Posted on 12/01/2001 11:06:08 PM PST by JDGreen123
At least four of the suspects in the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center entered the United States from Canada. Suicide hijackers Mohammed Atta and Abdul Alumari crossed into Coburn Gore, Maine early that Tuesday before catching a 6 a.m. flight from Portland to Boston. From Logan Airport, they commandeered the two commercial jetliners that crashed into the World Trade Center.
Other participants in the terrorist attack waltzed into the United States from locations in Canada. A third suspect appears to have entered the United States at Jackman, Maine, while others may have taken a ferry from Nova Scotia.
Organizations and individuals involved in criminal and terrorist activities have long recognized that Canada is a safe base from which to conduct operations against targets around the world. Two years ago, David Harris, former chief of strategic planning for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the country's main intelligence agency, admitted, "The largely untold truth is that Canada and terrorism go together."
A publicly released CSIS report, Terrorism 2000/2001, confirmed that some 60 terrorists groups are active in Canada. These include Hezbollah and other Shiite Islamic terrorist organizations; a number of Sunni Islamic extremist groups, with ties to operatives in Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Lebanon, and Iran, including Hamas; the Tamil Tigers; the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK); all of the world's Sikh terrorists groups, as well as the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
In the French-speaking separatist Province of Quebec, Montreal police compare their city to a "Club Med" for Algerian extremists, who use the Quebec capital as a base to plan and finance their activities. In the Fall of 1999, police broke up an Algerian crime ring, which was using their proceeds to bankroll the Armed Islamic Group.
Canada-based terrorists have been involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, assassinations in India, and the Al Khobar Towers attack in Saudi Arabia. In 1997, Gazi Abrahim Abu Mezer, a terrorist living in Canada, was intercepted just before he attempted to blow up the New York City subway system.
The case of the Algerian native charged with attempting to conduct terrorist acts in Seattle, Washington during the turn of the century Millennium celebrations is instructive, highlighting the ease with which those bent on mayhem operate in our northern neighbor.
In 1999, shortly before Christmas, U.S. Customs officials arrested 32-year old Ahmed Ressam as he tried to enter Washington State at a remote border crossing from Victoria, British Columbia. The trunk of his car was loaded with nitroglycerin and other bomb-making material. Ressam had reservations at a hotel near Seattle's Space Needle, where millennium festivities were scheduled to take place. Rassam had been declared a terrorist in his native Algeria and entered Canada in 1994 on a false French passport.
Later, after his refugee claim was denied and he was ordered deported, he simply disappeared. Ressam continued to work in Canada and associated with other extremists. Twice arrested and convicted for theft in Montreal, once again he was not deported. Using an alias, he secured a baptismal certificate and was then issued a Canadian passport, even though he had been arrested and fingerprinted. Fortunately, U.S. Customs authorities in Port Angeles, Washington, detained him on a hunch - were they guilty of "profiling"? - and discovered the cache of explosives in his auto.
Canada is attractive to terrorists for a number of reasons:
1. Its long borders and coastlines offer many points of entry, easing movement to and from various sites around the world, including the United States.
2. Canada accepts large numbers of poorly screened immigrants and "refugees." A network of immigrant communities has sprung up all across Canada, offering safe haven and other forms of support for criminals and terrorists.
3. Canada's liberal government allows terrorist groups to raise funds as charitable organizations.
4. Canada has proven to be a relatively secure base from which to arrange and direct terrorists in other countries.
Although U.S. officials have long been aware of the threat to national security and community safety posed by the lax Canadian immigration policies, little has been done to secure our side of the border. The Border Patrol generally stations 300 or fewer agents along the 3,500-mile U.S.-Canadian border. In addition to terrorists, illegal aliens and drug smugglers regularly enter the U.S. from Canada. Since Mexican nationals can enter Canada without visas, many have found it is cheaper for them to fly to Canada and walk across the Northern Border than have smugglers bring them across the U.S. Southern Border.
The majority of Canadians have not welcomed the transformation of their country into a base for criminal and terrorists. As in the United States, direction of Canada's immigration administration has been seized by a coalition of religious, ethnic, and business special interests. Under the banner of "fighting racism" and "embracing multi-culturalism and diversity," these enemies of the historic Canadian Majority are attempting to virtually outlaw opposition to current immigration policy.
While President Bush has been joined by other "world leaders" in a pledge to "fight terrorism", there is as yet no evidence that United States and Canadian officials are willing to take basic steps to actually deal with the immigration-associated issues that have played such a critical role in making our societies vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Such measures would include expelling illegal aliens and supporters of foreign terrorist groups; overhauling refugee policy; and ending Third World immigration generally.
Foreign and domestic policies should be based on what is good for the majority of citizens and the historic character of our nation and civilization. Until Majority Rule is restored in our respective countries, Americans and Canadians will be pawns in the terrorists' game.
I guess we could bomb Canada since we are after countries harboring terrorists. We probably could eliminate more terrorists in Canada than exist in most countries.
I did see that Canada has decided to review over 30,000 immigrants' cases as of last week. Today, they signed a deal with the U.S. to make the border more secure. I sure hope so. Those pointy headed, PC, liberal, multi-culturalists, socialists who run that rinky-dink country put all of us at risk.
This article adresses the problems with our northern border. That's a little strange when these terrorists followed US guidelines to enter the nation. They didn't just sneak across like happens day and night on our southern border.
How can anyone dis Canada when we were stupid enough to allow men from terrorist states to rome free on our soil long after their visas had expired? And how can we dis Canada when our own inteligence agencies knew that some of these people were wanted in conjunction with terrorism, but didn't bother to pick them up?
Canada? Hell the US is it's number one worst enemy. And don't get me started talking about the 80% of workers at our national airports that weren't even citizens.
Examples:
"At least four of the suspects in the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center entered the United States from Canada."
Not true. Even if it were, that would mean that the author admits that at least 15 of the 19 had nothing to do with Canada.
"The case of the Algerian native charged with attempting to conduct terrorist acts in Seattle, Washington during the turn of the century Millennium celebrations..."
Actually, all reports that I've seen on this topic state that his intended target was LAX - Los Angeles Airport.
"...there is as yet no evidence that United States and Canadian officials are willing to take basic steps to actually deal with the immigration-associated issues that have played such a critical role in making our societies vulnerable to terrorist attacks."
From the Saturday December 1st Globe and Mail: "Canada and the United States will sign a joint border accord on Monday, setting out major new deals for border policing, expanded international security teams and co-ordinated immigration measures, government officials say."
I'm not saying Canada (as well as the US) doesn't have any immigration related problems, however, finger pointing, name-calling, and border-closing isn't going to solve any problems.
As for "bombing Canada," aside from the fact that attacking your next-door neighbour, largest trading partner, and closest ally makes absolutely no sense, it's completely illegal. It would signify the end of NATO, the end of the "coalition against terrorism" (all of the Commonwealth and probably at least a few Francophonie nations will bolt.) What's next - rounding up and deporting all Canadians in the US? How would the sheeple react to the deportation of Hollywood's brightest stars, along with a helluva lot of doctors and nurses? Very South Park, if you ask me.
Canada has been behind the US right from the get-go. Canadians opened their homes to stranded travelers, their wallets to relief efforts, volunteered their time during the initial rescue efforts, donated blood, and much more. Thousands and thousands of Canadians are in NYC at this very moment, showing solidarity with our neighbours, and helping to support the tourist trade. Mayor Giuliani declared December 1st "Canada Loves New York Day."
YES, there are terrorist elements in Canada, as well as in the US. Painting the second largest country in the world, one that mostly has people that look like you and speak the same language as you, with one brush does absolutely NOTHING to solve our common problems.
"Everyone likes to see justice done...on somebody else" - Bruce Cockburn
That part is true, anyway.
The US and Canada both have incredibly stupid immigration policies. We practically drag people into our countries. Then we wonder why there are problems
Canuckistan's immigration laws are so loose that - within the past five years - its officials admitted that they didn't even know how many "Canadians" there were, having a problem with large numbers of Asians who never lived in Canada getting naturalized there as a way of having a safe haven if their own homeland went commie.
Canuckistan's main intelligence agency (CSIS) called it right with the past two years, long before 9/11: the main attraction Canuckistan has for illegal aliens is the hope of sneaking across that very-long, rugged, mostly-unguarded border - plus the very-loose visa rules for entering Canuckistan legally. CSIS even did a lengthy unclassified report on same.
IMMIGRATION resource library - with local INS phone numbers, coast to coast
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