Canadian police 'kill suspect in anti-terror operation' - BBC News
Police have shot dead a suspect in an anti-terror operation in the Canadian province of Ontario, media reports say.
They named the suspect as Aaron Driver, 24, who was arrested last year for openly supporting so-called Islamic State on social media.
CBC News said Aaron Driver's family had confirmed his death.
It said that police had told the family that Driver had detonated an explosive device, injuring himself and another person.
Driver was intending to detonate a second device and that was why police shot him, the report said.
Aaron Driver killed by police responding to terror threat in small Ontario town
The RCMP were conducting an operation in a residential southwestern Ontario neighbourhood of Strathroy on Wednesday evening after it said credible information of a potential terrorist act was received earlier in the day.
Driver caught the attention of CSIS, Canada's spy agency, in October 2014 when he was tweeting support for the militant group ISIS under the alias Harun Abdurahman.
Driver, a known ISIS supporter, agreed to the conditions of a peace bond in a Winnipeg court earlier this year after being arrested in June 2015. By agreeing to the peace bond, Driver was "consenting or acknowledging that there are reasonable grounds to fear that he may participate, contribute — directly or indirectly — in the activity of a terrorist group."
"There was never any expressed indication that he belonged to them in any fashion or was acting as a catalyst for them or anything. His activities consisted of posting [online] with some of these individuals," he (Driver's former lawyer, Leonard Tailleur) said.
But what the h**l is this? "Ottawa was abuzz with rumours for much of Wednesday after a memo was circulated among National Defence personnel warning of a terrorist threat.
The internal government memo included a photo of a man wearing a balaclava. It was not clear if the man in the balaclava was Driver."
Police have shot dead a suspect in an anti-terror operation in the Canadian province of Ontario, media reports say.
They named the suspect as Aaron Driver, 24, who was arrested last year for openly supporting so-called Islamic State on social media.
CBC News said Aaron Driver's family had confirmed his death.
It said that police had told the family that Driver had detonated an explosive device, injuring himself and another person.
Driver was intending to detonate a second device and that was why police shot him, the report said.
Aaron Driver killed by police responding to terror threat in small Ontario town
The RCMP were conducting an operation in a residential southwestern Ontario neighbourhood of Strathroy on Wednesday evening after it said credible information of a potential terrorist act was received earlier in the day.
Driver caught the attention of CSIS, Canada's spy agency, in October 2014 when he was tweeting support for the militant group ISIS under the alias Harun Abdurahman.
Driver, a known ISIS supporter, agreed to the conditions of a peace bond in a Winnipeg court earlier this year after being arrested in June 2015. By agreeing to the peace bond, Driver was "consenting or acknowledging that there are reasonable grounds to fear that he may participate, contribute — directly or indirectly — in the activity of a terrorist group."
"There was never any expressed indication that he belonged to them in any fashion or was acting as a catalyst for them or anything. His activities consisted of posting [online] with some of these individuals," he (Driver's former lawyer, Leonard Tailleur) said.
But what the h**l is this? "Ottawa was abuzz with rumours for much of Wednesday after a memo was circulated among National Defence personnel warning of a terrorist threat.
The internal government memo included a photo of a man wearing a balaclava. It was not clear if the man in the balaclava was Driver."
