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MISSISSAUGA, Ontario - Canadian authorities investigating an alleged homegrown plot to blow up buildings in Ontario said Monday more arrests were possible as part of a wider probe into terrorist cells in at least seven countries, including the United States.
A U.S. law enforcement official said investigators are looking for connections between those detained in Canada and suspected Islamic militants in custody in the United States, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Denmark, Great Britain and Sweden.
Separately, a U.S. counterterrorism official said there wasn't any reason to believe there were targets in the United States but also no reason to be dismissive of the potential.
"This investigation is not finished," Royal Canadian Mounted Police assistant commissioner Mike McDonell told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. on Monday. "Anybody that aided, facilitated or participated in this terrorist event will be arrested and prosecuted in court."
The arrests were made Friday and Saturday after the group acquired three tons of ammonium nitrate from undercover Mounties in a sting operation, the Toronto Star has reported. The fertilizer can be mixed with fuel oil or other ingredients to make a bomb.
That is three times the amount of fertilizer used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, McDonell said. The bombing of the Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, killed 168 people and injured more than 800.
"For various reasons, they appeared to have become adherents of a violent ideology inspired by al-Qaida," Luc Portelance, the assistant director of operations with CSIS — Canada's spy agency, said Saturday.
Officials said the operation involved some 400 intelligence and law-enforcement officers and was the largest counterterrorism operation in Canada since the nation's Anti-Terrorism Act was adopted after the Sept. 11 attacks. The Star reported that the investigation began in 2004 with the monitoring of Internet chat rooms.
"We've been investigating them for some while and it got to the point where we could no longer control the risk," McDonell told National Public Radio on Monday.
A prayer leader at a storefront mosque west of Toronto said several suspects prayed daily there but never spoke of hurting others.
More arrests possible in Canadian probe
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A U.S. law enforcement official said investigators are looking for connections between those detained in Canada and suspected Islamic militants in custody in the United States, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Denmark, Great Britain and Sweden.
Separately, a U.S. counterterrorism official said there wasn't any reason to believe there were targets in the United States but also no reason to be dismissive of the potential.
"This investigation is not finished," Royal Canadian Mounted Police assistant commissioner Mike McDonell told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. on Monday. "Anybody that aided, facilitated or participated in this terrorist event will be arrested and prosecuted in court."
The arrests were made Friday and Saturday after the group acquired three tons of ammonium nitrate from undercover Mounties in a sting operation, the Toronto Star has reported. The fertilizer can be mixed with fuel oil or other ingredients to make a bomb.
That is three times the amount of fertilizer used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, McDonell said. The bombing of the Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, killed 168 people and injured more than 800.
"For various reasons, they appeared to have become adherents of a violent ideology inspired by al-Qaida," Luc Portelance, the assistant director of operations with CSIS — Canada's spy agency, said Saturday.
Officials said the operation involved some 400 intelligence and law-enforcement officers and was the largest counterterrorism operation in Canada since the nation's Anti-Terrorism Act was adopted after the Sept. 11 attacks. The Star reported that the investigation began in 2004 with the monitoring of Internet chat rooms.
"We've been investigating them for some while and it got to the point where we could no longer control the risk," McDonell told National Public Radio on Monday.
A prayer leader at a storefront mosque west of Toronto said several suspects prayed daily there but never spoke of hurting others.
More arrests possible in Canadian probe
We can get more cooperation from Law enforcement authorities in canada than in mexico.That is why we need to seal the border down in mexico than in canada.Terrorist can slip very easy from mexico into the us than they can in canada.This is why we needed to Patroit act we caught terrorist before they carry out the attack.Liberals want you get a warrant first,Rather than you eavesdropping by listening to someones conversations on the phone.I support george bushs wiretapping ideas rather than the ACLU says we need to do it the consitutional way.