Canada: Sponsoring terrorists with public funds

TORONTO -- One of the key informants in the terrorism case against 18 Toronto-area suspects initially asked police to pay him more than $14-million for helping to arrange a sting that triggered last June's arrests, sources have told The Globe and Mail. ...

Sources say total compensation for the man's role, which began just weeks before the arrests, could be in the $4-million range when relocation costs are tallied. ...

Another police agent, Mubin Shaikh, recently appeared on national TV describing how he helped run a training camp for the accused. Mr. Shaikh, who turned down the opportunity to go into witness protection, is on record as saying he was to be paid $300,000 by the RCMP for his work. ...

Experts familiar with terrorism probes... [said] that, given the sheer amount of money, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day would almost certainly have had to have taken a role pre-approving the funds through the Treasury Board, or possibly the cabinet.
Globe and Mail

So what we now know is that the RCMP, apparently with Cabinet authorization, made promises of payment to at least one provocateur for inciting Muslim youths to attend what was, in effect, an RCMP-sponsored terrorist training camp, and then set up a sting whereby the RCMP terrorist trainees were supplied by the RCMP, through another RCMP provocateur, with explosive materials with which to blow up Government buildings in Toronto.

To realize the implications of this, one needs to understand: first, that when the police arrested the hapless RCMP-sponsored "terrorists," the government was planning a massive increase in military spending in the face of weak and declining public support for Canada's military role in the occupation of Afghanistan; second, that anyone with any wit, the right social connections, no conscience and the promise of hundreds of thousands in payoffs could recruit a bunch of immature youths with a grievance to join a conspiracy to destroy public property.

National Security Minister Stockwell Day is evidently as dangerous as many of those in Alberta who knew him said at the time he became leader of the now sadly defunct, Conservative Reform Alliance Party (CRAP). But why have the opposition parties nothing to say about Stock's apparent sponsorship of terrorism in Canada. Or is intimidating the public with phony terror plots a matter for bipartisan support?

Canadian Spectator
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