Canada was warned before protests that violent extremists infiltrated convoy

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Justin Ling
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NEW: I have seen unclassified intelligence assessments that warned Ottawa Police that ideologically-motivated violent extremist elements were involved in the "Freedom Convoy."

"We knew these people were coming," a source just told me.

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Canada was warned before protests that violent extremists infiltrated convoy
Exclusive: intelligence assessments warned in late January that it was ‘likely’ extremists were involved in protests
10:34 AM · Feb 17, 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/17/ottawa-protests-anti-terror-agency-warned-violent-extremists

Days before the so-called Freedom Convoy reached Ottawa, starting a weeks-long occupation of Canada’s capital and triggering a string of copy-cat blockades, the federal government was warned that violent extremist groups were deeply involved in the protest movement.

Intelligence assessments – prepared by Canada’s Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre (Itac) and seen by the Guardian – warned in late January that it was “likely” that extremists were involved and said that the scale of the protests could yet pose a “trigger point and opportunity for potential lone actor attackers to conduct a terrorism attack”.

The assessments offer the first real glimpse into how federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies have assessed the threat of Canada’s anti-vaccine and conspiracy theory movement.

“We knew these people were coming,” said a federal government source, who indicated that the Security Intelligence Service Canada – Canada’s main intelligence service, of which Itac is a part – had flagged the involvement of extremist groups and individuals in official briefings.

The intelligence reports also show that clear warnings were sent to Ottawa police ahead of the convoy’s arrival in the capital. The city’s police has become the focus of a fierce debate over whether they should have done more to prepare for, or prevent, the occupation.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. Governments are just deaf and dumb to the these whackjobs...

our own gov't on the occasion of J6. It is like Canada, was going, "oh it can't happen here, they are all talk".

[Busterscruggs]

2. Infiltrated?

Every single protester there is a fringe minority violent extremist

[canuckledragger]

3. You beat me to that comment.