GREAT! Second attack in Canada.

Details are still emerging about gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the Quebec-born man that had recently converted to Islam. After killing Cirillo, Zehaf-Bibeau calmly jumped in a vehicle and made the 400-yard trek from the War Memorial to Parliament Hill. He then entered the Centre Block, which is where the majority of Members of Parliament and Senators have their offices. Zehaf-Bibeau was able to get troublingly close to where the three federal parties were having their weekly caucus meetings before being killed by the House of Commons Sergeant-at-Arms. Images later emerged showing that Conservative caucus members had piled tables and chairs several feet high to barricade themselves in the room they occupied.

The unprecedented attack marked the second time in three days that a Canadian solider had been killed, and while there is nothing to suggest that the two incidents are connected, the similar style of ‘lone wolf’ attack has authorities on both sides of the border concerned.

Earlier this week in Quebec, Martin Couture-Rouleau laid in wait for at least two hours in his car in a parking lot before running down two soldiers, killing one and injuring the other. Rouleau, who was later killed by police, had also recently converted to Islam and had been on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s (RCMP) radar for at least five months. In July, the assailant was arrested and his passport confiscated as he tried to board a plane for Turkey. He was never charged but had been interviewed by police as recently as two weeks before the attack. CNN has reported that like Couture-Rouleau, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau also had his passport confiscated by Canadian authorities.