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Podcast 38 – A talk with former CSIS Director Ward Elcock

Ward Elcock was the Director of CSIS from 1994 to 2004 and saw the organisation through 9/11 and its aftermath. He joins Borealis to reflect on his years in security intelligence and where we are going next.

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April 24, 1975 | Hostage Crisis in Sweden

Members of the German Baader Meinhof terrorist group stormed the German Embassy in Sweden in an attempt to get Germany to free incarcerated members.

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April 23, 2013 | Massacres in Iraq

Over four days in April 2013, more than 330 Iraqis were killed and close to 600 wounded in terrorist attacks and other forms of violence.

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April 19, 1995 | Bombing of Federal Building in Oklahoma

On this day in 1995, an American rightwing terrorist exploded a truck bomb outside a federal building in Oklahoma killing 168 people, including children.

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April 17, 1999 | Neo-Nazi bombings in London

Nail bombs planted by a neo-Nazi in London in 1999 killed 3 and wounded 139 people

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April 12, 2008 | Bombing of mosque in Shiraz, Iran

An Iranian monarchist group was behind a bombing at a mosque in Shiraz in 2008 that killed 12 and wounded 200

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April 11, 2002 | Bombing at Ghriba Synagogue in Tunisia

Al Qaeda followed up 9/11 with a terrorist attack on the Djerba Ghriba synagogue in Tunisia where a suicide bomber detonated a truck killing 19 people.

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April 7, 2017 | Truck attack in Stockholm

On this day in 2017 a man drove a stolen beer truck into a crowd of people in a popular shopping district in Stockholm, killing four people.

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Peace in Afghanistan? Not likely in our time

Canada suffered casualties during its mission in Afghanistan and it is tragic that a Western departure will not bring peace.

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April 2, 2015 | Attack on Kenyan University

On this day in 2015, Al Shabaab terrorists besieged Garissa University in northeastern Kenya. Four gunmen stormed the campus and began firing indiscriminately.