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Major terror plot in Canada/US thwarted
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A terror plot to target a railroad between Toronto and New York has been thwarted by police.
Could have ended really nasty, especially if it was a passenger train.
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Probably were going to try and load a train with explosives then drive it into a station. How else could they use trains?
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dunno. but the police are announcing it at this moment so we'll find out soon. that's a movie plot right there though.
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Scare people from using the train, just like planes?
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You must be mad that you didn't get to post it first
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It probably has something to do with the Leafs making the playoffs
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this seems plausible. can't imagine we'd even be alive if they win the cup.
also apparently they targeted a Via Rail passenger train
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saying now it was al-Quaeda supported too
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Why Canadia, though?
That's like beating up the nicest kid in school.
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I guess some group al-queada related group in Iran.
I still blame the leafs, though.
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cause we're a well known and liked ally of america. i figured this would happen eventually. fuckin blows that it did though. i mean i know it was "thwarted" but thats got to mean it will happen again at some point in the future
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turns out Canada really dropped the ball on this. US intelligence were still monitoring activities of suspects in the US who were related to this and didn't want the RCMP to arrest them for a while yet so they could still gather evidence and such and the RCMP went ahead and arrested them anyways even though there wasn't an immediate risk. The reason why they did though was politically inclined since at the time there's a bill being passed giving the power to detain terrorism suspects without any evidence at all. so they decided to screw over US intelligence agencies simply for political game. bravo.
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