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Title: Brian Hutchinson: B.C. couple accused in Canada Day bomb plot wanted to be jihadists, Crown says | National Post
Category: Business
Posted By: martin14
Date: 2015-02-03 02:15:13
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[martin14]

There are thousands of people in front of the Legislature, listening to concerts and stuff on Canada Day.

Just imagine if they had pulled it off.

[andyt]

Which they couldn't have, since they were being stung by the police the whole time and furnished with materials that didn't work.

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In fact, only small amounts of C-4 explosives were placed inside the bomb assemblies, and there was never any chance the material could explode, Mr. Eccles said. It was all an elaborate ruse to nab two unlikely, perhaps eager, terrorist suspects.

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At no time did authorities ever consider the pair as al-Qaida or Mujahedeen, or as members of some underground sleeper cell, Mr. Eccles said in his opening address on Monday. “Two people can be a terrorist group. We do not say they are formally aligned [with] or members of al-Qaida,” he said. “We don’t need to prove [that] to prove terrorism.”

Just a couple of junkie paintball enthusiast gone wrong.