Canada police detain lone suspect in ‘credible’ threat

A spokesman declined to release further details.

Earlier previous year, Driver, who was born to a Christian family in Saskatchewan, told CBC News in an extended interview that he believed the 2014 terror attack at the parliament buildings in Ottawa was justified. – Excerpt from a video featuring a masked man whom the Mounties identified as Aaron Driver, 24.

Driver is seen in the video wearing a black mask and calls the west an enemy of Islam and warns that the only solution would be the spilling of blood.

In Strathroy, resident Irene Lee said late Wednesday that since about 4:15 p.m., police had been camped outside the home where Driver lived.

Last year, federal authorities were so suspicious Driver might have ties to a terrorist group that he bounced in and out of jails and courtrooms for months, all without any actual charges ever being laid – and he had no criminal record at the time.

“Oh Canada, you received many warnings, you were told many times what would become of those who fight against the Islamic State”, the person in the video said.

Public transit operators in Toronto, Canada’s largest city, were warned by police of potential security threats hours before officers killed Driver, they said on Thursday.

He said that as a precaution a “vigilance notice” was issued to all staff, encouraging them to speak up if they saw something of concern.

According to Knapp some Winnipeg Muslims took umbrage with Driver’s online postings, especially those aggrandizing Islamic State or other militant groups.

Driver, who frequently tweeted his adoration for ISIS under the pseudonym Harun Abdurahman, made headlines after he was arrested last summer and subsequently released on a peace bond over fears he would engage in terrorism. “He had a phone that they gave him, that they were able to monitor”, Tailleur said.

In June 2015, Driver was first picked up in Winnipeg.

Amarnath Amarasingam, a post-doctoral fellow at Dalhousie University who studies radicalization and terrorism, maintained in 2015 that Driver posted for several months on social media about disliking Canada and about a desire to move overseas.

When Driver was released later that month, he was ordered to wear a Global Positioning System tracking device and banned from going on the internet or having any communication with the Islamic State group, including wearing or carrying anything with an IS logo. The bail conditions draw the ire of civil liberties organizations who say they are “outrageous” for someone who isn’t charged with a crime. Later, the government announced that some of his strict bail conditions had been lifted and that he would not be going to trial.

“With respect to the police and security actions taken in Canada today, I have discussed the situation with the Prime Minister to confirm that public safety has been and continues to be properly protected”, Goodale said in a statement.

The INSET team was assisted by the RCMP emergency response team, the explosive disposal unit, the London Police Service, Strathroy-Caradoc police service and the Ontario Provincial Police, Strachan said. A gunman killed a soldier at Ottawa’s national war memorial before launching an attack on the Canadian Parliament in October 2014 while, in the same week, a man ran down two soldiers in Quebec, killing one. That attacker had been under surveillance by Canadian authorities.