Canadian authorities late Wednesday identified the shooter in a brazen attack on the Parliament complex in Ottawa that left a soldier dead as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, Fox News has confirmed.
The shooting, which triggered a lockdown of the nation’s capital, came just two days after a terror attack in Quebec.
A government official told Fox that investigators believe Zehaf-Bibeau, who was killed at the scene, had changed his name from Joseph Michael Hall. U.S. agencies also have been advised he was believed to be a convert to Islam from Quebec.
Counter terrorism investigators are reviewing his social media traffic and profile, with a focus on any link to the attack on two soldiers in Quebec Monday.
The Toronto Globe and Mail said sources had told the paper Zehaf-Bibeau was recently designated a “high-risk traveler” by the Canadian government and his passport had been seized.
By Wednesday night, three persons who had been taken to Ottawa Hospital with minor injuries were all released.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a national television address Wednesday night that the attack was “a grim reminder Canada is not immune to the kind of terrorist attacks we’ve seen around the world.”
But, he added, “Canada will never be intimidated” and terrorists “will have no safe haven.”
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Islam should be banned and anyone who “converts” to this evil ideology should be killed. Islam is just like Naziism, just like the ideology of Amalek. It must be completely destroyed.
“Shooter Believed To Be Islam ”
duh what’d you think he was non-islam? who else is going around and terrorizing the world.