While reading this article about the recently discovered Canadian terrorist cell, I wondered whether the following passage had any bearing on the case of Mohammed Taheri-Azar:
Unfortunately, the desire to ignore or downplay international connections between individual terrorist suspects on the one hand and terrorist networks on the other has become increasingly prevalent in public analysis since September 11 and particularly since the rise of the Iraqi insurgency. Today, even a careful observer could easily get the mistaken impression that terror cells are produced by something like spontaneous combustion.
