Then there are people who are worried that they are being discriminated against! Another attack like 911 in North America is considered to be highly likely. I think people may then see what discrimination is really like!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35347-2002Dec24.html
‘Sleeper Cell’ Contacts Are Revealed By Canada
By Dana Priest and DeNeen L. Brown
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, December 25, 2002; Page A01
Al Qaeda “sleeper cells” in Canada and the United States have communicated with each other as recently as this month, probably to plan terrorist attacks in the United States, Canadian intelligence experts said yesterday. The disclosure came in the wake of the arrest last week of a pizza delivery man in Ottawa who is suspected of being associated with the terrorist network of Osama bin Laden.
Canadian authorities decided to arrest Mohamed Harkat, 34, shortly after he made calls to suspected al Qaeda members in the United States, said Reid Morden, former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, who has been in contact with the Canadian spy agency on the matter. Morden confirmed comments made earlier by Canadian officials speaking on condition of anonymity.
Canada’s normally secretive spy agency alleged in a rare court filing that Harkat, 34, who was born in Algeria and has lived in Canada since 1995, is an associate of Abu Zubaida, one of Osama bin Laden’s close associates. Zubaida, who was arrested in Pakistan in March and is in U.S. custody at an undisclosed location, identified Harkat to his interrogators, according to Canadian intelligence officials.
The Harkat case is the most recent example of a historically close intelligence relationship between the two countries that has become unprecedented in its intensity as Canada and the United States work to thwart a global terrorist network adept at crossing national borders.
It was not clear precisely what triggered the arrest of Harkat. The nature of the phone calls to the
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