Canadian Terrorist Killed Shortly Before Carrying Out Attack Was Arrested For Loving ISIS Last Year

Riggs 8/12/2016 9:38 AM

CNN — Police shot and killed a 24-year-old man they say was in the final stages of a terror attack targeting a Canadian urban center during rush hour, authorities said Thursday.

The suspect, with whom police were familiar from past terror investigations, was identified as [terrorist], said Mike Cabana, deputy commissioner of federal policing for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

[Terrorist] was killed Wednesday outside his sister’s home in Strathroy, Ontario, just after entering a cab around 4:30 p.m., Cabana said. Police engaged Driver, who detonated an explosive device inside the cab, injuring the driver, he said.

 

 

So on the surface this is a good thing — Canada killing a would-be terrorist before he does terrorist stuff. Probably the meanest thing Canada has ever done but the right thing. Prevented an attack. Good on them.

But no, it’s not good. It pisses me off. Here’s why:

FBI and RCMP had been monitoring [terrorist] since at least 2014, well before he granted an interview to The Toronto Star using the name Harun Abdurahman, Cabana said. In the interview, he justified the 2014 attacks on Parliament Hill in Ottawa that left an unarmed soldier dead, and he expressed support for ISIS.

He was in contact with alleged terrorists in the months following, but police “were never able to establish the nature of the communications” because they were encrypted, the deputy commissioner said.

Police arrested [terrorist] in June 2015 and charged him with knowingly participating in the activities of a terrorist group and a search of his computer yielded a recipe for explosives, Cabana said.

We’re at the point where any degree of ISIS sympathy or support is enough to lock someone up for good. Forever. Maybe even fry ‘em. ISIS is that bad. They’re carrying out attacks left and right. They’re taking over Iraq and Syria. They’re burning people alive, dropping them into pools of acid, decapitating journalists. They’re radicalizing people across the globe to act as “lone wolves” who pledge themselves to the group. It’s as bad as it could be.

So if you’re in ANY way, shape or form pro-ISIS, and officials have proof of that, you’re done. Finished. #done with society and freedom. There should be no if, ands or buts about it. How in the literal fuck did this dude give a pro-ISIS interview to the Toronto Star in 2014, get arrested for participating in terrorist activities and googling recipes for bombs in 2015, then simply become a free member of society again? How the fuck is that possible? And just an hour from the US, no less.

Too fucking nice, Canada. Too nice. If that were here that motherfucker woulda been in an orange jumpsuit in Cuba around the last time Phelps was winning gold medals.

 

PS — You’re welcome.

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