Terroristerne i Canada havde planlagt at skære hovedet at landet
statsminister, og at indtage en TV-station, - bl.a.
Fra The Independent:
By David Usborne
Published: 08 June 2006
The 17 men and youths arrested on terror charges in Canada at the end of
last week had plans that extended to storming the parliament buildings in
Ottawa, taking over television studios and beheading the country's newly
elected Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, it has been alleged.
Although prosecutors have still publicly to release all the details of their
case, several elements surfaced during a preliminary court hearing on
Tuesday. They suggested a plot that was more sinister and potentially
destructive than most Canadians had thought.
The conspiracy, which appears to have been "home-grown", has also unsettled
nerves in the United States, where there is fresh concern that Canada may
have become a nursery for Muslim extremists who could strike at targets
south of the border. In response, authorities in Washington this week
ordered its agents along the border with Canada to be on high alert.
Canadian police, meanwhile, signalled that more arrests should be expected
soon. They said they were also investigating whether the group had ties with
terror groups in other countries, including the US.
The police moved in on the suspects, all Canadian citizens or residents of
Canada, after determining that they were preparing to take delivery of three
tons of ammonium nitrate, more than three times the quantity used to blow up
the federal office building in Oklahoma 11 years ago.
However, a lawyer for one of the men said after the court hearings on
Tuesday that the charges being filed against his client went much further.
The lawyer, Gary Batasar, said his client, Steven Vikash Chand, 25, was
innocent of the charges. "It's just generally speaking that the allegations
are against my client as well as the other parties. That's what all the
parties are facing."
The full panoply of the charges against Mr Chand and the other men - five of
whom are under 18 and being treated as minors - may not become public until
the first bail hearings for the men, which could take several weeks. Until
then, the seriousness and sophistication of the alleged plot will not become
clear.
Mr Batasar, however, said that an eight-page summary of the charges given to
him on Tuesday showed the plot included plans to storm the Gothic revival
parliament in Ottawa and take hostages, who were to be beheaded unless the
government released Muslims in prison and withdrew its soldiers from
Afghanistan.
Even more startling, however, was the charge that Mr Chand would "personally
like to behead Prime Minister Stephen Harper".
"There's an allegation apparently that my client personally indicated that
he wanted to behead the Prime Minister of Canada," Mr Batasar told reporters
after the hearing in suburban Brampton, north of Toronto. "It's a very
serious allegation. My client has said nothing about that."
Documents presented to the court also spelt out a plan to blow up an office
of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, CSIS, located at the foot of
the CN Tower, the soaring landmark with a revolving restaurant in downtown
Toronto. They also spoke of intending to take over the Toronto studios of
the Canadian Broadcast Company, CBC, and to bomb power transmission lines."
Det var da folk med ambitioner, - og man forventer at se flere
arrestationer.
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