Terrorist Tradecraft Manual, RCMP Staffing & Organized Crime

"Perhaps if [the public] had a look at the terrorist tradecraft manual, people would be a little more supportive of the guys who are trying to keep things from blowing up or our leaders from being shot."

Val Sears: Terrorism war is fought by the book Ottawa Sun, Sept. 6, 05

[. . . . ] I was shown a document the other day that I presume has been circulating in the intelligence community for some time. It is a terrorist trade craft manual, scooped up by the British in a raid on a suspected al-Qaida cell in Manchester. It is as chilling a piece of work as I have ever seen.

Translated from the Arabic, chapter after chapter details such matters as planting explosives, assassinations, torture (and how to bear it), cyphers, safe houses, guns and ammunition, in fact everything a well-schooled terrorist would have to know to do his job.

There are quotations from the Koran backing up some of the lethal moves. [. . . . ]

RCMP Staffing and Organized Crime

Mountie staffing to rise in rural Alberta -- Province's top cop vows hiring in 2006 -- "Some experts have blamed the two-year spike on an increase in organized crime activity in rural communities, but one leading criminologist said it's too soon to draw any conclusions" Jason van Rassel, Sept. 4, 05

Of course, we can use our own heads, can't we?

Reinforcements are on the way for the province's Mounties, who are in the middle of one of the deadliest years on record in rural Alberta.

There have been 38 homicides in jurisdictions policed by the RCMP this year, which is a pace that threatens to surpass 2004's unprecedented total of 50. [. . . . ]

Under a cost-sharing agreement that expires in 2012, the province pays Ottawa to hire the RCMP as Alberta's provincial police force. [. . . . ]

Actually, the feds make money from hiring out the RCMP. (Paul Palango's book on the RCMP)

Of course, crime rates have gone down in Canada, so we're told. Indeed.

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