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Homegrown Quebec Terrorist Acts on IS Internet Incitements and Kills Canadian Soldier on Montreal’s South Shore

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(CRC)—25-year-old Martin Couture-Rouleau, also known on the internet as “Ahmad the convert”, ran over with his car and killed 53-year-old Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent from Canadian Forces Base Saint-Jean Garrison on Monday morning. Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, the Montreal South Shore municipality lies 26 miles south of Montreal and 21 miles north of the U.S.border. The town is known for its Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and its army base.

Rouleau, who was known to federal anti-terrorist investigators, had his Canadian passport recently revoked. There are presently 80 such young Canadians who are being monitored for having joined IS or other terrorist organizations, many of which are still abroad or have returned to Canada.

The killing happened on the eve of the departure from Cold Lake, Alberta of 6 CF-18 fighter jets bound for the Middle East to join President Obama’s Mideast fiasco which is “100% guaranteed to fail”.

Today’s Toronto Star asks “how an individual who the RCMP admitted was in its sights as having been radicalized could commit such a crime.

Jeff Yaworski, a senior CSIS official, told a Senate committee Monday that CSIS and the RCMP share the work of monitoring suspected threats to public safety, but that CSIS hands off to the RCMP once an investigation becomes a criminal probe.

CSIS will continue to keep tabs on those it deems a possible threat, but Yaworski told senators that the agency is unable to monitor all possibly dangerous individuals “all the time” and must prioritize.

Yaworski said some 80 individuals who travelled abroad to participate in the activities of terrorist groups and had since returned to Canada were not continually monitored by CSIS due to limited resources.

CSIS has said 130-145 Canadians travelled abroad to join terrorist activity — whether to fight, to fundraise, to assist in social media or Facebook propaganda campaigns, or to go to jihadist training schools. The 80 who have returned represent potential risks, as do others who are drawn in and become radicalized by Islamic State’s effective jihadist propaganda machine” [GG]