Kudos to The Great White North...

A terrorist cell has been busted in Canada...

Police from across the GTA, led by the RCMP's anti-terrorism task force, swooped down on as many as 12 locations Friday night to arrest members of what is being described as a homegrown terrorist cell.

Police from across the GTA, led by the RCMP's anti-terrorism task force, swooped down on as many as 12 locations Friday night to arrest members of what is being described as a homegrown terrorist cell.According to this:

Last night's dramatic police raid and arrest of as many as a dozen men — with more to come — marks the culmination of Canada's largest ever terrorism investigation into an alleged homegrown cell.The chain of events began two years ago, sparked by local teenagers roving through Internet sites, reading and espousing anti-Western sentiments and vowing to attack at home, in the name of oppressed Muslims here and abroad. Their words were sometimes encrypted, the Internet sites where they communicated allegedly restricted by passwords, but Canadian spies back in 2004 were reading them. And as the youths' words turned into actions, they began watching them.

Ahem... Canadian spies were engaged in DOMESTIC SPYING. Broke up a terrorist ring. Hell, if was anywhere south of the 49th parallel you could be sure that the ACLU, Teddy Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi would be having coniptions, demanding the release of those poor, misunderstood terrorists.

Fear not, though, for the Canadian branch of the ACLU will most likely pick up the ball on this:

A MESSAGE FROM A. ALAN BOROVOY

Since September 11th...While it always behooves us to keep an open mind about any new measures, our open mind should be accompanied by a cool head and a skeptical disposition. If we were to needlessly surrender any of our precious freedoms, we could wind up awarding the terrorists a gratuitous victory.

Judging by what the RCMP and CSIS prevented from occurring with this bust, the terrorists have had anything but a "gratuitous victory"...

TORONTO (Reuters) - A group of Canadian residents inspired by al Qaeda and arrested for "terrorism related offenses" had amassed enough explosives to build huge bombs and were planning to blow up targets in Ontario, Canada's political and economic power center, police said on Saturday.

Mike McDonnell, assistant commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said the group had acquired three metric tons of ammonium nitrate -- or three times the amount used in the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City -- as they sought to "create explosive devices."

...Still think it was a gratuitous victory for the terrorists, Mr. Borovoy? Or Teddy Kennedy? Or Nancy Pelosi? Or....


(Filed under war on terror, the fifth column)