on Montreal where the Shiite movement counts numerous partisans, according to documents acquired through Access to Information. "Threat assessment" reports produced by the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) last summer note such concerns on a near-daily basis. One report - drafted on July 17, 2006, and titled Escalation of the Israeli-Arabic conflict - states that the "explosive nature" of the conflict could incite the members of the two camps to clash "in Canada." A CSIS agent notes that a Montreal Jewish school had already been burned in 2004 "in reprisals for the murder of the leader of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin." Two years previous, then-Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been forced to cancel a speech at Montreal's Concordia University because of a "violent revolt" on the campus. The July 17 report was filed the day after eight members of a Montreal family - including four children - were killed when Israeli forces bombarded their house in Lebanon. CSIS concerns grew at the beginning of August after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah promised "surprises" for Israel. The hypothesis of a terrorist attack against "Western targets" in Lebanon is also studied in a highly censored document where the authors recall that Canada registered Hezbollah on its list of terrorist groups in 2002. Several other reports also hint at Hezbollah activity in Canada. Although the movement - supported by Iran and Syria - is banned in Canada, the report states that Hezbollah partisans here would continue to collect money "through legitimate sources or by means of financial frauds, traffic counterfeit identity cards, contraband cigarettes, etc." ________________________________________________________ Montreal Muslim News Network - http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net ===================================================== To UNSUBSCRIBE / SUBSCRIBE to our regular e-mailing list please visit: http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/subscribe ===================================================== Listen to Caravan, produced by Samaa Elibyari, every Wednesday from 2-3PM: http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/caravan.htm A Basket Of News Links: http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/canusmedia.htm ___ Stay Strong -"I testified/My mama cried/Black people died/When the other man lied" -- chuck d "Be a friend to the oppressed and an enemy to the oppressor" --Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as) "They want to see us breathless. We will not be. They want to see us tired. We refuse to be. They want to see what our strength is. We will not show it in advance. We will continuously surprise them." -- Julia Wright "We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation." --patrick o'neil "...we have the responsibility to make no deal with the oppressor" --harry belafonte "...these people generate wars in Asia and Africa,...These are the people who, in the last century, caused several devastating wars. In one world war alone, they killed over 60 million people.... In the near future, Allah willing, we will put you to trial in courts established by the peoples...."-- mahmoud ahmadinejad http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/a047braithwaite.php
