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Secret commandos accidentally detained at Tim Hortons
The Canadian Press
Date: Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011 5:30 PM ET
OTTAWA — Drop the donut and show me your hands.
A hankering for Tim Hortons after a hard day of training went horribly wrong for some of Canada's super-secret commandos, who wound up handcuffed and face down along a major highway.
The elite special-forces soldiers, travelling in a convoy of civilian vehicles, were pulled over in late 2009 along Highway 401 in southern Ontario after a panicked member of the public spotted the burly men at a coffee shop.
Ontario Provincial Police were called, though it's not clear whether it was because someone had spotted a weapon or some other reason.
Officers from the Brighton detachment, west of Belleville, Ont., followed the vehicles east along the highway, where they executed "a high-risk takedown," with weapons drawn.
The incident came to light through military records obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.
"The OPP responded with a high-risk takedown on the vehicle which left Tim Hortons," says a Defence Department report into the Nov. 27, 2009, incident.
"With weapons drawn the OPP ordered (censored) from the vehicles where they were searched, cuffed and laid on the ground beside the highway in plain view of passing motorists."
The documents provide a rare glimpse into the special forces, which include highly skilled JTF-2 operators.
Soldiers, who had been conducting a counter-terrorism exercise, were heavily armed and possessed high-tech surveillance gizmos to combat terrorists and criminals. They explained to provincial cops that they were members of the special forces.
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The Canadian Press
Date: Tuesday Feb. 15, 2011 5:30 PM ET
OTTAWA — Drop the donut and show me your hands.
A hankering for Tim Hortons after a hard day of training went horribly wrong for some of Canada's super-secret commandos, who wound up handcuffed and face down along a major highway.
The elite special-forces soldiers, travelling in a convoy of civilian vehicles, were pulled over in late 2009 along Highway 401 in southern Ontario after a panicked member of the public spotted the burly men at a coffee shop.
Ontario Provincial Police were called, though it's not clear whether it was because someone had spotted a weapon or some other reason.
Officers from the Brighton detachment, west of Belleville, Ont., followed the vehicles east along the highway, where they executed "a high-risk takedown," with weapons drawn.
The incident came to light through military records obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.
"The OPP responded with a high-risk takedown on the vehicle which left Tim Hortons," says a Defence Department report into the Nov. 27, 2009, incident.
"With weapons drawn the OPP ordered (censored) from the vehicles where they were searched, cuffed and laid on the ground beside the highway in plain view of passing motorists."
The documents provide a rare glimpse into the special forces, which include highly skilled JTF-2 operators.
Soldiers, who had been conducting a counter-terrorism exercise, were heavily armed and possessed high-tech surveillance gizmos to combat terrorists and criminals. They explained to provincial cops that they were members of the special forces.
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