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Saturday, June 3, 2006; Posted: 8:03 a.m. EDT (12:03 GMT)
(CNN) -- Federal and local authorities staged a major counterterrorism sweep in the Toronto area, arresting at least 10 people, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said on Saturday.
Armed police surrounded the Durham Regional Police Station in Pickering, east of Toronto, as unmarked vehicles carrying the suspects headed into an underground garage.
The Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto said the operation "appeared to be the most concerted such sweep in Canada since the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001."
The initial arrests were made on Friday, and more were expected through the night, police spokeswoman Cpl. Michele Paradis told CNN.
The sweep was a joint operation involving most of the police forces in the Toronto area, she said.
Federal agencies including border and intelligence agents worked with the police under the auspices of the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team, Paradis said.
She could not confirm a report that the arrests involved an explosives plot in the province of Ontario.
Such anti-terror operations in Canada are rare. It's not clear if the sweep is related to a raid in east London Friday, one of the largest there since the London transit bombings in July. That raid was carried out with the help of police and Britain's domestic spy agency, MI5.
[Read More] http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/06/03/canada.terror/index.html
(CNN) -- Federal and local authorities staged a major counterterrorism sweep in the Toronto area, arresting at least 10 people, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said on Saturday.
Armed police surrounded the Durham Regional Police Station in Pickering, east of Toronto, as unmarked vehicles carrying the suspects headed into an underground garage.
The Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto said the operation "appeared to be the most concerted such sweep in Canada since the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001."
The initial arrests were made on Friday, and more were expected through the night, police spokeswoman Cpl. Michele Paradis told CNN.
The sweep was a joint operation involving most of the police forces in the Toronto area, she said.
Federal agencies including border and intelligence agents worked with the police under the auspices of the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team, Paradis said.
She could not confirm a report that the arrests involved an explosives plot in the province of Ontario.
Such anti-terror operations in Canada are rare. It's not clear if the sweep is related to a raid in east London Friday, one of the largest there since the London transit bombings in July. That raid was carried out with the help of police and Britain's domestic spy agency, MI5.
[Read More] http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/06/03/canada.terror/index.html