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Not Me wrote:

> With more and more of these road-blocks in many of the provinces, there
> should be some terrorists and al-Qaeda members arrested by the RCMP and
> local police this December.  Today (Wednesday) there were terrorism arrests
> in UK (Edinburgh and London) and Dallas, Texas.

From the Toronto Star,

Dec. 18, 2002
Captive's tip led to terror suspect
Ottawa man held after U.S. alerted by bin Laden chief
ALLAN THOMPSON AND TIM HARPER

OTTAWA�An Ottawa man alleged to have been living a double life � pumping gas
and delivering pizzas as an Al Qaeda terrorist "sleeper" � may have been
betrayed by one of Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants under U.S. interrogation.

Court documents filed by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) this
week stress that Mohamed Harkat, 34, has been associated with bin Laden
lieutenant Abu Zubaydah, who is in U.S. custody and is reportedly providing
information to American authorities.

U.S. officials say Zubaydah worked closely with bin Laden in the managing of Al
Qaeda's terrorist camps in Afghanistan. He was captured last March in northern
Pakistan.

From a base in neighbouring Pakistan, Zubaydah vetted potential recruits for
the camps, deciding who would be accepted, the officials said. As they left
Afghanistan after training, Zubaydah then assigned them to Al Qaeda cells
elsewhere in the world and helped arrange their transportation.

Sources yesterday pointed strongly to the possibility that Harkat was fingered
by Zubaydah, and that U.S. intelligence sources helped CSIS make its case
against the Ottawa man.
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The court documents filed by CSIS said Harkat, who entered Canada on Oct. 6,
1995, supports terrorist activity "as a member of a terrorist entity known as
the bin Laden Network, which includes Al Qaeda."

They also say he entered the country in Toronto from Malaysia, via the United
Kingdom, using a falsified Saudi Arabian passport, filing a refugee claim
fearing persecution in his native Algeria.
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