{"id":452,"date":"2014-10-22T21:02:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=452"},"modified":"2014-10-22T21:02:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T21:02:16","slug":"canada-at-war-for-13-years-shocked-that-a-terrorist-attacked-its-soldiers-the-intercept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Canada, At War For 13 Years, Shocked That &#8216;A Terrorist&#8217; Attacked Its Soldiers &#8211; The Intercept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2014\/10\/22\/canada-proclaiming-war-12-years-shocked-someone-attacked-soldiers\/\">Canada, At War For 13 Years, Shocked That &#8216;A Terrorist&#8217; Attacked Its Soldiers &#8211; The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"hero\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; float: left; width: 540px; margin-bottom: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-background-clip: padding-box; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; background-clip: padding-box; border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"https:\/\/prod01-cdn02.cdn.firstlook.org\/wp-uploads\/sites\/1\/2014\/10\/stephen-harper-article-display-b.jpg\" alt=\"Featured photo - Canada, At War For 13 Years, Shocked That &amp;#8216;A Terrorist&amp;#8217; Attacked Its Soldiers\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"ti-body\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: pt-serif, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #222222; line-height: 22px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-weight: normal;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px 0px;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;\">(updated below \u2013 Update II)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px 0px;\">TORONTO \u2013 In Quebec on Monday, two Canadian soldiers were hit\u00a0by a car driven by\u00a0Martin Couture-Rouleau, a 25-year-old Canadian who, as\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;\">The Globe and Mail<\/em>\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #df3f3d; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/quebec-hit-and-run\/article21187200\/\">reported<\/a>, \u201cconverted to Islam recently and called himself Ahmad Rouleau.\u201d One of the soldiers died, as did Couture-Rouleau when he was shot by police upon apprehension after allegedly brandishing a large knife. Police speculated that the incident was deliberate, alleging the driver waited for two hours before hitting the soldiers, one of whom was wearing a uniform. The incident\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #df3f3d; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/two-soldiers-injured-in-quebec-hit-and-run\/article21177035\/\">took place<\/a>\u00a0in the parking lot of a\u00a0shopping mall 30 miles\u00a0southeast of Montreal,\u00a0\u201ca\u00a0few kilometres from the Coll\u00e8ge militaire royal de Saint-Jean, the military academy operated by the Department of National Defence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 28px 0px;\">The right-wing Canadian government wasted no time in seizing on the incident to promote its fear-mongering agenda over terrorism, which includes\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #df3f3d; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/calgary.ctvnews.ca\/bill-proposed-to-give-csis-tools-to-investigate-track-and-prosecute-potential-terrorists-1.2057025\">pending legislation<\/a>\u00a0to vest its intelligence agency, CSIS, with more spying and secrecy powers in the name of fighting ISIS. A government spokesperson\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #df3f3d; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/two-soldiers-injured-in-quebec-hit-and-run\/article21177035\/\">asserted<\/a>\u00a0\u201cclear indications\u201d that the driver\u00a0\u201chad become radicalized.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada, At War For 13 Years, Shocked That &#8216;A Terrorist&#8217; Attacked Its Soldiers &#8211; The Intercept. (updated below \u2013 Update II) TORONTO \u2013 In Quebec on Monday, two Canadian soldiers were hit\u00a0by a car driven by\u00a0Martin Couture-Rouleau, a 25-year-old Canadian who, as\u00a0The Globe and Mail\u00a0reported, \u201cconverted to Islam recently and called himself Ahmad Rouleau.\u201d One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[103,106,186,446,746,749,765,793],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-canada","tag-canadian-government","tag-csis","tag-isis","tag-spying","tag-stephen-harper","tag-surveillance","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}