Four members of the Somali terrorist group Al Shabaab were able to sustain an 80-hour siege at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall killing 67 Kenyans.
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.
40 people were killed and another 250 injured when a truck bomb struck the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad.
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A better way to look at terrorism
A recent US case where a pair of ‘Boogaloo Bois’ tried to deal with the terrorist group Hamas has raised some interesting questions on US counter terrorism practice.
Libya is beleved to have been behind the 1988 downing of a French flight from Congo to Paris in which all 156 passengers and 14 crew were killed.
I was a guest on the RealPolitik podcast to discuss why Canadian intelligence community should focus on Islamic extremist terrorism. Have a listen!
A week after 9/11 a series of letters laced with anthrax were sent to US senators and news outlets, killing 5 and wounding 17: the case was never 100% solved.
A terrorist inspired by both ISIS and AQ placed three bombs in New York and New Jersey in September 2016, one of which detonated, wounding 39.
What if some accused of terrorist offences are not in fact terrorists at all? Borealis looks at the cases of Paul Rusesabagina and Eskinder Nega.
A Lebanese Christian group massacred hundreds and perhaps thousands of Shia Muslims in Beirut as the Israeli army looked on in September 1982.
Edward Snowden is painted as a courageous whistleblower and maybe he is. Yet there is little in life that is uniquely positive and this goes as well for the smashers of secrets.