Canadians taking al-Qaida training in Pakistan:

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OTTAWA — The RCMP is investigating a claim that a dozen Canadians in al-Qaida training camps in Pakistan are preparing to mount terror missions in Canada.

"Any information that we receive, we look at assessing its credibility and then taking proper actions to ensure that Canadians and our allies are kept safe," Assistant Commissioner Gilles Michaud, in charge of the Mountie's national-security program, said in an interview Friday.

The Hong Kong-based Asia Times Online reported Friday that "well-placed" Taliban sources say a group of Canadian militants is receiving jihadi training in al-Qaida camps in North Waziristan for terror attacks in Canada.

The story was written by Syed Saleem Shahzad, the paper's Pakistan bureau chief. He has extensive experience reporting on the Taliban and authored the upcoming book Inside al-Qaida and the Taliban 9/11 and Beyond.

While Shahzad's credibility appears firm, that of so-called Taliban sources is routinely questioned by Western authorities on guard against al-Qaida's increasingly slick propaganda operations directed at Western audiences.

Shazad and colleague Tashir Ali write that "according to available information" the Canadians joined the Egyptian militant organization Jihad al-Islami (JAI), which helped them reach Afghanistan.

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Sounds rather sinister and unbelievable.
 
Mebbe we oughta beef up our northern border - dem Canucks is terrorists...
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Inside job, 2 Canadian militants in Algeria siege
January 21, 2013 — The hostage-taking at a remote Algerian gas plant was carried out by 30 militants from across the northern swath of Africa and two from Canada, authorities said. The militants, who wore military uniforms and knew the layout, included explosives experts who rigged it with bombs and a leader whose final order was to kill all the captives.
The operation also had help with inside knowledge — a former driver at the plant, Algeria's prime minister said Monday. In all, 38 workers and 29 militants died, the Algerian prime minister said Monday, offering the government's first detailed account of four days of chaos that ended with a bloody military raid he defended as the only way possible to end the standoff. Five foreigners are still missing. "You may have heard the last words of the terrorist chief," Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal told reporters. "He gave the order for all the foreigners to be killed, so there was a mass execution, many hostages were killed by a bullet to the head."

Monday's account offered the first Algerian government narrative of the standoff, from the moment of the attempted bus hijacking on Wednesday to the moment when the attackers prepared Saturday to detonate bombs across the sprawling complex. That's when Algerian special forces moved in for the second and final time. All but one of the dead victims — an Algerian security guard — were foreigners. The dead hostages included seven Japanese workers, six Filipinos, three energy workers each from the U.S. and Britain, two from Romania and one worker from France. The prime minister said three attackers were captured but did not specify their nationalities or their conditions or say where they were being held.

He said the Islamists included a former driver at the complex from Niger and that the militants "knew the facility's layout by heart." The vast complex is deep in the Sahara, 800 miles (1,300 miles) south of Algiers, with a network of roads and walkways for the hundreds of workers who keep it running. The attackers wore military uniforms, according to state television, bolstering similar accounts by former hostages that the attackers didn't just shoot their way in. "Our attention was drawn by a car. It was at the gate heading toward the production facility. Four attackers stepped out of a car that had flashing lights on top of it," one of the former hostages, Liviu Floria, a 45-year-old mechanic from Romania, told The Associated Press.

The militants had said during the standoff that their band included people from Canada, and hostages who had escaped recalled hearing at least one of the militants speaking English with a North American accent. The Algerian premier said the Canadians were of Arab descent. He further said the militant cell also included men from Egypt, Mali, Niger, Mauritania and Tunisia, as well as three Algerians. Officials in Canada could not confirm that any of the attackers were from there. "The announcement of the Algerian prime minister is fine, but we need verification. It could be a forged document. We need to confirm," said a Canadian official who was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity. Three Americans died in the attack and seven made it out safely, a U.S. official in Washington said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. The bodies have been recovered, the official said.

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Canadian kills 2 in Philippine court, is shot dead
Monday, 01.21.13 -- A Canadian man facing charges of illegal possession of firearms opened fire in a Philippine courtroom Tuesday, killing two people and wounding a prosecutor before police fatally shot him, officials said.
The suspect, John H. Pope, appeared in court in central Cebu city, where he resided, to face the charges when he pulled out a gun and shot a lawyer and a physician who filed a case against him, police said. He then fired at a prosecutor in the hallway of the building before responding police fatally wounded him, said Cebu police chief Mariano Natuel.

Regional police director Marcelo Garbo said Pope ignored orders to surrender and tried to fire at police. Police said they were investigating Pope's background. Local media mentioned Pope in 2011, when he was held by police on charges of illegal possession of firearms. The same physician who was killed in Tuesday's shooting accused Pope, his neighbor, of brandishing a weapon and threatening him and other residents in their condominium.

Pope was quoted as saying at the time that the pistol he was carrying was for self-defense. Apart from illegal weapons possession, he was also charged with malicious mischief and grave threats. The shooting came after several recent killings in the country that prompted calls for a tighter gun control.

Read more here: MANILA, Philippines: Canadian kills 2 in Philippine court, is shot dead - World Wires - MiamiHerald.com
 
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