Aaron Driver, terror suspect, killed by police in anti-terrorism operation in Ontario town

A 24-year-old man who had been under a peace bond for being an ISIS sympathizer was killed Wednesday night by police responding to what they say was “a potential terrorist threat” in the small southern Ontario town of Strathroy.

RCMP told Driver’s family that police shot Aaron Driver after he detonated a device that wounded himself and one other person. The identity of the other person is not known.

Police told the family they had to shoot Driver because he had another device and planned to detonate it. A senior police official told The Canadian Press on Wednesday that the man allegedly planned to use a bomb to carry out a suicide mission in a public area.

“The RCMP received credible information of a potential terrorist threat,” an RCMP statement said earlier Wednesday. “A suspect was identified and the proper course of action has been taken to ensure that there is no danger to the public’s safety.

“As this is still an unfolding matter and that the investigation is still underway, we are not able to provide further comment at this time.”

ISIS supporter on peace bond

Driver agreed to the conditions of the peace bond when he appeared in a Winnipeg court earlier this year after his arrest in June 2015.

By agreeing to the peace bond, Driver was “consenting or acknowledging that there are reasonable grounds to fear that he may participate, contribute — directly or indirectly — in the activity of a terrorist group.”

He first caught the attention of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in October 2014 when he was tweeting support for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria under the alias Harun Abdurahman. He has also said the Parliament Hill attack in October of that year by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was justified.

CBC

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