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Originally Posted by Flabbibulin

Ya, putting aside the mistake about multiple gunmen, several media outlets have reported about the increased online chatter in the days before the event. A guest on AM770 was talking about it earlier.

I post this simply as context to the ISIS chatter not necessarily in relation to the events in Ottawa today.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/isis...arns-1.2792121

he threat of ISIS to Canada is real, but Canada's spy agency has no information suggesting it's imminent, CSIS director Michel Coulombe told the House public safety committee on Wednesday.

The comment by Coulombe, head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), runs counter to repeated warnings by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other government MPs that jihadists from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria could attack Canada.


"It does pose a real threat, but like I mentioned, we have no information indicating an imminent attack," Coulombe told MPs.


"We don't want to sound alarmist. We're telling people that they should go about their daily life, but we have to be vigilant," he said.


NBC News reported Wednesday that its sources said Canadian authorities tracking would-be terrorists heard them discussing potential ISIS-inspired “knife and gun” attacks against U.S. and Canadian targets inside Canada.


NBC reporter Pete Williams told CBC News Network's Heather Hiscox on Thursday that one of the plots targeted a shopping mall, but that authorities stepped in at the very early stages, before there was even a timeline planned for an attack. NBC sources described the attack planning as being at the "aspirational" stage.