RCMP arrest 2 in terror plot to attack Via Rail train

Posted April 22, 2013 6:43 pm.

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The suspects — identified as Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, and Raed Jaser, 35, — were arrested Monday morning in Montreal and Toronto.

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