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Who decides what is a serious national security threat: intelligence professionals or bureaucrats?

When a senior intelligence official appears to do a 180 to satisfy government views on how to interpret threat it is a sad day for national security professionals.

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When democracies embrace terrorists

Several leaders of democracies are stooping to include terrorists and violent extremist groups in their administrations: this ain’t good.

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No, Canada should NOT rush to repatriate ISIS terrorists

Despite a robust fan club for ‘ISIS brides’ there are very good reasons NOT to repatriate these terrorists to Canada.

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Global Terrorism This Week (GTTW): October 31 – November 6

Once again, jihadis were responsible for every single terrorist attack in the world during the week of October 31-November 6, 2022

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Global Terrorism This Week (GTTW) – October 24-30, 2022

Islamist terrorists once again carried out the lion’s share of attacks around the world, a trend which shows no signs of ebbing.

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Global Terrorism This Week (GTTW) – October 17-23, 2022

Jihadist attacks again dominated global terrorism from October 17-23; nary a right-wing attack anywhere (again)

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Global Terrorism This Week (GTTW) – October 10-16, 2022

Thought of the week – Enough with the ‘war on terrorism’! Humans have a nasty tendency to declare war on things. Drugs. Poverty. Teenage pregnancy. The list goes on and on and on… And, lest we forget, the War on Terrorism that came into vogue after 9/11. Except that, unlike the war on poverty, say, […]

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Global Terrorism This Week (GTTW): October 3-9, 2022

Global Terrorism This Week: October 3-9, 3022. Heavy domination by Islamist terrorists worldwide – again!

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Global Terrorism This Week (GTTW): September 26 – October 2, 2022

Terrorist trends around the world continue to show a significant focus on Islamist extremism as jihadis carry out the vast majority of attacks.

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Global Terrorism This Week (GTTW) – September 19-25, 2022

Once again global terrorism was heavily by dominated – in fact 100% the work of – jihadis