Canadian authorities stopped a
MAJOR TERRORIST THREAT in the Toronto area today:
TORONTO, Ontario (CNN) -- Canadian police said on Saturday they had halted a "real and serious" terror threat in and around Toronto.
Twelve men and five youths said to have been inspired by al Qaeda were arrested in the operation involving hundreds of officers, authorities said.
The group was "planning to commit a series of terrorist attacks against solely Canadian targets in southern Ontario," Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell said at a news conference.
"This group took steps to acquire three tons of ammonium nitrate and other components necessary to create explosive devices," he said. (Watch police chief describe how suspects got bomb materials -- 0:36)
"To put this in context, the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people took one ton of ammonium nitrate."
Amazingly, they were able to do this
without the aid of illegal wiretaps!...Just astounding! So this begs the question,
If they can do it, WHY CAN"T WE?"
I will update this diary as the story unfolds.
[EDIT - Sorry, forgot article link. It's been added above.]