Moscow theatre hostage crisis ends when authorities pump poison gas into hall killing hundreds
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.
Godzilla, King of the Ecoterrorists?
Environmental activists’ frustration at a lack of meaningful action could lead to ecoterrorism
US Marines in Beirut suffer catastrophic bombing in October 1983
Canada was shocked by the killing of a soldier at the National Cenotaph by a homegrown terrorist
How many people take the bus to work in the morning (or you can substitute commuter train if it is appropriate)? I am guessing that the answer is a lot. It is environmentally-friendly in that it removes cars from the road and thus uses less fuel. And with the push for more electric buses we […]
Today in terrorism: October 20, 2014
It is indeed rare that I find myself writing about terrorism in my own country. I thankfully live in a land where political or religious violence is infrequent and even on those occasions where someone, or several someones, is plotting to do something violent we are blessed with a competent set of counter terrorism agencies […]
How far would you go to prevent something bad from happening? Here is a small example. Let’s say you were walking downtown and came across a man and a woman arguing. As you went by you noticed things were getting more heated. Voices were raised and tempers skyrocketed. There was some physical contact (fingers pointed […]
Retired from CSIS, author Phil Gurski writes about the threat of terrorism in Canada in “The Threat from Within”.
Canada has been abuzz lately on what to do with ‘Jihadi Jack’, a UK-Canadian who joined ISIS. What should we do with him and other ‘foreign fighters’? Listen to this extract of Episode 17 Should we make any effort to repatriate foreign fighters? of the podcast An Intelligent Look at Terrorism.
On this day in 1977, German businessman Hanns Martin Schleyer was killed by the Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction).