CANADIAN TERRORIST FIGHTING FOR ISIS CBC News Last Updated: Dec 07, 2014 6:45 PM ET John Maguire, who was already reportedly under investigation by the RCMP after travelling to Syria to join ISIS as a foreign fighter in January 2013, appears in a six-minute, 13-second video released by the militant group on Sunday ISIS has released a video featuring an Ottawa man calling on his fellow Muslim countrymen to carry out lone-wolf attacks on Canadian targets. He urges his Muslim countrymen to follow the example of Martin Couture-Rouleau, who killed warrant officer Patrice Vincent and injured another soldier when he ran them down with a car in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., in October. The video also references Michael Zehaf-Bibeaus October attack in which he killed an honour guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa before storming Parliament Hill. Maguire is a native of Kemptville, in Eastern Ontario, and moved to Ottawa during high school, a former friend said. Estimated 130 Canadians fighting in Iraq or Syria Canadian intelligence officials estimated earlier this year that, aside from the countrys military deployment to the Mideast, 130 other Canadians have joined the conflicts in either Syria or Iraq. A few, such as former Canadian Forces corporal Dillon Hillier, have gone to the region to take up arms AGAINST ISIS militants. Hillier, who used to serve with the Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry, has been fighting alongside Kurdish forces in northern Iraq since late November, with support from the 1st North American Expeditionary Force, a private group that provides aid and advice to people who want to volunteer to fight ISIS. Safety minister responds Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney referred to the recent threat toward Canada in a statement Sunday but did not address the ISIS videos contents directly.The Harper government did not respond directly to the videos contents and did not confirm or deny its authenticity. Photo: Canadian terrorist in Syria
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 02:11:25 +0000
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