A little know Arab terrorist group engaged in a series of bombings against commercial establishments in Paris in 1985-86 to push for freeing prisoners.
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.
One year already! Borealis reflects on 365 terrorist attacks over history, one for each calendar day.
September 11, 2001 was a Tuesday. And a glorious Tuesday it was. I had walked to my job at CSIS – the Canadian Security Intelligence Service – as was my usual practice.
Maoist Naxalite terrorists were believed behind the derailment of a Delhi-Calcutta express rrain in 2002 in which as many as 200 were killed.
Al Qaeda killed Afghan Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud on September 9, 2001 in what was seen as a harbinger of 9/11.
When you read about an act of violence, do you assume the perpetrator is mentally ill? Borealis talks to Canadian forensic psychiatrist Peter Collins to shed light on these issues.
Hindu extremists were behind a number of bicycle bombs that killed 40 at a Muslim cemetery in NE Indian town of Malegaon.
We have laws for good reasons, but when it comes to terrorism it seems these laws do not serve us well. Here are a few exemples.
On this day in 1995, Algeria’s GIA terrorist group exploded a car bomb outside a Jewish school in Lyon, France, injuring 14
A lot of experts are not experts. Take the term ‘self-radicalisation’: it is a myth. Two recent cases illustrate why radicalisers are so important.