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GWEN IFILL (NewsHour): Campbell Clark is chief political writer for The Globe and Mail newspaper.
I spoke to him a short time ago about the surprising attack in Canada’s capital.
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CAMPBELL CLARK, The Globe and Mail: Half-hour, hour, we have been hearing reports about who the shooter may have been. At least, there has been a name reported, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau. But we don’t know too much about him yet.
In fact, a lot of it is speculation. There is now though some suspicion that this is somebody who was probably inspired by sort of Islamist ideology and ISIL. That’s not confirmed, and the police certainly haven’t confirmed the identity yet.
GWEN IFILL: Well, let’s get back to what we do know about what happened today. There is a definite connection as far as we know between what happened at the war memorial and what happened at the Parliament; is that correct?
CAMPBELL CLARK: That’s correct, yes.
Now, there was somebody who was shot and killed at the war memorial, and then just a few minutes away at the Parliament buildings, there were shootings a few minutes later. It’s not clear if there was one shooter, two shooters, three shooters, but it appears that the person who did the shooting at the war memorial then ran towards the Parliament buildings.
There was a shooter. The person who was shot and killed was shot dead in the Parliament buildings, right in the main Hall of Honor, they call it in the Parliament buildings. So, you walk in the front door of the Parliament of Canada, and just down that hall, that is where…
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