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RCMP Says Terror Plot Against Canadian Trains Thwarted

Posted by timothy on from the trains-are-big-and-dangerous dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Two men were arrested in Canada, accused of conspiring to carry out an 'al-Qaeda supported' attack against a VIA passenger train in the Greater Toronto Area. The arrests were products of 'extensive' co-operation between Canadian and US intelligence agencies, who had been investigating the plot since August 2012." From this article, it's not clear whether any actual al-Qaeda support was forthcoming, or whether the accused plotters merely thought there was, by means of an FBI sting operation, as in the 2006 case in Florida.

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  1. Things That Make You Go "Hmmm..." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    1) They mention "Al Queda in Iran."

    So...exactly how powerful is a Wahabbi Sunni sect in an iron-fisted Shiite country? Think they have the bandwidth to help idiots in Canada (not the US) do some questionable damage?

    2) Coincidence?