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The challenge of running a large domestic security intelligence operation

Episode 131 – Borealis talks to former senior CSIS IO Dan Faughnan.

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January 30, 2002: Suicide attack targets security services in Israel

On January 30, 2002 two members of the Israeli security service were wounded in an attack by a suicide bomber near the West Bank.

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January 26, 2007: Suicide bombing kills security guard in Pakistan

On January 26, 2007 a suicide bomber killed a security guard and himself in an attack outside the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan.

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Sara Kamali – What can jihadis and white nationalists possibly have in common?

Episode 97 – Phil Gurski talks with Dr Sara Kamali, author of the new book, HOMEGROWN HATE: Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists are Waging War against the United States

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Security services stop terrorist attacks and THEY are in the wrong?

Charges of entrapment in terrorist cases belie a woeful ignorance of how terrorism works.

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Are Canada’s security intelligence and law enforcement agencies biased when it comes to terrorism?

Everyone is free to express their opinion on terrorism but only a former (or current) counter terrorism practitioner can weigh in on investigations.

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COVID-19: When bad guys take advantage of international crisis

In this time of COVID-19 we have enough to worry about without freaking out about terrorism.

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CIC National Capital (Ottawa): Terrorism In Africa, Ethnonationalist Or Religious?

This event by CIC National Capital Branch’s Africa Study Group (ASG)’s will feature Phil Gurski, formerly of CSIS and previously the CSE, and now CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting.

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February 23, 2017 | White Nationalist shootings in Kansas

On this day in 2017, Adam Purinton shot two Indian men whom he had mistaken for Iranians, at a restaurant in Olathe, Kansas. He yelled “get out of my country” and “terrorist” before firing.

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Does Ottawa City Hall need increased security – really?

While we have come to expect heightened security cordons these days we might want to make sure they are all necessary.