{"id":48355,"date":"2014-10-22T09:38:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T14:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48355"},"modified":"2014-10-22T15:39:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T20:39:10","slug":"prayers-eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48355","title":{"rendered":"Prayers, Eh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Word arrives to us that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxdc.com\/story\/26856827\/police-man-shot-at-war-memorial-in-ottawa\">there&#8217;s been a shooting at the Canadian War Memorial<\/a>, with more shooting apparently inside the Canadian parliament building.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/C\/CN_CANADA_SHOOTING?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2014-10-22-10-23-35\">We are reminded <\/a>that two days ago, one Canadian soldier was killed and another injured when they were run down by a car in Quebec.\u00a0 The driver, according to Canadian news sources, had &#8220;Jihadist sympathies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/live.cbc.ca\/Event\/Ottawa_War_Memorial_shooting\">the CBC&#8217;s live blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 2:\u00a0 From the blog, a CBC reporter tweets:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2 men with long hair and scarves ran off after man wearing ceremonial guard uniform shot at War Monument this morning. #ottnews<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>UPDATE 3:\u00a0 <em>Highly <\/em>unconfirmed reports from Twitter say one shooter is dead.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 4: CVT news is rpoerting another shooting on Parliament hill.\u00a0 This is unconfirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 5:\u00a0 Reports say &#8220;several dozen&#8221;, perhaps &#8220;30 to 50&#8221;, shots were fired in the Parliament after the shooting of the Canadian soldier at the War Memorial.\u00a0\u00a0 As of a minute ago, it&#8217;s still an active shooter situation.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 6:\u00a0 Following situation on Twitter.\u00a0 The Ottawa Police don&#8217;t have any better luck with perimeters than CTU does on &#8220;24&#8221;; the perimeter for an apparently second (or more) gunman\/men has been widened.\u00a0 Photos of police searching cars on bridges around Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 7:\u00a0 Reports say one shooter is on the roof of a building about a block from Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 8:\u00a0 A reporter shot this video from inside Parliament as the police found one shooter.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XrGqoISd-do\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>All that marble &#8211; the echo alone is a weapon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine the training it&#8217;d take to make one run <em>toward<\/em> that noise.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 9: The shooter in parliament was apparenetly shot by the Sergeant at Arms, a Mr. Kevin Vickers.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 10:\u00a0 The <em>NYTimes <\/em>reported that the Canadian soldier shot at the War Memorial had died.\u00a0 This is disputed by Canadian sources.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll bank on the Times being wrong, as always in these situations.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 11:\u00a0 The CBC is naming the shooter as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Clearly a Part\u00e9 Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois terrorist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word arrives to us that there&#8217;s been a shooting at the Canadian War Memorial, with more shooting apparently inside the Canadian parliament building.\u00a0 We are reminded that two days ago, one Canadian soldier was killed and another injured when they were run down by a car in Quebec.\u00a0 The driver, according to Canadian news sources, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,131,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48355"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48357,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48355\/revisions\/48357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}