Saturday July 05, 2008
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The truth in a nutshell, or what I won't read on vacation
Published: Saturday, June 28, 2008 12:00 AM Page A2
A couple of nights ago, I found myself in discussion about what I will call the jihadi trials going on in Canada at the moment - one the trial of a youth charged in the Toronto 18 case, the other the case of Momin Khawaja in Ottawa.
The truth in a nutshell, or what I won't read on vacation
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Online Edition: Friday, June 27, 2008 08:20 PM
I am off for a bit of a break, and no, I shall not be memorizing Koranic passages
E-mails paint quite a picture - and a tight corner
Published: Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:00 AM Page A3
There was a funny e-mail, purportedly written by a Dane to an American friend, circulating a while back about the coming electoral contest between the Democrats and Republicans.It went like this: ''On one side, you have a lawyer who is a bitch who is married to a lawyer and a lawyer who is married to a bitch who is a lawyer, and on the other side, you have a genuine war hero who is married to a woman with enormous breasts whose family owns a brewery: Why are you having an election?''
The naming of names and knowing thy enemy
Published: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:00 AM Page A6
The final picture flashed up yesterday on the screens at Mohammad Momin Khawaja's terror trial showed a young, bare-chested man standing before a patterned wardrobe in a room.
'Down with the J,' and out of their senses
Published: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:00 AM Page A1
In the borderless new world of the jihadi militant and aspiring terrorist and those who love them - call it jihadiland, and know that it has no physical home or geographic base but lives rather in the hearts of the believers - everything is upside down.
We're so polite that we can't see a danger hiding in plain sight
Published: Saturday, June 21, 2008 12:00 AM Page A2
You know what is the really sobering thing about that ongoing terror trial in Brampton? Clue: It's not that there was a plot to attack Canadian targets. And of course there was; the court has heard evidence up the ying-yang that there was just such an enterprise afoot. Was it the finest plot ever? Oh hardly. Were its members variously bumblers, what those who hang around courts call ''yutes'' or raving hotheads? Absolutely. But there was a plot.
We're so polite that we can't see a danger hiding in plain sight
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Online Edition: Friday, June 20, 2008 07:16 PM
Most Torontonians are crippled unto paralysis by the unique combination of innate Canadian politeness and the racial politics of their city
Crown's case alive and well in homegrown terror trial
Published: Friday, June 20, 2008 12:00 AM Page A15
As the prosecution case draws to a close in the first of the Toronto 18 trials, the question arises: What is the state of the state's evidence in the country's first truly homegrown terror investigation?
Witness remained his own, complicated man
Published: Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:00 AM Page A7
Six long days he spent in the witness stand, but when Mubin Shaikh left courtroom 212 here late yesterday it was - almost - without either prosecution or defence having laid a glove on him.
Dopes or dupes, they still looked up to al-Qaeda
Published: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:00 AM Page A7
It is, at the big courthouse here in the big suburb northwest of Toronto, all the rage to have a bit of a giggle about The Kids, as nearly everyone calls them.
