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Police name men suspected of planning attack on passenger train and say there was no imminent threat to the public
Canadian police have charged two residents with an al-Qaida-linked plot to "carry out a terrorist attack" against a passenger train.
The Royal Canadian Mountainpolice on Monday named the two accused as Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser, from the Montreal and Toronto areas respectively. The two men arrested were residents, but were not Canadian citizens.
"While the RCMP believed that these individuals had the capacity and intent to carry out these criminal acts, there was no imminent threat to the general public, rail employees, train passengers or infrastructure," the police said in a statement.
US security and law enforcement sources said the suspects had sought to attack the railroad between Toronto and New York City. Canadian media said two men had been arrested after raids in Toronto and Montreal, Canada's two biggest cities.
A US law enforcement source said the alleged plot was not linked with last week's Boston Marathon bombings.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation said the operation was conducted with the US department of homeland security and the FBI.
The arrests follow not only the Boston bombings but revelations that Canadians took part in an attack by militants on a gas plant in Algeria in January.
It also recalls the arrests in 2006 of a group of more than a dozen men in the Toronto area accused of planning to plant bombs at various Canadian targets. Eleven men were eventually convicted of taking part in the plot.
