Terrorism in Canada

Terrorism in Canada primarily consists of fundraising for terrorist attacks outside of the country. [http://www.adl.org/terror/tu/tu_0401_canada.asp Canada and Terrorism] Anti-Defamation League]

Banned terrorist organizations

The Canadian government has banned 34 terrorist organizations, including Al Qaeda, the Armed Islamic Group, Babbar Khalsa, the Palestine Liberation Front, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Kahane Chai, the Taliban, Mujahedin e-Khalq, [http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3090800,00.html "Canada News" reports three organizations banned, first such action under new Prime Minister Paul Martin] Ynews] and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. [http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover041206.htm Tamil Tigers finally outlawed in Canada] Canada Free Press] The government expanded its ban of Hezbollah from the purely militant wing to all 16 sub-organizations on 16 December, 2006. [http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/Canadaslapsbanon.html Canada slaps ban on Hezbollah,now has 16 groups on terror list...Rolland Leblanc rules] Jewish Telegraph Agency]

International terrorism

Relating to Cuba

*September 22, 1966 - A bazooka attack on the Cuban embassy in Ottawa is made.
*October 5, 1966 - Anti-Castro forces bomb the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Ottawa.
*May 31, 1967: A small bomb explodes at the Cuba Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal. The attack is attributed to Cuban Nationalist Action.
*October 15, 1967: A bomb explodes at the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Montreal.
*May 29, 1969: A bomb is placed in the doorway of the Cuban consulate in Montreal, it fails to go off.
*July 12, 1971: A small bomb goes off at the offices of the Cuban trade delegation in Montreal.
*April 4, 1972: Cuban official Sergio Pérez Castillo is killed by an explosion at the Cuban consulate at Montreal.
*January 21, 1974: A bomb explodes at the Cuban embassy in Ottawa. It is attributed to Orlando Bosch.
*September 22, 1976: An explosive device is thrown from a car at the Cuban consulate in Montreal.
*January 14, 1980: A large explosion significantly damages the Cuban consulate in Montreal.

Relating to militant Sikh aspirations for Khalistan

*June 23, 1985 - Air India flight 182 leaving Montreal's Mirabel International Airport is blown up mid-flight to London.
*May 26, 1986 - An attempt is made in Vancouver to assassinate Malkiat Singh Sidhu, a cabinet minister in the Indian province of Punjab
*August 28, 1988 - "Indo-Canadian Times" editor Tara Singh Hayer is shot and partially paralyzed
*November 18, 1998 - Newspaper editor Tara Singh Hayer is assassinated for his strident opposition to Sikh militants.

Relating to Armenia

*April 8, 1982 - Turkish Commercial Counselor to Canada Kani Güngör is paralyzed after an attack by Armenian nationalists at his Ottawa apartment.
*August 23, 1982 - Turkish military attaché to Canada, Col. Atilla Altıkat, is assassinated by Armenian terrorists in Ottawa while sitting in his vehicle at a traffic light.
*March 12, 1985 - A group of Armenian terrorists seize the Turkish embassy, killing a Canadian security guard

Other incidents

*April 7, 1868 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee is assassinated in Ottawa by an alleged Irish nationalist or Fenian rebel sympathizer named Patrick Whelan.
*November 25, 1965 - Croatian nationalists bomb the Yugoslavian consulate in Toronto.
*January 29, 1967 - The Yugoslavian embassy in Ottawa and the consulate in Toronto are among six Yugoslavian offices bombed in North America.
*September 3, 1984 - Montreal's Central Station is bombed, killing 3 people and wounding more than 30. Thomas Bernard Brigham, an elderly retired American armed forces officer, claims to have been protesting Pope John Paul II's visit to Canada.
*April 5, 1992 - The Iranian embassy in Ottawa is stormed by members of MEK, an Iraq-supported left-wing group.

Domestic terrorism

*January 2,1965 - Two U.S. jets (F-84s) being overhauled by Northwest Industries in Edmonton, Alberta were destroyed and a third damaged when a left-wing group protesting the Vietnam War dynamited the planes; a security guard was killed during the incident. [http://www.edmonton.ca/EmergServ/EmergPreparedness/EdmontonDisasterTimetable.pdf Edmonton Disaster Timetable] City of Edmonton]
*late 1960s - the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) placed a bomb in a window well of the National Defence Headquarters on Lisgar St in Ottawa. The explosion killed a cleaning lady.
*late 1960s - the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) placed a bomb in a mailbox next to the Canadian Tire store on Wellington St in Ottawa.
*February 13, 1969 - the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) set off a powerful bomb that ripped through the Montreal Stock Exchange causing massive destruction and seriously injuring twenty-seven people.
*October 5, 1970 - British diplomat James Cross and October 10 Quebec Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte are kidnapped by the FLQ in Montreal. (The dead body of Pierre Laporte was discovered in the trunk of a car in Montreal on October 17, 1970; Cross was released on December 3, 1970.)
*October 14, 1982 - The anarchist group the Squamish Five, who were Canadian version of Direct Action, bombs a Litton Industries factory north of Toronto that is manufacturing guidance devices for American cruise missiles, ten are injured.

ee also

*List of conflicts in Canada

References

Further reading

*Hamilton, D. et al. (2006). "Inside Canadian Intelligence: Exposing the New Realities of Espionage and International Terrorism". Dundurn Press. ISBN 1-55002-608-9