My only question is- -Are the terrorists of Muslim descent? Mixed ethnicity, in the article "could mean to me", Morrocan, Algerian, Sudanese, Syrian, Iranian etc.

Mixed ethnicity? I don't understand the need for political correctness here. Lets look at the list of the suspects, which speak for itself.

1. Fahim Ahmad, 21, Toronto;

2. Zakaria Amara, 20, Mississauga, Ont.;

3. Asad Ansari, 21, Mississauga;

4. Shareef Abdelhaleen, 30, Mississauga;

5. Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, Mississauga;

6. Mohammed Dirie, 22, Kingston, Ont.;

7. Yasim Abdi Mohamed, 24, Kingston;

8. Jahmaal James, 23, Toronto;

9. Amin Mohamed Durrani, 19, Toronto;

10. Steven Vikash Chand alias Abdul Shakur, 25, Toronto;

11. Ahmad Mustafa Ghany, 21, Mississauga;

12. Saad Khalid, 19, of Eclipse Avenue, Mississauga.

What's up with these crazy people, Can't they see that this is not acomplishing anything, Are they stupid or just ignorant, are'nt they the same.

yawd mon.

When was the last time you looked under your kitchen sink or the shelf in your laundry room? All of us have, if it were necessary to inventory it, scads of potentially explosive, poisonous and lethal chemical ingredients that alone or in compounds with others could all be listed against us as potential "tools of terrorism".
The possible intercept of "terrorists" individually or by the cell is in itself a good thing. But the information we're given to inform us of the incidents seems to contain too little information and too much rationale for the efforts of global law enforcement and to garner support for an ongoing witchhunt and the modern equivalents of Wiccan mid-wives from days gone by.
We basically get two or three days of "We got em'!" followed by little to no evidentiary information and no end in sight to the next incident that to the exclusion of all else domestic, will occupy our headlines and attention for yet three more days.
I'm all for "news". I'm all for information. The two need not necessarily be mutually exclusive, but these days seem to be.
We have Enron issues, congressional pay offs, hard questions being asked about the humanity of our invasion in Iraq, the Dafur massacres and the new threats being made to other countries for persuing the very same nuclear programs that we and our allies are free to do unquestioningly...All of these things are under the radar as it were while we are placated with a deluge of information no more in depth than "We got em'! and "They had really bad chemicals!"
The questions I ask and remain unanswered is, who do you have? What is the real evidence that very real (not possible, maybe, potential...remember, that's exactly how we invaded Iraq!) attack was averted. What kind of chemicals and weapons were confiscated. How many were there? One? Two? Fifty?
Don't just give me that they had chemicals that could be used dangerously.
Who doesn't?!

GREAT JOB CANADIAN INTELLIGENCE AND ROYAL MOUNTED POLICE.!!!

MAYBE WE DONT NEED TO KNOW..MAYBE THE SECURITY FOLKS HAVE IT UNDER CONTROL & ITS BEST TO NOT PUBLICIZE IT ALL......SO TO NOT LET ANY OTHER CRAZIES OUT THERE IN ON PLAN IDEAS.

Only countries that supported the coalition were aimed by the terrorists. The recent decision of the Canadian government to send their soldiers to fight in Kandahar, explains why Canada is now a target for terrorism.
More than 56% of the Canadian people in nine provinces, and up to 70 % in the province of Quebec, were against the decision to send the Canadian troops fighting in Afghanistan.
The Canadian people do not deserve such threats. They want to make it clear that they do not want to take part in the coalition. The Canadian government totally ignored its population desire to stay away from this war. Canadians know too well it is a war for the U.S.A. big oil companies, to get to the rich oil fields of these Eastern countries.
In Spain, it took many lost of lives for their government to decide to remove their troops from the coalition. How many Canadian people will die as the result of their government decision to participate in this war?
The Canadian population hopes that the Prime Minister Harper and his government will retire the Canadian soldiers from Afghanistan as soon as possible and before it is too late. It is senseless and incomprehensible to have people die for oil.

In the event that there is a united terrorist movement, information on how to produce implements of destruction is not limited to what may or may not be released in the press during arrests. The "free world" is either up against and at war with a real entity that poses an organized threat or simply some willy-nilly rag-tag group of global rabble rousers who are are running around aimlessly in hope for the next media led inspiration to be used to forward their cause. Based on the caution and fear being tauted by the many governments effected by it, and the measures being endorsed and implemented, it would appear that we can't claim it to be both ways.
On the other hand, without some forthright disclosure by law enforcement and government, we lose the characteristic of transparency which is a vital element of our democracy and we accept the same social order that allowed and excused the collection of people from their houses in the night through out history by groups such as the Spanish inquisition, The Cosacks and Germany's 1939 Storm Troopers.
No one said democracy... real democracy would be easy. The rules are always harder and more steadfast for the good guys than for the baddies. Adhering to them and being up front unlike the bad guys is what differentiates the two factions.
Checks and balance based on public information transparency isn't necessarily such a bad thing.
We are all, after all, just human and capable of some extreme injustices to one another.

Just an addendum to my previous post...
It has been announced thus far that three tons of what is believed to be Ammonium Nitrate was confiscated in the Canadain raids on the people suspected and rounded up for conspiring to stage and act of terror.
Let me capitulate by saying that three tons of any chemical would certainly imply more than household usage and so far it would appear that the authorities have correctly and with all probable cause found sure and justifiable reason to question the motives of the people they have collected.
Three tons!
Wow!
That's really all I needed to know. That's all I was asking for originally.