Al Qaeda In Canada

Montreal's Al Sunnah Al Nabawiah mosque is among nine houses of prayer or Islamic institutes worldwide considered by the U.S. military to be places where known al-Qaeda members were recruited, facilitated or trained, according to leaked classified American intelligence documents. (Graham Hughes/Canadian Press)

WikiLeaks: Montreal Mosque 'Is A Top Al Qaeda Recruiting Zone' -- The Daily Mail

A mosque in Montreal has been ranked in the world’s top nine Al Qaeda recruiting zones and linked to a terror cell planning attacks on Los Angeles airport, new released documents claim.

The WikiLeaks files, written by U.S. military chiefs, list the Al Sunnah Al Nabawiah mosque among nine houses of prayer worldwide considered as a place ‘Al Qaeda members were recruited, facilitated or trained’.

The leaked ‘Matrix of Threat’ documents, designed in the early days of the Guantanamo detention centre to assist intelligence officials, rank the Canadian mosque alongside sites in Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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My Comment: This story hits me personally on many levels. To begin .... when I lived in Montreal my apartment was only a block away from where the millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam lived. The mosque in question is only a few blocks away from my church (Russian Orthodox Church in Park-Ex), and a few years ago my girlfriend lived a few blocks away from Montreal's main Muslim ghetto where many of the patrons of this mosque probably lived (yes ... it is a Muslim ghetto).

Are some members in this community up to no good .... that is something that I am not sure about. But one thing that I am sure about is that some of them have been implicated, convicted, and/or wanted for crimes of a terrorist nature. Not a comfortable thought when you realize that such individuals are taking advantage of Canada's hospitality and goodwill to those who immigrate from the many trouble spots around the world, and who decide to live here permanently.

On a side note .... while this is a big international story, the local Montreal media has been downplaying it.