Toronto terror 'plot'... 6pak - comments?, Large terror cell recently busted Options

[Hellfighter]

Apparently a London terror style plot targeting various Toronto/Ontario objectives was foiled. No time to comment in depth on it myself.
Perhaps 6pak [with her regional/work experience] can add some of her thoughts on the topic?

[Wotansvolk]

I don't say don't allow them to enroll it's true your army reflect your population....but when you got a guy who is a muslim, who his parents were born in another country, maybe he should get more attention than a " 3rd generation canadian".

That's my thought!!

[Hellfighter]

I don't say don't allow them to enroll it's true your army reflect your population....but when you got a guy who is a muslim, who his parents were born in another country, maybe he should get more attention than a " 3rd generation canadian".

That's my thought!!

.... Most of the entire population up here are honest enough to consider young Canada as a nation of immigrants [the growing percentage of which are recent immigrants/ 1st/2nd generation Canadians] settling with the original native populations. In particular, Toronto and its suburbs are a true vast kaleidoscope of dozens of cultures. Up here it's Canadian first by all> generally, and for the last couple of decades the idea of a hierarchy of who is more a Canadian by virtue of number of generations or just recently arrived or born as a first generation Canadian is pooped upon> Wisely so....

"Getting more attention" when enrolling is is an equal opportunity process as in any army. Backgrounds are presumably checked thoroughly. For example, Timothy McVeigh got in the army, no one could have predicted what mayhem he'd be carrying out years later. The same with the former Canadian Parachute regiment that was dissolved following its Somalia mission [1990s] ; one reason being when a pattern of flagrant neo-nazism was being practised by several of its members. Basically, I'm saying it's hard to predict what a rare few individuals may end up scheming after they leave the service, or once they have been accepted.

But moreover, this wannabe terrorist scumbucket was very derelict in duties from what we're hearing so far, so its hard to imagine he took full advantage of weapons familiarity.


This post has been edited by Hellfighter: 06/08/06 6:41pm