The Great Coverup

About a year ago or more. When one gets this old one starts forgetting things like...???

But the essence remains. Oh whatta you know. I did get it right it was a year. The links and reference story are attached at the end of this little entry.

Anyhow this event was buried faster than a politician's promise. The claim by police was that this was not a terrorist event.

No inquiry was further published. In fact a lot of material I recall sourcing about one week after the event is no longer available on the internet.

From memory, which might be faulty, I believe these basic facts to be true.

1. It appeared to be a suicide.

2. The bomber intended to detonate the device.

3. The bomber was young.

4. The bomber was Islamic.

5. The bomber was an immigrant.

6. It happened on a very busy moment in a very busy area.

7. It occurred at a Tim Horton's.

8. The workers of Tim Hortons also happen to be of Islamic faith.

9. Tim Horton's is iconic in Canada. Thusly must be on a target list of Al Qaeda.

10. Facts and articles which expressed doubt about the police point of view have disappeared from the internet and the public record. Only the police version remains. Contrary opinions from official commercial sites are missing, while forums and blogs retained the essence.

11. In the forums the facts emerge that the bomber had tried to enter Varsity stadium earlier but had turned tail because of security there. So there may have been some sort of security alert

Frankly I believe that this was an attack by an Al Qaeda sympathizer. That Tim Horton's may have been the alternate target.

We have learned much even in the last year.

First. Most of the attackers are considered home growns. This event is consistent with that.

Second. The methods are always IED or improvised. Although clumsy the device was improvised.

Third. That the result to the attacker is always death which is why it was called a suicide attack. In this case, it was suicide.

Fourth. The police and fire department proclaim that there was no explosion. Every eyewitness on that day testifies to declaring otherwise. In one of the

Here is the real quirk of Canadian legal practice. Information on suicides are not published. Which means the police can deny any such terrorist event legally because they can withhold information since it was a suicide.

Even if there was a suicide attack on some more public target by law the Canadian police do not have to release any information whatsoever. Not only that, they can go to the traditional media sources and expunge that information from that resource base leaving the only source to be blogs and forums like this.

For Al Qaeda this is problematic. There is a simple answer for them. If the bomber had not been suicidal the newspapers could freely publish the material.

Also the level of security must be observed. Within the hour of the Horton's attack, two other mysterious packages had been identified and dealt with by police. Remember this was a Sunday in 2006. The response time to Hortons apparently was led by police. Often in 911 calls, it is the fire department that gets there first. So on that day, an attack must have been expected.

The sudden drop off of any information after April 6, 2007 appears astounding. Even on the Tim Horton's Wikipedia account the record of such an event is not there. This site often gleefully records such events.

The police view is that this wasn't an attack. Despite all the facts pointing to this event entirely consistent with an Al Qaeda inspired attack. Police at the time promised a full disclosure after several months of investigation. As of this date such report appears on the public record or has been released. No public record of a coroner's inquest although it would be required by law.

To this date I can find no online record of such an inquest. I do remember a blurb being published in the Toronto Sun in June to August but can find no record of it now.

Sometimes the absence of subsequent relevant information is more indicative than an outright lie that says volumes. The statements of the police and fire department were at odds with both the eyewitness details and with the modus operandi of Al Qaeda. If that event wasn't a terrorist event why was the inquest suppressed and not on record?

Links and articles.



http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608061/posts?q=1&&page=74#74

http://ianism.com/?p=126

http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=57647

http://www.parrysound.com/voice/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t2046.html

http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=272668&page=6

http://boards.weddingbells.ca/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=1306256&Main=1288571

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/04/03/tim-hortons-autopsy060403.html

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/04/02/toronto-explosion-060402.html

Deadly blast in doughnut shop not a terrorist job: police

Police have ruled out terrorism as the cause of an explosion at a Tim Hortons doughnut shop that killed one man in a trendy downtown area of Toronto on Sunday.

The victim was likely an arsonist or attempting suicide, Staff Sgt. Don Cole of Toronto police told reporters hours after the explosion.

Firefighters outside the Tim Hortons in Toronto where an explosion killed a man on Sunday.

"He's not a strap-on al-Qaeda bomber guy," Cole said. "It sounds to me like a guy who either wanted to do a torch job or commit suicide."

Police said the man apparently carried a can of gasoline into a washroom stall about 1 p.m. local time at the eatery in the city's Yorkville area, and set off a flash fire that killed him.

The victim was an unidentified male who was pronounced dead at the scene with severe burns to his body. Nobody else was injured.

Toronto police Chief Bill Blair answers reporters' questions outside the doughnut shop Sunday. (Patrick Morell/CBC photo)

Tim Hortons spokesman Nick Javor later confirmed the victim was not an employee. In a statement, he praised the quick response of the staff, and said they would be offered appropriate support.

Explosion triggered flash fire: police

Police Chief Bill Blair earlier described the incident as a flash fire rather than a bombing. Two blocks in the downtown area were cordoned off as police investigated.

A police robot removes a suspicious parcel from the shop in the aftermath of the explosion.

"It appears that there has been a very hot and intense fire in an enclosed area within the washroom," Blair said. But he declined to speculate on the cause of the fire.

"Until we determine precisely what happened in that cubicle and what caused those flames that took that man's life, I really can't speculate," he said.

Police could not confirm reports the man was seen entering the washroom with wires or possibly explosives strapped to his body.

The ceiling fell down on the victim, bringing down wires and batteries from an air-freshening device that might have contributed to suspicions of a bomb, Cole said.

Suspicious bag not a threat

After the incident, a police robot was used to remove a duffel bag from the doughnut shop, which is on Yonge Street just north of the intersection with Bloor Street.

Explosives experts detonated the bag with a loud bang. It contained school supplies.

Police also evacuated a second Tim Hortons a few kilometres north and detonated a suspicious package, which ended up being a clock in a shopping bag.

Eyewitness Jenny Phillips told Reuters that she heard bangs like pops from a firecracker and a scream "that will haunt me forever" as she left the washroom area.

She smelled burnt powder and saw a "wall of flames" inside the men's washroom before staff herded the two dozen customers outside.

"I thought the roof was caving in," she said. "People were screaming."

Blast rattles shop workers

Employees who appeared shaken were escorted from the scene, and some attempted to shield their faces from the throng of television cameras.

They refused to answer questions, but Tim Hortons district manager Amin Islam said they were doing well. "I'm just making sure they're going home safely," he said.

Daryl Fuglerud, a spokesman with Toronto's fire department, told reporters the man who died had burns to his body.

"It doesn't appear that there was much of a fire at all," Fuglerud said. "There was a very small amount of smoke upon our arrival."

Fuglerud said the investigation was turned over to police because it was a "possible criminal" case.

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from the Glob and Pail of the same period.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060405.TIMS05/TPStory/?query=tim+hortons+explosion

Coffee-shop death a suicide, police say

JEFFREY HAWKINS

TORONTO -- Police say the man who died in an explosion and flash fire at a downtown Tim Hortons restaurant that caused police to shut a part of the busy Yonge and Bloor area committed suicide.

Based on the evidence gathered at the scene from the coffee shop -- one of the busiest in Toronto -- and several eyewitness reports, investigators concluded that the incident Sunday afternoon was not accidental.

"Through various aspects of the investigation we have now determined that the injuries leading to the man's death were self-inflicted," Detective Sergeant Myron Demkiw said yesterday.

"We're still working on the identity of the deceased, and I can't say if we'll be releasing that information even if it is established."

The flash fire ignited inside the men's washroom of the restaurant on Yonge Street, just north of Bloor Street, sending startled patrons and employees out onto the street as smoke and flames shot out from under the washroom door and part of the ceiling collapsed.

Police have said they believe gasoline in a canister ignited in the washroom.

An autopsy Monday on the man's severely burned body concluded that he died of smoke inhalation.

The only other information that has been released about him is that he was not an employee of the coffee shop.

Det. Sgt. Demkiw said the investigation is continuing but would not comment on the forensic evidence that has been recovered from a white sedan towed from a parkade behind the Hudson's Bay Co., about two blocks from the Tim Hortons shop.