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What makes a good analyst?

There is far too much information to process: what is the analysts’ best way to wade through it all?

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Terrorism is becoming complicated… again!

When you hear someone say that terrorism has ‘changed’ and that we have to change with it be skeptical. Nothing really has changed over 150 years with the sole exception of technology.

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Al Khobar Towers bombings in Saudi Arabia (June 25, 1996)

The US has always blamed a terrorist group called Saudi Hizballah for the 1995 Al Khobar Towers attack but it could very well have been Al Qaeda.

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A review of Caliphate – Episode 8 (Season Finale)

How realist is the depiction of ISIS in this first season of the Caliphate series? In this podcast, intelligence veteran and terrorism specialist Phil Gurski reviews Netflix Caliphate.

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CSIS and accusations of Islamophobia

Accusations that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is Islamophobic do not take into account facts that Canadians have become jihadis.

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CIA officer killed by a terrorist bomb in Nicosia, Cyprus in a case of mistaken identity (June 16, 1956)

On this day in 1956, a CIA officer posing as a US diplomat was killed by a terrorist bomb in a cafe in Nicosia, Cyprus in a case of mistaken identity.

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A review of Caliphate – Episode 7

Calle calls Fatima in panic and demands that she and her contacts help get Lisha out. Pervin is devastated by the fight with Husam.

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Podcast 45 – Christianne Boudreau: My child died fighting for a terrorist group

Imagine if your child ended up leaving home to join a terrorist group and died fighting for ISIS. Christianne Boudreau, joins Borealis to talk about what she went through and how she is trying to help parents.

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ISIS jihadis stone woman to death on charges of adultery (June 9, 2016)

Sexual mores were once the purview of the state and thankfully that has changed. Tell that to ISIS. MOSUL, IRAQ — Stop me if you have heard this before but I am a HUGE Monty Python fan and have been for decades. I used to watch the original series on PBS growing up in southwestern […]

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A review of Caliphate – Episode 6

Fatima runs surveillance on Nadir to see if he can lead her to information that will confirm her suspicions. Fatima has arranged Pervin’s escape from Syria.