TORONTO — A Canadian man previously banned from associating with Islamic State extremists has been killed as Canada’s national police force thwarted what they believed was a suicide bomb plot, a senior police official said. The suspect allegedly planned to use a bomb to carry out a suicide bombing in a public area, a senior Canadian police official said late Wednesday.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak ahead of a Thursday news conference, identified the suspect as Aaron Driver, a man in his mid-20s originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Driver had been under the spotlight for at least a year, as authorities believed he was a threat because he could help terror groups. The police operation involving Driver took place Wednesday night in the southern Ontario town of Strathroy, 140 miles southwest of Toronto.(nypost.com)…[+]