The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) discovered a video made by Ottawa shooter Michael Zehaf-Bibeau a week before his attack at the Canadian Parliament building, confirming his ideological and political motives.

Right after Zehaf-Bibeau's shooting spree, the RCMP uncovered the shooter's links with the Middle East since his father is Libyan, while he had planned to travel to Syria to undergo radicalization training based on his application for a passport.

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Susan Bibeau, the Canadian mother of the shooter, confirmed to the RCMP that her son wanted to go to Syria, not to Saudi Arabia to study the Qu'ran, as erroneously reported by Postmedia News based on an error in transcribing RCMP's interview with the mother.

The RCMP also found the shooter's source of funds, which are savings sourced from his salaries at refining companies at oil fields in Alberta. RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson said on Sunday that the Mounties are still analyzing the video for evidence.

The Ottawa Citizen quoted Paulson as saying they cannot yet release the shooter's self-made video as of this moment.

CBC reports that the video appears to have been made on Tuesday or a day before the before the shooting spree and Zehaf-Bibeau referred to Canada's foreign policy as his motive for his action.

Investigators are still tracing the origin of the weapon that Zehaf-Bibeau used at the National War Memorial to kill Cpl. Nathan Cirillo. However, they said he could have used a knife which he took from his aunt's house in Mont Tremblant, Quebec, where he used to live for some time.

The RCMP added that the shooter could have also hidden the .30-30 Winchester gun in Quebec, where his aunt owns a property. The Mounties are also investigating people whom Zehaf-Bibeau interacted with days before the attack.

"The investigation is focusing on whether these interactions could have contributed or facilitated, in any way, the terrorist attack subsequently committed by Zehaf-Bibeau," the RCMP explained.

The RCMP is confident it could release an authoritative and detailed account of the incident, including the reconstruction of the heroic action taken by people involved, in the coming weeks, Paulson detailed.

Meanwhile, the funeral of Cirillo - the victim of Zehaf-Bibeau's shooting spree while the soldier was standing as ceremonial guard at the monument - is scheduled on Tuesday, Oct. 28. The regimental funeral is preceded by a public visitation at the Markey-Demody Funeral Home in Cirillo's hometown in Hamilton, Ontario, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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