On Christmas Day 2009, Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab boarded a Northwest Airlines flight with a device hidden in his underware and failed to detonate it.
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.
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Back on popular demand, this course examines the terrorist threat to Canada (and how it is being managed) with a series of short lectures and case studies.
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The seventh annual Global Terrorism Index covers key global trends and patterns in terrorism.
On December 21, 1998 Pan Am flight 103 came down on Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 passengers and 11 residents on the ground.
While we have come to expect heightened security cordons these days we might want to make sure they are all necessary.