While frustrating, we have to allow time for investigations to establish motive for attacks before jumping to conclusions: why don’t politicians get this?
Author: Phil Gurski
Phil Gurski is the President and CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting Ltd. Phil is a 32-year veteran of CSE and CSIS and the author of six books on terrorism.
A slow week in terrorism with only six attacks and few mass casualty ones. Again, not a single far right attack anywhere, a trend that is continuing.
Policing in the West has taken quite a few hits of late. Does it need rethinking? Maybe we should hear what a former police commissioner has to say
What do we do with a UN refugee agency that appears to be in cahoots with a jihadi organisation?
You would think that a government would list terrorist groups for specific reasons (prosecution among them). Is it as easy as all that?
More than 70 people killed in terrorist attacks this week, the vast majority at the hands of jihadis: again not one single right wing attack anywhere
Afghanistan is now again under the medieval reign of the Taliban: what does this mean for the country and the region?
Governments in liberal, secular democracies cannot run roughshod over fundamental rights and the law, even where national security is involved.
Hindu extremism is a growing problem in India: do we have to have to worry about attacks outside South Asia?
Jihadis dominated the global terrorist scene once again, although a cult-like group in DRC did carry out two attacks. RWE? Zero.