Trudeau's Record on Terrorism from a Public Policy Perspective
In Public Administration you judge a government by what it says, what it does, and how it spends taxpayer’s money. This is as true of the Trudeau government, as it is all past Canadian governments. In terms of confronting terrorism, the Trudeau government’s record speaks for itself. On coming to power, the Trudeau regime minimized Canada’s campaign against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq by pulling back our CF-18 fighter-bombers and moved to a training mission the
ISIS and Al-Qaeda in 2018: The Threat Continues
Yesterday’s UN Security Council Report on Terrorism had several relevant points worth noting on the terrorism front, and most particular to the Islamic State (ISIS) and Al Qaeda (AQ). First, the Islamic State (ISIS) is in a process of regrouping having largely lost its Caliphate in Iraq and Syria. Having said that there are still some 20-30,000 ISIS fighters in both countries and many are foreign fighters from abroad. They continue in their loyalty to both their Leader Abu Ba
August 14th London Attack First Since 2017
On Tuesday morning, a person yet to be identified, used a Ford Fiesta vehicle to ram bicyclists and pedestrians outside Parliament in London. Two people were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. The suspect in this morning’s attack in London was described as in his late 20s, was arrested on terror offenses, and is reportedly not cooperating with police. It is very likely the first terror attack in London in 2018 and it follows the pattern of previous ISIS-inspired
Active Shooter Attacks
After last night’s very sad events in the Danforth in Toronto, there are some general observations on ‘Active Shooter Attacks’ based on research for a book on Islamic State methods of attack that are equally applicable to criminal incidents outside the domain of terrorism. Active shooter events feature an individual or individuals targeting, wounding, and killing innocent people at random within a restricted geographic location. Active Shooter Attacks can occur with little wa
Trudeau Ideology, Mali and Peacekeeping
The Trudeau government has finally decided to embark on its long-promised peacekeeping mission to Mali to buttress its hopes of gaining a non-veto wielding UN security Council seat. A seat which holds little prestige, and no real power. The Trudeau government has already invested billions in this exercise so that it can trumpet “Canada is back” to anyone who cares to listen to its ideologically driven worldview ‘battle cry!’ The very same “Canada that is back” that tried to s
Trudeau Government Must Charge Canadian ISIS Fighter Now in Face of CBC Documentary “The Way out!”
Back in the Spring, it was reported as the Islamic State neared the end of its brutal, genocidal Caliphate in Iraq and Syria, that foreign fighters from the West would pull on the ‘heart strings’ of Western democratic societies to bring them back home and save their miserable lives from ‘local justice. ‘ Key to achieving that objective, was Western liberal media, that would be easily motivated to tell stories of their plight and capture at the very hands of the people that th
Next 48 to 72 Hours Could be Like a Roller Coaster Ride on the Terror Front but 2018 Will be Worse
As we come up on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, security forces have heightened security in New York, Las Vegas, London, and Paris to deter terror attacks by the Islamic State (ISIS) and potentially al-Qaeda and their supporters. There have been a plethora of ISIS threats, plots and attacks that have caused Western governments concern ahead of this year’s holiday period. We have witnessed the botched ISIS-inspired suicide bomb attack on a walkway below the New York Port A
Melbourne Attack: Cognitive Dissonance in Democracy Does Not Protect Us From ISIS-Inspired Christmas
Why is it that Western democratic governments and their security forces try to downplay the terrorist threat that so imperils our democracies? Is it wishful thinking? Is it an attempt to not over react to the threat? Is it dogma that Sunni Islamic terror only occurs as a group activity and not by the individual or so-called ‘lone wolf?’ Or is it just plain ignorance about terrorism and the challenges that it presents to democratic institutions? Whatever the cause of the appa
New York First of Several ISIS-Inspired and Directed Christmas Holiday Season Terror Attacks
New York First of Several ISIS-Inspired or Directed Christmas Season Terror Attacks At 7:20 am this morning a pipe bomb exploded in an underground tunnel linking the Times Square subway station and the Port Authority bus terminal during morning rush hour in New York. The suicide bomber was wearing the device when it exploded prematurely and was wounded by the blast. Police have arrested the suspect, identified as 27-year-old Bangladeshi national, Akayed Ullah, who has been re
ISIS Christmas Attacks: There Are No Safe Places Anymore
The United Kingdom’s new Defense Secretary Galvin Williamson has gone on record and said that Britain and every other country that provided the Islamic State (ISIS) with foreign fighters or terrorists in Iraq and Syria should hunt them down and kill them and that they not be allowed to return home. Not coincidently, British drone strikes in Syria and Iraq have increased dramatically. This comes on the heels of the arrest of two British ISIS supporters, Naa’imur Zakariyah Rah
