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U.S. and Canada foil Al Qaeda terrorist plot to derail New York to Toronto passenger train, two suspects arrested

Canadian law enforcement officials announced Monday that they had stopped an al-Qaeda-linked plot to derail a New York-to-Toronto VIA passenger train, and have arrested two suspects in Montreal and Toronto.


Two suspected Al Qaeda terrorists were busted Monday in Canada before they could wreak havoc on the rails by blowing up a New York-to-Toronto passenger train.

The plan hatched by Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser — and directed by Al Qaeda operatives based in Iran — was derailed by the Mounties before it ever got out of the station, officials said.

But it threw a scare into the Canadians, who have charged the alleged trainspotting terrorists with “terrorism-related offenses.”

“This is the first known Al Qaeda planned attack that we’ve experienced in Canada,” said Superintendent Doug Best of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.