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June 07, 2006
A little suspicious
After a bunch of suspected terrorists were caught in Ontario, this curious story about their activities surfaced. All I have to wonder is, if they're going to conduct a terrorist training camp in the middle of Canada, you'd think they would go somewhere a little more isolated. Like where nobody's gonna see them!
WASHAGO, Ont. - Robert Clousghley's woodsman instincts warned him to be cautious last winter when a group of men dressed in camouflage fatigues and armed with paint-ball guns and high powered rifles set up camp next to his 327-acre refuge in this rural northern Ontario community.
Chris O'Donnell said she and her husband grew concerned when he stumbled across the shadowy group of men while he was out snowmobiling.
"One of the guys told [my husband] they were doing "extreme camping,' " she said.
Kim Rowe knew something was amiss because she kept hearing the sound of gunfire coming from the woods at night.
"And that was unusual," she said, "because it wasn't hunting season."
The residents of this normally bucolic hamlet on the northern end of Ontario's cottage country learned this weekend what those strange men may have been up to.
Canadian authorities say members of a suspected Toronto-based terror cell were holding a terrorist training camp - modeled after al-Qaida camps for its followers in Afghanistan - in preparation for a deadly rampage across Ontario.
Posted by oz115 at June 7, 2006 08:41 AM