Mom: I cry for victims, not son

As reported in 'The Japan News' : The Associated Press, OTTAWA (AP) — The mother of the gunman who carried out the deadly attack on Canada’s seat of government said Thursday that she is crying for the victims of the shooting rampage, not her son. In a brief and tear-filled telephone interview with The Associated Press, Susan Bibeau said she did not know what to say to those hurt in what authorities are calling a terrorist attack by a recent convert to Islam. “Can you ever explain something like this?” she said. “We are sorry.” In a separate e-mail to the AP expressing horror and sadness at what happened, Bideau said that her son seemed lost and “did not fit in,” and that she hadn’t seen him for more than five years before they spoke over lunch last week. “So I have very little insight to offer,” she said. His mother, who has homes in Montreal and Ottawa, said she was devastated for the victims of the attack. “If I’m crying, it’s for the people,” she said, struggling to hold back tears. “Not for my son.” Elizabeth May, the leader of the Green party, said in Parliament that the attacks were probably “the acts of isolated, disturbed and deeply troubled men who were drawn to something crazy.” “I do not believe that it was a vast network, or that the country is more at risk today than it was last week,” May said.Speech