Israeli Leaders Stand Strongly With Canada After Terror Attacks by "Radical Islam"

Lea Speyer : Oct 23, 2014
Breaking Israel News

"Terror is not the result of building in Jerusalem, Ottawa, New York, Madrid, London or Mombasa, but of the war of radical Islam against the Western world. We stand alongside our friends in Canada who have demonstrated by their firm stand alongside Israel… that they will not give in to terror." -Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman

(Israel)—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Wednesday evening with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper following two terrorist attacks in Ottawa. (Photo via Huffington Post)

Netanyahu conveyed his condolences of the Israeli people on behalf of the slain and injured on Wednesday's attack, the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement. He expressed his full support to Canada's fight against terrorism, in which Israel and Canada are partners.
The perpetrator of the terrorist attack has been identified as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, a recent convert to radical Islam and an ISIS sympathizer.

A Canadian citizen born in 1982, Zehaf-Bibeau was recently designated by Canadian security officials as a "high-risk traveler," meaning he was being watched in fear that he would commit crimes abroad. His passport had been seized.

Wednesday's double attack began at the National War Memorial outside the Canadian parliament. A soldier in uniform carrying an unloaded rifle was shot four times by Zehaf-Bibeau. Later identified as Corporal Nathan Cirillo, he was taken by ambulance to Civic Hospital where he later died of his wounds.

A witness of the shooting, Tony Zobly, told media that the terrorist "raised his arms in triumph" after shooting the solder.

Harper was reportedly in the building when the first shots were fired after 10 am. The prime ministers spokesman confirmed that Harper was evacuated from the building. Meeting rooms near the entrance of the building were filled with MP's holding discussions on how to crack down on homegrown terrorism.

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