The big question about two live landmines found in a countryside culvert running under Inadale Drive between Strathroy and Mt. Brydges, Ontario yesterday is who put them there?
Appearing to be attached to timers, the landmines were likely of the type used to blow up tanks, according to Strathroy-Caradoc police.
Police yesterday swarmed a country creek where children cool off in heat waves like the one this week as Canadian Forces explosives experts detonated the landmines.
The creek would be a huge draw for children in the weatherman’s extreme heat alert on Ontario’s Simcoe Day long weekend.
“One mine was discovered by two teenaged girls Friday. They called police, and a second mine was found yesterday morning, only one metre away from the first.†(London Free Press, (London, Ontario) and Sun Media, August 5, 2007).
The Strathroy and Mt. Bridges communities are 20 kilometres west of London, Ont. and 30 kilometres from the former Military Camp Ipperwash (also Camp Ipperwash, a former Canadian Armed Forces training facility, now held by Stoney Point First Nation natives.
The only other military base in the area was CFB Clinton, about 40 kilometres away, shut down some 36 years ago, and CFB London, about 20 kilometres away and downsized some 15 years ago
Worried about the possibility of more mines hidden nearby, Strathroy police asked the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) to conduct a sweep, which was completed by dusk yesterday.
Since the creek is a popular family gathering place, police suspect the mines were put there to deliberately maim and kill.
Plenty of suspects I suppose, from the “First Nations” radicals to jihadists some of whom are members in good standing of the Canadian armed forces and of the mind that killing Black women by running them over with a car is “self defense.” But it’s a story that should give us all pause, especially with the news from South Carolina (where Mrs. Red-Alerts and I just bid on a house. Talk about bad timing!) of Egyptians nationals arrested for carrying pipe bombs and maybe homemade rockets around in a car heading toward a military base.
The question is: With America’s left pulling hard for a withdrawal from Iraq, are the Jihadists preparing to follow up their victory there with attacks in the Americas?
h/t The Saloon