Suspects planned explosive devices in Canada: RCMP

An Ottawa-based terrorist cell with international connections was only “months” away from exploding bombs on Canadian soil, a senior RCMP official said Thursday.
The three suspected home-grown terrorists arrested over the past two days — two in Ottawa and one in London, Ont. — are charged in connection with a plot to make and detonate improvised explosive devices as well as financing terror groups operating in Afghanistan.
The arrests follow a year-long investigation and have stopped an imminent threat to targets not only in Ottawa but possibly across the country, said Chief Superintendent Serge Therriault, the RCMP’s chief of criminal operations in the nation’s capital.
Police refused to identify the targets of the alleged terrorists, saying that information would come out in court.
Over a 36-hour period, the RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team arrested Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh, 30, and Misbahuddin Ahmed, 26, in Ottawa, and Khurram Syed Sher, 28, in London, Ont. All are being held in custody.
Police allege that since February 2008, the three men conspired with three others — James Lara, Rizgar Alizadeh and Zakaria Mamosta — in a terrorist plot they have traced back to Iran, Pakistan and Dubai.(The Star)