The plot to behead Stephen Harper

"That's all very true, JJ, but the one unifying trait all these people had was that they're all Muslim."

That's LB, poin. Not you.

 

I'll go with the Marx Brothers/Keystone Cops theory.

It's going to be a fascinating trial.

The good thing in all this seems to be that--on the surface at least-- CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Agency) , the Mounties and local cops all worked together in relative peace and harmony in nailing these guys. None of the usual territorial pissing matches from what I've read.

 

Very difficult to keep track of all the arguments, the sarcasm vs. non-sarcasm....

 

Thanks.

I will predict National Newspaper Awards (our Pulitzers) for the Star on this story. As JR pointed out, they have simply dominated it since the very beginning, breaking it on their website within minutes of the police announcing the arrests. They had the names and addresses of the identifiable suspects before that info had even been released by the cops and their columnists have been all over it with some great insight and analysis. It has been very, very good work indeed.

 

Hey, somebody's got to graduate last in their class at Terrorism School.

I can't see any possible way that would have worked. Yeah, they might have gotten into Parliament and fired off a few shots and yeah, they probably would have killed a few people (which would have been horrible enough) but there's no way in hell they wouldn't have been gunned down by security before they even got a chance to take hostages, let alone capture the freakin' Prime Minister.

Sometime last year I remember reading a thread on here talking about a sitcom concept that was floating around Hollywood. The plot was two terrorists who wanted desperately to get their 72 virgins but screwed up every time they tried to carry out an attack. This plot sounds like it could be one of those episodes.

 

I do think it was poorly-worded sentence. The common denominator is obvious. I see the point the writers were trying to make, but it also looks fishy, like they were trying to avoid an elephant in the corner.

There had to have been a better way to write that. If many of us wrote that vaguely, our bosses would change it and then blast us. And if it got through, our MEs would blast us. It's just not a good lede.

 

Do they normally work that well together? Or do they piss and moan at each other like their US counterparts always seem to?

 

Well, I'm sure there were territorial disputes. But they certainly acted as if it was all kumbaya.

 

Article in the NYTimes the other day on how badly the Star scooped the other 2 1/2 dailies (National Post is maybe half a paper).

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/world/americas/05star.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

 

From the above article:

"Could it be that radical Islamists want to kill Canadians simply because Canadians aren't radical Islamists? This a concept which Canadians who once thought they could kibitz the war on terror safely from the bleachers are now having to come to grips with.

"An Associated Press dispatch on the bomb plot noted that Canada, with America, Britain, Spain and Australia, was listed by Osama bin Laden as a 'Christian' nation that should be a target for terrorism," the New York Sun noted in an editorial Monday. "Nothing short of dropping Christianity and converting to Islam will satisfy the Islamic terrorists."

"For everyone who thought Canada could cower in a corner of the planet, unnoticed and unthreatened by evil men -- even when the most menacing of a very bad lot has twice referenced this country as a target for attack -- take a good, hard look at what's been presented and what's being alleged," advised Rose DiManno, a columnist for the Toronto Star.

Until you people come to grips with one fact -- Islamic terrorists hate us and want to kill us because we're not Islamic and won't convert -- then you're going to keep getting these little surprises. And the cops won't be able to catch all of them before executing a terrorist act.

 

And the article even quotes our very own Anne Coulter wannabe, Rachel Marsden. Wow.

Gee, I didn't know there were radical Muslims. Thanks for enlightening us Hondo.