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Investigators have a few circumstantial clues hinting at bin Laden's involvement. Ressam and several of his Montreal-based associates, once linked to the brutal Algerian terror organization Armed Islamic Group, had grown away from that band's local fight. FBI agents have unverified reports that they trained at camps in Afghanistan, where bin Laden is a major funder of Islamic militancy. While police found no signatures that prove the provenance of the timing devices in Ressam's car, the units were "strikingly similar" to ones produced at bin Laden's camps...
...Algerian expatriate living in Brooklyn, N.Y. A snitch told the FBI that Meskini had said Ressam's instructions were to "take the explosive-laden vehicle to a parking lot and walk away from it," according to a federal complaint. And Ressam carried a phony credit card that led to Montreal shopkeeper Mokhtar Haouari, who, said a federal indictment, sent Meskini to Seattle in mid-December to help Ressam. After the bust at Port Angeles, Haouari allegedly called Meskini with instructions to destroy his pager and change his telephone numbers. Too late. The FBI concluded that Haouari was a logistics specialist...
...good bet for finding the brains behind the bomb plot, investigators believe, may be a third man Canadian authorities were watching: Slahi. Born in Mauritania, he moved to Montreal last fall from Germany. U.S. officials found he had been in contact with Haouari. When his name was run through the databases, it turned out he was the brother-in-law of one of bin Laden's closest associates, a man cryptically known as "the Mauritanian." Washington experts say that man is a member of bin Laden's Shura, or advisory council, and there are indications that he may know something...
Simply put, all the Canadian teams except Montreal and Toronto need additional sources of revenue. It's simple math...
...Montreal Gazette printed the following editorial in response to this trend in the Canadian sport: "The public is increasingly fed up with the mediocre NHL product, the high ticket prices, and the bloated player salaries. It would be hard to think of a more undeserving recipient of taxpayer charity...