Not too many details yet, but the coincidental timing to the Boston Marathon bombings make this even more of an eyebrow-raiser:

Canadian police and intelligence agencies will announce later today they have thwarted a plot to carry out a major terrorist attack, arresting suspects in Ontario and Quebec, CBC News has learned.

Highly placed sources tell CBC News the alleged plotters have been under surveillance for more than a year in Quebec and southern Ontario.

The investigation was part of a cross-border operation involving Canadian law enforcement agencies, the FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The arrests Monday morning were co-ordinated and executed by a special joint task force of RCMP and CSIS anti-terrorism units, combined with provincial and municipal police forces in Ontario and Quebec.

Authorities tell CBC News that this has no connection to the Boston attack. No motive or target(s) have yet been released, but the CBC is already referring to the Toronto 18 case from 2006, an Islamist plot to conduct a major terrorist attack in Canada.

Stand by for more details as they emerge.

Update: The RCMP has two people under arrest in a “bomb plot,” according to the Globe and Mail, but the report also notes this toward the end:

Several Muslim community leaders were called by Mounties early Monday to drop what they were doing and come at 2:30 p.m. to the RCMP police station near Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.

The G&M also reports that their sources indicate a smaller conspiracy than the Toronto 18.

Update: The RCMP will hold a presser at 3:15 ET.

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/22/br...plot-in-quebec/

Yes, it will not be long before gramnesty wants to close the flea market pressure cooker loophole. Just as soon as he gets his pink undies gang together

Canada Thwarts “Major Terrorist Attack,” Reportedly Planned To Attack Transpiration Links – Update: Plotted To Blow Up Train Over Niagara River – Update: Al-Qaeda Directly Tied To Plot…

The left must be getting tired of making excuses for Islam.

(Reuters) – Canadian police and intelligence agencies will announce multiple arrests on Monday after an operation to thwart a “major terrorist attack,” the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported, citing unidentified “highly placed” sources.

The operation was coordinated with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, CBC said.

Canada’s national police agency was expected to hold a news conference later on Monday to give details of the alleged plot.

Law enforcement officials said the suspects have no connection to the two brothers accused of bombings at the Boston Marathon last week, CBC said.

More via the Times of Israel:

Canadian police have thwarted a terror plot that aimed to target transport links in the country.

Several people had been under surveillance for several months regarding the plot, CNN reported Monday.

Update via Toronto Sun:

A potential bomb plot on a passenger train over the Niagara River has been averted, a police source says.

While officials have not confirmed the train bombing plan, the RCMP are holding a news conference at 3:30 p.m. Monday to outline details of the arrest of what they say was a planned terror plot.

One police source said there were several scenarios being looked at during the year the suspects were tracked, including the train plot.

One of the plots uncovered by the RCMP and other agencies was a planned bombing of a passenger train on the bridge that connects Canada and the United States at Niagara Falls, a police source says.

“The plan was to take out a train with passengers on board and the crossing trestle,” said a source. “It was meant to be spectacular and there would have been a lot of carnage.”

Update: Wait, I thought Obama defeated al-Qaeda or something?



http://weaselzippers.us/2013/04/22/canad...piration-links/

I hope the conservative-GOP alliance milks this national security topic for all it is worth in 2014 and 2016.

If they can't hold the House, with all the mistakes under Obama's watch, they deserve to fade away.