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Five Canadians killed in Syria fighting with IS
2015-01-16
[IsraelTimes]. alongside Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
forces of Evil in Syria, including a man who called for lone wolf attacks in Canada, local media reported Wednesday.
Glad they're titzup, eh?
The National Post said Ottawa-born John Maguire, who joined IS jihadists in Syria in January 2013, died Wednesday in the flashpoint town Kobane.

In a video message last year, the former University of Ottawa student warned Canada it faces retaliation for participating in US-led Arclight airstrikes against IS.

Calling himself Abu Anwar al-Canadi, Maguire urged Moslems to follow the example of a driver in a hit-and-run killing of a soldier near Montreal and of a gunman who killed an unarmed soldier in Ottawa.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, the little lost dog backed into the corner and showed its teeth. And what big teeth they were!...
broadcaster CBC said that four other Canadians from a single family of Somali origin died in recent months while fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria.

Three of the cousins are thought to have left Canada in October 2013, the CBC reported.

Ahmed Hirsi said his 20-year-old son Mahad was killed last fall along with cousins Hamsa and Hersi Kariye.

The CBC said another cousin from Minnesota, Hanad Abdullahi Mohallim, was also killed.

Hirsi said his son had called him from Egypt to say he was traveling to Syria.

Hamsa and Hersis brother confirmed the two men had died, but did not say how or where. He denied they had traveled to Syria and said instead they went to Egypt to study Islam.

That is the path my brothers wanted to take from day one, he told CBC.

These people left their country to go study their religion.

Canada has joined the US-led campaign against the Islamic State group, which has taken over large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria.

Last week, three were placed in durance vile
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
in Canada over serious potential threats, Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney said Tuesday.
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