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Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, a reservist from Hamilton, was killed after being shot on the steps of the memorial while serving as an honour guard. The gunman then raced over to Parliament Hill, where he was killed in a gunfight in the halls of Centre Block.

Michael Zehaf Bibeau, born in 1982 and known to police in Montreal and Vancouver, has been identified as the shooter. Zehaf Bebeau was killed just metres away from where hundreds of MPs were meeting for their weekly caucus meetings.

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“During war, soldiers defend the country … except in Canada where they take off their uniforms and hide in their bases! #OttawaShooting,” writes a man using the Twitter handle Abusunnah.

Another Twitter user, AbaUmar8246, retweeted a photo from inside a caucus room in the Parliament buildings, which showed thick stuffed green leather chairs piled up against a door, and lampooned the behaviour, noting, “Canadian politicians who voted for war against the Islamic #Khilafah now in terror during todays #IS attack in Canada.”

The Site Intelligence Group in Bethesda, Maryland, which tracks the “jihadist threat,” released a two-page report Wednesday about Jihadis’ response to the attacks in Quebec and Ottawa. The U.S. terror watch group noted that one such post came from a man claiming he is a Canadian living in Syria under the protection of ISIS, named Abu Khalid Al-Kanadi (“the Canadian.”) Site said that Al-Kanadi celebrated the attack Monday in St. Jean with the following words: “Muslims in Canada, follow the footsteps of our brave brother Martin Rouleau who took revenge for Canadian military aggression in our lands.”