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Cold Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism Around the World

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Cold Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism Around the World

by Stewart Bell
Foreword by: Rohan Gunaratna

John Wiley & Sons | February 26, 2007 | Hardcover

"We believe Al Qaeda continues to have a terrorist infrastructure in Canada, one with documented links to the U.S. While many border security measures have been implemented since 9/11, the vast expanse of the 4,000-mile-long U.S. northern border, with eighty-six points of entry and various unofficial crossings, may still provide opportunities for operatives to penetrate U.S. national security, particularly if Western passports are used."
--The FBI, in a classified bulletin 

"Cold Terror will shock the conscience of a nation. In terrifying detail, it shows how the world's terrorists have made themselves at home in Canada-and how they have been made welcome by cowardly politicians."
--David Frum, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of, with Richard Perle, An End to Evil: What's Next in the War on Terror

"Stewart Bell's clarion call for action needs to be heeded before the ticking Canadian terrorist time bomb blows up closer to home. If Canadian terrorists aren't stopped before they use weapons of mass destruction in the United States, we'll have far bigger problems than keeping the border open for trade."
--Patrick Grady, The Globe and Mail

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    Toni Osborne

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    I encourage every citizen of Western countries, especially Canadians to read "Cold Terror". Mr Bell one of Canada's leading reporters on national security and terrorism has courageously presented evidence in this acclaimed book, exposing events taken from classified intelligence documents, front line accounts and interviews to inform Canadians about terrorists living in their country.

    In his book he recounts many incidents that happened around the world involving Canadian terrorists: the most talked about are: the 1985 Air India bombing, the 1991 assassination of Indian prime Minister Gandhi, the 1993 World trade Centre bombing, the 1993 assassination of Sri Lankan President Premadasa, the 1995 attack at the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad and the killing of tourists in Egypt in 1997and the truck explosion that killed 100 in Sri Lanka the same year, the Bali night club bombing in 2002 and the 2003 attack in Riyadh.

    The book doesn't stop there it also provides examples of terrorists taking advantage of the liberal immigration and refugee policies to enter Canada, most of us will remember the better known: such as the Canadian leader of the Tamil Tiger Mr Suresh, Issa Mohammed who took part in the assault of an El Al airliner in Athens in 1998, Essam Marzouk responsible for the training of the bombers of the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and Ahmed Ressam who was caught at the Port of Angeles border trying to get into the US with a carload of explosives determined to blow up the L.A. airport

    In one chapter, the author went to great length recalling multiple incidents credited to the Khadr clan. Describing how Ahmed Khadr exploited to its maximum his Canadian citizenship and the CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) to support the Al-Qaeda jihad.

    Another chapter was dedicated to the Jabarah brothers, two young men that were brought up and educated in St.Catharine's Ont and responsible for the Bali bombing and other exploits. All this helps to confirm Mr Bell's opinion that Canada is a safe heaven for terrorists, not only by phony refugees but also by landed immigrants and worse by citizens.

    According to Mr Bell, CSIS and the RCMP were reasonably effective at monitoring the activities of the terrorists groups but lacked support from Canadian politicians who refused to acknowledge the magnitude and the seriousness of their threat to the world.

    After reading this book, if you are not mad and frustrated by the complacency of the government representatives I would be very surprised. Hopefully the views of the Canadian Leaders have changed since the publication of this book in 2005...

    This is one impressive and chilling account that reads like a high octane thriller.

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    It's really a shame what the media has come to now a days. Thankfully I didn't waste money on this piece of garbage and instead, read it from a friend of mine. Of course, it brought up of how apparently we have been a safe haven for terrorists, and of course spread some more anti-islamic propaganda. Even though, the US crime is way higher. It's a shame, that whenever the word "terrorist" is mentioned, people immediately think an Arab Muslim and seems that anyone else is not one. Again, I suggest not wasting time with this book, full of misinfo. and delusions for the Canada haters in the US to harp on (even though their intelligence is not that great).

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    Canadians need to read Stewart Bell's chilling and well-written account of how the Canadian Government has allowed Canada to become a safe haven for some of the world's nastiest terrorists. Even though this is a non-fiction book, it reads like a fast-paced novel. Its subject matter is in the headlines every day in the newspaper, but it is presented with the longer-term perspective necessary really to understand the forces at work. Some will deplore this book for its political incorrectness in calling a spade a spade, but we can only ignore it at our own peril.

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From the Publisher

"We believe Al Qaeda continues to have a terrorist infrastructure in Canada, one with documented links to the U.S. While many border security measures have been implemented since 9/11, the vast expanse of the 4,000-mile-long U.S. northern border, with eighty-six points of entry and various unofficial crossings, may still provide opportunities for operatives to penetrate U.S. national security, particularly if Western passports are used."
--The FBI, in a classified bulletin 

"Cold Terror will shock the conscience of a nation. In terrifying detail, it shows how the world's terrorists have made themselves at home in Canada-and how they have been made welcome by cowardly politicians."
--David Frum, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of, with Richard Perle, An End to Evil: What's Next in the War on Terror

"Stewart Bell's clarion call for action needs to be heeded before the ticking Canadian terrorist time bomb blows up closer to home. If Canadian terrorists aren't stopped before they use weapons of mass destruction in the United States, we'll have far bigger problems than keeping the border open for trade."
--Patrick Grady, The Globe and Mail

From the Jacket

"With perhaps the singular exception of the United States, there are more international terrorist groups active in Canada than any other country in the world."
-Ward Elcock, former director of the Canadian Intelligence Security Service

On June 2, 2006, police tactical teams began a series of raids in Canada''s largest city. Eighteen suspects were taken into custody and charged with being part of an Al Qaeda-inspired terrorist group that was plotting to storm the Parliament Buildings and detonate truck bombs in downtown Toronto.

The world was shocked by the arrests, but to those in the know they were simply a reminder of Canada''s recurring problem with terrorism. Indeed, while 9/11 shook the world, until that infamous day the worst terror attack in modern history was the work of Canadians--the June 23, 1985 bombing of two passenger planes that claimed 331 lives. And that is just one example of Canadian terror.

For over two decades, international terrorist organizations have operated on Canada''s soil--the Babbar Khalsa, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Tamil Tigers, Algerian GIA, Al Jihad and Al Qaeda--raising money, recruiting and planning acts of deadly violence. Although Canadian security agencies are highly regarded internationally, the threat posed by made-in-terror reamins a concern even to Western allies, particularly the United States.

Why have terrorist networks been able to flourish in Canada? How do they threaten Canada''s allies and neighbor? Who are the central figures and what have they been up to? What are Canada''s policy makers, and their security and intelligence forces, doing to disrupt terrorist operations?

Award-winning investigative journalist Stewart Bell, who has been writing about terrorism since the late 1980s, tackles these questions and more in his hard-hitting, well-researched and engaging book. Reporting from Canada''s multicultural cities as well as Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States, he goes deep inside the terrorist underworld that operates in his native country.

His findings are disturbing and incontrovertible: terrorist groups have long targeted Canada as a wealthy safe haven for their operations. And now Canada, like other Western nations, is facing the daunting threat of homegrown terrroism.    

This updated edition of the critically acclaimed best-seller first published in 2004 is a must-read for anyone who wants to see how terrorist networks can infiltrate, corrupt and exploit an unguarded nation, and the carnage that results.

About the Author

Stewart Bell is a Senior Reporter at the National Post (Toronto) and has been writing about terrorism and extremism since the late 1980s. He has traveled throughout the Middle East, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Southeast Asia to follow his leads. He is the recipient of several journalism awards, including the Amnesty International Human Rights Media Award, the Radio Television News Directors Association Award, and the Media Human Rights Award bestowed by B''Nai B''Rith Canada. He is also the author of The Martyr''s Oath: The Apprenticeship of a Homegrown Terrorist.

Hardcover

304 Pages, 16 x 24 x 3 CM

February 26, 2007

John Wiley & Sons

English


0470840560
9780470840566

From the Critics

"We believe Al Qaeda continues to have a terrorist infrastructure in Canada, one with documented links to the U.S. While many border security measures have been implemented since 9/11, the vast expanse of the 4,000-mile-long U.S. northern border, with eighty-six points of entry and various unofficial crossings, may still provide opportunities for operatives to penetrate U.S. national security, particularly if Western passports are used."
--The FBI, in a classified bulletin 

"Cold Terror will shock the conscience of a nation. In terrifying detail, it shows how the world's terrorists have made themselves at home in Canada-and how they have been made welcome by cowardly politicians."
--David Frum, Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of, with Richard Perle, An End to Evil: What's Next in the War on Terror

"Stewart Bell's clarion call for action needs to be heeded before the ticking Canadian terrorist time bomb blows up closer to home. If Canadian terrorists aren't stopped before they use weapons of mass destruction in the United States, we'll have far bigger problems than keeping the border open for trade."
--Patrick Grady, The Globe and Mail

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