On this day in 2014, an 18-year old Australian ISIS wannabe stabbed two Melbourne police officers days after the terrorist group called on followers to do so.
Phil Gurski, Canadian intelligence veteran and author on five books about terrorism joins David to discuss the sources of terror, the war on terror and much more.
ISIS claimed a gun attack on a military parade in the SW Iranian city of Ahvaz in September 2018 in which 25 civilians were killed.
As the trial of Brenton Tarrant comes to a close questions were asked. What did the authorities know? Could they have prevented it?
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What 9/11 did, and did not, bring us
The 19th anniversary of 9/11 should make us take stock of where we are and convince us that terrorism is notr as dire as some say it is.
Four members of the Somali terrorist group Al Shabaab were able to sustain an 80-hour siege at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall killing 67 Kenyans.
40 people were killed and another 250 injured when a truck bomb struck the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad.
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A better way to look at terrorism
A recent US case where a pair of ‘Boogaloo Bois’ tried to deal with the terrorist group Hamas has raised some interesting questions on US counter terrorism practice.
Libya is beleved to have been behind the 1988 downing of a French flight from Congo to Paris in which all 156 passengers and 14 crew were killed.
I was a guest on the RealPolitik podcast to discuss why Canadian intelligence community should focus on Islamic extremist terrorism. Have a listen!