Quebec anti-terror squad probes oil exec's car blast
Last Updated: Tuesday, August 8, 2006 | 3:44 PM ET
CBC News
The anti-terrorism unit of the Quebec provincial police is investigating the apparent firebombing of a car owned by a prominent oil-industry executive after an obscure group claimed responsibility for the attack on Friday.
A car owned by Carol Montreuil burst into flames in the middle of the night last Thursday at his home in the town of Lorraine, part of the municipality of Thérèse-De Blainville, northwest of Montreal.
Initially, police thought the fire was caused by an electrical malfunction. But, on Friday, news media around the world started receiving e-mails from a group called the Initiative de résistance internationaliste (IRI), claiming it had firebombed the car.
Montreuil is a well known spokesperson for the Canadian Petroleum Products Institute, and the IRI e-mails blame oil companies for holding consumers hostage while making enormous profits, damaging the environment and financing "an imperialist army which is committing barbarous acts" in places such as Iraq.
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