Is there a link between mental illness and terrorism? Yes, sometimes, but not as often as you would think.
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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.
Terrorism is a subject of interest like many others but what does the academic study of it really tell us? Not a lot from a practical standpoint.
Despite our Western-centric views on terrorism, it is an unavoidable fact that the vast majority of casualties from Muslim terrorists are other Muslims.
We in the West take editorial cartoons and lampooning for granted: terrorists don’t.
On January 1, 2016 more than 300 West African migrants, including Gambians, Senegalese and Nigerians, were massacred by ISIS in Libya.
On previous New Year’s Eve, terrorist attacks have indeed been carried out. Here is a sample.
CSIS rarely says a lot openly about what it knows: when it does it should be listened to.
On this day in 1993, three Azanian People’s Liberation Army operatives entered the Heidelberg Tavern and opened fire on the crowd, killing four students.
Are Islamist terrorists the only ones to use religion to justify violence?
As good as some law enforcement and security intelligence agencies are, some terrorist incidents are never resolved.