Muslim convert who shot dead Canadian soldier is the privately-educated son of country’s immigration chief and has links to Syrian terrorist claims friend from mosque

 

Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the Muslim convert who fatally shot Corporal Nathan Cirillo, a 24-year-old father as he stood guard at Ottawa's War Memorial on Wednesday was a petty criminal who has been called 'mentally ill' by those who knew him.

Born in Quebec as Michael Joseph Hall and raised in Laval, just north of Montreal, the young man lived a life of private schools and homes, with a mother who was a high ranking federal employee.

Then, after years of run-ins with the law, he converted to Islam.

Quebec-born Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, recently converted to Islam and had dreams of heading to the Middle East.
He had his passport seized after being designated a 'high-risk traveler' - despite his mother being on Canada's immigration board.

He had multiple drug and robbery arrests, and a 2003 weapons charge
He had told a friend the 'devil was after him' and knew a man who is still at large after leaving Canada to join Islamist fighters in Syria
Shooting came on the day Prime Minister Stephen Harper was due to give Nobel Peace Prize winning activist Malala Yousafzai Canadian citizenship
Harper addressed his country later, saying this 'terrorist attack' would 'not intimidate Canada'  
He had visited the U.S four times, with officials tracing who he met there.

 

--Source: Daily Mail