Claiming Race-Based Persecution

"These charges are significant and highlight the investigation's focus on individuals who planned, organized and sustained criminal activities, often using violence to maintain control."

These individuals came to our attention during criminal investigations that involved violent crimes including homicides and shootings."

Chief Eric Stubbs, Ottawa Police Service

"When you think about that many people involved in this trade, and this level of violence we see in our city, the shootings and what-have-you, we're hopeful we're going to see an immediate impact and see a decrease [in these criminal activities]."

"The arrests [I believe, would result in] a change in our environment in regards to the violence we're seeing."

Superintendent Jamie Dunlop, director of OPS serious and organized crime unit

"We are extremely aware of the devastating effects that illegal drugs can have on our neighbourhoods."

"Therefore, collaboration amongst police services is crucial in the fight against organized crime and drug trafficking."

OPP Inspector Michael Moore

Ontario Provincial Police Det.-Insp. Mike Moore, right, and Ottawa police Chief Eric Stubbs, centre, at a news conference about 'Project Champion.' (Michel Aspirot/CBC)

 

An explosion of serious crime has created a desperate situation in some neighbourhoods with far-reaching effects across Canada, strangely enough coinciding with the increased presence of Muslims in the Canadian population base. Among whom a significant number of people, albeit dare we hope, not representative of the total, have caused crime statistics to soar in Canadian cities and police forces extended to the limits of their capacity to respond. A propensity for violent crime, to which is added politically-based street demonstrations vehemently targeting Israel and Jews in Canada make this demographic rather less than desirable within a Canadian setting.

Invariably when daily news report erupt with stories of drug exchanges gone wrong, random shootings, gang violence and homicides, the names that are reported tend to be readily identifiable as coming from the Middle East or North Africa. Reports in the last several days in the nation's capital reveal that 17 individuals now face close to 150 criminal charges in relation to drug trafficking and violent crime, the result of one investigation alone, where arrests have taken place encompassing three different organized crime groups in the National Capital Region.

Multiple warrants were executed followed by arrests of leaders of crime networks in Ottawa and neighbouring Gatineau, Quebec. The investigation that led to these charges saw people facing charges for taking part in, or supporting the activities of a criminal gang. The Ontario Provincial Police investigation of 18 months duration was carried out jointly with the Ottawa Police Service. Five guns were seized, along with 6.5 kilograms of cocaine plus "a small amount" of crack cocaine. These are three distinct crime groups involved, with overlaps between them.

Following are the identities of those facing numerous criminal charges:

• Mussa Aden, 29, 6 charges;
• Yaheya Benamiar, 26, 4 charges;
• Aaron Decastro-Singh, 39, 2 charges;
• Faisal Fareed, 28, 19 charges;
• Ahmed Hassan, 30, 4 charges;
• Bayle Khandid, 31, 7 charges;
• Bile Khandid, 33, 6 charges;
• Yasin Mohamed, 36, 4 charges;
• Tyson Morris, 35, 16 charges;
• Ibtisam Rijal Hersi, 27, 4 charges;
• Moussa Salleh Ali, 35, 5 charges;
• Abdullahi Shaheen 28, 33 charges;
• Kalif Shahreen, 29, 17 charges;
• Yussuf Tarabi, 35, 7 charges;
• Abdulaziz Warsame, 30, 7 charges;
• Leban Xadi, 29, 6 charges;
• Darioush Yavari, 31, 2 charges.

Bayle Khandid and Bile Khandid were linked as family members of two currently-serving officers with the Ottawa Police Service. As for the serving officers, they are linked to an problematical $2.5 million lawsuit that alleges the OPS had wiretapped and surveilled five of its Somali officers. Hardly surprising given the familial links to close family members engaged in crime, but in this current era of DEI/Woke/Critical Race Theory moral fog obviously grounds for a sympathetic hearing as a racist witch-hunt.

Two of five Somali officers, first cousins Liban Farah and Mohamed Islam, have alleged that they were subjected to surveillance on the basis of their race, linked to anti-racism efforts within the force, as also being 'first cousins' to 'gang-affiliated' Bile Khandid and Bayle Khandid. Claims by Farah that he had disclosed that connection on joining the guns and gangs unit in 2018 form part of the lawsuit.

 

Islam had been ordered to attend the police station at a time when he was on parental leave, and there questioned with respect to Bile and Bayle. He responded that he "was aware of their criminal lifestyle, and that he had no relationship with them and had not seen or spoken to them in many years". Clearly putting them all out of commission and securely incarcerated will have some measure of impact on the crime scene, but too great an expectation of making a difference seems unwarranted, since there are more than enough others willing and eager to take their place.

Ottawa Police Service Chief Eric Stubbs speaking at a news conference Thursday in Ottawa. Ottawa police said 14 people had been arrested and three more were being sought in an investigation into alleged organized crime and narcotics trafficking. Police said a total of 149 charges had been laid in the investigation, dubbed Project Champion, including some for attempted murder, drug trafficking and assault. Photo by Tony Caldwell /POSTMEDIA