Friday’s announcement that Canadian resident Muhammad Shahzeb Khan had been arrested as he was crossing the border to commit a terrorist attack in New York revealed, once again, the severe and continual shortcomings of Canada’s immigration system. All day, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for his part, was nowhere to be seen.
RCMP Federal Police – Central Region have arrested and charged a person from the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) who was allegedly participating in the activities of a listed terrorist group.
Following a lengthy national security investigation, the following charges have been laid:
Participating in the activities of a terrorist group for the purpose of enhancing the ability of the terrorist group to carry out terrorist activity, contrary to Sec. 83.18(1) of the Criminal Code of Canada
Counselling another person to commit a terrorism offence, contrary to Sec. 83.221(1) of the Criminal Code of Canada
The individual will appear remotely via video link for a court appearance on August 27.
Why is information being kept from the public?
An alleged member of the notorious Baader-Meinhof Gang has denied charges of attempted murder and robbery, while praising the revolutionary “struggle for liberation” in her first public statement since she was apprehended earlier this year.
Daniela Klette, 65, previously one of Germany’s most wanted terror suspects, was arrested in Berlin in February after more than 30 years on the run.
Klette is currently awaiting trial accused of participating in armed ambushes on money transporters, alongside two other gang members who remain at large.
German authorities told residents of a town in the west of the country to avoid using or consuming water from the taps on Thursday afternoon amid fears that the water supply had been tampered with.
The warning came after a hole was found in the fence around the supply, which also feeds a nearby military base. The warning was partially lifted on Monday, but residents were told to boil tap water before drinking it.
The incident in the town of Mechernich, in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, was discovered after another suspected case of sabotage was reported close to a military base at Cologne airport, not far from the town of Mechernich.
Canada’s systemic reluctance to tackle extremist ideology is coming home to roost. Two weeks ago, Edmonton gas station employee Khaled Hussein was convicted on multiple charges under Britain’s Terrorism Act alongside radical British preacher Anjem Choudary. Last week, the RCMP announced the arrest of a father and son, Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi and Mostafa Eldidi in Richmond Hill, Ont. on charges that include conspiracy to commit murder for the benefit or at the direction of ISIS.
… Seventy-eight per cent of 30,746 immigration investigations in 2022-23 ended with CBSA’s determination that the individual in question was “inadmissible” to Canada. There are many reasons why you might be found “inadmissible,” including security concerns, human rights violations, criminal record, misrepresentation, health issues, a loss of refugee status, etc. That’s not a one-off: CBSA inadmissibility findings were even higher in 2021 and 2022.
If the vast majority of CBSA investigations turn up troubling information, it’s frightening to think our immigration screeners missed a publicly available ISIS execution video where Ahmed Eldidi allegedly dismembered “a spy” in Western Iraq prior to being granted Canadian citizenship. Was this a case of bad luck, underfunding, or inadequate training at our embassy in Egypt?
No. 1 – STOP IMPORTIMNG MUSLIMS
Back in January of 2024 I wrote Terrorist attacks in America: for what are they waiting? It was an article about the thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of terrorists Biden’s handler’s open border policies have invited into the country. It’s a topic I’ve addressed several times since as FBI Director Christopher Wray keeps warning the terrorist threat level is higher than ever. He has even sort of suggested open borders might have something to do with that. Constant probes of our military installations by foreign nationals illegally in the country are sort of concerning, as are Chinese operatives buying up farm and ranch land next door to some of our most sensitive military installations.
If you regularly scan the headlines of major news sources of late you will have noted a curious tendency. When it comes to terrorism, the only stories which seem to get any traction are those which lament the “rise” in what is widely termed “far-right extremism.” This umbrella description covers everything from neo-Nazis to white supremacists to anti-vaxxers to, believe it or not, violent “incels” (involuntary celibates who apparently target women out of frustration over their lack of sexual gratification).
We are led to accept that this form of terrorism is ubiquitous, on the increase, and poses some kind of “existential threat” to Western societies. Even our public safety ministry here in Canada is keen to trumpet this menace, although they have elected to label it “ideologically-motivated violent extremism“ or IMVE (as if not all terrorism is, at its core, ”ideological”).
Whenever an apparent terrorist attack occurs, one’s first thought is ‘who was responsible?’
In a reasonable country, one starts with the facts. But Russia is not a reasonable country. Indeed, since the terrible massacre which claimed 137 lives, the Kremlin’s first instinct was to pump out every conceivable conspiracy theory under the sun.
The first was that Kyiv was responsible, later extrapolated to include the Western intelligence services, such as MI6. This is despite the fact that, in private, it would appear that very few of the Russian elite believe that Ukraine or the West bear any responsibility. There are even reports that Putin himself is unconvinced by what his propaganda spews.
It happened in Israel, and it happened in Moscow, and it’s going to happen here in America – again, and exponentially worse. The jihadis’ merciless war against the West – the Muslim fanatics are not so finicky as we are about our distinctions between the Jewish state, Russia, and us, the Great Satan – did not end when the regime media started covering other things. We may have fled Afghanistan and Libya and largely pulled out of Iraq, but that war is still going on. It’s going to go on until we decisively win it. But unfortunately, our ruling class refuses to decisively win it. In fact, our ruling class actively undermines attempts to win it. And it refuses to prepare for what’s coming.
h/t Mauser
The Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide near Berlin was evacuated on Tuesday after a major power outage.
The left-wing extremist “Volcano Group” said it had carried out the assault on the power grid supplying the carmaker.
“We sabotaged Tesla today,” a letter from the Volcano Group said, specifying an “attack on the electricity supply.”
Subway shooter Frank James — who opened fire on a packed Brooklyn subway train, hitting 10 people and igniting terror underground in April 2022 — will spend the rest of his days behind bars, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
James, 64, was sentenced to life in prison by Brooklyn federal Judge William F. Kuntz for the bloody April 12, 2022, attack that seriously injured subway commuters and petrified the city.
Prosecutors had asked for James to get 10 concurrent sentences of life imprisonment for the “careful and prolonged planning” that went into the attack, according to court papers.
On the eighth anniversary of the kidnapping of four hostages in Philippines, including two Canadians who were later executed, the southeast Asian nation has declared the notorious terrorist group Abu Sayyaf officially eradicated from their former home in the south Philippines province of Sulu.
Maryland’s top utility regulator was watching the news one February morning when a headline blindsided him: Two suspects with neo-Nazi ties had been charged with plotting to take down Baltimore’s power grid.
Jason Stanek, the then-chair of the state’s Public Service Commission, said Maryland regulators were “caught flat-footed,” not hearing a word from law enforcement before the news broke — or in the months afterward. Federal prosecutors have alleged the defendants were driven by “racially motivated hatred” to try to cut power to hundreds of thousands of people in the state’s largest city, which has a predominantly Black population.
The Green mayor of Annecy, François Astorg, declared a fortnight ago that his town in the south-east of France was ‘a land of resistance against fascism, a land of solidarity, a refugee town for those fleeing war, misery and the unhappiness in the world’.
On Thursday, Astorg, expressed his ‘immense sadness’ and his ‘anger’ hours after a Syrian refugee ran amok in a park in Annecy, stabbing six people including four toddlers. ‘It’s the first time this has happened in Annecy,’ declared Astorg. ‘It’s unacceptable’.
