UPDATE October 23Shooter identified. Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32.
Son of a Libyan man.
Perpetrator was a Muslim with a lengthy criminal record.
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The victim, Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, is remembered.
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October 22, 2014
CBC - Parliament Hill came under attack today after a man with a rifle shot a soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, before seizing a car and driving to the doors of Parliament Hill's Centre Block nearby.
MPs and other witnesses reported several shots fired inside Parliament, and a gunman has been confirmed dead inside the building, shot by the House of Commons Sergeant-at-Arms, according to MPs' eyewitness accounts. The soldier's condition has not been confirmed.
MP John Williamson tweeted that the Conservative caucus has been told "one CAF soldier was killed," adding "a moment of silence followed." CBC News has confirmed the soldier is a reservist from Hamilton.
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| First responders at the memorial |
The prime minister was on the Hill at the time of the shooting, but was safely taken away. It's believed one suspect is still at large.
Ottawa Civic Hospital confirmed two people have been taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, one with a gunshot wound.
Ottawa police confirmed shots were also fired in three locations: the war memorial, inside Centre Block and near the Rideau Centre east of Parliament Hill, although earlier reports of shots inside the shopping mall have been denied by police.
The downtown area remains in police lockdown.
Alain Merisier, who works at the cafeteria in one of the Parliament Buildings, told CBC News that he saw a man in a car at the Centre Block with a long gun.
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For updates check the CBC website
A few days ago:
'Radicalized' Canadian convert to Islam ran over two soldiers, killing one. Suspect was later shot by police.
CBC - On Monday, Martin Couture-Rouleau struck two members of the military with his car in a St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., parking lot in what CSIS has described as "the violent expression of an extremist ideology." One of those victims, Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent, has since died
The RCMP say they arrested Martin Couture-Rouleau, as he was about to leave the country last summer, but didn't have evidence to charge him with any crime.
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RELATED
BACK IN 2006:
A Muslim plot to behead Prime Minister Stephen Harper and members of Parliament.
A 25-year-old restaurant worker is accused of planning to storm Parliament Hill, behead Prime Minister Stephen Harper, take hostages and behead them unless the group’s demands were met, according to his lawyer.
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| CANADA PM STEPHEN HARPER |
Gary Batasar, the lawyer for Steven Chand (also known by his Muslim name Abdul Shakur), emerged from court Tuesday saying Crown prosecutors had provided him with an eight-page "summary" of the charges against his client and 16 other men arrested last week.
"My client is being accused of plotting to storm the Parliament buildings, take hostages (and) make demands to remove Canadian troops from Afghanistan and to free Muslim prisoners," Batasar said outside the Brampton, Ont. courthouse.
"He is supposed to have planned to behead hostages if his demands weren’t met ... and to want to behead the prime minister. The last thing was that they were going to storm the CBC building downtown (in Toronto) to take over communications to broadcast their message."
Chand is one of 17 men, all Muslims, who were arrested Friday and charged with planning a terrorist attack. Police said the men were planning to build a simple but effective bomb using fertilizer and diesel fuel.
Sources said the men were in an advanced stage of planning two attacks: a truck bombing to destroy a significant building and an attack involving opening fire on a crowded public place.
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The Religion of Peace
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
TODAY, OCTOBER 22, 2014, IN OTTAWA, CANADA
Canadian Parliament under lockdown after gunman killed soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial before opening fire in the Parliament halls.
Murdered: Corporal Nathan Cirillo, 24, was shot dead by a gunman as he stood guard at the National War Memorial outside the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa on Wednesday morning. He leaves behind a young son
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Race: Emergency personnel tend to the soldier after he was shot at the National Memorial just before 10am
Help: Police and paramedics perform CPR on the shot reserve soldier, who was based out of Hamilton
Patrol: Police set up a perimeter near Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday
Guns raised: Emergency responders escort VIPs out of building on Sparks Street near the Post Office
Fears: A Royal Canadian Mounted Police intervention team responds to a shooting at Parliament building in Ottawa on Wednesday. Gunfire was heard inside the building shortly before 10am
Fears: A Royal Canadian Mounted Police intervention team responds to a shooting at Parliament building in Ottawa on Wednesday. Gunfire was heard inside the building shortly before 10am
Terror: Police are hunting the streets for more suspects and have asked the public to stay away from the area
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2803422/Canadian-Parliament-lockdown-gunman-shoots-Canadian-Forces-soldier-standing-guard-National-War-Memorial.html
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