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Podcast Quick Hits

QUICK HITS 10 – Iranian Missiles

The Iran-US mini-conflict seems to have ebbed – what is really at stake here?

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Perspectives

Is it time to say ‘no!’ to ‘no-fly lists’?

There are a lot of tools in the anti-terrorism kit but we need to evaluate them all and perhaps get rid of some. This piece appeared in The Hill Times on January 02, 2020. You have to pity Adam Ahmad, the 10-year old boy who finds himself on Canada’s ‘no-fly list’. This counter terrorism tool, more informally […]

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Phil in the media

The Morning Rush – Boeing jet crashes in Iran hours after missile strike on U.S. base: “One hell of a coincidence”

Phil Gurski from Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting joins The Morning Rush to break down the latest breaking news from Iran.

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Perspectives

US assassination of IRGC General will do more harm than good

The decision to take Soleimani out points to a fundamental U.S. lack of understanding of the current terrorism threat and will lead to more, not fewer, deaths.

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January 5, 2002 | Airplane crash into Bank of America building in Tampa, Florida

We know that terrorist attacks can inspire others to act in similar ways but sometimes it is hard to tell if a given action is indeed terrorist in nature.

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Phil in the media

NewsTalk1010 – Tensions rising in Middle East in wake of drone strike on Iranian General Qassem Soleimani

The assassination of IRGC General Soleimani in a US airstrike will make terrorism worse, not better, and takes our eye off a larger threat: Sunni terrorism.

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What can the ivory tower tell us about terrorism?

Terrorism is a subject of interest like many others but what does the academic study of it really tell us? Not a lot from a practical standpoint.

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Books When Religion Kills

Book launch – When Religion Kills: How Extremist Justify Violence Through Faith

Are Islamist terrorists the only ones to use religion to justify violence?

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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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Is there really any point to terrorist listings?

We need to combat terrorism on a number of fronts but it is not clear how necessary terrorist entity listings are.