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### Viewing cable 09OTTAWA154, SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE -

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09OTTAWA154 | 2009-02-27 22:09 | 2011-04-30 03:00 | SECRET | Embassy Ottawa
Appears in these articles: http://aptn.ca/pages/news/2011/04/30/u-s-considers-native-canadian-groups-as-possible-terror-threats-embassy-cables/

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    R 272209Z FEB 09
    FM AMEMBASSY OTTAWA
    TO SECSTATE WASHDC 9150
    INFO AMCONSUL CALGARY
    AMCONSUL HALIFAX
    AMCONSUL MONTREAL
    AMCONSUL QUEBEC
    AMCONSUL TORONTO
    AMCONSUL VANCOUVER
    CIA WASHDC
    DIA WASHDC
    FBI WASHINGTON DC

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    id: 194492
    date: 2/27/2009 22:09
    refid: 09OTTAWA154
    origin: Embassy Ottawa
    classification: SECRET
    destination: 09STATE13023|09TORONTO18
    header:
    R 272209Z FEB 09
    FM AMEMBASSY OTTAWA
    TO SECSTATE WASHDC 9150
    INFO AMCONSUL CALGARY
    AMCONSUL HALIFAX
    AMCONSUL MONTREAL
    AMCONSUL QUEBEC
    AMCONSUL TORONTO
    AMCONSUL VANCOUVER
    CIA WASHDC
    DIA WASHDC
    FBI WASHINGTON DC
    ----------------- header ends ----------------
    S E C R E T OTTAWA 000154
    DEPT FOR DS/IP/WHA AND DS/TIA/ITA
    E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/12/2019
    TAGS: ASEC PTER
    SUBJECT: SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE -
    SPRING 2009
    REF: STATE 13023
    Classified By: Classified By RSO Kevin F. Flanagan, reason 1.4 (d)
    ¶1. This Message is SECRET/NOFORN.
    ----------------------------
    ¶2. POLITICAL VIOLENCE
    ----------------------------
    ----------------------------
    ¶I. (SBU) DEMONSTRATIONS
    ----------------------------
    ¶A. Human rights groups, small political protest/grass
    roots organizations and Canadian Aboriginal groups are prone
    to carrying out demonstrations aimed at the host government
    and sponsor anti-U.S. demonstrations.
    i. YES - to include Aboriginal groups.
    ii. YES - Peaceful demonstrations and marches occur near
    the embassy on a frequent basis and involve between 20 to
    100 persons. Police support including notification and
    monitoring is excellent.
    iii. The average size of demonstrations runs between 20 and
    50 persons with marches including up to 100 on some occasions.
    iv. Ongoing U.S. Foreign Policy initiatives and military
    actions as well as U.S. domestic issues related to the U.S.
    Canada Border have triggered Anti-American demonstrations in
    the past.
    ¶B. Demonstrations across the country are mainly peaceful
    however there have been a limited number of violent clashes
    with police. The last incident involving any violence by
    demonstrators occured during the POTUS visit to the North
    American Leaders meeting in August of 2007 in Montebello,
    Quebec.
    i. No.
    ii. Yes. An emotionally disturbed person walked through the
    gap between two Delta Barriers at the Embassy vehicle
    entrance and threw red paint across the Garage door. The
    individual was subsequently arrested and charged with
    criminal mischief as the damage to the garage door did not
    exceed 5000.00 Canadian Dollars.
    ¶C. Yes. The NO-WAR coalition of various groups has
    demonstrated against U.S. involvement in Iraq and
    Afghanistan, including demonstrations aimed at U.S.
    detentions in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as well as the Canadian
    military mission in Afghanistan.
    i. Yes. The close proximity of the U.S. Embassy to the
    Canadian Parliament lends itself to demonstrations and
    marches.
    ii. The average size of anti-government demonstrations
    involve between 20-100 persons. In general, both Toronto and
    Vancouver report larger numbers of demonstrators.
    iii. Peaceful.
    iv. No damage to U.S. Property.
    -------------------------------------
    II. MACRO CONFLICT CONDITIONS.
    -------------------------------------
    ¶A. No.
    ¶B. N/A
    ¶C. N/A
    ¶D. N/A
    ----------------------------------------
    III. HOST GOVERNMENT CAPABILITIES.
    ----------------------------------------
    ¶A. Yes. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and most major
    city Police Services in Canada are professionally trained and
    extremely sensitive and responsive to the safety and security
    of U.S. facilities and personnel.
    ¶B. N/A
    ¶C. No.
    ¶D. Yes. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)
    and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have
    demonstrated their commitment to battle terrorism. However,
    Canadian services do not appear to be as proactive as U.S.
    law enforcement regarding terrorist cell penetration and
    source development. Both agencies are supportive and
    cooperative with U.S. law enforcement for the most part
    although restricted by the Canadian Charter of Rights, which
    is the basis for Canada's strict provacy laws.
    Qis the basis for Canada's strict provacy laws.
    ¶E. Yes, as long as privacy regulations are enforced to the
    fullest degree of the law. Timeliness on requests for
    information, depending on the request, can take longer than
    normal given the privacy constraints.
    ¶F. Yes, to include the arrest of 18 "Homegrown" terrorists
    in Toronto during June of 2006, an arrest in the fall of
    2007 in Montreal of a Muslim doing online facilitation for a
    German terrorist cell, and the arrest in the late summer of
    2006 in Toronto and Windsor of members of the LTTE. In
    September of 2008, a Toronto court convicted one of the
    "Toronto 18" for conspiring in the group plot. He faces a
    maximum of 10 years in prison, but the court has not yet set
    a date for sentencing. The remaining court proceedings for
    "Toronto 18" have yet to be finalized and thus
    success/failure cannot be assessed. Mohammad Momin Khawaja,
    charged and found guilty of financing and facilitating
    terrorism for training at a remote camp in Pakistan and
    providing cash to a group of British extremists, will be
    sentenced on March 12, 2009. He was also convicted of
    offenses related to building a remote-control device to set
    off explosions, and faces a maximum penalty of two life terms
    plus 58 years, which would preclude the possibility of parole
    for 10 years.
    ¶G. Yes
    ¶H. Good/Average. In general, major airports generally have
    good security controls in place. Use of the no-fly list has
    been added for outbound international flights, but not used
    for domestic air travel. Canada has established its own "no
    fly list" and has successfully stopped someone on the list
    from flying.
    ¶I. The Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) is
    reasonably effective at ports of entry.
    ¶J. Canada lacks a dedicated border patrol. The RCMP and
    some local police jurisdictions perform this function.
    --------------------------------
    ¶3. INDIGENOUS TERRORISM
    --------------------------------
    ----------------------------------------
    I ANTI-AMERICAN TERRORIST GROUPS
    ----------------------------------------
    ¶A. No.
    ¶B. No.
    ¶C. No.
    ¶D. No.
    ¶E. No.
    ¶F. No.
    ¶G. N/A.
    -------------------------------------------
    II OTHER INDIGENOUS TERRORIST GROUPS
    -------------------------------------------
    ¶A. No. There are no formal/named indigenous terrorist
    groups located or operating in Canada.
    ¶B. Yes. 18 "Homegrown Terrorists" (Al-Qaida inspired) were
    arrested in June of 2006 from the greater Toronto region.
    These "Homegrown terrorists" are first generation Canadian
    citizens, primarily of Pakistani descent, and they were
    allegedly plotting to attack the CN Tower in Toronto as well
    as the Parliament building in Ottawa. Eleven have been
    charged, and one trial has begun. In September of 2007, a
    suspected terrorist believed to be plotting attacks in
    Austria was arrested by the RCMP. Native Canadian
    (Aboriginal) groups have, on occasion, had confrontations
    with Canadian police.
    ¶C. No
    ¶D. N/A
    ¶E. No
    ----------------------------------
    ¶4. TRANSNATIONAL TERRORISM
    ----------------------------------
    --------------------------------------------- --------
    ¶I. (S/NF) TRANSNATIONAL TERRORIST INDICATORS
    --------------------------------------------- --------
    ¶A. (S/NF) Yes. Almost every known Islamic extremist group
    has either a presence or sympathizers in Canada such as the
    Hizballah; AL-Itihad; Algerian GIA; the LTTE; Egyptian
    Islamic Jihad; the Iranian MEK, AL-Qaida and the Hell's
    Angels gang. Sikh extremists are also present and are under
    constant scrutiny by Canadian security services as a result
    Qof the suspicioun of their involvement in the 1985 Air India
    bombings. All Canadian Posts have seen an increase in the
    number of Visa Viper entries. Also, in August of 2006, the
    RCMP arrested 4 members of the Tamil Tigers in a plot to buy
    missiles from undercover FBI agents. The Tamil Tigers were
    added by Canada to its list of terrorist organizations in
    early 2006. Extremist groups resident in Canada primarily
    operate as propaganda, financial and support cells. However,
    the potential threat from these groups cannot be discounted.
    Investigative activity by U.S. and Canadian services since
    September of 2001 has confirmed the presence of AL-Qaeda
    members and cells in Canada. In January of 2002, a suspected
    Al-Qaeda trained terrorist, Al Rauf Bin Al Habib Bin Yousef
    Al-Jiddi, a Canadian citizen born in Tunisia, was identified
    as one of the five suicide martyrs whose photos were released
    by the U.S. government in January of 2002. Al-Jiddi lived in
    Montreal. U.S. law enforcement have, on occasion, identified
    an individual of interest with ties to Canada, as was the
    situation with Abderraouf Jdey and Mahar Arar. Arar, a
    naturalized Canadian citizen from Syria, was recently cleared
    by a Canadian inquiry of any wrongdoing and subsequently
    awarded 10.5 million dollars (CDN) as a result of his removal
    from the U.S. to Syria immediately following the events of
    9/11/2001.
    ¶B. The organization and sympathizers are primarily
    assessed as propaganda, financial, and/or support cells.
    Most recently, financial support fronts for Hamas.
    Operational activities have been planned in Canada in recent
    years such as well-documented El-Maati probe. Another
    notable example was the December 1999 arrest f convicted
    terrorist Ahmed Ressam and the subsequent arrest of a number
    of his accomplices. Ressam was a Montreal based terrorist
    apprehended at the British Columbia/Washington state border
    as he was enroute to conduct an attack in the United States.
    Investigations indicate Canada-based extremists have toes to
    identified or suspect terrorists overseas. The nature and
    extent of the Canada-based persons involvement with these
    terrorists is often unclear, but does give cause for concern.
    ¶C. No.
    ¶D. (S/NF) Yes, there are extremists who are in sympathy
    with the Islamic fundamentalist organizations including
    Hizballah and Al-Qaeda. Several arrests by Canadian services
    were made over the last year of suspected Al-Qaeda members.
    NGOs have also been determined to be in support of suspected
    terrorist fund raising activities. There are Sikh extremists
    in sympathy with the Sikh organization(s). The largest of
    those communities, we believe, are not fully known to
    security services who continue to work the targets in
    question to access and re-assess that question. For example,
    the Global Relief Foundation (GRF) and the Benevalence
    International Fund(BIF), both listed by the U.S. as having
    supported terrorism, have been active in Canada. The Tamil
    LTTE is also very active in raising IS ALSO VERY ACTIVE IN
    RAISING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THROUGH A VARIETY OF FRONT
    GROUPS. Early last summer, the RCMP shut down the World
    Tamil Organization (WTO) for supporting the LTTE.
    ¶E. Yes
    ¶F. Ottawa is an international capital with over 140
    foreign Embassies to include Russia, Iran, Syria, Israel,
    France, Venezuela, Cuba, China, and several others considered
    by DSS as having hostile intelligence services. Surveillance
    detection teams have been made aware of RSO interests of any
    and all diplomatically plated vehicles exhibiing interest in
    our facilities. U.S. Embassy Ottawa has reported numerous
    sightings of apparently Chinese nationals photographing the
    Qsightings of apparently Chinese nationals photographing the
    facility and its occupants. The CI threat from third country
    services and non-state actors in Canada is assessed as being
    low. However, a recent reminder concerning Contact Reporting
    by the RSO to the Country Team, has ellicited a mild flurry
    of reporting. The reporting suggests an interest and perhaps
    some probing by the Russian Embassy and is being monitored
    accordingly. The RSO will host a number of defensive
    briefings in the coming months to address these concerns.
    While Canadamis home to a number of extremist sympathizers and
    support operatives, there have been no reported incidents of
    targeting of the U.S. Embassy or U.S. personnel since late
    ¶2002. The Canadian Government routinely investigates persons
    who support Sunni extremism, as well as AL-QA'ida and Taliban
    operations, and Hizballah.
    ¶G. The EAC believes that Canada's strict laws pertaining
    to weapons in general, limits the availability of small arms.
    Given the internet and U.S. gun laws however, there is a
    great deal of potential for availability of explosive
    components and weapons. In light of the August 2007 discovery
    of home made C-4 plastic explosive and small arms ammunition
    in a FEDEX box from New Jersey to Ottawa, Post cannot rule
    out the possibility that other types of weapons to include
    CBW and combat grade explosives could be used against U.S. or
    other international targets as witnessed in recent world
    events.
    ¶7. (SBU) Point of contact for the above is RSO Kevin F.
    Flanagan,(613) 688-5262.
    Visit Canada,s Economy and Environment Forum at
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