1/9/15, "Jihadists have declared war, world must respond, says Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper," Reuters via dnaindia.com
"The deadly attacks in Paris serve as a vivid reminder that jihadists are at war with those they disagree with, and the world must confront them, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday.
"The international jihadist movement has declared war. They have declared war on anybody who does not think and act exactly as they wish they'd think and act," Harper told reporters when asked about Wednesday's attack.
"We may not like this and wish it would go away, but it's not going to go away, and the reality is we are going to have to confront it."
Harper spoke as a manhunt was underway in France for two brothers suspected of being the Islamist gunmen who killed 12 people in Wednesday's attack on a satirical weekly newspaper in Paris.
Harper said any doubts in Canada about the reality of threats posed by such extremists should have vanished on October 22. That was the day when a radicalized Canadian gunman killed a soldier at the national war memorial and then stormed the Parliament building.
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Other manifestations of the threat posed by militant Islam in Canada included the case of the so-called "Toronto 18," Harper said, referring to the 2006 arrests of a group of men charged with planning attacks on Toronto-area targets in a plot to get Canada to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. Canada's security agencies have been able to prevent most attacks by extremists from coming to fruition, Harper said.
But the fact of the matter is this recent development, the emergence of the so-called Islamic State, its sudden control of a vast territory with vast amounts of financial resources, has escalated this to a whole new global level," he added." via Mark Levin show
Image: Canadian Corporal Nathan Cirillo was murdered by Islamist. Before his death, with his beloved dog, Montreal Gazette
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"Most security guards at (Canada's) parliament were unarmed."
"So shocking were the day’s events to the Canadian psyche that organizers canceled a National Hockey League game between the Ottawa Senators and the Toronto Maple Leafs."...The Oct. 22 killer's father is from Libya. The attack came "two days after a Canadian soldier died and a second was injured after being run down by a car driven by a suspected Islamic militant (30 mi. from Montreal) whom authorities said had been “radicalized.”"
10/22/14, "Attack Drags Canada Into Terror Era as Nation Reels," Bloomberg Business Week,
Terror invaded Canada this week when a “radicalized” convert to Islam on Monday ran down and killed a Canadian soldier with a car and a gunman yesterday invaded the nation’s capital. He murdered a soldier at a war memorial before entering Ottawa’s lightly-guarded parliament building with a rifle before being shot to death by a guard.
Canada had until now dodged a terror attack even as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and others had warned that the nation, whether from Islamist extremists or lone wolfs looking to settle some real or imaginary grudge, was vulnerable.
“It’s hard to see how this won’t change things,” said Andrew MacDougall, a former director of communications for Harper who’s now a consultant in London at MSLGroup. “To see my former place of work lit up in a blaze of gunfire is shocking, disheartening and worrying.”
Ottawa had reveled in its reputation as an orderly, quiet government town of about one million people where violent crime -- never mind gunplay -- is rare. Security here, as in much of Canada, is minimal at many public buildings. Until recently, most security guards at parliament were unarmed.
In Toronto’s financial district, home to the headquarters of Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Montreal, and the local offices of dozens of foreign financial institutions, most office buildings have no barriers preventing passers-by from riding elevators to any floor they please."...
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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."...
10/24/14, "What propelled Michael Zehaf-Bibeau on path to radicalization," Toronto Star, A. Woods, D. Bruser
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