az jiveeh na 20 metra ot edna ot teroristicheskite barlogi v toronto, kogato gi reportuvah predi Sept 11, policaite mi kazaha che tuk v Canada triabvalo da se naucha da sam toleranten. E taia tolerantnost ni struva 1600 choveshki jivota.
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSAttack010921/2 ... o-sun.html
Suspect lived in Toronto
By TOM GODFREY-- Toronto Sun
A former Toronto resident arrested by the FBI in connection with terrorist attacks in the U.S. had lived in Canada for six years on government assistance, investigators say.
In Chicago, the FBI said their suspect had ties to a known associate of Osama bin Laden, Raed Hijazi, now jailed in Jordan on charges that he planned to blow up a hotel filled with Americans and Israelis on New Year's Day 2000.
At The Imperial apartment building on Jamieson Ave., the superintendent and tenants say they're shocked that Nabil Al-Marabh, 35, was a neighbour until about six weeks ago.
The refugee claimant, who was wanted by the RCMP, is believed to be the man arrested Wednesday by the FBI, outside a Chicago convenience store where he worked as a clerk.
RCMP Const. Howard Adams said the FBI is sending Al-Marabh's fingerprints to the Mounties to run through their national database to obtain positive identification.
Al-Marabh was on a list of 200 suspects sought by the FBI in connection with last week's terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C.
"I still can't believe it," building superintendent Donna Dunphy said after seeing a picture of the Chicago suspect yesterday. "There is no doubt in my mind he lived here. I saw him come and go from this building many times."
Dunphy, 55, said Al-Marabh was living with an uncle, an aunt and their three children in a two-bedroom, $700-a-month apartment on the fifth-floor of the Parkdale building.
His uncle is manager of a Best Copy store in downtown Toronto and also worked at a Toronto Islamic school. No one was at their apartment yesterday.
Dunphy said the uncle had also put up several relatives whom he said were pilots. "He said one relative knew all about planes and was a pilot. They were interested in the air show."
Tenant Gervais Lambert, who lived down the hall from Al-Marabh's uncle, said the family kept to themselves. "They were quiet and minded their own business," Lambert said. "There was nothing about them that was suspicious."
Canadian investigators said Al-Marabh had collected welfare since claiming refugee status in 1994. He was also eligible for OHIP, dental care and other benefits.
Investigators said Al-Marabh lived in several places in the Toronto area after his arrival in Canada and they weren't sure in which jurisdiction he was registered for welfare payments.
Al-Marabh came to the attention of police last June, when he was arrested for allegedly trying to enter the U.S. with a fake passport. He failed to attend a Welland court last Thursday and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
FBI agents, who arrested Al-Marabh in Chicago on Wednesday, had been looking for him since failing to find him Monday at a Detroit residence where he had lived.
Al-Marabh had an Ontario driver's licence when he applied for a duplicate licence in the state, investigators said.
State records show Al-Marabh had worked for Boston Cab Co., with Hijazi, the known associate of bin Laden.
On his application for a Boston cab licence, Hijazi listed Al-Marabh as his emergency contact.
Jordanian officials say Hijazi has confessed that he planned terrorist attacks and received bomb-making training in Afghan guerrilla camps run by bin Laden.
In December, Al-Marabh pleaded guilty to a May 2000 charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon -- a knife -- in Boston. He stabbed his roommate in the knee.
He received a suspended sentence of six months but when he failed to comply with the terms of his probation, a warrant was issued for his arrest last March 15.
At Al-Marabh's former residence in Detroit on Monday, federal agents found a cache of documents and arrested Karim Koubriti, 23, Ahmed Hannan, 33, and Farouk Ali-Haimoud, 21, on charges of having false immigration papers. The men were identified as resident aliens from Morocco and Algeria.
The FBI did not say where Al-Marabh comes from. His former landlord in the Boston area, Marian Sklodowski, said Al-Marabh told him he was Palestinian.
Agents also found a planner with handwriting in Arabic, according to court papers. The planner included information about an American base in Turkey, the "American foreign minister" and Alia Airport in Jordan, the FBI said.
Hannan and Koubriti worked briefly as dishwashers for an airline catering company, LSG Sky Chefs, near the Detroit airport between May and June, the company said.
All four men hold chauffeur's licences in Michigan, state records show. Al-Marabh may have been issued a licence in Florida, where several of the hijackers are believed to have lived before last week's terrorist attacks.
In Ottawa, Opposition MPs demanded to know "who's in charge" of national security after Al-Marabh's arrest.
Solicitor General Lawrence MacAulay drew sighs of disbelief from opposition benches for maintaining no direct link had yet been established between Canada and the terrorist attacks. He would only confirm an "individual was arrested by U.S. authorities who was in Canada for a period of time."
His response enraged Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day and other MPs who pressed him to tell Canadians why Al-Marabh was allowed to roam freely in Canada.
"Who is in charge of security over there," Day snapped at one point during an exchange with MacAulay.
Prime Minister Jean Chretien was not in the Commons
Помогнаха на бай Ганя да смъкне от плещите си агарянския ямурлук, наметна си той една белгийска мантия - и всички рекоха, че бай Ганьо е вече цял европеец.