Here we go again. Another terrorist attack by someone ‘known to police’, this time in southwestern France. A Moroccan hijacked a car after shooting the driver and a passenger, followed some police officers jogging nearby, shot and wounded one, went to a local supermarket where he took hostages and shot several before a tactical squad […]
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I am fairly certain that I have mentioned on more than one occasion that I really enjoy the humour of Monty Python. One of the sillier skits – not that it is easy to choose just one – was when John Cleese plays a drill sergeant trying to teach recruits how to defend themselves against […]
Saudi Arabia gets a bad rap when it comes to terrorism, some of which may be misplaced and some of which is well-deserved. The self-proclaimed ‘birthplace of Islam” – yes, the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was a resident of what is now the Kingdom in the 6th and 7th centuries but the modern (?) Saudi state […]
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Thank God for incompetent terrorists
Yes, there are some very nasty terrorists who are very good at what they do, but there are also many who are only slightly above incompetent.
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When we fear everything is terrorism
There is a famous line in the 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz where the protagonist Dorothy, who has just landed in a strange country courtesy of a tornado, looks around and tells her dog Toto “we’re not in Kansas anymore”. That sentence has been used countless times over the decades and has come […]
Terrorism is a dirty, dangerous business. Terrorists are nasty people who engage in nasty acts. To thwart attacks you have to work with sources and groups whose reputations are, shall we say, unsavoury. As former CSIS Deputy Director Jack Hooper once said, however indelicately, “sometimes you have to take the ugly girl to the dance”. […]
This is a big year for us in Canada. Sure, we are a youngish nation and celebrating 150 years may sound quaint to our older international cousins, but it is a cause for celebration nonetheless. I am looking forward to the commemoration as I was six when we marked our centennial in 1967 and don’t […]
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Terrorism as political tool
Terrorism eats up a lot of our time as citizens and news consumers. IS. AQ. Boko Haram. Hizballah. Hindu extremists. Anti-abortion extremists. Boy, things have really changed since I was a kid. Sure there was the odd story about a hijacked airplane and the Troubles in Ireland, but it wasn’t a daily occurrence (maybe it […]