This is the first time I know of ASIO publicly describing a specific incident as “anarchist and revolutionary extremism”:

Yeah, and this paragraph was just a rant of “realist warriors being sidelined by bean-counting managerialists”, which is such a widespread cliche that I saw almost the exact same claim being made a day a two earlier in an article by MLR Smith and someone else in Military Strategy Magazine.

The study itself (possibly not the Atlantic article, I can’t open it) does mention that wider context for right-wing violence (in a cautious way, it doesn’t say “some of them probably just joined ICE rather than carry out their own attacks”, but kind of alludes to that logic).

4. They don’t say they exclude all school shootings, they say they include those with clear political objectives. Is there a right-wing school shooting in that time frame they missed? You would probably be best to judge.

I think a good example of this (in the “copy without a true original” sense) is that inaccurate French media reporting that a women connected to the November 2015 massacres had blown herself up may have helped to subsequently inspire actual female suicide bombers for Islamic State.

… to their use of open sources, but current research doesn’t support the assumption that official sources are necessarily superior, as Scrivens et al rightly highlight:

I’m also sceptical that the lack of prospective study designs is as damning as the authors portray. For obvious reasons, it’s almost impossible to imagine a truly prospective study in this context. John T. Monahan pointed this out in 2012:

FWIW I disagree that the powers are particularly “extraordinary”. Bret Walker engaged with argument over a decade ago, and I think Daryl William’s widely quoted use of the word “extraordinary” twenty years ago may (IIRC) have been referring to the (now abolished) detention power.

UK intelligence view on the current state of the relationship between al-Qaeda and Iran (with some redactions):

I am too predictable.

@mslods.bsky.social

Part of the 2019 Harper-Lay report not only reviewed Australia’s definition of terrorism (and recommended changing it), it reviewed earlier reviews of Australia’s definition of terrorism:

I would say they were routine, both carried out many more suicide bombings in the 1980s and 1990s than HAMAS did. I don’t want to bog you down in a debate over the word routine so i’ll just share this source on pre-2000 suicide bombings:

About half of these cover the independence struggle, others cover earlier decades too.

Australian intelligence studies bookshelf: