The Battle of Mosul was an attempt by the Iraqi Army and its allies to wrest control of the city from ISIS terrorists: ISIS massacred hundreds in response. Iraq has been a suffering nation for many, many years. When I began by career in intelligence in the early 1980s it was under the iron fist […]
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Moscow theatre hostage crisis ends when authorities pump poison gas into hall killing hundreds
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Godzilla, King of the Ecoterrorists?
Environmental activists’ frustration at a lack of meaningful action could lead to ecoterrorism
Canada was shocked by the killing of a soldier at the National Cenotaph by a homegrown terrorist
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Today in terrorism: October 20, 2014
It is indeed rare that I find myself writing about terrorism in my own country. I thankfully live in a land where political or religious violence is infrequent and even on those occasions where someone, or several someones, is plotting to do something violent we are blessed with a competent set of counter terrorism agencies […]
Canada has been abuzz lately on what to do with ‘Jihadi Jack’, a UK-Canadian who joined ISIS. What should we do with him and other ‘foreign fighters’? Listen to this extract of Episode 17 Should we make any effort to repatriate foreign fighters? of the podcast An Intelligent Look at Terrorism.
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The spy next door
The arrest of a senior Canadian intelligence official on allegations of stealing classified materials has shaken the international intelligence community.
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Today in terrorism: October 3, 1991
On this day in 1991, five black Muslim followers of JuF stood accused of conspiring to simultaneously blow up two Toronto Hindu buildings in an attempt to kill 4,500 people.
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Today in terrorism: October 1, 1910
On this day in 1910, a time bomb built of 16 sticks of connected to a cheap windup alarm clock exploded in an alley next to the Los Angeles Times.
In all the debates about what is more important today from a terrorism angle, i.e. where we should put the greatest concentration of resources to counter it, I find there is one glaring omission. As we go back and forth on whether to put all our eggs in the jihadi basket or the far right […]