UPDATE: 10/24/14, Montreal: The killer's Libyan father still lives with his Canadian mother though they're legally divorced: "By the summer of 2013, Zehaf-Bibeau had moved again. Back then, Montreal resident Bari Malki peaked out of his suburban home across the road from the one that he says Zehaf-Bibeau’s parents, although legally divorced in 1999, still share. Parked on the street was a dark-coloured Hummer. Scurrying around the luxury vehicle was a man with long dark hair, a white skullcap and wearing what he described as a typical Arab wardrobe. Malki learned the man’s identity only when he turned on the news Wednesday and saw the photograph of a gun-toting Zehaf-Bibeau. He recalled the booming voice of the shooter’s father, Bulgasem Zehaf, urging his son to stop cleaning the vehicle because it wasn’t even dirty."..."What propelled Michael Zehaf-Bibeau on path to radicalization," Toronto Star, A. Woods, D. Bruser
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10/22/14, "Revealed: Muslim convert who shot dead Canadian soldier is the 'privately-educated son of country's immigration chief, had his passport revoked and has 'links to Syrian terrorist,'" UK Daily Mail, by L. Warren, J. Nye, C. Spargo
"Michael
Zehaf-Bibeau, the Muslim convert who fatally shot Corporal Nathan
Cirillo - a 24-year-old father standing guard at Ottawa's War Memorial -
and injured another officer, was a petty criminal and the son of a
leading Canadian immigration official.
Born
in Quebec as Michael Joseph Hall and raised in Laval, just north of
Montreal, the young man lived a quiet childhood of private schools and
suburban homes, with a mother who was a high ranking federal employee.
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Then, after years of run-ins with the law, he converted to Islam. A criminal court database shows 13 identified Quebec court records dating back to June 2001 in Montreal involving Zehaf-Bibeau. According to documents his full name is Michael, Joseph, Paul, Abdallah Bulgasem Zehaf Bibeau....
Zehaf-Bibeau's
mother, Susan Bibeau, still lives in Montreal and works as a a federal
public servant for the Immigrant and Refugee board. She is listed as Deputy Chairperson, Immigration Division.
According to the site, she joined IRB in 1990 as a refugee protection officer, working her way up over her 24-year career. She
holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the Université de Montréal, a
Master of Business Administration from Concordia University, and a
graduate certificate in business administration from the Public
Administration University.
Zehaf- Bibeau's father is a Libyan businessman named Bulgasem Zehaf who once owned a local restaurant, Cafe Tripoli. He divorced Susan Bibeau in 1999, and there are reports that he fought in Libya in 2011.
The Washington Times quoted a fighter named Belgasem Zahef in a dispatch from anti-Gaddafi rebels in 2011. Describing himself as from Montreal but a Zawiyah native he said he witnessed torture when held in a regime prison.
In
a statement on Thursday Ms Bibeau revealed she was reunited with her
terrorist son last week when they met for lunch. She said they had been
estranged for five years prior to that meeting."...
Image: "Respect: The Canadian flag flies at half staff on top of the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Thursday," AP
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