Risk for Flight?

Evidently there are no concerns in that area. Otherwise why consider bail for three men whom the RCMP closely watched for a year before finally moving in to make an arrest, even though it was believed that the men - along with their three out-of-country foreign accomplices were not yet close to acting on their "terrorist activity" plans.

That presumed - presumably on the authority of evidence gathered to that point in August of 2010 - "terrorist activity" was planned, it would appear, to take place in Canada, Iran, Afghanistan, Dubai and Pakistan. The peculiar stand-out in the geographies mentioned is Iran, but then details have not been released to the public.

The ringleader of the jihadist group, Hiva Alizadeh, remains in custody, not yet having applied for bail. Which his two helpmates in jihad did with great speed, directly after their arrest. Misbahuddin Ahmed, 26, who enjoyed trusted employment as an Ottawa X-ray technologist, and Khurram Syed Sher, 28, a London, Ontario doctor, wasted no time in accessing their freedom.

Seven months later, Hiva Alizadeh, the purported ringleader in whose apartment police found and took possession of some 60 circuit boards presumably to remotely aid in the activation of bomb detonators in the manufacture of explosives - for which criminal offence he and Ahmed were charged, remains incarcerated.

The plot they were engaged in, after all, included plans to bomb Ottawa. Along with plans to finance the purchase of weapons to be used by the mujaheddin otherwise known as the Taliban and their al-Qaeda cohorts, to battle Canadian and coalition troops in Afghanistan.

A rather peculiar and wayward occupation for Canadians to be involved in; conspiring and plotting to bomb the seat of government of a country of which they are citizens, and to engage in conflict with Canadian military personnel stationed in a Muslim country in the defence of its jihad-embattled Muslim population.

Evidence presented at the bail hearings for Ahmed and Sher is under a publication ban. Leaving ample room for speculation. Despite which, how is it seen to be even remotely feasible that three Canadian citizens engaged in plots to commit terrorist acts within Canada and with their foreign contacts aid in attacks abroad, are considered eligible to remain at loose in society, even with strict conditions?

The country we live in and of which we are so very fond and toward which security is uppermost in most minds, is obviously not recognized as a sterling place in which to live by these three and others of their kind recruited into violent jihad, whose aims to punish the country, its government, its institutions and its population, present a dire threat to our security.

It remains a mystery to the enquiring public mind how the justice system can regard violence-prone fanatical ideologues leaning heavily on traditions within Islam for their motivation can be seen as worthy of consideration of permission to be free under conditions however strict they may be, rather than maintained firmly incarcerated until such time as a trial reveals the details leading either to their conviction or of their release as innocent of the charges brought against them.