Canada doesn't mess around:
2 linked to al-Qaeda arrested in terror plot in Canada
RCMP says two men planned to attack passenger train in Toronto.
Canadian police and intelligence services arrested two suspects Monday who allegedly planned to derail a passenger rail train in Greater Toronto in what the Royal Canadian Mounted Police called a "major terrorist attack."
The RCMP said at an afternoon news conference that Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montreal, and Raed Jaser, 35, of Toronto, had received "direction and "guidance" from "al-Qaeda elements" in Iran, but there is no indication they were "state sponsored."
Neither is a Canadian citizen. The RCMP would not identify their nationalities or say how long they had been in the country.
Canadian media reported the men are Tunisian.
The alleged plot to derail a VIA Rail train was not connected to the Boston Marathon terror attack. RCMP Chief Supt. Jennifer Strachans said that the suspects had watched trains and railways around Toronto and that an attack was not imminent. She said the public was never in any danger.
Strachans said the plot involved "a specific route but not a specific train," but she and other officials would not say which route. Law enforcement sources told Canadian media it was the Toronto-to-New York route.
Sources told the CBC that the men had been under surveillance for more than a year.
sounds like something out of a cartoon
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