BEIRUT - The spokesman for the Islamic State group has praised the gunman who killed a Canadian soldier at the National War Memorial in October and is calling on Muslims living in Western countries to carry out attacks.
The spokesman says any loyalist who has the opportunity to "shed a drop of blood" should do so.
Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, in a nine-minute audio recording released Monday, praised recent attacks in Australia, Belgium and France -- where gunmen killed 12 people in an assault on the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo magazine.
He also praised the gunman who shot and killed an unarmed sentry at the War Memorial in Ottawa on Oct. 22 and then stormed the Parliament Hill's Centre Block before being killed by security forces, saying: "You all saw what one Muslim did in Canada and its infidel parliament."
Michael Zehaf Bibeau's killing of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo came just two days after another attack by a man with known jihadist sympathies who ran down a soldier in Quebec, Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent.
The attacks ingnited a debate on home-grown terrorism in Canada.
