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This afternoon the RCMP released the full video made by Michael Zehaf Bibeau, on the morning he stormed Parliament Hill. The RCMP originally released a version of the video back in March, in which 18 seconds were edited out. Police say they cut 13 seconds from the start and five from the end, in order to give themselves more time to analyze the dialect of Arabic Zehaf-Bibeau was speaking. Investigators originally believed those portions might explain how he became radicalized, but instead they include mostly prayers to Allah and curses at those he targets.
In the video Zehaf-Bibeau urges others to attack countries such as Canada, and then rattles off several names. He recorded the video in his car before gunning down Hamilton’s Corporal Nathan Cirillo, and then storming Centre Block where he was shot to death. There was also an internal review done into the police’s response to the deadly shooting… and it revealed there was a lot of confusion and chaos. According to the report, one mountie, sworn to protect the Parliament, was texting and didn’t notice Zehaf-Bibeau carjack a vehicle and drive up to the Peace Tower.
Security analyst David Hyde says the report suggests security and police forces don’t have enough training. “There seems to be some confusion over roles of responsibilities. A term that we use in the security industry called unity of command – and it’s fairly important that we know who’s in charge, who’s role it is to do what in the emergency or crisis situation. What it appears here is there was different security groups, common security, senate security, the RCMP is separate. They’re all reporting to different chains of command and they haven’t obviously gotten an inter-operable way of knitting all this together to know who should be doing what in what way would suggest to me there was a lot of crossed lines in terms of communication and coordination and not a lot of drills and exercises.”