Is there a draft in here, or did my blood just run cold?
National Post:
The young men charged with plotting terrorist attacks against Canadian targets were allegedly planning two separate strikes -- one to detonate a truck bomb to destroy a significant building and the other to open fire on a crowd in a public place, the National Post has learned.More:
The conspirators were allegedly concentrating their efforts on their assigned missions and were in an advanced state of planning when authorities moved to arrest the men last weekend, sources said...
The Toronto Stock Exchange was another of the plotters' possible targets for a massive bomb attack, according to law-enforcement sources.
Both attacks would have been devastating to the city of Toronto and, if carried out during business hours, significantly deadly.
The commandos of Joint Task Force-2, the Canadian army's elite special forces unit, were put on standby just a few minutes' flight away from where suspected terrorists were conducting "training camps" at an isolated site north of Toronto, sources have told the National Post. About 25 members of the JTF-2's counterterrorism unit were at a nearby military base with their helicopters, ready to swoop down should police decide they were needed, said a military source speaking on condition of anonymity... The National Post has located an isolated rural property just outside the small town of Washago, 150 kilometres north of Toronto, that neighbours said was used as an assault training ground. Residents reported seeing up to a dozen men dressed in camouflage coming and going from the wooded acreage and hearing automatic gunfire from the property last December and January.
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