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Although there is no direct evidence of a planned attack, a recently revealed report states that Canada’s oil industry may be an al Qaeda target.

Canada’s oil industry represents an “ideologically attractive and strategic target” to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network, according to the intelligence assessment.

The report lends credence to the notion that terrorists might strike at Canadian energy facilities as a means of harming the United States choking off a resource that’s vital to U.S. commerce.

“Canadian domestic and international oil interests continue to be viewed as legitimate targets by Sunni Islamic extremists,” says the report by the Integrated Threat Assessment Centre.

The multi-agency centre, housed at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, draws on information from a variety of sources to analyze current threats.

The assessment says that while al-Qaeda has never directly threatened foreign Canadian oil interests, the terrorist network “has recognized Canada as an ally in the U.S. ‘War on Terror’ and perceives it to be exploiting Middle Eastern oil supplies.”

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