Well it seems once again a few 'bad-apples' of the Muslim persuasion were once again caught building explosive devices and waging jihad against the west.... Unfortunately the world still considers islam to be a religion of peace because it closes our eyes and lies...
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/852823--suspects-planned-explosive-devices-in-canada-rcmp?bn=1Suspects planned explosive devices in Canada: RCMPAllan Woods, Richard J. Brennan and Michelle Shephard
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Khuram Sher auditioned for season 6 of Canadian Idol. Sher was detained Aug. 26, 2010 as part of an RCMP national security investigation.
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OTTAWA – An alleged Ottawa terror cell was involved in constructing improvised explosive devices – the kind that are killing and maiming Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, police say.
A year-long RCMP investigation that led to the arrests of three people in Canada allegedly followed a “domestic terrorist group” in Ottawa that intended to construct remote-controlled bombs and had amassed schematics, videos, books, and other material used to build the explosives.
Three other people are named in court documents as being connected to the conspiracy to “knowingly facilitate terrorist activities” in Canada and abroad.
There was also “terrorist literature” and more than 50 electrical circuit boards seized in police raids carried out Wednesday that would have been used to detonate the bombs from a distance.
“This group posed a real and serious threat to the citizens of Canada’s national capital region,” Supt. Serge Therriault, head of criminal operations for RCMP’s A Division, told a news conference in Ottawa.
He said investigators decided to swoop in on the alleged terror cell with arrests in Ottawa and London, Ont., now in order to prevent suspects from sending money to their alleged international allies abroad.
That money, he said, would have been used to purchase weapons and other material to use against Canadian and coalition forces fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
The arrests prove a “terrorist menace” exists in Canada, said Raymond Boisvert, a senior CSIS official.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who is on a five-day tour of the Arctic, said that like all democratic nations, Canada faces an array of security threats.
“The networks that threaten us are worldwide; they exist not only in remote countries but through globalization and the Internet,” he said. “They have links in our country and all through the world.”
Hiva Alizadeh and Misbahuddin Ahmed were arrested Wednesday in raids by police in Ottawa.
A third suspect, Khuram Syed Sher – who once auditioned for the reality TV show “Canadian Idol” – was arrested Thursday in London, Ont.
It is alleged that Alizadeh, Ahmed and Sher conspired with at least three other people between Feb. 1, 2008 and Aug. 24, 2010 in Ottawa, Iran, Afghanistan, Dubai and Pakistan to facilitate a terrorist activity.
Alizadeh, 30, a tall, thin man who wore a thick beard and glasses in court, is charged with manufacturing or having in his possession explosives with the intent to endanger life or cause serious damage to property, or enable another person to do so, for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a terrorist group.
He is also charged with directly or indirectly collecting, providing or making available property or financial services knowing that they will be used to benefit a terrorist group. Those offences are alleged to have occurred between September 2009 and Aug. 24, 2010.
Ahmed, 26, is charged with conspiracy and other unspecified terrorism charges. Ahmed wore a dark, neatly trimmed beard and a beige pullover during his brief court appearance.
The three additional alleged conspirators are named in the court documents as James Lara, Rizgar Alizadeh and Zakaria Mamosta.
“He is in shock. That’s all I can say,” Ahmed’s Ottawa lawyer Ian Carter told reporters after his court appearance.
Sean May, lawyer for Alizadeh, said the charges against his client were very serious.
“He seems to be taking the matter seriously and obviously very concerned about it,” May told reporters.
“They are very serious charges, no question about that. They are the most serious charges you can face except for a murder charge,” he said.
Both men were put over for a video appearance on Sept. 1.
In his 2008 audition for “Canadian Idol,” Sher can be seen dancing and singing an off-tune version of Avril Lavigne’s “Complicated.”
Sher, 28, told judges on the popular reality show that he hailed from Pakistan and was a fan of “hockey, music and acting.”
“Have you ever thought of being a comedian?” asks one of the judges.
Another remarks: “The dance moves were good, the singing, bad.”
According to police, Sher is actually a Canadian-born physician and graduate of McGill University – quite a different persona from the goofy contestant wearing a traditional Pakistani shalwar kameez and pakul hat as he performs robot dance moves and a Michael Jackson-style moonwalk.
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