Case of 19 terrorists unravelling
[It is] Canada's most sensational -- and most controversial -- terrorism case in recent years.
After they were jailed on the grounds that they could pose a risk to Canada's national security, the case made headlines around the world as the news media quoted a government official's now infamous words: 'I guess the easiest way of putting it is there is a suggestion they might, in fact, perhaps be a sleeper cell for Al-Qaeda.'
Other Immigration officials raised allegations that some of the men may have been in search of diagrams and schematics of the CN Tower and other prominent Toronto landmarks.
However, the case of the terrorists among us began to unravel almost as soon as the detention reviews began, with the RCMP and Citizenship and Immigration Canada distancing themselves from the idea that the men posed a clear threat to security.
The RCMP, which is just beginning to sift through 25 boxes of files and 30 computers seized in the raid that netted the 19 men, said this week there is no evidence that Canada's national security is at risk. Immigration officials underlined that they are investigating only the possibility of such threats.
'I can comfortably say there is no known threat; what is being investigated is a reasonable suspicion,' said Giovanna Gatti, spokesperson with Citizenship and Immigration Canada. 'It's taken the spin that it has taken in the media for whatever reason.'"
Yeah, that damned irresponsible media, doing its usual spin thing... I wonder why they got so excited about nineteen immigration violations? I guess the easiest way explaining it, or of putting it, was the suggestion they might, in fact, perhaps 'be a sleeper cell for Al-Qaeda.'
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