Episodes
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
April 18, 2014 | Armed attack on UN base in South Sudan
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
Terrorists see themselves as heroic: where is the heroism in attacking a UN base housing civilians?
On this day in 2014, a mob of civilians posing as protesters stormed a UN compound in South Sudan and shot dead 48 people, some with RPGs.
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Saturday Apr 18, 2020
April 17, 1999 | Neo-Nazi Bombings in London
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
No, the far right is not a 'new' phenomenon: it has unfortunately been around a long time.
Far right terrorism has been around for decades as the 1999 nail bomb attacks in London, which killed 3 and wounded 139, demonstrate.
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Saturday Apr 18, 2020
April 16, 1925 | Attack on St. Nedelya Church in Bulgaria
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
Communism was a disaster on many levels: the ideology particularly hated religion.
On this day in 1925, Bulgarian communists killed 150 and wounded 500 when they bombed a cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Saturday Apr 18, 2020
April 15, 2013 | Boston Marathon Bombings
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
One of the hallmarks of terrorism is the fear that ordinary events can be targeted: so can major ones.
On this day in 2013, three people died and almost 300 were wounded when two Chechen terrorists planted pressure cooker bombs near the finishing line of the Boston Marathon.
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Friday Apr 17, 2020
April 14, 1865 | Assassination of US President Abraham Lincoln
Friday Apr 17, 2020
Friday Apr 17, 2020
Not all murders are terrorist in nature but at times they are, especially when we call it assassination.
On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated US President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. in an act of terrorism.
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Thursday Apr 16, 2020
April 13, 2010 | Kidnapping attempt in the Philippines
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Kidnapping is a viable tactic for terrorist groups both to gain funds and attention, but sometimes it goes badly wrong.
On this day in 2010, a kidnapping by the Al Qaeda linked Abu Sayyaf Group in the Philippines went awry as the terrorist group killed 10 people.
Read more: https://borealisthreatandrisk.com/2010-kidnapping-attempt-in-philippines
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Thursday Apr 16, 2020
April 12, 2008 | Bombing of mosque in Shiraz, Iran
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Iran is often blamed, at times accurately, for sponsoring terrorism: it cannot be denied that it is a victim too.
On this day in 2008, a bomb tore through a Shia mosque in the southern city of Shiraz, killing 13 worshipers and wounding more than 200.
Read more: https://borealisthreatandrisk.com/2008-bombing-of-mosque-in-shiraz-iran
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Thursday Apr 16, 2020
April 11, 2002 | Bombing at Ghriba Synagogue in Tunisia
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Al Qaeda took more than half a year to follow up on 9/11 with a renewed attack.
On this day in 2002 a suicide bomber detonated a truck bomb outside the el-Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia, killing 19, including 16 German and French tourists.
Read more: https://borealisthreatandrisk.com/2002-ghriba-synagogue-bombing
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Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Terrorists using drones and technology? | QUICK HITS 33
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
There is a lot of talk about terrorist use of advanced technology. How afraid should we be about this? Is the end of the world around the corner?
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In this podcast, retired Canadian intelligence analyst Phil Gurski discusses the subject of terrorism: what it is (and isn’t), trends, developments and more. Phil Gurski, author of five books on terrorism, is not shy to wade into controversial matters and provide his perspective honed from more than three decades in intelligence. From Canada to the greater West to the world, subscribe to listen to the thoughts of a person who 'worked at the coalface' for many years.
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Monday Apr 13, 2020
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Bruce Hoffman has been studying terrorism for over 40 years and is recognised as one of the world's leading scholars on this phenomenon. He joins Borealis for a wide-ranging discussion on where terrorism has been and where it is headed.
Borealis talks with US terrorism scholar Bruce Hoffman, who has been studying violent extremism for more than four decades and is seen as one of the world's foremost specialists.
Bruce Hoffman is a political analyst specializing in the study of terrorism and counterterrorism, insurgency and counter-insurgency. He is a tenured professor at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where between 2010 and 2017 he was the director of the Center for Security Studies and director of the security studies program. Hoffman is the second longest-serving director in the center and program's three-decade history.
Phil Gurski is the President and CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting Ltd. and Programme Director for the Security, Economics and Technology (SET) hub at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Development Institute (PDI). He worked as a senior strategic analyst at CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) from 2001-2015, specializing in violent Islamist-inspired homegrown terrorism and radicalisation.
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