Quick Hits 180 – Carleton criminology department cuts ties with police and prisons
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 December 2, 2008 the KLNLF bombed an Indian passenger train in India’s Assam State, killing five persons including a child and injured 34 others.
Episode 115 – Phil talks with NSA veteran linguist Mark Ericson on these matters.
On December 1, 2018 four lumber trucks were torched by Mapuches in Chile’s Malleco Province, injuring one driver.
On November 30, 1984 the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam entered two villages in NE Sri Lanka and massacred a total of 82 people, including women and children.
On November 29, 2018 at least 15 police officers and civilians were killed in western Ethiopia by Oromo Liberation Front terrorists
On November 28, 2002 a car crashed through the front of a Kenyan hotel, killing 13 and wounding 80: an attack on an aircraft taxiing failed.
On November 27, 2009 the Moscow-St Petersburg Nevsky Express crashed near the town of Bologoye, killing 25 and wounding another 63.
On November 26, 2018 Al Shabaab sent two suicide bombers to kill a Sufi preacher in of Mogadishu for playing music: in all 18 died.
Sometimes the need to ensure public safety and national security require ‘taking the ugly date to the dance’.