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Eight dead as bombers target western-owned Jakarta hotels (July 17, 2009)

The Indonesian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah is believed to be behind the July 2009 bombings at two hotels in Jakarta in which eight people were killed.

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Why can’t Canada deport a terrorist?

Al Qaeda member Mohamed Harkat should have been sent back to his native Algeria decades ago: why is he still here in Canada?

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Bomb attack in Angola (July 15, 1984)

On this day in 1984, former Angolan independence war partner UNITA bombed an oil pipeline killing 22 people as part of the Angolan civil war.

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Indonesian police shoot dead three suspected militants (July 14, 2018)

On this day in 2018, Indonesian counter terrorism police foiled a plot by JAD Islamist terrorists in the Java city of Yogyakarta.

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Al Shabaab bombings in Uganda (July 12, 2010)

Al Shabaab killed 74 Ugandans gathered to watch the 2010 World Cup to put pressure on that nation to withdraw its forces serving with AMISOM in Somalia.

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Train bombings in India (July 11, 2006)

The Indian Mujahideen were believed responsible for 7 near simultaneous pressure cooker bombs on commuter trains in Mumbai which killed nearly 200 people.

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Podcast Quick Hits

Former Toronto 18 member Saad Gaya asks to be removed from no-fly list

Should convicted terrorists like Toronto 18 member Saad Gaya get a second chance? Former Security Service Analyst Phil Gurski weighs in.

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Herdsmen attacks leave 81 dead in Nigeria (July 10, 2016)

On this week in 2016, Fulani herdsmen massacred 81 Dogon people in Nigeria’s Benue State.

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ISIS execution in Syria (July 9, 2016)

On this day in 2016, the terrorist group ISIS beheaded four football players in Raqqa, Syria after having declared that sport are ‘un-Islamic’.

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Suicide bombing at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria (July 8, 2016)

On this day in 2016, Boko Haram terrorists pretending to be mosque attendees detonated suicide vests in Nigeria, killing nine and wounding dozens.