Suspect In Toronto Bomb Plot Freed On Bail

Posted on Tuesday, November 06 at 10:46 by rearguard
Mr. Jamal, the eldest of the suspects, still faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted on two remaining charges, involvement in a terrorist act and leading terrorism training. But he will await trial at home with his wife and four young children. Jail “was very, very, very bad,” Mr. Jamal told reporters as he was released. He said Islam kept him going. “I tell you it was Allah,” he said outside the court, before he drove away in his minivan to his suburban home. The suspect's wife, Cheryfa Jamal, a Muslim convert from Nova Scotia, has been more outspoken. “Here is the man they spread rumour about all over the world as the LEADER/SPIRITUAL ADVISOR of the so-called terrorist group,” she wrote in a recent blog posting. Accusing the Crown of “smoke screening,” she added that “they know Abdul Qayyum is innocent, they themselves dropped the bomb charge.” Full story here: http://ago.mobile.globeandmail.com/generated/archive/RTGAM/html/20071106/wJamal06.html

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  1. by avatar tehowe
    Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:59 pm
    The typical contour of these staged events runs along these lines: make a big media splash, claim terror activity, then quietly acquit and dismiss all suspects in the back pages once the requisite number of media impressions have been made. The CBC deserves some credit for making this a major story. Now they just need to go ahead and do some serious journalism on this issue - the writers over at globalresearch.ca put them to shame months ago.<br />
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    <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=2668">http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=2668</a><br />

  2. Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:29 am
    You got it bang on.

    The initial arrests were an obvious setup right from the start. I can remember a couple weeks before these bogus arrests were made, there was a media event talking about "home grown terrorism" that raised an eyebrow. Synchronized up with the media's bleating about home grown terrorism, the head of CSIS held a news conference and came out with some bullshit report about home grown terrorism in Canada. I recall telling my wife and friends that I suspected some false flag operation was about to happen, and that the media hype was preparing us for it. Sure enough there was a big home grown "terrorist" bust and media circus in the UK (which has since been shown to have been staged and has quietly faded away with no one being charged with terrorism), two days later there was the same police action and media circus in Toronto. Again, HUGE headlines and media hype followed by silence, followed by everyone being quietly released with no relevant convictions.

    There's no HUGE headlines about it all being a staged event of course.

    I posted my initial prediction in Vive before the arrests took place and I posted my prediction of what was going to happen after the arrests were made - everything has played out exactly as I had predicted. I'll try to dig up the time line of events, it should make for a fun read. I'll try and include posts from the few in here who actually thought the busts were real and argued to that effect.

  3. by DL
    Wed Nov 07, 2007 3:39 pm
    Yes I remember the discussions at the time, and your predictions were right. The simultaneous arrests in Britain and here from unrelated investigations were a red flag. Media stunt, nothing more. Like the Shampoo air travel pantomime that conveniently diverted global attention from the mushrooming concensus that Israel was committing autrocities in it's indescriminate bombing of Lebanon. Overnight the focus shifted from Israel's actions to the stranded passengers and ridiculously unreasonable limitations. Public perception problem-staged media story-favorable perception adjustment-business as usual (well almost I seem to recall Condi did a script rewrite from hawk to dove during the shampoo interlude).



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