The Working Patriot: Terrorist Plotted to storm Canadian Parliament and behead PM

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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Terrorist Plotted to storm Canadian Parliament and behead PM

Canadial Officials released an eight page report detailing charges against 12 of the 17 men arrested in terrorism charges today. The charges include:

~ Training terrorist
~ Receiving terrorist training
~ smuggling weapons and explosives with the intent to do terrorist acts
~ Taking over media outlets
~ Storming the Parliament Bldg. and holding government officials hostage
~ Beheading the Prime Minister of Canada
~ attacking power grids in Canada

Canadian Officials moved on this group after they puchased 3 tons of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer that can be used to make a powerful explosive. Two of the 12 adults accused in this plot were arrested late last year as they were attempting to smuggle weapons from the US to Canada.

Speaking outside the courthouse in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, defense attorney Gary Batasar said that his client, Steven Vikash Chand, is accused of plotting an attack on Canada's Parliament and planning to take over media outlets, including the studios of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

"There's an allegation apparently that my client personally indicated that he wanted to behead the prime minister of Canada," Chand's lawyer, Gary Batasar, told reporters.

Mr. Batasar also stated that the government papers laid out a plot to storm the Gothic Revival buildings of Parliament in Ottawa and take hostages. The hostages would be beheaded if the terrorists' demands that Canadian troops to be pulled out of Afghanistan were not met.

Investigators have said little about the evidence they have gathered against the suspects. At a news briefing on Saturday they showed a computer tower, a crude cellphone detonator and other electronic equipment they had seized. They also showed a bag of ammonium nitrate fertilizer that they said was like the three tons of material the suspects had planned to use to make bombs.

American officials, who have acknowledged being involved in the yearlong investigation, said Canadian authorities had monitored Internet chat rooms, e-mail messages and telephone conversations to learn of the activities of the suspects.

5 of the men arrested are minors so information regarding their names and charges were withheld.

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