Categories
Canadian Intelligence Eh!

A Belgian citizen’s view on terrorism

Episode 90 – How does someone who does not work in counter terrorism view large-scale attacks?

Categories
Perspectives

April 17, 1986: Jordanian plants bomb in pregnant fiancée’s luggage

On this day in 1986, Irishwoman Ann-Marie Murphy was arrested at Heathrow Airport in London by El Al Airlines security as she tried to board one of their planes to Israel. In a false bottom of Murphy’s bag, the security agent found 10 pounds of plastic explosives and a calculator rigged to act as a detonator.

Categories
Perspectives

Why is Canada so obsessed with so little terrorism?

For a land which sees so little terrorism our media and ‘national security experts’ appear to think – and react – differently.

Categories
Perspectives

April 10, 1992: PIRA detonates one-ton bomb in UK’s financial center

On this day in 1992, the PIRA detonated a one-ton homemade bomb hidden in a white van in front of the Baltic Exchange building at the heart of London’s financial district.

Categories
Perspectives

March 20, 1993: IRA bombing kills two children in the UK

On this day in 1993 two bombs planted in litter bins on a busy shopping street in Warrington detonated within minutes of each other, killing two children.

Categories
Video

UK woman who joined ISIS in Syria is denied return home by High Court

Shamima Begum: Return to UK ‘a security risk’

Categories
Perspectives

Are end-of-Earthers and conspiracy theorists that dangerous?

Why are many consumed with a sense of moral panic that conspiracy theorists constitute the next wave of terrorism?

Categories
Perspectives

Virtual event: How to Tackle Extremism in Prisons

1 March @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Categories
Canadian Intelligence Eh! Podcast

John Ferris: The Authorized history of GCHQ

Why would the Brits ask a Canadian to write their official SIGINT history?

Categories
Perspectives

Gulf State religious moderation falls by the wayside in Pakistan

Countries like Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar have so far turned a blind eye to mounting sectarian sentiment in Pakistan against Shiites and Ahmadis.