But nothing to do with Islam? Jihadi killer known risk Militant’s passport had been seized Herald Sun, Australia Oct 23, 2014 25 The killer’s car lies in a Quebec ditch, where he was shot dead by police. Picture: AP THE threat of Islamist violence has Canada on a terror alert after one of two soldiers run over by a jihadist suspect died in hospital yesterday. The killer driver was shot dead by police after he crashed his car while fleeing in Quebec. Martin Couture-Rouleau, 25, had waited for suitable targets in a supermarket carpark in his home town of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, 40km southeast of Montreal, for two hours on Tuesday, police said. He deliberately aimed his car at the soldiers, both of whom were rushed to hospital. Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent, 53, a 28-year veteran of the armed forces, later died. The other soldier’s injuries were not life-threatening. Couture-Rouleau sped off but then crashed off the road into a ditch, rolling his car. When he got out of the wreckage, brandishing a knife, officers shot him. Federal agencies said yesterday he was “well known” to them, and had had his passport seized. He was one of 90 potential Islamic militants being tracked, after becoming “radicalised”. Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney said the attack was “clearly linked to terrorist ideology”. “I am horrified by what took place,” he added. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Bob Paulson said the killer had been identified as someone who “might commit a criminal act for terrorist purposes”. An RCMP spokeswoman said his family had become concerned by recent changes in his behaviour, and had reached out for help. Couture-Rouleau was briefly detained at a Canadian airport last July when he sought to fly to Turkey, but there was not enough evidence to charge him with seeking to join a terrorist group abroad. Instead, he was monitored alongside 90 other Canadians determined to be possible threats to national security. The incident is a chilling echo of the May 2013 murder of British soldier Lee Rigby in London.
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