...before you climb aboard the
"bring Omar home" rental truck...
Though extremely motivated, Mr. Amara wasn't slick or surveillance-conscious. Before the June, 2006, roundups, police infiltrated the plot and engineered a “sting” operation – the shipment of three tonnes of fake ammonium-nitrate fertilizer that suspects' hoped to make into bombs.
“To put this in context, the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people took one tonne of ammonium nitrate,” RCMP Assistant Commissioner Mike McDonell said at the time of the arrests.
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