Phil Gurski
@borealissaves.bsky.social
Retired intelligence analyst with CSE and CSIS in Canada, author of six books on terrorism, keen to engage on national security and intelligence issues. www.borealisthreatandrisk.com
Norway police say suspect detained in shopping centre shooting, no injuries reported - nothing on motive www.euronews.com/2025/12/08/n...
Norway police say suspect detained in shooting at shopping centre
In a statement, police determined that the Storo Storsenter centre was now safe after the perpetrator, who appeared to have acted alone, fired at least one shot inside.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Norway police say suspect detained in shopping centre shooting, no injuries reported - nothing on motive www.euronews.com/2025/12/08/n...
Islamic State leader Abdulqadir Mumin hunted in Somalia as wife in Britain says he abandoned family www.hiiraan.com/news4/2025/D...
Islamic State leader Abdulqadir Mumin hunted in Somalia as wife in Britain says he abandoned family - Hiiraan Online
Mogadishu (HOL) — Somali and U.S. forces are intensifying operations in northeastern Somalia to capture Abdulqadir Mumin, the man U.S. officials say now leads the Islamic State group, as his estranged...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Islamic State leader Abdulqadir Mumin hunted in Somalia as wife in Britain says he abandoned family www.hiiraan.com/news4/2025/D...
Nigeria seeks speedy trial of kidnappers, bandits, terror suspects by courts to reduce insecurity dailypost.ng/2025/12/08/f...
FG seeks speedy trial of kidnappers, bandits, terror suspects by courts to reduce insecurity
The federal government has affirmed its commitment to speedy trial of kidnappers, bandits and terror suspects currently making life unbearable for the
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December 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Nigeria seeks speedy trial of kidnappers, bandits, terror suspects by courts to reduce insecurity dailypost.ng/2025/12/08/f...
Taliban authorities in western Afghanistan detain 4 young men in Herat after they wore outfits inspired by the British television series Peaky Blinders, accusing them of promoting “foreign culture.” Taliban are nothing but loser jihadi wankers - have they nothing better to do? amu.tv/214833/
Taliban detain four Herat youths over ‘Peaky Blinders’–style outfits | Amu TV
The men were arrested in Jebrael township in the city of Herat by Taliban’s morality enforcers, Taliban said.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Taliban authorities in western Afghanistan detain 4 young men in Herat after they wore outfits inspired by the British television series Peaky Blinders, accusing them of promoting “foreign culture.” Taliban are nothing but loser jihadi wankers - have they nothing better to do? amu.tv/214833/
Israel says 22,000 wounded soldiers since Gaza war in October 2023 www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251201-isr...
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December 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Israel says 22,000 wounded soldiers since Gaza war in October 2023 www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251201-isr...
Since Israeli forces withdrew from parts of Gaza in October under a cease-fire agreement, Hamas has moved quickly to fill the void. Hamas police forces are out on the streets again, its fighters have killed opponents and it is taxing goods www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
A Weakened Hamas Still Dominates Gaza, Building Day by Day
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December 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Since Israeli forces withdrew from parts of Gaza in October under a cease-fire agreement, Hamas has moved quickly to fill the void. Hamas police forces are out on the streets again, its fighters have killed opponents and it is taxing goods www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
Puntland sends more forces as anti-ISIS campaign enters 'final' stages www.garoweonline.com/en/news/soma...
Puntland deploys fresh troops to Al-Miskaad mountains as anti-ISIS offensive enters final phase
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December 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Puntland sends more forces as anti-ISIS campaign enters 'final' stages www.garoweonline.com/en/news/soma...
Qatar rejects claims it funds Hamas, won’t pay for Israel’s damage: well it certainly hosts them! www.dailysabah.com/world/mid-ea...
Qatar rejects claims it funds Hamas, won’t pay for Israel’s damage
Qatar’s prime minister said Sunday that allegations accusing Doha of funding Hamas are false, adding that the country will not shoulder the costs of...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Qatar rejects claims it funds Hamas, won’t pay for Israel’s damage: well it certainly hosts them! www.dailysabah.com/world/mid-ea...
Chinese dissident died suddenly in B.C. This ex-spy who snooped on him says it may not have been an accident www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
This Chinese ex-spy says kayaking death of a dissident in B.C. may not have been an accident | CBC News
A former spy for China's security services has provided thousands of text and voice messages, as well as financial documents, to journalists. Among the records: instructions from his bosses to snoop o...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Chinese dissident died suddenly in B.C. This ex-spy who snooped on him says it may not have been an accident www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
China’s national security office in Hong Kong warns foreign media not to spread “false information” or “smear” government efforts to deal with the city’s worst fire in nearly 80 years - and Cdn PM Carney wants to 'reset' relations with the PRC???? www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
China warns foreign media over Hong Kong fire coverage
Government claims media reports ignore facts, spread false information and distort disaster relief efforts
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December 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
China’s national security office in Hong Kong warns foreign media not to spread “false information” or “smear” government efforts to deal with the city’s worst fire in nearly 80 years - and Cdn PM Carney wants to 'reset' relations with the PRC???? www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
PRC-based firms are expanding rare-earth mining in Myanmar’s Shan and Kachin States by partnering with militias that lease mines, provide security, and tax exports jamestown.org/militias-ass...
Militias Assist PRC-Based Ventures Mining Rare Earth Elements in Myanmar - Jamestown
Executive Summary: Introduction Chinese firms have been engaging in large-scale extraction of rare earth elements (REEs) in Myanmar with the help of ethnic militias. [1] Much of this synergistic mini...
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December 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
PRC-based firms are expanding rare-earth mining in Myanmar’s Shan and Kachin States by partnering with militias that lease mines, provide security, and tax exports jamestown.org/militias-ass...
Hostile powers sending spies to west’s universities, says former Canadian security chief www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Hostile powers sending spies to west’s universities, says former security chief
Canadian expert David Vigneault warns of China’s ‘industrial-strength’ attempts to steal new technologies
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December 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Hostile powers sending spies to west’s universities, says former Canadian security chief www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
4 Gov't Soldiers Killed in Roadside Bomb Attack in Yemen's Hadramaout - no claim...Houthis? AQAP? www.yemenonline.info/politics/10994
4 Gov't Soldiers Killed in Roadside Bomb Attack in Yemen's Hadramaout - Yemen Online |
Hadramout — Local sources reported on Saturday that two government military officers and two soldiers were killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by unid
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December 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
4 Gov't Soldiers Killed in Roadside Bomb Attack in Yemen's Hadramaout - no claim...Houthis? AQAP? www.yemenonline.info/politics/10994
Seven Benin soldiers killed by gunmen in national park attack, army source says - jihadis? www.france24.com/en/africa/20...
Seven Benin soldiers killed by gunmen in national park attack, army source says
Gunmen killed seven Benin soldiers in an attack in the north of the country in Pendjari national park, an army source and a security source said on Wednesday
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December 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Seven Benin soldiers killed by gunmen in national park attack, army source says - jihadis? www.france24.com/en/africa/20...
Al Shara confronts rebel history after being called 'former terrorist' on stage - 'former' terrorist? I remain unconvinced www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
Al Shara confronts rebel history after being called 'former terrorist' on stage | The National
Syria’s President insists he never harmed civilians and fought for 20 years 'with honour'
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December 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Al Shara confronts rebel history after being called 'former terrorist' on stage - 'former' terrorist? I remain unconvinced www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
Hamas Says Will Give Up Arms to a Palestinian Authority ‘If Occupation Ends’ - would YOU believe Hamas terrorists?? english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5...
Hamas Says Will Give Up Arms to a Palestinian Authority ‘If Occupation Ends’
Hamas said Saturday it was ready to hand over its weapons in the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian authority governing the territory on the condition that the Israeli army’s occupation ends. “Our weapons ar...
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December 7, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Hamas Says Will Give Up Arms to a Palestinian Authority ‘If Occupation Ends’ - would YOU believe Hamas terrorists?? english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5...
Turkish intel warns of 'unprecedented fragility' in Somalia due to rising Al Shabab threat www.garoweonline.com/en/news/soma...
Turkish Intelligence Warns of “Unprecedented Fragility” in Somalia
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December 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Turkish intel warns of 'unprecedented fragility' in Somalia due to rising Al Shabab threat www.garoweonline.com/en/news/soma...
How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions: Russian oligarchs, Islamic State leaders and others have begun using the cryptocurrency www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
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December 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions: Russian oligarchs, Islamic State leaders and others have begun using the cryptocurrency www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
Russia terminated decades-old military cooperation agreements with Portugal, France and Canada by decree - gee, I didn't know Canada even had such an agreement! Why didn't we terminate it first after Putin invaded Ukraine?? www.euronews.com/2025/12/06/r...
Russia terminates military agreements with Portugal, France and Canada
Portugal and France both support EU proposals to use frozen Russian assets to provide loans to Ukraine amid Moscow's all-out war, now well into its fourth year.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Russia terminated decades-old military cooperation agreements with Portugal, France and Canada by decree - gee, I didn't know Canada even had such an agreement! Why didn't we terminate it first after Putin invaded Ukraine?? www.euronews.com/2025/12/06/r...
‘Mouthpieces for Trump’: inside the rightwing takeover of the Pentagon press corps - the US under Trump becomes more autocratic by the day... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Mouthpieces for Trump’: inside the rightwing takeover of the Pentagon press corps
Pentagon press passes once held by credentialed journalists are now in the hands of rightwing pundits and Trump allies
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December 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
‘Mouthpieces for Trump’: inside the rightwing takeover of the Pentagon press corps - the US under Trump becomes more autocratic by the day... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
UNICEF says Surge in jihadi violence pushes children to the breaking point in northern Mozambique clubofmozambique.com/news/surge-i...
Surge in violence pushes children to the breaking point in northern Mozambique – UNICEF – Mozambique
Tens of thousands of children displaced as families forced to flee in wake of attacks by armed non-state actors Over 100,000 people, around two thirds of them c
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December 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
UNICEF says Surge in jihadi violence pushes children to the breaking point in northern Mozambique clubofmozambique.com/news/surge-i...
UKMTO Reports Incident Involving Vessel West of Yemen - another Houthi attack? www.yemenonline.info/politics/10981
UKMTO Reports Incident Involving Vessel West of Yemen - Yemen Online |
London — The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) announced on Friday that a vessel located approximately 15 nautical miles west of Yemen reported an incident
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December 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
UKMTO Reports Incident Involving Vessel West of Yemen - another Houthi attack? www.yemenonline.info/politics/10981
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Everywhere you look these days terrorism and violent extremism dominate the headlines. Whether you follow what is happening in Afghanistan or Iraq, or in the West writ large, we are inundated with ne...
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December 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
My podcast has over 10,000 downloads! Thanks to all who have taken the time to listen and interact. I'm not quite done yet!!
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The ‘war on drugs’ felt over. Donald Trump restarted it - um wars on common nouns are unwinnable (just like the 'war on terrorism'). Too bad Trump does not know that. Then again, he does not know much, does he? www.cnn.com/2025/12/06/p...
The ‘war on drugs’ felt over. Donald Trump restarted it | CNN Politics
The Trump administration’s undeclared war on what it calls “narco-terrorists” in Latin America opens an aggressive new chapter in US history and reignites the war on drugs.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The ‘war on drugs’ felt over. Donald Trump restarted it - um wars on common nouns are unwinnable (just like the 'war on terrorism'). Too bad Trump does not know that. Then again, he does not know much, does he? www.cnn.com/2025/12/06/p...
UK: 4 arrested after throwing custard at Crown Jewels - from "Take Back Power". What a useless gesture by wankers www.dw.com/en/uk-4-arre...
UK: 4 arrested after throwing custard at Crown Jewels – DW – 12/06/2025
This is the second demonstration claimed by "Take Back Power" activists in recent days. Many valuable treasures and famous artworks have been targeted in attempts to bring attention to political cause...
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December 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
UK: 4 arrested after throwing custard at Crown Jewels - from "Take Back Power". What a useless gesture by wankers www.dw.com/en/uk-4-arre...