Many Question if Toronto “Terrorists” Were Led by Informants as Case Weakens
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Isabel Teotonio, Toronto Star
Jun 02, 2008 04:30 AM
It’s been two years since members of the “Toronto 18″ were arrested in a dramatic sweep of homes across the GTA, but today prosecutors and lawyers are still arguing whether they’re dealing with a band of committed terrorists or a “hapless F-Troop.”
When police descended on quiet residential streets on this day in 2006, news rippled around the world that an Al Qaeda-inspired terror cell had been busted.
But as the case is plucked apart strand by strand in a Brampton courthouse, some say a less menacing picture is emerging of the 14 adults and four youths who were arrested.
Just last week court heard again that some of the accused were, essentially, a bunch of incompetent guys who were primarily misled by a delusional megalomaniac.
Still, members of the Toronto 18 stand accused of attending a jihadist training camp in December 2005, ordering fertilizer to build truck bombs, constructing a remote-control detonator and scouting a safe house to practise military drills and store weapons.
At the camp, participants are alleged to have dressed in camouflage gear, played war games with paintball guns and fired a 9-mm handgun at a can of Pringles potato chips tied to a tree.
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Many also question the role of the paid informants, possibly foreshadowing the use of entrapment as a future defence.
Shaikh was a training camp instructor and the other informant, whose identity is protected, facilitated the purchase of three tonnes of ammonium nitrate.
In the end, the fertilizer was replaced with an inert substance during a sting operation.
The training camp and the bomb plot are central to the Crown’s case.
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September 16th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
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September 19th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
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September 25th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
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September 26th, 2008 at 11:12 am
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March 6th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
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March 7th, 2010 at 4:20 am
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March 7th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
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[...] points to Aulaqi’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
March 8th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
[...] points to Aulaqi’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
March 8th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
[...] points to Aulaqi’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
March 29th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
[...] Similarly, the “Toronto 18″ terrorists turned out to be “a bunch of incompetent guys who were primarily misled by a delusional megalomaniac”. The explosive fertilizer material the terrorist cell apparently planned to use was in fact purchased by an informant working for the RCMP who had radicalized the group. [...]
March 29th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
[...] Similarly, the “Toronto 18? terrorists turned out to be “a bunch of incompetent guys who were primarily misled by a delusional megalomaniac”. The explosive fertilizer material the terrorist cell apparently planned to use was in fact purchased by an informant working for the RCMP who had radicalized the group. [...]
March 29th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
[...] Similarly, the “Toronto 18″ terrorists turned out to be “a bunch of incompetent guys who were primarily misled by a delusional megalomaniac”. The explosive fertilizer material the terrorist cell apparently planned to use was in fact purchased by an informant working for the RCMP who had radicalized the group. [...]
March 29th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
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March 29th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
[...] Similarly, the “Toronto 18″ terrorists turned out to be “a bunch of incompetent guys who were primarily misled by a delusional megalomaniac”. The explosive fertilizer material the terrorist cell apparently planned to use was in fact purchased by an informant working for the RCMP who had radicalized the group. [...]
March 29th, 2010 at 7:21 pm
[...] Similarly, the “Toronto 18″ terrorists turned out to be “a bunch of incompetent guys who were primarily misled by a delusional megalomaniac”. The explosive fertilizer material the terrorist cell apparently planned to use was in fact purchased by an informant working for the RCMP who had radicalized the group. [...]
March 30th, 2010 at 8:22 am
[...] Similarly, the “Toronto 18″ terrorists turned out to be “a bunch of incompetent guys who were primarily misled by a delusional megalomaniac”. The explosive fertilizer material the terrorist cell apparently planned to use was in fact purchased by an informant working for the RCMP who had radicalized the group. [...]
March 31st, 2010 at 8:55 am
[...] Similarly, the “Toronto 18″ terrorists turned out [8] to be “a bunch of incompetent guys who were primarily misled by a delusional megalomaniac”. The explosive fertilizer material the terrorist cell apparently planned to use was in fact purchased by an informant working for the RCMP who had radicalized the group. [...]
June 8th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
[...] Police Informant | Toronto ‘Terrorists’ Agree on Decapitation Plot, Fail to Open Tuna Tin | Many Question if Toronto “Terrorists” Were Led by Informants as Case Weakens | Crown presents evidence in Toronto terror suspect trial | Terror case begins to emit ripe aroma | [...]
October 4th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
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October 4th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
[...] points to Aulaqi’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
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[...] points to Aulaqi’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
October 21st, 2010 at 7:55 am
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October 21st, 2010 at 7:55 am
[...] points to Awlaki’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
October 21st, 2010 at 9:16 am
[...] points to Awlaki’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which [...]
October 21st, 2010 at 10:11 am
[...] points to Awlaki’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
October 21st, 2010 at 1:37 pm
[...] points to Awlaki’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
October 21st, 2010 at 3:18 pm
[...] points to Awlaki’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
October 21st, 2010 at 8:40 pm
[...] points to Awlaki’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
October 21st, 2010 at 10:20 pm
[...] points to Awlaki’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
October 22nd, 2010 at 7:35 am
[...] points to Awlaki’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
October 23rd, 2010 at 5:42 pm
[...] points to Awlaki’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
February 10th, 2011 at 10:20 am
[...] points to Awlaki’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
February 14th, 2011 at 9:42 am
[...] [...]
February 14th, 2011 at 11:26 am
[...] cell apparently planned to use was in fact purchased by an informant working for the Royal Cana…, agents of which had radicalized the [...]
February 14th, 2011 at 1:35 pm
[...] The explosive fertilizer material the terrorist cell apparently planned to use was in fact purchased by an informant working for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, agents of which had radicalized the group. US agent Al-Awlaki was again involved in the [...]
February 15th, 2011 at 12:16 am
[...] The explosive fertilizer material the terrorist cell apparently planned to use was in fact purchased by an informant working for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, agents of which had radicalized the group. US agent Al-Awlaki was again involved in the [...]
February 15th, 2011 at 6:06 am
[...] The explosive fertilizer material the terrorist cell apparently planned to use was in fact purchased by an informant working for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, agents of which had radicalized the group. US agent Al-Awlaki was again involved in the [...]
February 16th, 2011 at 8:49 am
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February 19th, 2011 at 1:24 am
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March 25th, 2011 at 4:15 pm
[...] points to Awlaki’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
September 9th, 2011 at 10:31 am
[...] points to Aulaqi’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
September 9th, 2011 at 12:51 pm
[...] points to Aulaqi’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
September 9th, 2011 at 4:20 pm
[...] points to Aulaqi’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
September 10th, 2011 at 1:57 am
[...] points to Aulaqi’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
September 10th, 2011 at 11:52 am
[...] points to Aulaqi’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
September 16th, 2011 at 3:10 pm
[...] “terrorist plots” by busy FBI and Canadian RCMP agents during recent years.”Tarpley points to Awlaki’s role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, which were both contrived by the feds, as proof of [...]
September 30th, 2011 at 10:26 am
[...] Awlaki’s alleged role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, also raises questions, given that both were later revealed as contrived by the FBI. [...]
September 30th, 2011 at 12:52 pm
[...] Awlaki’s alleged role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, also raises questions, given that both were later revealed as contrived by the FBI. [...]
September 30th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
[...] Awlaki’s alleged role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, also raises questions, given that both were later revealed as contrived by the FBI. [...]
September 30th, 2011 at 4:36 pm
[...] Awlaki’s alleged role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, also raises questions, given that both were later revealed as contrived by the FBI. [...]
September 30th, 2011 at 9:50 pm
[...] Awlaki’s alleged role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, also raises questions, given that both were later revealed as contrived by the FBI. [...]
October 1st, 2011 at 1:44 am
[...] Awlaki’s alleged role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, also raises questions, given that both were later revealed as contrived by the FBI. [...]
October 1st, 2011 at 3:43 am
[...] Awlaki’s alleged role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, also raises questions, given that both were later revealed as contrived by the FBI. [...]
October 1st, 2011 at 5:04 am
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October 3rd, 2011 at 1:45 pm
[...] Awlaki’s alleged role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, also raises questions, given that both were later revealed as contrived by the FBI. [...]
October 3rd, 2011 at 1:45 pm
[...] Awlaki’s alleged role in the Toronto and Fort Dix, New Jersey, terror plots, also raises questions, given that both were later revealed as contrived by the FBI. [...]
November 5th, 2011 at 1:02 pm
Still, members of the Toronto 18 stand accused of attending a jihadist training camp in December 2005, ordering fertilizer to build truck bombs, constructing a remote-control detonator and scouting a safe house to practise military drills and store weapons.