We see our intelligence sector as there to protect us from threats like terrorism and foreign espionage – what about pandemics?
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.
Can scholars and security intelligence practitioners work better together? Phil Gurski talks with the University of Waterloo’s religion scholar Lorne Dawson.
On this day in 2010, at least 12 people, including a top local police official, were killed by two suicide bombings in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan.
If you commit a crime in a foreign country that country has the right to arrest, try, convict, and imprison you (or execute you for a capital offence). Why should terrorists be any different?
‘Experts’ can help Canadians understand national security and public safety threats, but only if they are truly knowledgeable.
On this day in 2016 Boko Haram terrorists killed six Nigerien (not ‘Nigerian’) soldiers in the Diffa region of southeastern Niger.
On this day in 2010, female suicide bombers are thought to have been behind an attack on the Moscow metro during the morning rush hour in which 38 people were killed.
On this day in 2011 a series of huge explosions at an ammunition plant in southern Yemen killed at least 150 people and wounded 45.
On this day in 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in during a seder in an Israeli hotel, killing at least 30, many of them children.
Intelligence agencies really should have more of a dialogue with those who support them financially, i.e. the taxpayers/citizens.