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How Big Is the Canadian Terrorists’ Network?
Daily Beast ^ | 10/23/2014 | BY Tim Mak, Eli Lake, Jacob Siege

Posted on 10/23/2014 7:57:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Canadian officials were quick to finger ISIS in this week’s attacks on government targets. But it’s still not clear whether or not the killers were part of a larger jihadist web. Terrorists have twice attacked Canadian government targets this week, with a shooting Wednesday at the country’s parliament in Ottawa. Now Canadian and American authorities are trying to learn whether the killers acted alone or were part of a larger extremist network.

The mayhem caused by alleged Ottawa shooter Michael Zehaf-Bibeau occurred just two days after another man, Martin Rouleau-Couture, struck two Canadian soldiers with a car in Quebec—killing one and wounding another.

Full details on Zehaf-Bibeau are still emerging. But he appears to have been a 32-year-old native of Quebec with a history of legal troubles that predate his radicalization. Canadian journalist Domenic Fazioli reported that Zehaf-Bibeau had been arrested a total of five times for drug possession and parole violations.

Former Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day, who once oversaw Canadian security agencies in cabinet as a member of the ruling Conservative government, said he had independent information that suggested the two suspects visited the same jihadist web forums.

“It is likely there is a digital trail that suggests they accessed some of the same Internet chat rooms and websites,” he told The Daily Beast. “It appears the [Parliament Hill shooter] was using some of the same networks as the killer [from earlier this week], who killed an army officer… And it was interesting that ISIS apparently, or a source identifying themselves as ISIS, had a photo out of this guy in pretty short order.”

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TOPICS: Canada; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: canada; ottawa; ottawacell; socialmedia; terrorism
NOTE: Speaking to the nation Wednesday evening, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was quick to link the shooting on Parliament Hill and the killing of a Canadian soldier earlier this week by “an ISIL-inspired terrorist,” using an alternate acronym for ISIS.

If it happened here, it would be called "Workplace violence".

1 posted on 10/23/2014 7:57:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

How Big Is the Canadian Terrorists’ Network?

Easy. Count the muslims.


2 posted on 10/23/2014 7:59:52 AM PDT by OSHA (One despises and wants to destroy the United States, the other is a dead terrorist.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Doesn’t the Canadian government know workplace violence when they see it?
(S)

Just asking.

IMHO


3 posted on 10/23/2014 8:00:30 AM PDT by ripley
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To: SeekAndFind

“How big?” There’s a bonehead question.

Ha! Good luck with that.

When you can’t estimate properly the number if ‘immigrants’ in your country and your Immigration policy is a sieve.... you’ll NEVER know

Besides... will the calculation include prison inmates?


4 posted on 10/23/2014 8:14:25 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: OSHA

“Easy. Count the muslims.”

And we’re done here...


5 posted on 10/23/2014 8:16:53 AM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: SeekAndFind

Prior to 911, Canada was known as a muslim “aircraft carrier” platform ... just over the ‘horizon’ with many fighters ready to swoop in.


6 posted on 10/23/2014 8:17:08 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: OSHA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Canada

According to Canada’s 2011 National Household Survey, there were 1,053,945 Muslims in Canada or about 3.2% [1] of the population, making them the second largest religion after Christianity and the fastest growing religion in Canada.[2] In the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), 7.7% of the population is Muslim, making GTA the highest concentration of Muslims in any city in North America.[3] Majority of Muslims in Canada follow Sunni Islam, while a significant minority adheres to Shia branch.[4]


7 posted on 10/23/2014 8:17:45 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I remember taking a wrong turn in Hamilton (near Toronto) and felt like I was back wandering through Hebron....


8 posted on 10/23/2014 8:47:43 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: SeekAndFind

Workplace accident by those who support genocide and slavery,
and who have the power of INVISIBILITY before
the MSM, their Obola, and the alQaqea-hit Pentagon
which DARES not even name the attacker.

Hasan and Obola smile with glee.


9 posted on 10/23/2014 8:54:48 AM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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