On October 3, 2019 a knife-wielding employee killed three officers and one administrative worker at police headquarters in the centre of Paris.
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On this day in 2011 a suicide bomber in Iraq killed at least 27 people and wounded a further 20 in an attack on a bus carrying Shia pilgrims.
The recent explosion in Nashville has been deemed a ‘suicide bombing’. Was it?
If one nation decides to unilaterally take out another’s citizen what stops the desire for legitimate retribution?
I have three grown children who are all well-adjusted young adults thanks to their mother. None have followed me in their career choices, entailing that there will be no future Gurskis toiling for either CSE or CSIS or any other part of the Canadian intelligence community. While it would have been cool if one or […]
Tunisia presents an interesting case study when it comes to terrorism. The North African country was, of course, where the ‘Arab Spring’ began on December 18, 2010 (coincidentally my birthday!) when a crowd protested the self immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi who killed himself the day before when police had confiscated his wares and a female […]
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What to do with IS defectors?
Years ago when I first joined CSIS there was a veteran CT (counter terrorism) guy whom I’ll call Mike. He had been around a fair bit and I had a great deal of respect both for his experience and his insight into Islamist extremism. In all his time in the trenches he had seen a […]