Security unit sees 19 men as a threat

TORONTO - Immigration authorities released the names yesterday of 19 Pakistanis whose arrests have sparked fears an Islamic extremist cell may have been plotting attacks in Canada.

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A national security unit composed of RCMP and immigration officials also tied the group to the theft of a gauge containing radioactive Cesium-137, considered a likely component of a so-called dirty bomb.
The Immigration and Refugee Board identified them as Jahan Zaib Sawhney, Yousaf Rasheed, Aqeel Ahmed, Muhammad Asif Aziz, Kashif Siddique, Mohammed Asif, Muhammad Waliu Siddiqui, Mohammad Akhtar, Muhammad Waheed, Sajjad Ahmad, Muhammed Imran, Fahim Kayani, Imran Younas Khan, Manzoor Qadar Joyia, Zahoor Hussain, Saif Ulla Khan, Anwar-Ur-Rehman Mohammed, Muhammed Naeem and Khurran Shazad Toor.
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The probe found the Ottawa Business College was a front that sold acceptance letters, transcripts and diplomas to foreign students, 31 of whom fraudulently used the school to enter Canada.
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Since the 9/11 attacks, Canadian authorities have arrested several suspected members of the Osama bin Laden network, which trained thousands of radical Muslims and dispatched them around the world to become sleeper agents of terrorism.

Canadian intelligence documents relating to the arrest of one of them, Mohamed Harkat, claim that bin Laden "is trying to obtain chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Furthermore, evidence demonstrates that bin Laden has made significant progress in achieving this end."