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Analysis: Bin Laden’s Ho Chi Minh Trail in Canada Joe FernandezAttorney General John Ashcroft signed a cross-border security agreement Monday with Canadian Solicitor General Lawrence Macaulay and Immigration Minister Elinor Caplan. This agreement calls for the deployment of National Guardsmen and helicopters on the U.S. side of the border, and for enhanced collaboration between American and Canadian law enforcement. The National Guard and the helicopters are overdue, seeing how Canada’s virtually non-existent immigration enforcement allowed Osama bin Laden et al., to establish their own Ho Chi Minh Trail here. However, the careerism of too many at the helm of Canada’s security apparatus should warn Americans not be deluded by promises of increased interagency cooperation. Convicted millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam was but one of scores exploiting Canada as an active sanctuary. Morrocan Abdellah Ouzghar, linked to Ressam by telephone records, and convicted in absentia by a French court of passport fraud, has been released on bail by an Ontario judge. Algerian Moktar Haouari and Morrocan Said Atamani (who fought beside bin Laden in Afghanistan) forged documents in Montreal. Both made refugee claims deemed illegitimate, yet neither were caught, much less removed. Atamani has been tried in France; Haouari was convicted last summer in New York. Another bin Laden Afghanistan comrade and rejected refugee currently in a New York jail, Syrian Nabil Al-Marabh (who also has a prior for assault in Boston), remained in Canada after his claim was denied in 1994, and was freed by a Canadian judge after trying to infiltrate the U.S. last summer, before he was finally arrested in Chicago after Sept. 11. His fellow Syrian Hassan Almrei successfully applied for refugee status but has now been detained on suspicions of terrorist links and forgery. Others connected to Canada by National Post journalist Christie Blatchford include Egyptians Mohammed Zeki Mahjoub (who worked for a bin Laden front company) and Mahmoud Jaballah (linked to bin Laden’s Al Jihad, and ordered deported from Canada last month), and 1993 WTC bomber Mahmud Abouhalima (who planned to escape via Toronto). Yemeni Nageeb Abdul Jabar Mohammed Al Hadi was arrested in Toronto after his flight was rerouted from Chicago on 9/11; his baggage contained multiple false passports and Lufthansa uniforms. Embassy bombing suspect Ihab Mohammed Ali frequently visited Canada between 1995 and 1999. Post journalist Diane Francis discovered that 10,000 out of 26,000 refugee claimants a year fail to appear for their hearings. Christie Blatchford reports that those who bother to show up face Immigration and Refugee Boards composed largely of:
ex-politicians and bureaucrats selected for their devotion to political correctness. Few IRB members come from law enforcement, and even they are restricted in calling claimants on inconsistencies in their stories. Blatchford notes that Citizenship and Immigration Canada "hasn’t been terribly interested in what happens to claimants who fail or abandon their cases, or simply disappear … they’re presumed to be harmless." Failing claimants are issued departure notices and given up to 37 days to comply, "but for the most part it remains up to them if they go." Another beneficiary of this "arrangement" is Algerian Samir Ait Mohammed, currently in a Vancouver lockup awaiting extradition to the U.S. FBI reports say Ressam fingered Mohammed for conspiracy to bomb Montreal’s Outrement district and Rue Ste. Catherine, shipping fraudulently obtained passports, running guns and attempting to procure a laptop computer for bin Laden underboss Abu Zoubeida, who ran two training camps in Afghanistan. A Canadian Broadcasting Corp. news story Monday alleges that the RCMP is reluctant to let Mohammed go because he is a Mountie snitch. This is not the first time Canadian police agencies have played double games. While Newt Gingrich was shutting down the federal government in 1995, 11-year-old Daniel Desrochers was killed by a bomb in Montreal, one of 160 people to die in a biker war that plagued Quebec from 1994 until a tentative truce last year. The tenuous nature of this truce is underscored by the shooting death of 17-year-old Marc-Alexandre Chartrand outside a Montreal nightclub a few weeks ago. Chartrand’s alleged killer is a 1%er (criminal biker, so called because these folks revel in the fact that the American Motorcycle Association has denounced them as the 1% of motorcyclists who live beyond the law). In response, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Quebec Provincial Police (the SQ) and the Montreal Urban Community Police formed the Carcajou ("Wolverine") Squadron in 1995. But the former two agencies sniped at each other and the MUC police instead of going after the 1%ers, compelling Montreal investigators to disgustedly quit Carcajou in 1998. RCMP "biker expert" SSgt. Levesque and SQ "biker expert" Sgt. Ouellette rumbled so openly that American and Scandinavian biker investigators backed away from them in incredulity. The most odious episode in Canadian law enforcement’s wannabe war against 1%ers involves the railroading of a former RCMP undercover officer. SSgt. Bob Stenhouse infiltrated Alberta’s Rebels MC and jailed several of their members. (This is not as simple as it sounds; in the 1976 "Battle of the Kingsway Inn," 20 ill-equipped and hastily prepared Edmonton Rebels bloodily whipped more than 40 trained paratroopers from 1 Commando of the elite Canadian Airborne Regiment.) Stenhouse upholds the tradition of counterinsurgency legends Bob Nairac, Ian Phoenix and Stu Herrington, asserting that stopping malefactors takes supreme precedence over squad/departmental turf and politicking. Stenhouse passed documents to investigative journalist Yves Lavigne linking Toronto Police Chief Julian Fantino to a secret plot by a consortium of Canadian police politicians, managers and bureaucrats to enlist the media in spinning the 1%er problem so as to leverage elected officials to direct more money their way. The CBC and Maclean's (Canada’s equivalent of Time and Newsweek ) report that Fantino was furious with Stenhouse, who was subsequently court-martialed, treated like a paroled pedophile and "constructively dismissed" from the RCMP. Deity of Gun Control Two weeks after 9/11, while NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik was going days without sleep, Julian "the guns, the guns, the guns" Fantino was reportedly engaged in a tit-for-tat with Toronto’s police union. As his nickname implies, Fantino, like Daryl Gates and San Jose’s Chief McNamara, worships the deity of gun control, a cult alarmingly popular among Canadian officialdom. During the Ashcroft talks, Deputy Prime Minister Herb Gray affirmed the Canadian government’s fanatically obstinate refusal to allow U.S. Customs officers to carry handguns while in Canada. Yves Lavigne, who was "constructively dismissed" from his newspaper for exposing Toronto Triads, and who suffered numerous assassination attempts as a result of his authorship of four books on organized crime, says this about Canadian gun control: "One … high profile law supposedly designed to take guns out of criminal hands was never mentioned by police or politicians during talks about the biker war … Police and politicians knew Bill C-68 was just a ploy to strip guns from law-abiding citizens with a grossly overbudgeted financial sinkhole of a bureaucracy and would never prevent criminals from harming themselves. This is why the law was never mentioned during talks about a biker war that saw heavy public use of guns and explosives. To do so would be to invite scrutiny of the law and its ineffectiveness against armed criminals." The Canadian Security Intelligence Service, which took over the national security portfolio from the RCMP in 1984 after the latter exhibited ATF-like behaviours, is hardly more promising. In 2000, CSIS honcho Ward Elcock reported that there were "only" 350 terrorists in Canada. Unfortunately, he seems to have missed the fact that Canada is the arsenal of the Ulster Volunteer Force, whose Portadown "battalion" carried out the 1974 Dublin/Monaghan bombings, which, with 32 dead, still beats the real IRA’s 1998 Omagh bombing as the deadliest incident of the Troubles. British journalist Peter Taylor, who covered this conflict for decades, notes that Toronto is to the UVF what Boston is to the PIRA. Elcock also spinned, "It was a project, NOT an investigation!" in regard to the CSIS/RCMP Operation Sidewinder, which revealed that the partnership of Triads (Chinese organised crime) and the PRC/PLA intelligence apparatus has infiltrated Canada to the extent that they now control over 200 Canadian companies. Elcock’s comments become frightening when coupled with North Shore News journalist (and former police officer) Leo Knight’s findings that Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien was once employed by Li Ka-Shing, linked by Canadian and U.S. intelligence to Triads and to Beijing. Knight also reported that President Bush did not mention Canada in his first speech to Congress after 9/11 because Chretien refused American requests to beef up border security. This is what America has guarding its northern flank. Do you feel more secure?
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