Terrorist Threats to the United States: Congressional HearingLamar Smith Recent arrests (esp. Ahmed Ressam) on the Canada-U.S. border underscore the threats faced by both our nations from international terrorists and alien and drug smugglers. Witnesses: Martin Collacott, Ambassador, Canadian Dept. of External Affairs (ret.); Steven Emerson, exec. dir., Terrorism Newswire; David Harris, former chief of strategic planning, Canadian Security Intelligence Service (ret.); Christopher Sands, fellow and dir., Canada Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); Gary Stubblefield, pres., GlobalOptions LLC; John Thompson, dir., the Mackenzie Institute, Toronto, Canada; and Philip C. Wilcox, Ambassador, U.S. State Dept. (ret.). |
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Page 38 - [Canada] shall remain as immune from attack or possible invasion as we can reasonably be expected to make it, and that, should the occasion ever arise, enemy forces should not be able to pursue their way, either by land, sea or air, to the United States across Canadian territory.
Page 47 - Subcommittee and I look forward to answering any questions that you may have. Mr. SMITH. Mr. Thompson. STATEMENT OF JOHN THOMPSON, DIRECTOR, THE MACKENZIE INSTITUTE, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA Generally, Canada is much like the United States, a Nation
Page 38 - The people of the United States will not stand idly by if domination of Canadian soil is threatened by any other empire.
Page 72 - Mr. SMITH. Thank you, Mr. Stubblefield. Mr. PEASE. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, i would like to direct this question to Mr. Sands, but I would like the thoughts of Mr. Thompson and Ambassador Wilcox as well.
Page 23 - Prior to moving to the United States, Al-Ashkar had served as head of Public Relations at the Islamic University in Gaza for a period of about eight years. According to documents submitted in the Abu Marzook extradition proceedings, this University was founded by, among others, Abu Marzook and Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin (about whom UASR has written extensively).
Page 21 - Marzook first came to the United States in the late 1970s, although immigration records show that he formally began residing in the United States starting in 1981. Marzook and his family lived in a number of locations during their 14 years in the United States, including Colorado, Louisiana and Virginia. He and his family moved to Falls Church, Virginia in 1991.
Page 45 - before you and I look forward to answering any questions that you may have. Mr. SMITH. Thank you, Mr.
Page 13 - Long before the arrests in Montreal of Algerian terrorists last December, Canada had witnessed its soil being used by foreignbased terrorists. Ward Elock, Director of CSIS, testified in testimony on January 1998, "With perhaps the singular exception of the United States, there are more international terrorist groups active here than in any country in the world. The Counter-Terrorism Branch is currently investigating over 50 organizational targets and 350 individual terrorist targets.
Page 30 - to the HLF are transferred to a variety of organizations in the occupied territories and PA controlled areas. For example, the Israelis found a master list of payments made by the "Moslem Youth Society,
Page 69 - One of the thoughts I have and many other people is that this has to be revisited, this interpretation. One Canadian journalist who just received the order of Canada, Jeff Simpson of the Toronto Globe and Mail, said that system threw the whole system into chaos. Essentially, it has been there ever since.