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January 19, 2012 | Bombing of refugee camp in Somalia

On this day in 2012 a bomb blast killed two Somali policemen and four refugees close to a camp for displaced people in Mogadishu.

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So why don’t terrorists attack nuclear power plants?

Terrorists want to have the biggest impact possible – so why don’t they attack nuclear plants?

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January 10, 2017 | Taliban attack near Afghan parliament kills more than 30

On January 10, 2017 terrorists launched a suicide attack near Kabul Parliament in which more than 30 people were killed and a further 70 wounded.

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January 6, 2014 | Massacre in Nigeria

On January 6, 2014, a massacre took place in a village in Nigeria’s Plateau State. Thirty-three people were slaughtered by men wielding guns and machetes.

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January 2, 2010: Attempted murder of Danish cartoonist behind ‘Muhammad satire’

We in the West take editorial cartoons and lampooning for granted: terrorists don’t.

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Maybe Canadians should listen to CSIS when it talks about China

CSIS rarely says a lot openly about what it knows: when it does it should be listened to.

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West Africa is bucking the downward trend in terrorist deaths

Recent reports that deaths from terrorism are significantly down do not seem to apply to Africa.

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Northwest Airlines underwear bomber – December 25, 2009

On Christmas Day 2009, Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab boarded a Northwest Airlines flight with a device hidden in his underware and failed to detonate it.

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Suicide attack in Afghanistan kills eight – December 24, 2009

As much as we can, and should, condemn terrorism, we have to admire the ingenuity of some terrorists.

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US ‘national security’ concerns are adversely affecting Canadian-American relations

The powers the US has on Canadian soil to ‘protect’ national security’ should make us think twice about going there. At the risk of being the nostalgic old fart in the room I am going to tell a story. When I was young, growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, my father and I would […]