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Shooting In Canadian Parliament

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Dáibhí

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Thought there may have been a thread on this already...

The Canadian capital, Ottawa, was thrown into turmoil on Wednesday when a gunman shot dead a soldier guarding the national war memorial before storming into parliament, making it into the heart of the building before being killed by a ceremonial official.

In scenes unlike any Canada has witnessed in its modern history, MPs barricaded themselves in a parliamentary caucus room by piling furniture against the doors, while others fled the building by clambering down scaffolding erected for repair work. Police went from room to room in parliament, breaking down some doors to check if anyone was hiding inside.

An air of panic was fuelled by initial, confused suggestions that more than one gunman was at large. But reports of a shooting at a shopping mall turned out to be unfounded.

The Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, was hustled away from Parliament Hill and was safe, a spokesperson confirmed. Cabinet minister Tony Clement tweeted that at least 30 shots were heard inside parliament, where Conservative and Liberal MPs were holding their weekly caucus meetings.

The perpetrator was later identified as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, but officials offered no immediate details about his background nor speculated on a motive for the shootings, which came two days after a recent convert to jihadi ideology ran down two soliders with his car near Montreal, killing one.

The sergeant-at-arms, Kevin Vickers, who normally plays only a ceremonial role in parliament, was reported to have shot the gunman dead.

A member of parliament, Craig Scott, tweeted: “MPs and Hill staff owe their safety, even lives, to Kevin Vickers, who shot attacker just outside the MPs’ caucus rooms.”

The shooter opened fire on the ceremonial guard of Ottawa’s war memorial, just across from the parliament buildings, just before 10am. Despite efforts of bystanders, who preformed CPR, one of the soldiers guarding the memorial, corporal Nathan Cirillo, died shortly after.

From there, the attacker made his way across the street, onto the front lawn of parliament. It remains unclear how the attacker made his way past the armed guards protecting the building, but he got as far as the ornate Hall of Honour. Adjacent rooms were filled with MPs from the governing Conservatives and opposition New Democrats, both parties holding separate discussions on new efforts to crack down on homegrown terrorism.

Justin Ling, a freelance political journalist who was at the parliament when the incident began, reported multiple shots inside the building. “At one point, standing next to the fire escape, we heard a series of loud bangs. Five or six in rapid succession. We scattered around the room and took cover. A few were loudly praying. A few others were laughing nervously,” he said.

The gunman was finally brought down just outside the parliamentary library at the end of the Hall of Honour.

Marc-André Viau, a senior parliamentary press secretary, stepped out of parliament just before the gunman forced his way in. “It lasted, like, two minutes. I walk out, I take cover, the guy runs in, the shots are fired,” he said.

“It’s surreal because I’ve been working on the hill for, like, six years, and I’ve never seen anything close,” said Viau, speaking from the food court of a nearby building. “Never had to, in my life, take cover because there was a shooter somewhere,” said Viau.

In the area around the parliament building, some workers fled their offices while others were advised to lock themselves in and stay away from windows. Squads of police in body armour made their way through the streets with their guns drawn searching for any assailants still at large.

The Globe and Mail news website reported a police officer yelling to journalists to move away from the Rideau shopping centre, shouting: “Move down! There’s an active shooter! If you want to die, stay here. If you want to live, keep moving!” Police later said there were no shootings at the mall.

Witnesses report the gunman was dressed in black when he drove up to the war memorial in downtown Ottawa.

“I looked out the window and saw a shooter, a man dressed all in black with a kerchief over his nose and mouth and something over his head as well, holding a rifle and shooting an honour guard in front of the cenotaph point-blank, twice,” a witness, Tony Zobl, told the Canadian Press news agency.

“The honour guard dropped to the ground, and the shooter kind of raised his arms in triumph holding the rifle.”

Pictures taken of the site showed a woman trying to keep the soldier alive with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation but he died shortly after being taken to hospital. He was reported to be a reservist serving with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

“This is a sad and tragic day for our city and our country,” Ottawa’s mayor, Jim Watson, said in a press conference. “Our city has lived through tragedy before. This is a different kind of tragedy – its causes not yet known.”

The shooting happened as Canada was already tense, two days after the incident in Quebec when Martin Couture-Rouleau, drive at two soldiers with his car. One of them died, and Couture-Rouleau was later shot dead by police. The government had previously confiscated Couture-Rouleau’s passport when he had attempted to fly to Turkey, where he was suspected on trying to join Islamic extremists fighting in Syria.

On Tuesday, Canada raised its domestic terror threat level from low to medium because of what the public safety ministry described as “an increase in general chatter from radical Islamist organisations”. The raising of the threat level followed a decision by the Canadian government to take part in the allied air campaign against the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq and deployed two warplanes and a refueller aircraft to flight sorties from Kuwait. Canada already has a small number of special forces soldiers in Iraq.

After the shooting started in central Ottawa on Wednesday, the prime minister, Stephen Harper, was driven away from Ottawa’s Parliament Hill where he had been due to meet with the Pakistani children’s rights campaigner and Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai. Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012 for attending school, was due to have been awarded honorary Canadian citizenship. The events were cancelled.

President Obama conferred with Harper by telephone shortly after the attack.
“Canada is one of the closest friends and allies of the United States,” the White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, said. “Officials inside the US government have been in touch with the Canadian government to offer their assistance, and that includes in the White House.”
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Mental.

Dáibhí, Oct 23, 2014

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An estimated 12k foreigners have joined the Jihad in Syria in Iraq....

The potential for more incidents like the one in Canada is prob more a case of when, not if...

Reap what you sow, and all that...

angusceltic67, Oct 23, 2014

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angusceltic67 said: ↑

An estimated 12k foreigners have joined the Jihad in Syria in Iraq....

The potential for more incidents like the one in Canada is prob more a case of when, not if...

Reap what you sow, and all that...
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I seem to remember an article from a few years ago from Turkey that a Muslim cleric extremist said that within 10 years the whole of Europe will become a Muslim state.
They won't differentiate between any European country. They will force submission either by indoctrination or by machete, gun and bomb.

Drakhan, Oct 23, 2014

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So ISIS are blaming Canada?

31B404, Oct 23, 2014

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Drakhan said: ↑

I seem to remember an article from a few years ago from Turkey that a Muslim cleric extremist said that within 10 years the whole of Europe will become a Muslim state.
They won't differentiate between any European country. They will force submission either by indoctrination or by machete, gun and bomb.
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Yeah, they've been banging on with that kind of nonsense for years. It won't happen.

Dáibhí, Oct 23, 2014

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Sad but true that all these Brits going over is just going to cause more harm to the peaceful normal Muslims back home. Can guarantee Racial attacks will go up and up in Britain. Few knuckledraggers on the bevy and its a recipe for disaster "Doo that ISIS *" etc

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Maybe the guy in Canada watched too much youtube

Right on que...

Internet freedom is under threat...

Islamic State Beheading Video Watchers Get Arrest Warning From Met Police

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...ine-and-you-could-get-arrested_n_5694871.html

angusceltic67, Oct 23, 2014

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Dáibhí said: ↑

Yeah, they've been banging on with that kind of nonsense for years. It won't happen.
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I've heard a few right wing * shouting "they're outbreedin' us 10 to the dozen!"

N * wit?

Kiko 7, Oct 23, 2014

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Really looking forward to the American style anti-terrorism laws that come in to effect now. Kind of weird this just happened in Australia too. This whole ISIS thing is getting a bit weird to me.

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31B404 said: ↑

So ISIS are blaming Canada?
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Canada are part of the Axis that will invade the middle east helping to expand NATO empire

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2 dead

Move on.

No big deal in the scale of things.

faw cough, Oct 23, 2014

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Canada just sent CF-18's to Iraq to participate in air strikes.

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fonsai said: ↑

Canada are part of the Axis that will invade the middle east helping to expand NATO empire
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the beat said: ↑

Canada just sent CF-18's to Iraq to participate in air strikes.
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maybe their missiles will be able to penetrateToyota jeeps

fonsai, Oct 23, 2014

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the beat said: ↑

Really looking forward to the American style anti-terrorism laws that come in to effect now. Kind of weird this just happened in Australia too. This whole ISIS thing is getting a bit weird to me.
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Yeah its crossed my mind that it could be a way to make us more accepting of the situation with tightening security and the bombing campaign.
If it is that it would be a * of a way to get most people onside
RIP young reservist.
my thought s are with the young soldiers family at this time.

bassbhoy, Oct 23, 2014

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Out all the big english countries Canada is like the wales of the uk, nocunt bothers their * about them.

If this happened in america or england we'd no hear the endy it.

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ILoveTheCeltic said: ↑

Out all the big english countries Canada is like the wales of the uk, nocunt bothers their * about them.

If this happened in america or england we'd no hear the endy it.
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It's true, we kind of like it that way though.

Farmer, Oct 24, 2014

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The Bob said: ↑

2 dead

Move on.

No big deal in the scale of things.
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I wish they would move on, it's unbelievable what they are saying here. It's worse than 9/11 ffs

Haywood Jablomi, Oct 24, 2014

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move on ,,, canada is a place where all people are respected ,, it,s built on immigrants ,, and is a country that is welcoming to all ,, this * head had passport issues and was a * nut simples ,, dont blame canada,,,, ohh CANADA our home ,,,
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shaybhoy said: ↑

move on ,,, canada is a place where all people are respected ,, it,s built on immigrants ,, and is a country that is welcoming to all ,, this * head had passport issues and was a * nut simples ,, dont blame canada,,,, ohh CANADA our home ,,,
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Welcoming to all!!!!! Yeah right if you repeat it often enough you might believe it

Haywood Jablomi, Oct 24, 2014

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