If you are following what is happening in Afghanistan you will know two things: one, the US is engaged in ‘peace talks’ with Taliban terrorists and two, Taliban terrorists are continuing to kill on a daily basis. Should we talk ‘peace’ with terrorists? Borealis talks to a Canadian specialist on this issue, Kamran Bokhari. About […]
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Al Qaeda killed Afghan Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud on September 9, 2001 in what was seen as a harbinger of 9/11.
On this day in 2011, a NATO airstrike aimed at Taliban terrorists struck two houses and killed 14 civilians, including women and children.
Canada suffered casualties during its mission in Afghanistan and it is tragic that a Western departure will not bring peace.
As much as we can, and should, condemn terrorism, we have to admire the ingenuity of some terrorists.
Our focus on Western victims of Islamist terrorism is understandable but misplaced: the vast majority of those targeted are Muslim.
This piece appeared in The Hill Times on April 15, 2019 As all Canadians know, our country has a longstanding relationship with Afghanistan. In the aftermath of 9/11 the government decided to send our military, first special forces, then regular troops, to engage in what began as counter terrorism (CT) and ended as a combination […]
In January 1842 the British army suffered one of the most humiliating defeats in its history, a defeat memorialised in a painting entitled Remnants of an Army (shown above). The British were massacred in retreating from Kabul in what is now known as the First Anglo-Afghan War, part of the ‘Great Game’ between Imperial Russia […]
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I have come to know the journalist Michael Petrou over the past few years. He would sometimes call me to seek my views on terrorism when he was with Macleans magazine and I relied heavily on his book ‘Renegades’ – the story of Canadians in the Spanish Civil War – for a section of my […]
Episode 302 – How hard is it to leave a terrorist group? Joining a terrorist group has to be one of life’s more complicated decisions. Do I believe in the cause? Am I aware of what the group actually does? What if I change my mind? Can I get out or will I be killed […]