Armed camp planned for northern Ontario
CBC: 'Toronto 18' case
Melissa Leong, National Post
Published: Thursday, January 18, 2007
A group of young Toronto men were planning to harbour two Americans accused of terrorist activity and protect them by setting up an armed "Chechnya style resistance" in northern Ontario against law enforcement officials, a police informant who infiltrated the alleged local extremist cell said in a CBC news program.
Mubin Shaikh, a former army cadet and paid police mole, revealed last night on The Fifth Estate that he helped look for a safe house in Opasatika, Ont. for two Atlanta men who authorities say were planning a terrorist attack in the United States.
The U.S. Department of Justice claims that Syed Haris Ahmed and his friend Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, both from Georgia, spent a week in Toronto and met with the alleged members of the "Toronto 18." They have both been indicted on charges of providing material support to terrorists.
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Font: ****"They were going to come up here for refuge and what we were going to do was provide a safe house for them and we even scoped the area out, did a little recognizance," Mr. Shaikh said. The plan was to have a resistance -- a Chechnya-style resistance in northern Ontario in the bushes... to have guys up there, we would fortify ourselves and if they came looking for us, we were going to take them on.
"We looked at the road and were saying we're going to booby-trap this, we're going to have snipers over here. "It was planned out."
He told the CBC that this conversation was secretly recorded by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
Mr. Shaikh said he was recruited by CSIS in 2004 and asked to get close to alleged Toronto terror cell ringleader Fahim Ahmad.
He told his CSIS handler that Mr. Ahmad was "an f---ing time bomb, waiting to go off," CBC reported.
The RCMP arrested 17 terror suspects in Toronto in June and then an 18thman in August.
......Taken a few moose on the opas river.
