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   From: Harry@tweaknews.eu   
      
   That's why Harper had the RCMP put a lid on the video the gunman made   
   just before the attack on Parliament.   
   Harper tried to convince all Canadians that the 'jihadists' had declared   
   an all-out war on Canada because of their extremism.   
   Turns out that *individuals* are making these attacks on Canadian   
   military and government because Harper has joined in the U.S.-led   
   invasion of Iraq.   
   I guess the bastard is making up for his inability to make that attack   
   back in George W Bush days.   
      
   And *I*, for one, still want to see the 18 seconds of the video that has   
   been hidden "for operational reasons".  I'll bet that's even more   
   damning than the reason for the attack by Michael Zehaf Bibeau.   
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   Winnipeg Free Press - The Canadian Press Posted: 3:32 AM |   
      
   Gunman blamed rampage on Canada's military interventions in Afghanistan,   
   Iraq   
      
      
   RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson appears at Senate National Security and   
   Defence committee in Ottawa on Monday, Oct. 27, 2014.   
   Paulson will use an open meeting of the House of Commons public safety   
   committee to provide an update into the investigation of the Oct. 22   
   attack that killed Cpl. Nathan Cirillo.   
      
      
   What was said   
      
   PARTIAL TRANSCRIPTION OF THE VIDEO OF ZEHAF BIBEAU   
      
   OCTOBER 22, 2014   
      
   To those who are involved and listen to this movie, this is in   
   retaliation for Afghanistan and because Harper wants to send his troops   
   to Iraq.   
      
      
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   So we are retaliating, the Mujahedin of this world.  Canada’s officially   
   become one of our enemies by fighting and bombing us and creating a lot   
   of terror in our countries and killing us and killing our innocents.   
   So, just aiming to hit some soldiers just to show that you’re not even   
   safe in your own land, and you gotta be careful.   
      
   So, may Allah accept from us.  It’s a disgrace you guys have forgotten   
   God and have you let every indecency and things running your land.  We   
   don’t, we don’t go for this.  We are good people, righteous people,   
   believers of God and believing his law and his Prophets, peace be upon   
   them all.  That’s my message to all of you in this, Inshallah, we’ll not   
   cease until you guys decide to be a peaceful country and stay to your   
   own and I-, and stop going to other countries and stop occupying and   
   killing the righteous of us who are trying to bring back religious law   
   in our countries.   
      
   Thank you.   
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   OTTAWA - The man who gunned down a soldier and stormed Parliament Hill   
   last Oct. 22 said his actions were spurred by Canada's military   
   involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.   
      
   In a grainy cellphone video made shortly before his attack, Michael   
   Zehaf Bibeau speaks of assaulting soldiers to show Canadians they are   
   not safe in their own country.   
      
   Zehaf Bibeau asks Allah to accept his actions, saying Canadians have   
   forgotten God by occupying Muslim lands and killing righteous people.   
      
   In showing the video Friday to the House of Commons public safety   
   committee, RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson said a total of 18 seconds had   
   been removed — 13 seconds from the beginning, five from the end — for   
   operational reasons he would not discuss.   
      
   Zehaf Bibeau fatally shot honour guard Cpl. Nathan Cirillo at the   
   National War Memorial in October before rushing into Parliament Hill's   
   Centre Block, where he was killed in a hail of bullets.   
      
   Paulson said the RCMP considers Zehaf Bibeau a terrorist and that he   
   would have been charged with terrorism offences under the Criminal Code   
   had he survived.   
      
   "It's not relevant to us or our investigation what kind of a terrorist   
   Zehaf Bibeau was, or if he was a particularly intelligent,   
   sophisticated, influential or personally disciplined terrorist," Paulson   
   said.   
      
   "To us it all turns on the evidence we collect, which we compare against   
   the statute."   
      
   The Mounties are still trying to determine if Zehaf Bibeau had   
   accomplices, Paulson added.   
      
   "Anyone who aided him, abetted him, counselled him, facilitated his   
   crimes or conspired with him is also in our view a terrorist and where   
   the evidence exists we will charge them with terrorist offences."   
      
   Zehaf Bibeau became "increasingly aligned with terrorist ideology" in   
   the last years of his life while living in the lower mainland of British   
   Columbia and, for a short period, in Alberta, Paulson told the MPs.   
      
   The RCMP hasn't been able to confirm the origins of Zehaf Bibeau's   
   rifle, but the police force is releasing a photo of the gun in the hope   
   someone might recognize it.   
      
   Paulson confirmed the gunman also had a long knife tied to his wrist   
   when he was killed.   
      
   The RCMP has over 130 full-time investigators and staff working on the   
   case, and has interviewed more than 400 people to date.   
      
   The Mounties know that in August last year Zehaf Bibeau applied for a   
   Canadian passport at a Vancouver location where he was later informed   
   that his application would be subject to further review.   
      
    From Sept. 23 through Oct. 2, he made his way to Ottawa by hitchhiking   
   and travelling on a Greyhound bus.   
      
   Within two hours of arriving in the capital, Zehaf Bibeau — a dual   
   national — went to the Libyan Embassy to renew his then-expired Libyan   
   passport, Paulson said. He was told his application would have to be   
   sent to Libya due to discrepancies in his identification documents, a   
   process expected to take as long as a month.   
      
   In early October, surveillance cameras on Parliament Hill captured Zehaf   
   Bibeau taking a guided tour of the Centre Block — but there was nothing   
   unusual about his presence.   
      
   While in Ottawa, he used public Internet and payphones to stay in   
   contact with people in the Ottawa region and in British Columbia, the   
   commissioner said.   
      
   "We have been able to identify some of these individuals and we continue   
   to pursue this avenue."   
      
   Zehaf Bibeau used cash to buy a car the day before his attack. Police   
   recovered the cellphone video from the vehicle.   
      
   Paulson learned of the video during a briefing four days after the   
   shooting and directed that a press release be issued. But discussion   
   ensued within the police force.   
      
   "We weighed the video's release against the knowledge that it could   
   serve to further radicalize, and ultimately incite more violence,"   
   Paulson told the committee.   
      
   "Initially I was inclined to release the video in its entirety but I was   
   persuaded by the operational decision-makers in the investigation not to   
   do so."   
      
      
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