There appears to be an ISIS affiliate in the DRC that is carrying out terrorist acts The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a huge central African country that is both blessed and cursed. It has abundant natural resources, including deposits of cobalt, copper, diamond, tantalum, tin, gold and coltan, the latter of which is […]
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Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by Sikh bodyguards in retaliation for Golden Temple siege.
Bangladeshi Islamist terrorist group suspected in 13 near simultaneous bombs that kill 66 in Assam. I often wonder why countries or governments make what are known as ‘own goals’ or unforced errors. These are decisions or policies taken for what appear on the surface to be good reasons, at least by some, but which end […]
Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi has been killed by US Special Forces but ISIS will live on.
Six killed by suicide bomber at market in Israel; attack by Islamic Jihad
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 […]
Moscow theatre hostage crisis ends when authorities pump poison gas into hall killing hundreds
US Marines in Beirut suffer catastrophic bombing in October 1983
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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 […]
On this day in 1970, Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte, who had been kidnapped seven days earlier, was found dead in the trunk of a car.