The Other Kind of RCMP "Outreach"--"Disrupting" the Travel Plans of Canadian Jihadis

It's happening more frequently these days, apparently:

CBC News has learned the RCMP has disrupted or intervened in 28 instances involving people who fall into its high-risk travel category. That includes people who have returned home after joining a government-designated terrorist group abroad and are intending to travel again, or people who are sympathizers in Canada and are about to travel abroad.

Intervention and disruption is a process the Mounties use as they gather evidence that may lead to future charges. It can include conducting interrogations, talking to family members, surveillance and even referring some cases to Passport Canada to have the suspect's passport revoked. 

The 28 cases CBC News has learned about all fall into the high-risk travel group and are being monitored closely by both the RCMP and CSIS.  

If an imminent threat to aviation is detected, a person may be put on Canada's Specified Persons List, otherwise known as the no-fly list. 

The government will not confirm the number of Canadians on the no-fly list and will only confirm that "multiple passports" have been revoked under Canada's anti-terrorism laws.  

On CBC Radio's The House this week, Immigration Minister Chris Alexander tells host Evan Solomon that the government is looking at revoking the passports of all 80 people who have returned to Canada after working with militant groups abroad. 

"It's been done multiple times.... If you've been abroad breaking the law, participating in terrorist acts, those are grounds for revoking the passports," he said...