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.