Jihad In Kanukistan

A terrorist cell has been busted in Canada:

Canadian police on Saturday said they have prevented a major al Qaeda-inspired terror plot to attack targets in southern Ontario.

Twelve adults and five young people were arrested, authorities said.

"This group took steps to acquire three tons of ammonium nitrate and other components necessary to create explosive devices," said Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell in a statement.

"To put this in context, the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people took one ton of ammonium nitrate."

Luc Portelance, assistant director of operations for Canadian Security Intelligence Service said "the detained suspects are all men, Canadian residents 'from a variety of backgrounds" and followers of a "dangerous ideology inspired by al Qaeda.'" When you translate that into English it reads "The arrested terrorists are foreign Muslims from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, etc."

(Via comment at Tim Blair's.)

UPDATE:
Much more info here.