Truemors
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCanadians certainly felt this could never happen on Canadian Soil, many feeling, this is a war of terror which happens in far flung reaches of the world and in Europe. These same views were held by our American neighbours as well, until that fateful and tragic day of September 11 whereby al-QaidaTerrorism brought both the United States and Canada citizens back to reality. Recent transcripts from this pretrial lay our plans by this group to bomb and massacre innocents in order to get their point across. Canada which had abolished Capital Punishment as inhumane, should certainly rethink their stance, when a murderous group of terrorists wanted to rival the death and destruction of 9-11 in their attempt to make a name for themselves and Islam.Here is the link to my original story last week on the pretrial going ons so far, where names of the terrorist accused are named.http://www.nowpublic.com/world/toronto-canada-shocking-islamic-terrorist-cell-trial-begins
BRAMPTON -- An al-Qaida inspired ring bent on spilling Canadian blood or a hapless F-Troop of tentless campers making frequent trips to Tim Hortons.
Those were the two very different pictures of the 2006 Toronto terror plotters that emerged in court this week as the first trial began for one of the 15 alleged homegrown terrorists netted in a massive police sweep.
The allegations from the Crown, all yet to be proven in court, include a chilling recorded conversation saying it will be "too bad" for the innocent people killed when "the bomb goes off," and another conversation saying the attack will be bigger than the London subway bombings.
A transcript of a videotape seized by police, shows one speaker urging followers to strike back at North American society, comparing it to Rome.
"Rome has to be defeated," the speaker said. "And we have to be the ones that do it."
Defence lawyer Michael Moon, representing one of the adult accused, fired back, filing a very different version of events, also yet to be proven in court, that challenges the Crown's evidence for the first time publicly.
He characterized the alleged Jihadist training camps as hapless winter survival boot camps where some of the men were scouted -- without their knowledge -- to be groomed for a Canadian terror plot.
Most of the marching was to keep warm or to go on one of many Tim Hortons runs, Moon said.
The main trial itself won't begin until May 27 as lawyers spend the next few weeks arguing over the constitutionality of the terror laws and the admissibility of police wiretaps.
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