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Bombings in India (June 4, 2008)

Terrorists assume for themselves the right to target anyone and anything which upsets their religious and ethonationalist tenets.

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Nightclub Bombing in Tel Aviv (June 1, 2001)

On this day in 2001, a suicide bomber claimed by 3 separate Palestinian terrorist groups detonated a device outside a Tel Aviv disco killing 21 people.

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May 2, 2011 | Killing of AQ leader Usama bin Laden

Justice was served to some extent when US Navy Seals located and killed Al Qaeda terrorist leader and 9/11 mastermind Usama bin Laden in Pakistan in May 2011

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April 25, 2016 | Execution of Canadian Hostages in Philippines

On this day in 2016, Abu Sayyaf terrorists beheaded one Canadian and another later from a group of hostages they had seized in the southern Philippines.

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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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The challenges of gathering intelligence during a pandemic – addendum

Satellite imagery (aka imagery intelligence or IMINT) is a very useful tool in gathering data on what is happening during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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April 22, 1997 | Hostage Taking in Peru

On this day in 1997, a 4-month hostage taking at the Japanese Embassy in Peru ended with the deaths of 14 MRTA Marxist terrorists.

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No, Canada should not be selling arms to Saudi Arabia!

Canada should not sell arms to Saudi Arabia in light of the Kingdom’s human rights violations and brutal killing of Jamal Kashoggi.

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April 5, 1986 | Bombing at Berlin disco

On April 5, 1986 a bomb went off in a Berlin disco (yes, there were discos in Germany in 1986), killing three people and wounding more than 200.