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April 06, 2005
Canada Gets Tough (sort of)
If I had a dollar for every person who has asked me about terrorists sneaking across the Rio Grande, I'd be buying a G-5. My response always surprises them—the bigger danger is on the Northern border. Ahmed Ressam, who plotted to blow up Los Angeles International Airport in 1999, was arrested on the Washington State-Canada frontier. A number of al Qaeda cells have been broken up inside Canada. AQ finds Canada more attractive as a staging area for a number of reasons: its extensive welfare state means that it costs the terror organization less to maintain cells, its law enforcement is generally more politically correct and it is easier to enter the US from the north. No burning deserts, no Minuteman patrols.
So it is good to see that Canada is willing to speak plainly about the murder and gang-rape of one of its citizens, at the hands of Iran's secret police. Canadian government officials are actually publicly calling her death a murder and demanding her remains be returned to Canada. That is actually progress.
Posted by Richard Miniter at April 6, 2005 10:39 PM