Police: Police Raids and Restaurant Killings

police: There have also been no reported extremist attacks since shortly after the restaurant killings, according to The Chronicle Herald. The police raids followed an unprecedented crackdown over the summer, during which authorities arrested more than 14,000 people before July — most for petty crimes including theft and small-time drug smuggling. Their evidence Police raids that have killed about 40 suspected Islamist militants; hundreds of suspects detained in police dragnets; and new information on how the attack was financed by local sympathizers. The arrests have continued, netting 1,200 suspected militants, some of whom are giving up useful information under questioning, intelligence officials say. When asked to quantify the anti-militant operation success, Monirul Islam, the head of the police counter-terrorism and transnational crime units, said it was "60 to 70 per cent." "Still, we need to apprehend some command-level people. But they refuse to say how many in total have been detained in recent months. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.