rights to privacy? bah!
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December 19, 2005 |
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Posted by: LMAO | Jun 3, 2006 10:27:39 AM
Toronto Star: How Internet monitoring sparked a CSIS investigation into a suspected homegrown terror cell
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.
Unconnected to the case, but being watched closely during this time by Canadian authorities, was the Netherlands investigation into the assassination of filmmaker Theo van Gogh and a young local extremist cell dubbed the Hofstad Group.
Made up of mainly Dutch-born youths angered by van Gogh's critical portrayal of Islam, Canadian authorities believed the group was eerily similar to the Canadian group, sources say. They appeared to be unsophisticated, disenfranchised youths, but the group became a growing threat, killing van Gogh and forcing a number of political figures to go into hiding or flee the country.
Posted by: The Associated Press reports | Jun 3, 2006 4:31:29 PM
Here's PROOF that "violating your privacy" can PREVENT TERRORISM!
The group had taken steps to acquire three tons of ammonium nitrate and other bomb-making materials - three times the amount used to blow up the Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma City...
In possibly related news, the New York Times screams UNCLE on their editorial pages, with a backhanded compliment for
"smart diplomacy" on Iran.
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Posted by: Jordan from NJ | Dec 21, 2005 5:33:12 AM
hahaha