Canadian spy chief warns of alarming rise in teen terror suspects, 'potentially lethal' threats by Iran

Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Director Daniel Rogers, during a uncommon nationalist quality Thursday, said astir 1 successful 10 of the agency's coercion investigations see astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic nether the property of 18, marking an alarming inclination driven by online extremism.

Since 2014, determination person been astir 2 twelve convulsive extremist attacks successful Canada resulting successful 29 deaths, and astatine slightest 60 victims injured, according to Rogers.

Worryingly, helium said, astir 1 successful 10 coercion investigations astatine CSIS, the country's home spy agency, see astatine slightest 1 "subject of investigation" nether the property of 18.

In August, a insignificant was arrested successful Montreal for allegedly readying an onslaught connected behalf of Daesh, according to Rogers.

Dan Rogers, a nationalist information and quality advisor, made a uncommon code Thursday. (REUTERS/Blair Gable/File Photo)

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Just a fewer months prior, a 15-year-old Edmonton country insignificant was charged with a terrorism-related offense, arsenic Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigators feared they would perpetrate superior unit related to COM/764, a transnational convulsive online web that manipulates children and younker crossed wide accessible online platforms.

Rogers besides noted 2 15-year-olds were arrested successful Ottawa for allegedly conspiring to behaviour a wide casualty onslaught targeting the Jewish assemblage successful Canada's superior successful precocious 2023 and aboriginal 2024.

"Clearly, radicalized younker tin origin the aforesaid harms arsenic radicalized adults, but the societal supports for younker whitethorn assistance america drawback radicalization aboriginal and forestall it," Rogers said. "These tragic numbers would person been higher if not for disruptive actions taken by CSIS and our instrumentality enforcement partners."

Multiple attacks implicit the past twelvemonth were intercepted by Canadian authorities, officials said. (Fox News Digital/Lisa Bennatan)

The CSIS joined the RCMP and quality partners from the U.S., United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand successful releasing a associated nationalist study successful December, highlighting the evolving contented of young radical and convulsive extremism. 

The study provides proposal to parents, guardians and others with accusation to assistance them place aboriginal concerns and code younker radicalization earlier it’s excessively late. 

"Since 2022, CSIS has been progressive successful the disruption of nary less than 24 convulsive extremist actions, each resulting successful arrests oregon coercion bid enslaved charges," Rogers said. "In 2024, CSIS played an integral relation successful the disruption of 2 Daesh-inspired plots. In 1 case, a begetter and lad were allegedly successful the precocious stages of readying an onslaught successful the Toronto area. In another, an idiosyncratic was arrested earlier allegedly attempting to illegally participate the United States to onslaught members of the Jewish assemblage successful New York. In these examples, and successful galore others, I can’t sermon publicly, our counter-terrorism teams person partnered with instrumentality enforcement and saved lives."

Canadian officials said they besides blocked perchance 'lethal threats' by Iran. (Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu Agency)

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He attributed the radicalization to "eroding societal cohesion, expanding polarization, and important planetary events," which helium said "provide fertile crushed for radicalization."

"Many who crook to unit radicalize exclusively online—often without absorption from others," Rogers said. "They usage exertion to bash truthful secretly and anonymously, earnestly challenging the quality of our investigators to support gait and to place and forestall acts of violence."

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Rogers besides noted the CSIS collects quality and defends against transnational repression, antecedently focusing connected transnational repression by the People’s Republic of China, India and others. 

"In peculiarly alarming cases implicit the past year, we’ve had to reprioritize our operations to antagonistic the actions of Iranian quality services and their proxies who person targeted individuals they comprehend arsenic threats to their regime," helium said. "In much than 1 case, this progressive detecting, investigating, and disrupting perchance lethal threats against individuals successful Canada."