Is The FLQ Making a Comeback?

According to Canadian Press, the RCMP has received a threatening letter from a group claiming to be a new cell of the FLQ.

The letter claims a combination of car bombs, letter bombs and remote controlled devices will be used to cause mayhem, mainly in English-speaking, West Montreal, from February 15 to March 15.

"It mentions crowded shopping malls, bridges, rail lines, airport facilities, water supplies, municipal buildings and service stations.

"'We will especially target traffic on main highways,' it warns.

"The letter, which is signed: "FLQ, Camille-Laurin Cell," is the second of its kind. The first one was received on Nov. 15, 2006.

The RCMP is taking the threats seriously but noted that there has been nothing to date suggesting the group, if there is one, is capable of conducting the threatened attacks.

The Quebec Liberation Front triggered a crisis in Canada in 1970 with the kidnapping of James Cross and the murder of Quebec labour minister Pierre LaPorte. That ultimately led Pierre Trudeau to invoke martial law under the War Measures Act.