British Hate Preacher, Anjem Choudary, Influenced Ottawa Attacker

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Canadian police are investigating Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a Muslim convert, as a suspect in the attacks in and around Canada’s parliament building on Wednesday in which a soldier was shot dead.

There were reports in Canada that Zehaf-Bibeau and another Islamic convert, Martin Ahmad Rouleau, had been influenced by Choudary. The radical cleric was one of nine men arrested last month by Scotland Yard officers as part of an investigation into Islamist terrorism.

Rouleau’s Twitter account showed that he followed several radical preachers, including Choudary, who tweeted that he hoped that the Canadian attacker would be admitted to heaven.

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Choudary’s followers have been connected to militant plots in Britain in recent years. Michael Adebolajo, one of the men who killed the British soldier Lee Rigby on a London street last year, had attended protests he had organised.