The FBI, protecting foreign countries since 2008. Update to this previous story.
Via The Guardian:
Troubled by his posts online that praised Isis and his correspondence with militants plotting attacks around the world, Canadian officials began watching Aaron Driver in 2014.
They soon went one step further, imposing a strict set of restrictions including reporting regularly to police and staying off social media.
But when Driver, 24, released a video in which he pledged allegiance to Isis and warned of an imminent attack on a Canadian city, it was US officials who alerted Canada.
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Read more“That would be one of the questions, if I was the minister,” said Ray Boisvert, a former assistant director of intelligence at the Canadian security and intelligence service. “How come the FBI had to tell us? How much investigative activity was the FBI doing against a Canadian and what can we do, moving forward, to prevent these things from happening?”
Within hours of being tipped off by the FBI, the Royal Canadian mounted police (RCMP) had surrounded the home where Driver was living in Strathroy, a small Ontario town some 140 miles south-west of Toronto.
Police watched as a taxi pulled up to the home and Driver got in carrying a backpack and asked to be taken to a shopping mall in the city of London, a 40-minute drive away. As police closed in, Driver detonated an explosive device, leaving the taxi driver with minor injuries and shredding the back seat of the car.
One shot was fired by an officer, and an autopsy will be carried out to determine whether Driver died by police gunfire or shrapnel from the explosion.
The events have sparked questions over Canada’s capabilities to address homegrown terrorism. One possible explanation is that US law enforcement officials simply have more resources than Canadian agencies, Boisvert said. “They have a larger span of control over those types of resources, they have more money, they have greater authority to do those things because the level of tolerance in the United States is different from the level of tolerance in Canada.”
Police said that while Driver was under supervision, there was no indication in the days leading up the attack that he was planning anything.
HT: BCF