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Politics : The Truth About Islam -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (3337)	11/19/2006 9:14:31 PM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (3337)	11/20/2006 8:43:59 AM
From: chartseer	Respond to of 20106

"Islam is fascism disguised as a religion." Don't know who said it but it sure seems to nail it pretty good. Thanks Chartseer

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (3337)	11/20/2006 9:47:14 AM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

Canadian targets on al-Qaeda hit list, RCMP official says JEFF SALLOT From Monday's Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com OTTAWA — Al-Qaeda terrorists intend to attack Canada, says the head of the RCMP's national-security branch. "I firmly believe it is a question of not if, but when," Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell said yesterday. "The threat is growing." He said the threat is real, though it is impossible to say whether it is imminent. "I can't speak to it being imminent. I have no knowledge of that," he said. Related to this article Latest Comments #37, it's just like hearing your usual pro- Bush and pro - Harper... I 'm not sure that I even want to be in the same blog with some... al-Qaeda and other extremist and terrorist groups would hate... I'm sure we are on Al - Qaida's target list. No surprise, but... 58 reader comments \| Join the conversation Follow this writer Add JEFF SALLOT to my e-mail alerts "That's the nature of this threat. . . . There are things we don't know. It lives amongst us." Canadian targets -- either at home or abroad -- are particularly attractive because the country has not been hit yet by a terrorist attack, Mr. McDonell told CTV's Question Period. "I believe that the fact we have not been hit makes the attack upon Canada a symbolic attack" that would be a highly prized achievement for al-Qaeda terrorists, he said. Mr. McDonell noted that Canada alone of the five countries cited as enemies by the al-Qaeda leadership has not yet been attacked by the terrorist group. The other four countries mentioned by al-Qaeda were the United States, Britain, Spain and Australia. The RCMP have broken up a number of terror plots aimed at Canada or Canadian targets abroad, Mr. McDonell went on to say. The Mounties quietly broke up at least a dozen terrorist plots in the past two years, according to documents obtained by The Globe and Mail in June. Disruptive tactics -- sometimes as simple as letting targets know that they are under close surveillance -- are used to prevent a terrorist attack when the police do not have enough evidence to lay criminal charges, the Mounties say. Mr. McDonell refused to disclose the number of people the Mounties are investigating as terror suspects. But he said about 300 members of the force are currently assigned full-time to security cases and are augmented regularly by local police officers. However, it is known that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service had 274 individual terror suspects in its sights last year, according to a report last month by a review committee set up by Parliament. A total of 31 organizations came under suspicion and were targeted for investigation by the CSIS anti-terrorism branch. CSIS director Jim Judd has sounded an optimistic note about the possibility of thwarting terrorist attacks. "It is certainly possible . . . we would be successful in averting an attack," he told the Senate committee on national security and defence in June. Mr. McDonell said that in some ways the fact that Canadian military forces are helping to fight insurgents in Afghanistan has actually increased the threat of a terrorist attack on Canadian targets at home. He noted that websites used to incite terrorist operations are mentioning Canada more frequently because of the Canadian military involvement in Afghanistan. "At the same time, I am a firm believer that our actions speak to the root of the problem," by denying al-Qaeda any safe haven in Afghanistan, where the terrorist group can train and plan for new attacks. The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington were planned by al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. The aircraft hijackers in those attacks trained in that country when it was ruled by the Taliban, the U.S., Canada and other Western governments say.