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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (801)	12/7/2004 2:46:57 AM
From: kirby49	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224657

Lorne, did you see this on the 11 o'clock news? Some of the wording was different though, on TV, they called it an act of sabotage. They showed the communique, which is in French and emphasized the part about the the Americans using Quebecs resources. In true islamist fashion, they throw in Columbia and Bolivia to obfuscate the central point being Iraq and Palestine. I'd speculate here that this was the act of some middle powerful group of muslims. If they had been higher ups, they would have use a plane to take down that tower. If they had been what some call moderates, I prefer to think of them as cultists waiting for orders, then there would be reports of strewn body parts as they would have been instructed to martyr themselves for the cause and of course, those virgins. So they left it to the cowards and in true incompetent style they don't take it all the way down and there is no disruption in the flow of power through that UHV line. And of course we're finding out about it a week later when it looks like it occurred last Tuesday when President Bush (and me) were at Parliament Hill. I spent that night and the next day in rural Quebec north of Gatineau Park and there were many disruptions to the power, but we attributed it to the snowstorm. I really think the headline should be... WAKE UP CANADA, MUSLIM TERRORISTS ATTACK! ctv.ca Group takes credit for Que. hydro tower bombing CTV.ca News Staff A mysterious group has claimed responsibility for an apparent bomb attack on a Hydro-Quebec tower. The message was received in French by news media outlets on Monday. The Initiative de Resistance Internationaliste (IRI) denounced what it describes as the "pillaging" of Quebec's resources by the United States. "An explosive device was placed under a Hydro-Quebec pylon of the Radisson-Nicolet-Des Cantons power line, near the American border. Through this operation, we are making public our refusal to be silent witnesses to the waste and pillaging of our resources at the hands of the United States empire," said the statement, translated from French by CTV's Montreal bureau. "We are also acting against Hydro-Quebec's exploitation to the benefit of private enterprises, which profit from each opportunity that imperialism provides." The group, which sent its communique to al-Jazeera, the Arab satellite TV news network, also dragged Iraq into the equation -- along with Bolivia, Colombia and the Palestinians. "We refuse to allow all the weight of resistance to fall on the noble Iraqi people, who are being massacred because they were an obstacle to the American energy hegemony, or to the Bolivian peasants courageously mobilizing against the pillage of their gas resources, even risking their lives," the note said. "We also refuse to let the Colombian and Palestinian people confront the imperial army alone, whether or not it is hidden behind a national banner." It isn't clear when the attack occurred, although a hunter on an all-terrain vehicle discovered it damage to a hydro tower Nov. 30. The IRI said authorities hid news of the attack "from the population during the chief dictator's visit" -- possibly a reference to the Nov. 30-Dec. 1 visit to Canada by U.S. President George W. Bush. If true, one student leader who was involved in anti-Bush protests said the IRI's act of sabotage went too far. "I think it makes people afraid, and I don't think that was the kind of message we meant to get out when we went to Ottawa," said Tim McSorley of the Canadian Federation of Students. The incident happened near Coaticook, which is in Quebec's Eastern Townships. A bomb squad was dispatched Friday to the site by the Quebec provincial police. Test results of materials found near the tower have not been released, so an explosive attack can't be confirmed yet. Police say they've never heard of the group before this. However, they have seized the original letter sent out to some Quebec media outlets to analyze it. They won't confirm if the details in the group's note are accurate. A Hydro-Quebec spokeswoman said the tower is part of a line that delivers electricity from James Bay to the Boston area, adding that service wasn't disrupted. "We are taking that event seriously, and we are increasing security around our strategic installations," said Marie Archambault of Hydro-Quebec. The ongoing investigation involves the provincial police, Hydro-Quebec and the Canadian counter-terrorism force. The U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security and CSIS have also been alerted. Security analyst Michel Juneau-Katsuya said: "This is an act of sabotage, but we're just a step away from terrorism. And for that reason, the United States will be very interested to see how we respond to it."