Lebanese Man Arrested with Bombs in Ontario

Sat, Sep 1, 2007 at 8:05:49 am PDT

A Lebanese immigrant to Canada has been charged with sending letter bombs in Ontario, after being arrested with three bombs in his car.

Toronto police have charged a man who they suspect was involved with sending letter/parcel bombs that were received around Southern Ontario recently.

At a press conference this morning, Deputy Chief Tony Warr confirmed police have seized three bombs, found in the trunk of a silver sedan at an Esso gas station on Overlea Blvd., just west of Thorncliffe Park Dr. Warr would not provide any details about the power or size of the bombs.

The suspect entered the gas station last night around 10 p.m. and was arrested as he left, witnesses say. Police took the bombs today from the scene to the Leslie Street Spit, where they were safely detonated at about 2:40 p.m.

Toronto police are falling over themselves to insist this is a completely unique phenomenon, part of a broad strata in which absolutely no pattern whatsoever can be detected. It would be funny if it weren’t so deadly serious.

Warr said the suspect is a landed immigrant from Lebanon with a Canadian passport, but police do not believe the crimes were motivated by religion or politics.

“There is absolutely no pattern as far as any religion, ideology or nationality,” Warr said.

Previously at LGF:
Hizballah Marketed in Ontario As ‘Peaceful’