Fabrice de Pierrebourg's book profiling fanatic, violent jihadist networks in North America's premier francophone city appeared last year. Currently available only in French, it's received a few notices in English, including at Canada's The Hour and the blog Covenant Zone.
From the former:
In the book, he profiles 20 of the 30 so-called
suspects, some of whom he has met and interviewed, and others whose
lives he has pieced together using documents obtained via Access to
Information laws and other sources. He told the Journal that "Montreal
is a harbour, a logistic base to plan, prepare and to finance terrorist
attacks."
And the latter:
The author has also succeeded in meeting the alarming persons living in Montreal. Among them: Fateh Kamel, presumed overseer of Ahmed Ressam many years ago. Kamel had played a “central role in the wave of terrorist acts” in France during the 1990s, according to CSIS. He had been described as an “executive in international terror […] whose boss was none other than Osama ben Laden.” Back in Montreal after leaving prison in France in 2005, the man condemned for terrorist acts earns his living at the wheel of a taxi, without being recognized by his Montreal clients.
Runagates Club weighs in on Canadian willed ignorance:
Here we now have a Canadian expeditionary force in Afghanistan, fighting the Taliban and hunting the militant Sunni terror group Al Qaeda, and our news editors decide the first book of 2007 discussing Muslim terrorists in Canada is NOT worthy of attention? Isn't the taint of widespread journalistic appeasement too often the response to the bared terrorist blade?
Fabrice interviewed here (in French):
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