‘possession of ammonium nitrate doesn’t prove that they have done anything’
The MSM seem to be improving a bit in their reporting of the jolly fellows of “various backgrounds” suspected of trying to do terrorism, and they confirm what we theorized earlier about some of the mosque connections of the wannabe murderers. And now the denials are getting a little funny, as we quoted above:
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario (AP) – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police itself delivered three tons of potential bomb-making material to a group that authorities said wanted to launch a string of attacks inspired by al-Qaida, according to a news report Sunday. The Toronto Star said the sting unfolded when investigators delivered the ammonium nitrate to the group of Muslim Canadians, then moved in quickly on what officials called a homegrown terror ring. The newspaper said that investigators learned of the group’s alleged plan to bomb targets around Ontario, then controlled the sale and transport of the fertilizer.
Authorities refused to discuss the Star’s story and have revealed few details of the purported plot, or how the sting developed. Police arrested 12 adults, ages 19 to 43, and five suspects younger than 18 Friday and Saturday on charges including plotting attacks with explosives on Canadian targets. The oldest, Qayyum Abdul Jamal, led prayers at a storefront mosque attended by some 40 to 50 families down the street from his home in a middle-class neighborhood of Mississauga, west of Toronto.
Imam Qamrul Khanson said the language of Jamal’s Friday night prayers had a more aggressive tone than other prayer leaders’, but there was never any talk of terrorism or violence. Khanson said at least three of the suspects regularly prayed at the Al-Rahman Islamic Center for Islamic Education. “Here we always preach peace and moderation,” Khanson said at the one-room mosque. “I have faith that they have done a thorough investigation,” Khanson said of authorities. “But just the possession of ammonium nitrate doesn’t prove that they have done anything wrong.”
Move along now. Nothing to see here, ladies and gentlemen. Just three tons of ammonium nitrate. Probably for fertilizing someone’s lawn in Muskoka for the summer season.
UPDATE
The NYT provided a picture of the meeting place of at least six of the seventeen jolly fellows:
From now on, given the political correctness that calls these cads “youths” or “jeunes” or simply those of “broad strata” or “various backgrounds,” we may just as well join in. Terrorists may be called “jolly fellows,” child terrorists may be “little darlings,” and women and girl terrorists perhaps “sweethearts.” Why not? Tune in, turn on, drop out, just like the MSM.
UPDATE II
The Canadian police bragged:
At one point Chief Blair actually bragged — this in answer to a question from the floor — “I would remind you that there was not one single reference made by law enforcement to Muslim or Muslim community” at the big post-arrest news conference on Saturday.
UPDATE III
Not only were all those arrested Muslims. The reported evidence against them fits to a tee the shopworn pattern of Islamic terrorism repeated for much of the last two decades. Young men were radicalized at the local mosque and its companion school by elders preaching from the Koran. They participated in paramilitary training in rural outposts. The training involved firearms and communications equipment. The plotters may have conducted surveillance on specific targets. And they ordered prodigious amounts of explosives components—in this case, tons of fertilizer in preparation for the construction of crude but deadly effective ANFO (ammonium nitrate and fuel oil) bombs.
Nonetheless, the rigorous media practice in Phase One is to suppress any reference to Islam, the single thread that runs through virtually all modern terrorism—from New York, to Virginia, to Bali, the Djerba, to Baghdad, to Mombassa, to Tel Aviv, to Nairobi, to Dar es Salaam, to Ankara, to Paris, to Riyadh, to Amman, to Sharm el-Sheikh, to Aden, to London, to Madrid, and, now, to Toronto….
[P]ublic discussion of Koranic verse and all things Islamic is permissible only when the coverage template moves into Phase Two. This phase is basically the group hug for Muslims—modern journalism’s act of contrition for reluctantly having to report on all these pesky arrests and plots and ANFO bombs. And somehow, the media-mined verses are never, for example, “[F]ight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war)” (Sura 9:5). Rather, they are about a humble, unarmed man laid low by the infidels … while he’s dabbling in chemical explosives.
Phase Two was also in full swing Monday, as the Times returned to the Canadian plot. The conspiracy’s leaders, we were told, may have “led prayers” and given “fiery speeches,” but this doesn’t mean they “openly embrace[d] violence.” After all, it’s just Islam (many of whose fiery scriptures openly embrace violence).
You know, we are coming to the view — at least from time to time — that the MSM’s cowardly malpractice in these matters of life and death is actually a good thing. In the end, human nature will out, as it always does over the long term. When the worm turns — sadly, it will likely be too late for many people — a generation of Durantys may find themselves in quite a pickle.
UPDATE IV
The Toronto Star asks the question: “who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”
See the entire page 3 at LGF.