Reply #18: well ... no [View All]

[iverglas]

Only one of the "millennium bombers" (I really don't know much about the "millennium bombers" story, other than this) was connected to Canada: Ahmad Rassam. He was stopped at the Canada-US border as a result of joint Canada-US intelligence operations.

http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/can-am/menu-en.asp?act=v&did=1944&mid=9&cat=613&typ=1

(Govt of Canada, Dept of Foreign Affairs website)

On Jan. 7, the FBI announced that reports of the five terrorists supposedly entering the United States from Canada were fabricated. But unfortunately, the damage done by the news reports and Michael Ramirez's Jan. 18 editorial cartoon that continue to have a corrosive effect on how Americans perceive Canada. This is not the first time Canada has been falsely accused of letting terrorists into the United States. Media reports after Sept. 11 falsely suggested terrorists came through Canada.

That's the one that Hillary Rodham Clinton jumped all over, as I recall, eagerly castigating Canada for our lax controls and calling for tighter controls on the US side. Heck, she was just going on what the Bush administration had told her ...

http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/can-am/menu-en.asp?act=v&mid=9&cat=600&did=2905

Our intelligence, immigration, customs and police forces work together in daily cooperation. That's how the so-called "Millennium Bomber" got caught -- teamwork at the border and, together, we worked to secure his conviction in the court of law in Los Angeles.

You may blame Canada for Céline Dion and Jim Carrey (and thank us for Capt. Kirk and Mike Myers and Dan Aykroyd and all the many rest of them), but not for jeopardizing the security of you folks down there.

And it would be pointless to bomb us for Céline, except for pure revenge ... since she'd still be safely in Las Vegas. ;)