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Michael Zehaf-Bibeau sat in the front seat of his car minutes before his shooting rampage on Oct. 22, 2014, and spoke to the camera.

He spoke just long enough to talk about the actions he was soon to take, and put them into the context of “jihad,” the Arabic word for struggle that is associated — moderate Muslims argue wrongly — with a struggle against non-believers. He took aim at Canada’s foreign policy, threatened the Canadian military and invoked “Allah.”

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Those words, captured on a cellphone video less than a minute long, have been in the hands of the RCMP since the day of the shooting, and every frame of the short video has been examined as part of a criminal investigation.

Zehaf-Bibeau left the video on a cellphone in the car he used to drive up to the National War Memorial and to the foot of Parliament Hill.

The cellphone was unlocked and unencrypted; investigators were left with the impression that Zehaf-Bibeau wanted them to find the video.