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    Terrorist attack kills Canadian soldier in Montreal

    CBS/AP October 21, 2014, 8:26 AM

    Apparent terrorist attack kills Canadian soldier in Montreal


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    MONTREAL - One of two Canadian soldiers hit by a car in an apparent terrorist attack has died of his injuries.

    Quebec provincial police said he died early Tuesday. The soldier's name was not released at the request of the family. The other soldier's injuries were described as less serious.


    The suspect was shot by police, and later died, after he struck the two members of the Canadian military with his car in a city near Montreal.


    An official familiar with the case identified the suspect as Martin Couture Rouleau, 25, of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, and said he was influenced by radical Islamists. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the case.


    Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesman David Falls said Monday that the suspect "was known to Federal authorities" and "authorities were concerned that he had become radicalized."


    One neighbor told reporters that Rouleau stopped wearing jeans and started wearing a tunic and that he had changed over the past year and was alone a lot. Another neighbor said Rouleau converted to Islam a little over a year ago.


    His Facebook page appears to show someone who had become more radicalized over time, with many recent posts proclaiming admiration for jihad, reports the CBC.


    A Quebec business database shows Rouleau started a water-pressure cleaning company in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu in 2012 with two other people.


    Police declined to provide details, citing the investigation.


    Quebec police shot the man after two Canadian Forces members were struck by the motorist on Monday in a mall parking lot near Montreal. The suspect died a few hours after being shot.


    Quebec provincial police Lt. Michel Brunet said earlier that police ended up shooting the man after a car chase in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, about 26 miles southeast of Montreal. After the man hit the two soldiers, he fled the scene in his vehicle, triggering a police chase that ended with the man losing control and his car rolling over several times.


    Brunet said the man exited the car and was shot. Brunet said they found a knife on the ground but he could not say if the suspect had it in his hand when police fired their weapons. Television images showed a large knife in the grass near the flipped-over car.


    Brunet said he didn't know if the soldiers were wearing uniforms at the time they were struck.


    Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was briefed about the incident by the head of Canada's national police force, the head of the military and his national security adviser.


    Harper said earlier Monday in Parliament that he was aware of the reports and called them "extremely troubling."


    "First and foremost our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families; we're closely monitoring the situation and obviously we will make available all of the resources of the federal government," Harper said.


    The case is similar to one in London last year in which an al Qaeda-inspired extremist and another man ran over a soldier with a car before hacking the off-duty soldier to death. Images of Michael Adebolajo, 29, holding a butcher knife and cleaver with bloodied hands in the moments after the May 2013 killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby shocked people around the world and sparked fears of Islamist terrorism in Britain.


    The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has urged supporters to carry out attacks against Western countries, including Canada, that are participating in the U.S.-led coalition fighting the militants who have taken over large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria. It was not known whether the suspect in the Quebec attack had any ties to Islamic militant groups.

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    Canada police talked to militant suspect, couldn't stop attack

    BY ALLISON LAMPERT
    SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU Quebec Tue Oct 21, 2014 8:02pm EDT

    A Surete du Quebec (SQ) officer investigates an overturned vehicle in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec October 20, 2014.
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    (Reuters) - Canadian police said on Tuesday they had arrested a suspected militant as he was leaving the country, took away his passport and talked to him several times but had no chance of preventing him from killing a soldier.

    Martin Rouleau, a 25-year-old who converted to Islam last year, rammed his car into two soldiers in the Quebec town of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu on Monday and was shot dead by police. A 53-year-old adjutant died in the attack.


    The incident, the first fatal attack on Canadian soil tied to Islamic militants, occurred after Canada announced this month it was joining the battle against Islamic State fighters who have taken over parts of Iraq and Syria.


    Rouleau was among 90 people being tracked by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on suspicion of taking part in militant activities abroad or planning to do so.


    Martine Fontaine, the RCMP official who is responsible for national security matters in Quebec, said police had never come up with enough evidence to lay charges against Rouleau and could not have predicted the attack.


    "We can't arrest somebody for having radical thoughts. It's not a crime in Canada," she told a news conference in Montreal.


    "It was very difficult to prevent and stop him. Even if he had been under surveillance yesterday morning, we didn't know of his intention to use his car as a weapon," she said.


    Fontaine said police had become aware of Rouleau in June when they studied his Facebook site and concluded he was becoming radicalized and wanted to leave Canada to fight abroad.


    As Rouleau was about to fly to Turkey in July, police arrested him on grounds that he might be about to commit an act of terror abroad.


    "We had reasons to stop him," Fontaine said, adding that police never could come up with enough evidence that he intended to commit a crime either in Canada or abroad.


    The RCMP took away his passport to use as evidence and then met him several times in a bid to persuade him to change his ways. Police said that at their last meeting on Oct. 9 he gave them some reason to believe he would modify his behavior, so they stopped their surveillance.


    Canadian security officials have worried for years about the threat of radicalized young men, and the concern became more intense after Canada sent six fighter jets to take part in the campaign against Islamic State militants in Iraq. Ottawa uses the term radicalized to refer to those who support militant Islam.


    "What took place yesterday is clearly linked to terrorist ideology," federal Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney told reporters in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.


    The government said on Tuesday it had raised its terrorism threat level to medium from low because of a rise in "general chatter" from radical Islamist groups such as Islamic State and Al Qaeda, and not because of a specific threat.


    The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) spy agency says it is aware of at least 50 Canadians involved in terrorist-related activities with Islamic State and other militant groups in the Middle East.


    The government said last week it planned to boost the powers of CSIS to track potential militants when they travel abroad.


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    Rouleau's Facebook and Twitter accounts, which media reports said he ran under the name Ahmad Rouleau, show he converted to Islam in 2013 and became increasingly political in April 2014.

    According to legal documents, his full name is Martin Couture-Rouleau, though police gave his name as Rouleau-Couture on Tuesday.


    The entries on Ahmad Rouleau's Facebook page (here) promote Islam as the true religion and Christianity and atheism as false, and some posts have a political tone.


    Amarnath Amarasingam, a researcher at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia who studies the foreign fighter phenomenon, said he had been following Rouleau on social media for about six months.


    Amarasingam said Rouleau was quoting the Koran in November 2013, indicating he had converted by then. He began referring to "hypocrites" in April, which Amarasingam said typically refers to Western Muslims who have compromised to fit in and not undertaken an attack on the West.


    Efforts by Reuters to talk to Rouleau's father and other members of his family were unsuccessful.


    The father told television network TVA that he last saw his son Monday morning and did not notice any difference in his behavior. "If I had sensed that there was any danger, I would have saved him," he said.

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