Video: Canada foils al-Qaeda linked terror plot to derail train Chief Supt Strachan, from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said that Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser, who live in the Montreal and Toronto areas, were conspiring to carry out an attack against Via Rail, but posed no immediate threat. "It was definitely in the planning stage but not imminent," she told reporters. Charges against the two men include conspiring to carry out an attack and murder people in association with a terrorist group. Police said the men, who had "direction and guidance" from members of al-Qaeda, were not Canadian citizens, but declined to say where they were from. The investigation was part of a cross-border operation involving Canadian law enforcement agencies, the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security.