{"id":10801,"date":"2016-08-11T10:13:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T10:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=10801"},"modified":"2016-08-11T10:13:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T10:13:06","slug":"canadian-banned-contacting-isis-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/canadian-banned-contacting-isis-dead.html","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Banned From Contacting ISIS Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian Banned From Contacting ISIS Dead<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Canadian Banned From Contacting ISIS Dead<\/strong>: TORONTO \u2014 A Canadian man previously banned from associating with ISIS extremists died as police thwarted what they believed was a suicide bomb plot, authorities said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The suspect allegedly planned to target a public area, a senior Canadian police official<\/strong> said late Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak ahead of a news conference scheduled for Thurday, identified the suspect as Aaron Driver. Reuters also quoted intelligence sources as confirming the suspect’s name, adding that he used the alias Harun Abdurahman. <\/span><\/p>\n

Driver was under a court order from earlier this year to not associate with any terrorist organization, including ISIS. In February, Driver’s lawyer and the prosecutor agreed to a peace bond stating there are “reasonable grounds to fear that he may participate, contribute directly or indirectly in the activity of a terrorist group.” <\/span><\/p>\n

Amarnath Amarasingam, a post-doctoral fellow at Dalhousie University<\/strong> who studies radicalization and terrorism, maintained in 2015 that Driver had posted for several months on social media about disliking Canada and about a desire to move overseas.<\/span>
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The police operation involving Driver took place Wednesday night in the southern Ontario town of Strathroy, 140 miles southwest of Toronto.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police<\/strong> said it halted a possible attack after receiving credible information of a potential terrorist threat. Details of how Driver died were not immediately released.<\/span><\/p>\n

They said a suspect was identified and the “proper course of action has been taken” to ensure no danger to public safety. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Citing family members, the London Free Press newspaper<\/strong> reported that Driver was shot by police after he detonated a device, wounding himself and another person. NBC News was not immediately able to confirm that report.<\/span><\/p>\n

Irene Lee, whose parents own a convenience store near Driver’s home, said police arrived on the quiet residential street shortly after 4 p.m. ET and quickly surrounded the house.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I hear a bomb sound, like a ‘bang’ \u2014 I was freaking out because this is a small and quiet town,” she told Reuters. “All of a sudden the policemen were yelling, ‘Everyone get into your houses.'”<\/span><\/p>\n

Winnipeg-based lawyer Leonard Tailleur<\/strong>, who handled Driver’s peace bond, said he was “shocked” to hear what had happened.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Saddened to hear that it had to end this way for him,” Tailleur said in an email to The Canadian Press. <\/span><\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/storyline\/isis-terror\/canadian-banned-contacting-isis-dead-after-police-operation-n628001<\/span><\/p>\n

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