Hizbollah in Canada

According to a report by ABC, Hizbollah has activated sleeper cells in the west, including Canada, to retaliate for the alledged assisination of Hezbollah terrorist Imad Mugniyah. The Hizbollah cell has conducted surveillance on the Israeli embassy in Ottawa, Canada, and on several synagogues in Toronto. National Post

An ABC News report on Thursday said three U.S. law enforcement agencies confirmed being briefed on the developments.

"Suspected Hezbollah operatives have conducted recent surveillance on the Israeli embassy in Ottawa, Canada, and on several synagogues in Toronto, according to the officials," according to the ABC report.

The report says one of the cells is known as "Rashedan" and that cell members have been told to send their family members home to Lebanon.

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Those under suspicion include men who were overseas in the summer of 2006 to fight with Hezbollah during the renewed conflict with Israel in Lebanon.

There has indeed been chatter -- references to various bits of intelligence picked up by various security sources -- that attacks should be carried out against Jewish targets in Canada and abroad, the Post has learned.

The Jewish communities in Toronto and Rome were mentioned as possible or desirable targets. That does not mean an attack is imminent or a specific attack has been mapped out.

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RCMP Superintendent Jamie Jagoe, one of the federal police force's top national security officers in Ontario, said details of ABC's report do not reflect his understanding.

"We open investigations and routinely conduct investigations relative to the national security of Canada. We treat every one seriously and conduct complete and thorough investigations," he said in an interview on Thursday.

"At the present time there is no known specific threat to any specific location in the city of Toronto or anything like that. We have many ongoing investigations involving listed terrorist organizations. I can't get into specifics, but I can say we have lots of ongoing investigations."