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Quebec man's Web messages urge Al-Qa'ida to attack Canada
Praises bin Laden and blasts Ottawa for sending troops to Afghanistan and Iraq
STEWART BELL, Canwest News Service
Published: 17 hours ago

A Quebec man has posted messages on the Internet encouraging Al-Qa'ida to attack Canada, the latest in a series of similar sentiments that are worrying counterterrorism officials.

The author of the messages, who uses the pseudonym Altar, praised terrorist leader Osama bin Laden and asked why Al-Qa'ida was focusing its efforts only on Europe instead of Canada.

"Allah is great and may Allah bless Sheikh bin Laden. May the sword held by the hand of Al-Qa'ida hit not only Europe, but hit all our enemies. Wherever they are," he wrote in a Sept. 25 posting.


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A copy of the message, posted to a French-based Internet forum called Minbarsos, was found by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors terrorist websites. However, it appeared to have been removed from the Minbarsos site yesterday.

In his online biography, Altar writes that he is a Sunni Muslim who lives in Quebec and that "I want to chase the non-Muslims from Canada. Only their deaths will make Islam triumphant. God is Great."

The message concludes: "May Allah guide us to always defend our religion. Whether the Crusaders be in Iraq or in Ottawa, the sword of Islam will fall on their head. God is Great."

This kind of rhetoric has been appearing increasingly on the Internet, often the work of young radicals who join online forums that promote Al-Qa'ida.

"Don't forget, these Al-Qa'ida sites, normal people can't get onto them," said terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman, a professor at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. "They're password-protected; you have to be vouched for personally. So the access is controlled, so you have to take something like this somewhat seriously."

The RCMP declined to comment on the case yesterday.

"I can't confirm or invalidate that we are investigating this specific issue," spokesperson Charles Vallée said. "We have a team dedicated to this type of investigation and we are taking every threat seriously."

Canadian counterterrorism police already have investigated several similar cases involving online activities.

The RCMP arrested a Moroccan man in Trois Rivières last September, alleging he has posted messages on the Web threatening terror attacks in Germany and Austria.

Hoffman said it was sometimes not difficult for authorities to identify those using the Web to incite terrorism. But extremists continue doing it. "They still believe they are cleverer than the governments operating against them are. For them, it's the thrill and the rush of taking part in this.

"For some of them, the possibility of being harassed is a mark of distinction, it's something that is appealing."

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