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A group of Canadian residents arrested in coordinated raids across the Toronto area for terrorism-related offenses had planned to blow up targets around southern Ontario, Canadian police said on Saturday.
Mike McDonnell, assistant commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said the group had acquired three metric tons of ammonium nitrate or three times the amount used in the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City as they sought to create explosive devices. Police said they had arrested 12 adults and five young people.
I sure hope nobody violates their civil rights.McDonnell said the suspects were either citizens or residents of Canada and had trained together.
The men arrested yesterday are Canadian residents from a variety of backgrounds. For various reasons they appeared to have become adherents of a violent ideology inspired by al-Qaida, said Luc Portelance, the assistant director of operations with CSIS Canadas spy agency.