Federal officials opened up their secret files on five suspected members of the Osama bin Laden network yesterday, disclosing previously classified details of their alleged terrorist activities in Canada. Hundreds of pages of documents filed in Federal Court in Ottawa lay out for the first time the evidence that has led the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to conclude the men are foreign terrorists. The court filings also reveal the array of intelligence-gathering tactics used against the suspects, from telephone wiretaps to clandestine searches, suggesting a new willingness on the part of CSIS to go public with its secrets after years of fighting to protect them. The case summaries include quotes from wiretaps.

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