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Dead Canada attack suspect prepared martyrdom video

Posted at 8:33 AM, Aug 12, 2016
and last updated 2016-08-12 08:33:50-04

TORONTO (AP) — The Islamic State group is calling a Canadian man who was allegedly planning an attack a “soldier of the Islamic State.”

A tip from the FBI sent Canadian police scrambling to identify and locate a would-be suicide bomber they feared was on the verge of committing a terror attack in Canada.

Aaron Driver, who had previously been banned from associating with extremists, was killed when he detonated an explosive device in a taxi as officers shot at him Wednesday.

Authorities say Driver had prepared a martyrdom video.