Episode 352 – The effects of terrorist attacks do not stop in the days following the event
We have all seen terrorist incidents unfolding before our very eyes, even if it is in the form of newscasts. Take 9/11, for instance. It is hard – if not impossible – to forget the image of fully-laden passenger aircraft commandeered by Al Qaeda terrorists steered into the two towers and the subsequent collapse of those buildings. But as more time passes, does the average person become numb to those events? Not if you are related to a victim who died or was injured in one of them.
About my guest
Angela Mistrulli is a nationally recognized advocate for victims of terrorism and the daughter of Joseph Mistrulli, who was killed on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower during the attacks on September 11, 2001. Just 17 years old when she lost her father, Mistrulli has spent more than two decades working to advance justice, transparency and support for 9/11 families and survivors. As a national chair of 9/11 Families United and founder of American Victims of State-Sponsored Terrorism United, Mistrulli has helped lead advocacy efforts on significant federal initiatives, including the USVSST Clarification Act, Sudan Claims Resolution, Fairness for 9/11 Families Act and the American Victims of Terrorism Compensation Act. She regularly engages with lawmakers, survivor communities and the media to ensure victims’ voices remain central to national conversations on accountability and compensation. Based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Mistrulli continues to honor her father’s memory through her work on behalf of terrorism victims and their families.
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Canadian Intelligence Eh
In a world of multiple voices and opinions it can be very hard to know where to turn. One choice is to look to those who actually worked in counter-terrorism and foreign intelligence in the national security world.
In these half-hour podcasts, 32-year Canadian intelligence veteran Phil Gurski is joined by a fascinating array of individuals from around the world with something meaningful to say about these issues as they provide insight into what they mean and what we need to do about them.
About Phil Gurski
Phil worked as a senior strategic analyst at CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) from 2001-2015, specializing in violent Islamist-inspired homegrown terrorism and radicalisation. From 1983 to 2001 he was employed as a senior multilingual analyst at Communications Security Establishment (CSE – Canada’s signals intelligence agency), specialising in the Middle East. He also served as senior special advisor in the National Security Directorate at Public Safety Canada from 2013, focusing on community outreach and training on radicalisation to violence, until his retirement from the civil service in May 2015, and as consultant for the Ontario Provincial Police’s Anti-Terrorism Section (PATS) from May to October 2015. He also ran Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting from May 2015 to May 2025.
He was the Director of Security and Intelligence at the SecDev Group from June 2018 to July 2019 and the Director of the National Security Programme at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute from 2020-2022. He has also taught on national security issues at George Brown College, the University of Ottawa and Georgian College. Mr. Gurski has presented on violent Islamist-inspired and other forms of terrorism and radicalisation across Canada and around the world and is actively sought by Canadian and international media on national security and intelligence issues. He has written hundreds of op-eds on these matters for several Canadian media since 2016
He is the author of The Threat from Within: Recognizing Al Qaeda-inspired Radicalization and Terrorism in the West (Rowman and Littlefield 2015) Western Foreign Fighters: The Threat to Homeland and International Security (Rowman and Littlefield 2017), The Lesser Jihads: Taking the Islamist fight to the world (Rowman and Littlefield 2017), An end to the ‘War on Terrorism (Rowman and Littlefield 2018), When Religion Kills: How Extremist Justify Violence Through Faith (Lynne Rienner 2019), The Peaceable Kingdom? A history of terrorism in Canada from Confederation to the present (self-published: 2021, republished by Double Dagger in 2022), The Fenians: Brotherhood of fools or Canada’s first terrorist threat? (Double Dagger: 2025) and the forthcoming 9/11 The Unfinished Battle: Why Jihadi Terrorism Is Stronger, Wider, and Far From Over (September 2026). He regularly blogs and podcasts, and posts on Bluesky (@borealissaves.bsky.social), X (https://x.com/borealissaves , and Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/@philgurski) on terrorism and intelligence matters.
