The Canadian Mainstream Media! They
depart from their duty that they have with the society, to investigate and
publish the state terrorism which also is a severe threat in our nation.
‘We thirst for your blood,’ Aaron Driver warned Canada
in video threat
RCMP was in a “race against time” after
tip from the FBI that terror suspect was planning rush-hour attack in a major
urban centre.
By Peter EdwardsStar
Reporter, and Alex
BallingallNews
“Obviously it was a race against time,” RCMP
Deputy-Commander Mike Cabana told a news conference in Ottawa today, noting
that things “could have been a lot worse” if police hadn’t located and stopped
Driver.
The RCMP showed a video at the news conference in which
a masked man they identified as Driver, 24, warns, “O Canada, you received many
warnings… You were told many times what would happen.”
The man continues: “You saw bodies of the filthy French lying in the
streets. You still have much to pay for.”
“For this we thirst for your blood,” he said. “You will
pay for everything you brought against us.”
The man continues: “You saw bodies of the filthy French lying in the
streets. You still have much to pay for.”
“For this we thirst for your blood,” he said. “You will
pay for everything you brought against us.”
The RCMP says Driver planned to attack a major urban centre during the
morning or afternoon rush hour this week, but added they were not sure which
community he planned to hit.
“Mr. Driver was looking for a location that was highly
populated,” said RCMP Acting-Commander Jennifer Strachan.
Information on Driver was passed on by the U.S. Federal
Bureau of Investigation early Wednesday morning, Cabana said, and “we were
relatively quickly able to identify and locate him.”
Hours later, Driver was killed in a confrontation with
police in a taxi cab in Strathroy.
It wasn’t clear where the cab was heading, Strachan
said.
But a dispatcher for Strathroy cab company, Leo’s Taxi,
confirmed Driver called yesterday around 4:30 p.m., asking to be driven to Citi
Plaza, a London mall.
Police had arrived at a Strathroy house when Driver
darted out and got into a cab, carrying a knapsack, Strachan said.
“The taxi – we had no knowledge it was coming and he
got in there very quickly,” Strachan said.
The dispatcher, Brandon Carreiro, said Driver was a frequent customer,
taking cabs to the auto parts plant he worked at in Strathroy.
“He was actually really polite and friendly,” Carreiro
told the Star Thursday. “It’s just crazy that he did that because … he didn't
seem like he would do that. He was very friendly and grateful of the service
provided.”
Carreiro said he was told RCMP had fired at the cab
while Driver was in it, but that the grey cab hadn’t been returned yet, so he
did not know what condition it was in. He couldn’t confirm whether a bomb was
detonated inside the car.
Carreiro said the cab driver is “OK” except for some
back pain.
“It’s just shocking,” he added.
Driver was arrested in Winnipeg under suspicion of
terrorist connections and placed under a peace bond last year.
He was under a court order not to associate with any
terrorist organization, including Daesh, an Islamist terrorist group also known
as ISIS or ISIL.
Citi Plaza did not immediately return the Star’s calls.
A VIA Rail train station is of walking distance to it.
RELATED:
Speaking with the Star in Toronto, Metrolinx
spokesperson Anne Marie Aikins said the regional transit organization was
alerted early Wednesday morning about a security threat on a “large urban
transportation centre in Canada.”
Union Station is the largest
transportation centre in Canada, Aikins said, but she said the threat was not
linked directly to Union.
The complete article at the Toronto Star…
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