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December 14, 1976: Leftist assassination in Greece of police officer

The leftist November 17 Revolutionary Organisation claimed the assassination of a Greek police officer in Athens in December 1976

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December 13, 1921: Anarchist bombing at Bessarabian castle

Perhaps as many as 300 people were killed at the Siguranzia Palace in Bessarabia in December 1921 in an attack blamed on ‘conspirators’

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Intelligence sharing is threatened when all don’t play by the rules

The Cameron Ortis case reminds us that when we agree to receive intelligence from an ally we need to protect it

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December 12, 1969: Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan

At least 17 people were killed and another 88 killed in a bombing at the Piazza Fontana in Milan in December 1969

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December 11, 1971: IRA bombing in Belfast

In what appeared to be a tit-for-tat attack, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) bombed a furniture store in Belfast in December 1971, killing four

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Why does Canada keep letting terrorists out of prison?

Canada has an appallingly weak record when it comes to keeping terrorists in prison

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December 10, 2016: ISIS suicide bombing in Yemen

An Islamic State affiliate in Yemen was behind a suicide bombing in Aden that killed 50 and wounded another 70

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December 9, 2004: Bombing of Russian pipeline

Suspected Islamist terrorists may have used an artillery shell to damage a Russian gas pipeline in December 2004, injuring 22 people

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December 8, 2003: Sovereign citizen attack in South Carolina

Self-proclaimed ‘sovereign citizens’ killed two South Carolina police officers in a dispute over land rights in December 2003

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Debunking deradicalisation programs for terrorists

Will it ever be possible for us to determine to any degree of certainty that a terrorist has fully abandoned the violent ideology that made him one?