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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 news of attacks by groups and individuals fighting for a 'cause'.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 counterterrorism in the national security world. In these half-hour podcasts 30-year Canadian intelligence veteran Phil Gurski is joined by a fascinating array of individuals with something meaningful to say about these issues as they provide insight into what they mean and what we need to do about them.
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Episode 241 - Have Hizballah's plans all gone to hellah?
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Phil Gurski
In counter-terrorism parlance there is the term 'decapitation'. No, this is not a reference to the practice of chopping people's heads off, like ISIS does, but rather the incapacitation of a terrorist group through the killing of its leader. This tactic has been used before: think of the elimination of Usama bin Laden and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, erstwhile heads of Al Qaeda (AQ) and ISIS respectively. Now, the head honcho of Hizballah, Hassan Nasrallah, is dead, courtesy of an Israeli airstrike. Does this entail the end of the group? Borealis talks with an independent analyst on this important development.