Is it the Canadian beer? Too much ice time? An errant puck, perhaps?
The ties that bind 17 suspects? ANALYSIS
STAFF REPORTERS: SURYA BHATTACHARYA, NASREEN GULAMHUSEIN AND HEBA ALY
Hmm... h'okay.
In investigators' offices, an intricate graph plotting the links between the 17 men and teens charged with being members of a homegrown terrorist cell covers at least one wall. And still, says a source, it is difficult to find a common denominator.
Oh, come on - who are they trying to kid?? it's Canada. They must like hockey?
Some of the students, who cannot be named because they are not yet 18 and their identities are protected by Canadian law, attended the same high school.
The same high school. Well, shazzam! What do you think of that. Must be that Canadian public education system, I bet.
RCMP Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell said yesterday the suspects are all Canadian residents and the majority are citizens. "They represent the broad strata of our community. Some are students, some are employed, some are unemployed," he said.
Well, looks like the school idea is out. Canadian residents and mostly citizens? And I thought those people were, for the most part, friendly. I sure hope the BlueJays aren't in town.
The suspects are mainly teens and men in their young 20s, with the exception of 43-year-old Qayyum Abdul Jamal, a bus driver and recognized figure at a Mississauga Islamic centre.
Ahmad Mustafa Ghany, ... Zakaria Amara, 20, are married to sisters, and were wed by the same Scarborough imam. Yasin Abdi Mohamed, 24, and 22-year-old Mohammed Dirie were arrested bringing weapons from the United States to Canada in a car allegedly rented by Fahim Ahmad, 21. Mohammad Attique couldn't believe the man who had been renting an apartment in his basement for six months is suspected of being a terrorist. He exchanged only brief greetings when he ran into his tenant, Steven Vikash Chand, a 25-year-old Muslim convert who went by the name Abdul Shakur.
For the boys who played basketball with Fahim Ahmad, they believed the charges are simply wrong. And the mother of a 24-year-old who was already dealing with the fact that her son was in jail on gun charges, was devastated by the terrorism charges. "I did not bring up my children in Canada to teach them to kill," Yasin Abdi Mohamed's mother said yesterday.
As police transported suspects yesterday to the Brampton courthouse where they made their first court appearances yesterday morning, they were linked with handcuffs and leg irons, and were heavily guarded.
Also loaded in the police vans with the young men were some of their possessions, including a Grade 10 math text.
A math text? Well, those must be rare in Canada since it looks like these freaking idiots can't add anything up. Good lord, no common demohammenator, er, I mean, denominator. Well, how about that?
The McKensie Brothers wept, then turned in their tukes when they saw how stupid the editors at the Toronto Star are.
Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin | Tuesday, June 06, 2006 at 08:18 AM
Amazing.
Posted by: Florida Patty | Tuesday, June 06, 2006 at 12:00 PM