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<http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Former+CSIS+boss+warned+about+domestic\
+terrorism/3457833/story.html> Former CSIS boss had warned
about domestic terrorism
Chris Wattie/Reuters
Former Canadian Security Intelligence Service Director
Jim Judd has warned the government not to underestimate
the spectre of domestic terrorism.
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Ian MacLeod, Postmedia News · Monday, Aug. 30,
2010
OTTAWA The day after his unexpected resignation was
announced last spring, Canada's former spy master
warned the government not to underestimate the spectre of
domestic terrorism.
"It has sometimes been suggested that the phenomenon
of terrorism has been exaggerated in Canada in the course of
this decade and especially in the post-9/11 period. In fact, a
brief survey of our experience in this period might lead
to a relatively different conclusion," CSIS director
Jim Judd wrote in a "secret" April 15, 2009 memo to
then-public safety minister Peter Van Loan.
Five months later, RCMP and Ottawa police launched
"Project Samosa," the massive probe into a suspected
Ottawa-based Islamist terror cell plotting a bombing campaign,
culminating in the recent arrests.
In a censored copy of the memo, obtained by Ottawa
researcher Ken Rubin under the Access to Information Act, Mr.
Judd summarizes how Canadian citizens and residents had
been caught and prosecuted for terrorism in Canada, the United
States and other countries.
"An additional number of individuals the
precise number cannot be accurately determined have been
killed in terrorist or `insurgent' related activities
outside of Canada.
"Within the country today, we have [word redacted]
individuals currently under active investigation for terrorist
or extremist-related activities." (CSIS has since said it is
tracking more than 200 individuals in Canada with
suspected links to as many as 50 terrorist groups.)
Richard Fadden took over as head of the Canadian
Security Intelligence Service six weeks later and wasted little
time publicly reiterating Mr. Judd's concerns.
Despite a history of domestic terrorism, from Air India
to the Toronto 18, Canada has a "serious blind spot"
acknowledging that violent extremism imperils our national
security, Fadden said in his first public speech, to an Ottawa
security-intelligence conference.
The following day, RCMP Commissioner William Elliott,
speaking at the same conference, warned that despite success
thwarting the Toronto 18 and Momin Khawaja terrorism plots the
current threat environment remains severe, from a
resurgent al-Qaeda and fugitive Tamil Tigers to nuclear
technology smuggling and border concerns. Islamic radicalization
of Canada's Somali community is becoming a particular
national security concern, he said.
Success in countering the dangers require police to take
on more of a national security role and "put more terrorism
cases before the courts and more terrorists in jail," he said.
Arrests and prosecutions "would help send a strong message
to the world that we are serious about prosecuting
accomplices to terror."
Canada hosts one of the largest Somali diaspora communities
in the western world. Somali-Canadians are at risk of being
radicalized and recruited to fight with Islamist al-Shabaab (the
youth) extremist movement in Somalia's civil war, he
said.
"The ranks of the Somali insurgency are attracting
thousands of young men who have been radicalized by the harsh
reality of depravation and civil war," said Mr. Elliott.
"The potential follow-on threat, from a Canadian and
RCMP perspective, is Somali-Canadians who travel to Somalia to
fight and then return, imbued with both extremist ideology and
the skills necessary to translate it into direct action."
Meanwhile, al-Qaeda along with its offshoots, associates
and hangers-on, and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terror
groups remain highly virulent to Canada, he said.
"As far as al-Qaida is concerned, Canada is the enemy,"
he said, referring to Osama bin Laden's infamous 2002
communique placing Canada and five other U.S. allies on
its global hit list.
"Since then, there has not been a single indicator
to suggest that al-Qaeda has changed its position in this
regard. Sadly, as we have seen on a number of fronts, including
Canadian casualties in Afghanistan, the role of AQ camps
in training young Canadian militants, kidnappings of
Canadians aboard and al-Qaida's role in Canadian terrorism
cases, bin Laden's Canadian fatwa continues."
Ottawa Citizen
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