For the spies who work on the 10th floor of a Front St. office building, with the CN Tower looming above and a hub of Toronto's tourist district buzzing below, this investigation was personal.

The group arrested yesterday allegedly had a list of targets, sources have told the Star, and the Toronto headquarters of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was one of them.

So were the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa and a smattering of other high-profile, heavily populated areas. But since most of the suspects lived in the GTA, it was the potential threat to the spy service's office and the chaos an attack would create in the heart of Toronto that concerned CSIS most.

According to sources, the suspects allegedly planned to target the spy service because many of them had encountered agents early in the investigation, when they were interviewed and put under surveillance. They also were allegedly angered by media reports accusing CSIS of racial profiling of Muslims.

Many of the agents were known to members of the group only by aliases, but the belief that the office had been targeted led to months of unease among CSIS staff, sources said.

Here is a list of the adults arrested and charged with offences under the Criminal Code of Canada. Five youths, who cannot be named, were also charged:

1. Fahim Ahmad, 21, Toronto;
2. Zakaria Amara, 20, Mississauga, Ont.;
3. Asad Ansari, 21, Mississauga;
4. Shareef Abdelhaleen, 30, Mississauga;
5. Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, Mississauga;
6. Mohammed Dirie, 22, Kingston, Ont.;
7. Yasim Abdi Mohamed, 24, Kingston;
8. Jahmaal James, 23, Toronto;
9. Amin Mohamed Durrani, 19, Toronto;
10. Steven Vikash Chand alias Abdul Shakur, 25, Toronto;
11. Ahmad Mustafa Ghany, 21, Mississauga;
12. Saad Khalid, 19, of Eclipse Avenue, Mississauga.

It's likely that we have only scratched the service of this and other terrorist groups centered in Canada and surely working to collaborate with terrorist cells here in the U.S., as evidenced by the Georgia connection that we already know about.

What's even more worrisome is thinking about all those Muslim groups around the country that share the same sentiments as their Canadian cousins (metaphorically speaking)!!!

BTW - Those two Georgia men couldn't be THESE Bangladeshi citizens that were handed over to FBI - could they? You bet!

Here's a lot more on the Georgia men from Michelle Malken's April 20 post:

AJC reports :

A 21-year-old Georgia Tech student taken into federal custody last month has been charged with giving "material support" to a terrorist organization, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday.

The student, Syed Haris Ahmed, a mechanical engineering major who had become increasingly religious in his Islamic faith, was arrested March 23 by the FBI.

"This is the first international terrorism charge ever filed in Georgia," said U.S. Attorney David Nahmias shortly after unsealing the indictment "The charge against Mr. Ahmed is serious and involves national security and will be prosecuted with that in mind."

Authorities declined to provide details about the charges but said they had investigated Ahmed for about a year.

Jack Martin, Ahmed's court-appointed lawyer, refused to comment on the case. Ahmed's family has rejected the suggestion that the student has been involved in terrorism.

On Wednesday, Ahmed appeared before U.S. Magistrate Joel Feldman and pleaded not guilty, prosecutors said Thursday. Ahmed was ordered to be held in custody pending trial.

Ahmed was taken into custody, his family said, apparently because authorities suspect a videotape he made of a building may have been related to terrorism.

Gregory Jones, FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Atlanta office, would not say what started the investigation.

Ahmed's family immigrated from Pakistan in 1997 and are now U.S. citizens living in Dawsonville.

Family members said agents confiscated computer hard drives and data CDs from their home last month.

Ahmed told his family that authorities found a video on the Internet and apparently traced it to him. The video was of a building and was perhaps made during a trip with friends. Ahmed's family members said they did not know the location of the building or when the tape was made.

WAGA-TV reported that the station's sources say the FBI believes Ahmed traveled to Pakistan last year to attend a terrorist training camp. His family acknowledged that he traveled to Pakistan, but they said he was merely attending a religious school. The report cannot be independently verified.

A second man from Roswell, Ga., was arrested in Bangladesh on Monday:

Ehsanul Islam Sadequee was arrested by Bengali authorities after at least eight months of federal investigation of him and his family, his sister, Sharmin Sadequee, said Thursday.

Federal authorities would not confirm the arrest. Authorities also refused to confirm Ahmed's arrest before Thursday.

Sharmin Sadequee said the family had immigrated from Bangladesh and lived in Atlanta since 1988. Ehsanul Sadequee was born in Fairfax, Va., and is a U.S. citizen, although he was home schooled and attended a British school in Bangladesh from 2001 to 2004.

Federal authorities would not say what charges Ehsanul Sadequee faces or even confirm he is in custody.

Sharmin Sadequee, the sister of the man arrested in Bangladesh, said her brother was briefly detained last August at Kennedy International Airport in New York when he was flying to Bangladesh to get married.

Sharmin Sadequee said her family has been interviewed by authorities several times since.

Sadequee, who spoke to the newspaper from her home in Michigan, said her family received a call in mid-March from a young man saying he was an acquaintance of her brother and that he had been questioned four times by the FBI about him. Sharmin Sadequee knew the man only by his nickname and had met him at Al-Farooq Masjid, the mosque just north of Georgia Tech. She said the man she met resembled Syed Haris Ahmed, the Georgia Tech student, after seeing his photo on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Web site.

Sadequee called the man this week after her brother was arrested. His cellphone had been disconnected.

Sadequee said one of the family encounters with authorities was in December when U.S. immigration agents arrested her mother at the family home in Roswell on immigration violation charges. Her mother was released and the case is ongoing, Sadequee said.

Sadequee also said FBI agents came to the Roswell home in September, saying they were investigating the bankruptcy of a travel agency where their older brother, Amimul Sadequee, had purchased a ticket.

Could Islamic terrorists still be training operatives in the deep South?

Like I said, you bet they are.

Related: Growing Islamist Terror Threat in Canada

Related (Via Michelle Malken):
Islamic Militant Training Camp Allegedly Operating in Alabama
Did Jihad arms course visit US?

More background on Georgia men in late update via Riehl World View: Two Georgia Muslims Arrested in Terrorist Probe See more here.

Also - Michelle Malken: EUPHEMISM O' THE DAY: "BROAD STRATA", Who points out the portrait of assimilation painted by family members of some of the 17 Canadian residents arrested on terrorism charges who waited to enter a heavily guarded courthouse in Brampton, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto June 3, 2006.