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I believe I posted that there had been an attack on the US Consulate in Toronto back in March. There was a second one recently that I didn't
mention; it followed the same pattern: someone shooting at the building
as they drove past in a car.

It seems police have arrested a 19 year old and a 15 year old for the
second attack. It is NOT clear if both attacks were perpetrated by the
same individuals. According to the police, the two people just arrested
were recruited via an app using encryption that is apparently used to
post jobs for hired guns. It sounds as if you can simply go to an app,
post the need for a crime to be done, and get applications to take on
the job (and presumably pay the person doing the crime). The police say
this is increasingly common as a technique for getting things done, particularly by young people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mCDNmecPwI [3 minutes]
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In <1152l25$3u5rj$2@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:

I believe I posted that there had been an attack on the US Consulate in >Toronto back in March. There was a second one recently that I didn't >mention; it followed the same pattern: someone shooting at the building
as they drove past in a car.

"criminals for hire" in ... TORONTO?!

note there have been numerous similar incidents, including
arsons and shootings at Jewish facilities.

Note also that in one of the similar MONTREAL cases an arsonist
claimed he was offered fifteen thousand dollars but only received
three thousand, and these were el cheapo Canadian currency.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/man-pleaded-guilty-synagogue-dollard -des-ormeaux-9.7254498

Oh, based on English language press reports there doesn't seem
to have been any serious back-tracing as to who was making
these payments.
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On 2026-08-06 3:15 p.m., danny burstein wrote:

In <1152l25$3u5rj$2@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:

I believe I posted that there had been an attack on the US Consulate in
Toronto back in March. There was a second one recently that I didn't
mention; it followed the same pattern: someone shooting at the building
as they drove past in a car.

"criminals for hire" in ... TORONTO?!

note there have been numerous similar incidents, including
arsons and shootings at Jewish facilities.

Yes indeed and there have been suggestions that both are linked to a guy working for the Iranian regime that is in charge of causing trouble in
both Canada and the US.

Note also that in one of the similar MONTREAL cases an arsonist
claimed he was offered fifteen thousand dollars but only received
three thousand, and these were el cheapo Canadian currency.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/man-pleaded-guilty-synagogue-dollard -des-ormeaux-9.7254498

Oh, based on English language press reports there doesn't seem
to have been any serious back-tracing as to who was making
these payments.

If they are using encrypted apps, tracing would be more difficult, which
is why governments constantly lobby against encrypted apps unless they
are given the encryption keys that would enable them to read all of the messages going through those apps. Naturally, people wanting to protect
their privacy AND the crooks who use these apps to try to order hits
BOTH object to the government being able to read everything that goes
through those apps.

I don't know if encryption alone let's you do untraceable money
transfers; that may be done through entirely different methods. Once
multiple countries are involved, I expect the difficulty of following
these messages gets dramatically more difficult.
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