[CBCnews.com] Suicide bomber killed in Iraq part of wider jihadi base in Calgary

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Suicide bomber killed in Iraq part of wider jihadi base in Calgary
Salman Ashrafi, killed in 2013 suicide attack, lived in same building as 4 other extremist fighters

CBC News Posted: Jun 03, 2014 8:59 PM ET | Last Updated: Jun 03, 2014 9:31 PM ET

Homegrown extremism abroad has a new face, and CBC News has learned it belongs to yet another Calgary man, a development that points to the West as a hotbed for exporting jihadis.

His name is Salman Ashrafi, and when the Al-Qaeda splinter group ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) released images of him last month following a double suicide bombing in Iraq in November that killed 46 people, he was celebrated in a martryrdom notice.

Only then, he was known as Abu Abdullah Al Khorasani.

CBC News has confirmed that Al Khorasani was Ashrafi's nom de guerre and that he was a Canadian citizen who grew up in the Stampede City, where he went to school and worked.

The Calgarian's story is one of as many as two dozen others, most of whom left to battle alongside rebel militants in Syria.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/suicid...gary-1.2663890

This is the first I've heard about any of this. Is there anything to the CBC's contention that Calgary is becoming known as a source of jihadi terrorists?