Racial Profiling and Moral Panic: Operation Thread and the Al-Qaeda Sleeper Cell that Never Was
In August 2003, Canadian and international media broke news of Operation Thread, executed by the Canadian state security apparatus to apprehend 23 South-Asian Muslim members of a “possible Al-Qaeda sleeper cell” in the Greater Toronto Area. After exposing the suspects to domestic and international o...
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Saint Paul University
2009-01-01
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| Series: | Global Media Journal: Canadian Edition |
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| Online Access: | http://www.gmj.uottawa.ca/0902/v2i2_odartey-wellington.pdf |