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Friends Of Simon Wiesenthal Center's Reaction to Arrest of Seventeen in Canadian Terror Plot

Written by Admin | June 5, 2006

Friends Of Simon Wiesenthal Center's Reaction to Arrest of Seventeen in Canadian Terror Plot

TORONTO ........."This weekend's arrest of 17 Canadian men on terrorist charges highlights the use and abuse of the Internet inplanning such plots," said Leo Adler, Director of National Affairs for Toronto-based Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies.

A member of Canada's Cross Cultural Roundtable on Security, Adler said the group, using the Internet for instructions obtainedthree tonnes of ammonium nitrate (one tonne was used in the 1995 bombing of the FBI building in Oklahoma, killing 168 people) were planning to build several bombs. It appears the Internet alsobecame a prime source of communications among the group members.

"The Center's annual research Report, Digital Terrorism & Hate 2006, makes it clear that the spread of terrorist ideology andthe communications between individuals is primarily through the Internet, which provides sites to Canadians that glorify terrorism and allow youths to become inculcated and learn how to commitsuch acts in Canada," said Adler.

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Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies is a Canadian human rights organization dedicated to fosteringtolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action. With over 40,000 members of all faiths, it confronts important contemporary issues includingracism, anti-Semitism, terrorism and genocide. Friends is affiliated with the world-wide, Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, an accredited Non-Government Organization with status atinternational agencies, including the United Nations, UNESCO, OSCE and the Council of Europe, with offices in New York, Miami, Paris, Jerusalem, BuenosAires, and Toronto. Simon Wiesenthaldied in 2005 after devoting his life to preserving the memories of the victims of the Holocaust, while simultaneously seeking justice for the warcriminals.