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...events of September 11th forced many Canadians to focus an untrained eye on their own very liberal immigration policies, which some argue serve as an open invitation to terrorists intent on making their way south into the U.S. Case in point: Ahmed Ressam, a 34-year-old Algerian national who was based in Montreal and decided to take a trip to Los Angeles for the millennium celebration. He was stopped by U.S. border police with 118 pounds of explosives and four timing devices in the trunk of his car. Authorities believe Ressam was planning to blow up LAX just...
...three-pronged strategy - diplomatic, military and financial - outlined by President Bush began in the U.S with the freezing of the assets of 27 Islamic groups and the arrest of 400 people nationwide. In Europe, police detained more than 20 suspected of planning attacks, while an Algerian pilot wanted for allegedly training four of the hijackers appeared in a British court on a U.S. extradition warrant...
...Spanish roundup on Wednesday nabbed six Algerians suspected of running a logistical support cell for the so-called Beghal network - named after Djamel Beghal, a Franco-Algerian Muslim, bin Laden associate and network coordinator. That sweep came a day after British police apprehended three men, including Kamel Daoudi, 23, a Frenchman who escaped the Sept. 21 capture of seven co-members of the Beghal group in suburban Paris. The joint European crackdown began on Sept. 13, when Belgian and Dutch authorities apprehended six extremists said to be part of a plan to attack U.S. targets in France - including the American...
...case in point: The February trial of Fateh Kamel, a 40-year-old Algerian with Canadian citizenship, provided further evidence of the discrete patterns of the terror networks. Kamel had been arrested on a charge of "association with wrong-doers in relation with a terrorist enterprise," for his involvement in the "gang of Roubaix" - a group of young men whose criminal behavior had been considered anti-social rather than political...
...various regional networks with which Kamel had been put in contact. Based on Kamel's visits to Montreal, France's top anti-terrorist cop Jean-Louis Brugiere wanted to pay a call on Ahmed Ressam - but he was discouraged by incredulous Canadian authorities who considered the Algerian expatriate no more than a petty crook. This was the same Ahmed Ressam who in 1999 was arrested en route to Seattle with a car full of explosives...