Juno News - October 29, 2019


Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was Canada’s enemy as well

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abu bakar al-Baghdadi being Canada's enemy
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The death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi got me thinking about the last time we were in a very similar situation, in 2011, when a president, a different president, made a similar announcement that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. special forces.

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00:00:00.000 watching the American president announced the death of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi got
00:00:17.160 me thinking about the last time we were in a very similar situation. It was 2011 and it was a
00:00:23.360 president, a different president, Barack Obama, making a similar announcement that Osama bin
00:00:28.820 Laden had been killed by U.S. special forces. What a sight, what a scene to see as people poured into
00:00:36.140 the streets of Times Square or ran out in front of the White House to chant USA, USA and celebrate
00:00:42.280 the fact that one of America's major enemies had been killed. There were only two live sporting
00:00:47.820 events that happened that Monday evening. One was a Major League Baseball game and the other was
00:00:52.000 Monday Night Raw, a wrestling event, and you could watch as the crowds at those events slowly learned
00:00:58.100 about it and started their chance. In the baseball game, the mood took over. There's a really
00:01:02.400 interesting sports documentary about that whole evening. It was fascinating to see. And at the end
00:01:07.060 of wrestling, to see John Cena make the announcement that Osama bin Laden had been killed.
00:01:12.140 We have caught and compromised to a permanent end, Osama bin Laden. 0.97
00:01:21.220 A real coming together for the United States and a real celebratory feeling. Now, Abubakar al-Baghdadi
00:01:35.380 did not unleash the sort of havoc that 9-11 unleashed on home soil in the United States,
00:01:40.400 but I still think there should be a similar mood happening right now, not just in the United States,
00:01:45.600 but in Canada as well. Some people are talking about this as if it's an abstract issue, a Middle
00:01:52.520 Eastern issue, just a sort of broad terrorism issue, and you can lump it in and file it in there
00:01:57.500 with that bigger category. Hold on a second, I say. Abubakar al-Baghdadi was an enemy of Canada.
00:02:04.000 He was an enemy to Canadians, and he unleashed havoc here. Just the other day, the day after the 0.88
00:02:11.440 federal election was the fifth anniversary of the shooting death of Corporal Nathan Cirillo,
00:02:16.880 the reservist who was killed at the National War Monument, October 22nd, 2014. The killer,
00:02:23.200 an ISIS terrorist, went on to storm the Parliament buildings. He managed to get to the hallway,
00:02:29.680 separating where the Conservatives, the government at the time under Stephen Harper, and the NDP were
00:02:34.560 meeting. They were having their regular weekly caucus meetings. Were it not for security forces
00:02:39.440 killing this ISIS terrorist? Well, he could have continued in his carnage. Now, the young man was 0.95
00:02:45.680 mentally ill. The young man was an addict. He had problems in his life. We're being told that quite a 0.99
00:02:50.640 lot in the news coverage. He was also an Islamic convert who fully committed to ISIS, who talked
00:02:57.040 about it with others, who was very aware of what Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was saying and said, sign me up.
00:03:02.800 I want to be a part of this. Now, this all happened around the same time that al-Baghdadi, he had proclaimed in
00:03:08.880 June that ISIS, the Islamic State, was the new caliphate, and he was the caliph. And he called on people,
00:03:17.120 attack the West. And when he made his calls for attack, he identified specific countries by name,
00:03:24.720 including Canada. This is a guy who said, attack Canada, and people took him up on his word. So we've got that,
00:03:33.840 and then we've also got the fact that hundreds of people in Canada, Canadian citizens, went abroad to Iraq
00:03:41.120 and Syria and elsewhere to join up with ISIS, to fight on that cause. Some of them were killed on
00:03:48.000 the battlefield. Some of them are there right now in prisons, rotting away. Others are trying to come
00:03:52.400 back to Canada. Some of them, dozens of them, 60, 70, 80 by various different counts, have returned home.
00:03:59.120 They are walking around freely on Canadian soil. And we are having quite a fractious debate right now
00:04:03.920 about what to do with those individuals. So Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, he is not just this
00:04:10.880 this sort of academic notion about terrorism. It's not something that's just happening over there on the
00:04:15.840 other side of the world that concerns them. It's not just about the United States. This is about Canada.
00:04:21.520 Baghdadi was an enemy of Canada as well. And now he has been killed. And we should celebrate that. 1.00