Toronto Terror Arrests Linked to Other Plots Worldwide

From the National Post in Canada, more information about links between the arrests of 17 Muslims in Toronto, and others in the United States and elsewhere.

TORONTO - A Canadian counter-terrorism investigation that led to the arrests of 17 people accused of plotting bombings in Ontario is linked to probes in a half-dozen countries, the National Post has learned.

Well before police tactical teams began their sweeps around Toronto on Friday, at least 18 related arrests had already taken place in Canada, the United States, Britain, Bosnia, Denmark, Sweden, and Bangladesh.

The six-month RCMP investigation, called Project OSage, is one of several overlapping probes that include an FBI case called Operation Northern Exposure and a British probe known as Operation Mazhar.
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The Toronto busts are linked to arrests that began last August at a Canadian border post near Niagara Falls and continued in October in Sarajevo, London and Scandinavia, and earlier this year in New York and Georgia.

The FBI confirmed Saturday the arrests were related to the recent indictments in the U.S. of Ehsanul Sadequee and Syed Ahmed, who are accused of meeting with extremists in Toronto last March to discuss terrorist training and plots.

“There is preliminary indication that some of the Canadian subjects may have had limited contact with the two people recently arrested from Georgia,” Special Agent Richard Kolko, the FBI spokesman, said in an e-mail to the National Post.

The intricate web of connections between Toronto, London, Atlanta, Sarajevo, Dhaka, and elsewhere illustrates the challenge confronting counter-terrorism investigators almost five years after 9/11.

Linking the international probes are online communications, phone calls and in particular videotapes that authorities allege show some of the targets the young extremists considered blowing up.

Again, I'd like to see a story in the mainstream media describing how the U.S. Patriot Act and National Security Agency terrorist monitoring programs may have helped to "connect the dots" and prevent another tragic atrocity from taking place.

The National Post also includes a link to a top secret Candadian study about the danger of homegrown Jihad Johnny's. A very chilling and disturbing read.

Thanks to Moonbattery for finding the dancing Mo. It's almost as much fun as the animated cartoon of Mohammed waving the Israeli flag while pigs fly into his mouth!