The police raid in Canada which netted 17 Islamist terrorist suspects becomes more significant by the day. According to the National Post, the Canadians appear to have averted a major strike, thought to involve a plot to detonate a truck bomb to destroy a significant building and to open fire on a crowd in a public place — plus an allegation that one of the suspects wanted personally to behead the Canadian Prime Minister.

We learn that terrorist training camps were being run at an isolated site north of Toronto. Once again, the sense of déjà vu is overwhelming. In the UK, terrorist recruits were sent to train in the English countryside under the noses of British security forces who, when later challenged, said disingenuously that no-one had been breaking the law. Doubtless the Canadians too thought that such camps were merely a multicultural version of the boy scouts.

If the details emerging are true, it would seem that this haul of suspects has a significance extending far beyond Canada. They appear to have been part of an international conspiracy, demonstrating once again the global aspect of the jihad and the way in which, as a decentralised and endlessly mutating network of like-minded terrorists, it has spread like a cancer throughout the world.

The Australian reports:

The investigation into Canada's home-grown terrorism plot has been widened, with authorities looking for links between those detained in Canada and terrorist cells in at least six other countries. It has been established that two men from the US state of Georgia, who were charged this year in a terrorism case, had been in contact with some of the Canadian suspects via computer, according to a US law enforcement official. The other countries are believed to be Bangladesh, Bosnia, Denmark, Britain and Sweden.

Apparently the Georgia men travelled to Washington to shoot ‘casing videos’ of the Capitol and other potential targets. But the Canadian investigation appears to have started in — where else — Londonistan. The Wall Street Journal reports:

The October arrest of a London man who allegedly ran al-Qaeda-linked websites and distributed jihadist propaganda kicked off a multinational investigation that culminated in last weekend's arrests in Canada, U.S. law enforcement officials and counterterrorism experts say.

Younis Tsouli, who is being held on charges ranging from conspiracy to murder to terrorist financing, is suspected of involvement in a possible plot to attack Washington, and other militant activities. During the raid on Mr. Tsouli's home Oct. 22, Scotland Yard found a PowerPoint-like presentation on a computer showing how to make a car bomb, various bomb-making manuals and a digital video clip of Washington monuments. Federal law-enforcement officials now say that the digital movie, believed to be a surveillance video, was taken by one of two suspected Atlanta terrorists who was arrested and charged in March in the first part of a counterterrorism operation that resulted in the Canadian action.

And what else was Mr Tsouli apparently doing in the UK in addition to allegedly plotting to blow up Washington?

Mr. Kohlmann noted that Mr. Tsouli seemed to be particularly active in radicalizing non-Arab terrorists, whether they are English-speaking South Asian men or Muslim converts. This, he said, could allow al-Qaeda and other militant Islamist groups to greatly alter the profile of many of their operatives.

He was, it seems, radicalising people in Britain. Unnamed UK ‘security sources’ tell us that some 1200 terrorists — 1200! – are biding their time within the British suburbs. Any connection? So are our media’s finest jumping up and down about this UK connection to Toronto? Are they asking hard questions about the record of our intelligence service, which ignored this man’s activities —like so many others - for so long? Are you reading anything at all about this in the British media? Of course not. British intelligence is instead feeding the media with what they want to hear: that the root of the problem is the UK’s involvement in Iraq. Yeah, yeah - just like Canada, eh?

Now America faces the chilling realisation that while it has been convulsed for weeks over illegal immigration across its border with Mexico, a far greater threat is posed by its unpatrolled border with Canada — twice the length of the border with Mexico – which has one of the most liberal asylum and immigration policies in the world.

Jack Hooper, deputy director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, has admitted

that the CSIS could vet only about one-tenth of the immigrants from Afghanistan and Pakistan. In other words, apart from bare details, which themselves may be spurious, Canada knows nothing--not even current addresses--of approximately 18,000 immigrants from that part of the world who have arrived just in the last five years.

Sound familiar? Canada, America, Britain — the axis of feeble.