On this day in 2016, both the Taliban and ISIS claimed a suicide bomber who killed 16 locally-engaged security guards at the Canadian embassy in Kabul.
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On this day in 1985, the Abu Nidal Organisation was believed to have been behind the bombing at Frankfurt Airport in which 3 people, including 2 children, were killed.
On this day in 2018, members of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army brutally dismembered a camp leader in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh.
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CSIS and accusations of Islamophobia
Accusations that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is Islamophobic do not take into account facts that Canadians have become jihadis.
Terrorism means many things to many people and we may be heading down an unhelpful pathway.
On this day in 1974, the leftist Weather Underground bombed the HQ of the Gulf Oil Company in Pittsburgh to protest the firm’s actions in Angola.
On this day in 1956, a CIA officer posing as a US diplomat was killed by a terrorist bomb in a cafe in Nicosia, Cyprus in a case of mistaken identity.
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Intelligence and the next pandemic
The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought into the foreground the need to plan for the next one and the role of intelligence agencies.
On this day in 1996, the PIRA set off a three-tonne truck bomb in downtown Manchester UK, injuring more than 200 but killing no one.
One person was killed and seven wounded when a bomb was tossed a them outside a mosque in Tanzania’s Zanzibar region in what looked like a terrorist attack.