On this day in 2013, two converts to Islam convicted of a pressure cooker terrorism plot to occur in British Columbia on Canada Day. They were later acquitted.
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When you hear someone say that terrorism has ‘changed’ and that we have to change with it be skeptical. Nothing really has changed over 150 years with the sole exception of technology.
On this day in 1985, Sikh extremists perpetrated the single greatest terrorist act in history when they placed a bomb on an Air India flight, killing 329.
Terrorism means many things to many people and we may be heading down an unhelpful pathway.
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Intelligence and the next pandemic
The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought into the foreground the need to plan for the next one and the role of intelligence agencies.
The 2nd part of an interview with terrorism specialist Phil Gurski on religions that become hazardous. This episode discusses Judaism, Zionism, Anti-Semitism, Atheism, Marxism, the role of CSIS, etc.
On this day in 2006, Canadian police arrested 18 people in what was a plot to detonate three fertiliser bombs around Toronto.
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Privacy and our spy agencies
Spies act in the shadows for obvious reasons: does this mean they are constrained by privacy issues?
Everyone is free to express their opinion on terrorism but only a former (or current) counter terrorism practitioner can weigh in on investigations.
On this day in 2011, a NATO airstrike aimed at Taliban terrorists struck two houses and killed 14 civilians, including women and children.