Canadian police say they
have foiled an al Qaeda-
backed "terrorist plot" to
attack a passenger train on
a railway line between New
York and Toronto.

Two people have been
arrested and charged for
conspiring to carry out the
attack and murder people
in association with a
terrorist group, police
revealed at a news
conference in Toronto.

The suspects - Chiheb
Esseghaier, 30, and Raed
Jaser, 35 - had been under
surveillance since August
2012.

They were allegedly
planning to target a Via Rail
passenger train in the
Toronto area, and are
alleged to have received
"direction and guidance"
from al Qaeda elements in
Iran.

Police said there was "no
indication that these attacks
were state-sponsored" and
declined to say where the
arrested men were from,
but confirmed they were
not Canadian citizens.
Canadian authorities, the
FBI and US Homeland
Security police and agents
have been involved in a
year-long cross-border
operation that led to the
arrests in Toronto and
Montreal.

Assistant Commissioner
James Maliza, of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police,
said: "Had this plot been
carried out it would have
resulted in innocent people
being killed, or seriously
injured."

Colleague Chief
Superintendent Jennifer
Strachan added: "We are
alleging that these two
individuals took steps and
conducted activities to
initiate a terrorist attack.

"They watched trains and
railways in the Greater
Toronto area."
She added: "It was
definitely in the planning
stage but not imminent."
Sky's US correspondent
Amanda Walker said: "They
are really hailing this as a
successful operation -
something particularly in
the current climate - that
they have managed to
prevent.

"It does seem they have
treated this as a very
serious and major threat
which was certainly well-on
in the planning, it seems.
"But not far enough for the
public or railway staff to be
in any immediate danger.
"So obviously they had a
difficult act here to actually
balance the timing of when
they made these arrests -
getting enough intelligence,
enough information, but
not taking that up to the
point when the public
would have been in real
danger."

The news comes one week
after twin bombings at the
Boston Marathon killed
three people and wounded
180 - and as Canada's
parliament debates a
proposal to beef up anti-
terror measures.

A US Justice Department
official in Washington said
there was no connection
between the thwarted
terrorist plot and last
Monday's attacks in Boston.

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Kudos to the law enforce agents ( Canadian authorities, the FBI and US Homeland Security police )

Eagle eyes security system, not moi moi chasing o

ISLAMaBAD

And why was the article written like a poem?

Hiss. Nonsense and jangbajantis.

They are just wasting their time fighting "terrorism".

juman: Hiss. Nonsense and jangbajantis.

They are just wasting their time fighting "terrorism".

Huh?