It's been a textbook needle-in-the-haystack search for the media and the Kingston Muslim community to find any trace of terror suspects Mohammed Dirie, 22, and Yasim Mohamed, 24, in Kingston, Ontario.
a hot pursuit sprang into action when the media fanned out Saturday to find relatives and friends of 12 of the 17 Toronto-area suspects named and arrested in an alleged terrorist plot to attack unspecified targets in southern Ontario.
Police gave little information about the suspect terrorists at Saturday's joint RCMP/CSIS press conference, only indicating that most arrested were your average Canadian residents from a variety of Middle Eastern backgrounds; the kind of guys that always wave when you spot them barbecuing supper in the backyard next door.
as RCMP assistant Commissioner Mike McDonnell put it: "Some are students, some are employed, some are unemployed."
as time in the big chase for more information was to prove, "some are students."
arrested terrorist suspect ahmad Ghany, 21, is a health sciences graduate from McMaster University in Hamilton. That's the same university where stories have cropped up about terrorists posing as students, and the same university from which international terrorist adnan El Shukrijumah, aka "Jafar the Pilot" is alleged to have stolen 180 lbs. of nuclear materials from its on campus nuclear reactor.
But what Commissioner Mike McDonnell failed to tell the media is that two of the alleged terrorists busted along with the 15 others happen to call a penitentiary home.
Mohammed Dirie, 22, and Yasmin Mohamed, 24, who seem to have all but vanished into the thin air, were listed simply "of Kingston" on the list of names released Saturday by police.
Members of Kingston's Muslin community told Canadian press they knew nothing about either man.
"I have been asking around and no one seems to know them," said Hafizurt Rahman, president of the Islamic Centre of Kingston." (CBC News Online, June 4, 2006).
"He said they may have been students at Queen's University, but Haseeb Khan, president of the Muslim Students' association at Queen's, didn't recognize their names.
For an inquiring mainstream media, nonplussed was still the order of the day, even when only 15 of the 17 suspects charged showed up for court.
Dirie and Mohamed were no shows because they were incarcerated.
as initially reported on the Tom Bauerle Show on WBEN aM 930 by The Northeast Intelligence Network director Doug Hagmann, three of the 17 Canadian terror suspects were the topic of a WBEN aM-930 radio show briefing last august. ali Dirie, 22, (a/k/a Mohammed Dirie) and Yasim abdi Mohamed, 24, both Canadians from the Toronto area, were arrested as they attempted to enter into Canada from the U.S. on august 14, 2005 on weapons related charges. The men's vehicle, rented by a third Canadian terrorist suspect, Fahim ahmad, 21, of Toronto, underwent a search at about 5:40 a.m. at the Peace Bridge.
The two men attempted entry from the United States into Canada via Buffalo's Peace Bridge on august 14, 2005. Canadian border officials discovered that the two men had handguns and ammunition strapped to their bodies; two loaded guns were found strapped to Dirie's thighs, and ammunition was also found hidden on both parties.
at the time of Friday's historical raid, both Dirie and Mohamed were languishing in a Kingston penitentiary, each serving a two-year sentence on the weapons charges.
a weekend update by the Northeast Intelligence Network in conjunction with Canada Free Press stated that the arrests in Toronto were due, in part to investigation and surveillance conducted on two State of Georgia men, both indicted in March. Georgia Tech student Syed ahmed, 21, was indicted by a grand jury on March 23, 2006 for material support of terrorism. a second Georgia man, Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, 19, was arrested in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka. Both ahmed and Sadequee are naturalized U.S. citizens who grew up in the atlanta area. They met with at least three other subjects of ongoing FBI terrorism investigations during a trip to Canada in March, 2005.
Intelligence sent to the Northeast Intelligence Network also indicates to "expect more arrests, perhaps a dozen more".
Meanwhile, it's too easy to poke fun at the mainstream media for not being able to figure that prison would be a likely spot to find two elusive terror suspects charged under Canada's Criminal Code on Friday night.
But in fairness, who would expect police to place the words "of Kingston" beside two names on the charged list when the other 10 all included specific addresses?
and if the police didn't tell reporters that terror suspects Mohamed Dirie and Yasim Mohamed were serving time in a Kingston prison, what else didn't they tell them?
Find out by reading Canada Free Press.
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