I thought it was poverty and crushing despair that motivated jihadists, and that if we just gave them more money and respect they would stop hating us.
I guess I was wrong.
From Reuters April 22 by Euan Rocha
Canada thwarts "al Qaeda-supported" passenger train plot
(Reuters) - Canadian police said on Monday they had arrested and charged two men with plotting to derail a Toronto-area passenger train in an operation they say was backed by al Qaeda elements in Iran.
"Had this plot been carried out, it would have resulted in innocent people being killed or seriously injured," Royal Canadian Mounted Police official James Malizia told reporters in Toronto.
The RCMP said it had arrested Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montreal, and Raed Jaser, 35, of Toronto in connection with the plot, which authorities said was not linked to the Boston Marathon bombings, which killed three and injured more than 200 people last week.
Neither is a Canadian citizen, but the police did not reveal their nationalities.
A spokeswoman for the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique near Montreal confirmed that Esseghaier was a doctoral student at the research institute and that he had been arrested.
Julie Martineau, the school's director of communications, said Esseghaier arrived at the school in 2010 and was about midway through his degree.
"He is doing a PhD in the field of energy and materials sciences," she told Reuters.
I guess I was wrong.
From Reuters April 22 by Euan Rocha
Canada thwarts "al Qaeda-supported" passenger train plot
(Reuters) - Canadian police said on Monday they had arrested and charged two men with plotting to derail a Toronto-area passenger train in an operation they say was backed by al Qaeda elements in Iran.
"Had this plot been carried out, it would have resulted in innocent people being killed or seriously injured," Royal Canadian Mounted Police official James Malizia told reporters in Toronto.
The RCMP said it had arrested Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montreal, and Raed Jaser, 35, of Toronto in connection with the plot, which authorities said was not linked to the Boston Marathon bombings, which killed three and injured more than 200 people last week.
Neither is a Canadian citizen, but the police did not reveal their nationalities.
A spokeswoman for the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique near Montreal confirmed that Esseghaier was a doctoral student at the research institute and that he had been arrested.
Julie Martineau, the school's director of communications, said Esseghaier arrived at the school in 2010 and was about midway through his degree.
"He is doing a PhD in the field of energy and materials sciences," she told Reuters.
Yet he still felt he had to uphold the tenets of Islam and kill non-Muslims.
A bail hearing for the two will take place in Toronto on Tuesday morning.
Malizia said there was no indication that the planned attacks, which police described as the first known al Qaeda- backed plot on Canadian soil, were state-sponsored.
U.S. officials said the attack would have targeted a rail line between New York and Toronto, a route that travels along the Hudson Valley into New York wine country and enters Canada near Niagara Falls.
Canadian police said only that the plot involved a VIA train route in the Toronto area.
A bail hearing for the two will take place in Toronto on Tuesday morning.
Malizia said there was no indication that the planned attacks, which police described as the first known al Qaeda- backed plot on Canadian soil, were state-sponsored.
U.S. officials said the attack would have targeted a rail line between New York and Toronto, a route that travels along the Hudson Valley into New York wine country and enters Canada near Niagara Falls.
Canadian police said only that the plot involved a VIA train route in the Toronto area.
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