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May 27, 2004

"No threat to Canada"

Buried in yesterday's revelation of increased terrorist activity by US Attorney-General John Ashcroft, was a reference to one of their suspected terrorists plotting to highjack a Canadian airliner.

[As an aside, the Democrats think yesterday's announcement was politically motivated. Bush is low in the polls and needs a bump, according to their logic. I suspect that if the Bush Administration had not made these suspicions public and something did happen, the Dem's would have said that concealing the information was politically motivated because it would show that Bush's reforms to security haven't worked. I guess that shows you can have it both ways. But back to that Canadian airliner...]

Both the Prime Minister and our Security Minister told us yesterday that there is nothing to worry about. There are no specific threats against Canada or Canadians, they said.

Uh, excuse me? If someone is thinking about highjacking a Canadian airliner, in Canada, with Canadians on board (no one else in the world flies Air Canada), how is that not a threat against Canada and Canadians?

Posted by maxthecat on May 27, 2004 at 10:53 AM | Printer-friendly version
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