What happens when you gather together a former Al Qaeda bombmaker, a guy who wanted to be a monk and a former CSIS analyst to talk about terrorism?
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.
On this day in 2016, Mohamed Barry went into the Nazareth Restaurant & Deli and proceeded to stab four people with a machete.
Terrorism usually ‘makes sense’ when you analyse it enough: sometimes it does not. TODAY IN TERRORISM — You all know the old saying “if a tree falls in a forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?” This phrase has been used for many years to distinguish between […]
On this day in 2016 two attacks by the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram took place in areas where anyone with a sense of decency would see as verboten.
Whatever you think of policing it is a hard job: it is harder when they are targeted by terrorists. TODAY IN TERRORISM — What kind of experiences have you had with the police? Good ones? Bad ones? Neither good nor bad? Not surprisingly I have had almost universal good experiences. I used to brief local […]
On this day in 2017 a suicide bombing near the Afghan Supreme Court in central Kabul killed more than a dozen people and wounded many more.
Every nation has a sovereign right to determine who gets in: immigration is still a net gain for us however.
On this day in 2004 a bomb exploded inside a crowded subway train during the morning rush in Moscow, killing at least 39 people and wounding more than 130.
Terrorism and war are often seen as different but this does not mean that the former cannot occur during the latter. War has been part of the human condition since…well, since forever I would think. Remember that iconic scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey where a bunch of half-ape/half-humans are sitting around minding their own […]
Categories
Can we talk with terrorists?
Sometimes we have to do things we really would rather not: negotiating with terrorists may be one of them.