Plans for anti-terror unit found in garbage

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Plans for anti-terror unit found in garbage

Thu Mar 20, 11:26 AM ET

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will probe how blueprints for the new

headquarters of an elite military counter-terrorism unit ended up in

a pile of garbage, Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said Thursday

The Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit, housed inside an armed

forces base in Trenton, Ontario, is designed to cope with the

aftermath of an attack using weapons of mass destruction.

The 26 blueprints were contained in one of seven defense ministry

files that a passer-by found on top of garbage bags on an Ottawa

street. The other six files are still missing.

" We take this very seriously. So I want to hear first exactly what

went on, " Day told reporters, saying he had ordered his officials to

examine the incident.

The plans -- which the passer-by handed to the Ottawa Citizen

newspaper -- contain detailed drawings of the building's floor plan,

electrical grid and the storage bay for robots designed to detect

chemical and biological agents.

(Reporting by Ljunggren)