the Toronto 17, who were thinking about pulling off an Oklahoma City-style attack with ammonium nitrate—or perhaps just beheading the prime minister—but hadn't quite gotten around to it.

Hmmm I thought they had gotten pretty far, they were being monitored by athorities when they placed the order though. Ooops!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/to...lot/index.html

RCMP Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell, right, speaks as CSIS Assistant Director of Operations Luc Portelance looks on during a press conference in Toronto on June 3, 2006. (Aaron Harris/Canadian Press)
RCMP Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell said the suspects had ordered and receivedthree tonnes of ammonium nitrate. He said it was three times the amount that Timothy McVeigh used to bomb a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995. That blast killed 168 people...''

Al-Qaeda is just a convenient word for any anti "western" militant. Judging by these groups methods of attack the have very limited means, of course the American media has made them out to be worthy of justifying an all out war. Saying “a vast vast minority of desperate angry fundamentalist with more balls than brains” just doesn’t sell the war effort as well as "some powerfull global organization of evil" though I think most of the Canadian media should be given credit for their lack of sensationalism in regards to this,as the Toronto guys were only said to be inspired by the "al-Qaeda".

Why is it that when a conservative takes power you are suddenly at war, being plotted against and voting to try and reverse gay marriage? sheesh.