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Wesley Wark: Post-9/11 fatigue sets in – Wesley Wark, security specialist at the University of Toronto. A next chapter written by law enforcement sounds a lot better to Canadian ears than one written by a CSIS driven into Stasi terrain
November 24, 2009 – 2:53 pm | No Comment
Wesley Wark: Post-9/11 fatigue sets in – Wesley Wark, security specialist at the University of Toronto. A next chapter written by law enforcement sounds a lot better to Canadian ears than one written by a CSIS driven into Stasi terrain

By Wesley Wark
Canada’s front-line national security agencies have been subjected to enormous and unprecedented stresses and strains in the past eight years. The fault lines are starting to show.
Remember that scene in John le Carré’s …

Police & Law Enforcement Reform in Pakistan: Crucial for Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism Success – By Hassan Abbas
May 7, 2009 – 12:24 pm | No Comment
Police & Law Enforcement Reform in Pakistan: Crucial for Counterinsurgency and Counterterrorism Success – By Hassan Abbas

By Hassan Abbas
ISPU Fellow
It is a globally recognized fact that a state’s police and law enforcement agencies play a critical role as the first line of defense against the threats of terrorism and insurgencies. …

Tactics in a Cosmic War: Ending the “war on terror” starts with dropping the phrase and addressing deeper issues – By Reza Aslan, writing in Yale Global
April 28, 2009 – 10:35 am | No Comment
Tactics in a Cosmic War: Ending the “war on terror” starts with dropping the phrase and addressing deeper issues – By Reza Aslan, writing in Yale Global

By Reza Aslan
Publisher: Yale Global
Former President Bush made a grave error when casting the “war on terror” as a “crusade”, according to Reza Aslan, author of a new book “How to …

BEWARE THOSE TREACHEROUS AFPAKS
March 30, 2009 – 10:43 am | No Comment
BEWARE THOSE TREACHEROUS AFPAKS

By Eric Margolis
President Barack Obama has now taken full ownership of the Afghanistan War. Gone are Washington’s pretenses that a western ‘coalition’ was waging this conflict. Gone, too, is the comic book term, ‘war on …

INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS: ‘War’ mentality erodes rights, report says – Western countries cannot treat terrorism suspects as though they exist outside rule of law, judges find
February 25, 2009 – 4:42 pm | No Comment
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS: ‘War’ mentality erodes rights, report says – Western countries cannot treat terrorism suspects as though they exist outside rule of law, judges find

COLIN FREEZE

February 25, 2009

Canada is among the countries that have succumbed to a war-on-terror mentality that has infected too many states, a roving panel of judges has found.
Calling upon the world to dispense with …

Americans Favor Probe of ‘War on Terror’ Excesses
February 13, 2009 – 7:22 pm | No Comment
Americans Favor Probe of ‘War on Terror’ Excesses

WASHINGTON – Two-thirds of Americans favor investigating whether the George W. Bush administration overstepped legal boundaries in its “war on terror,” according to a poll released Thursday by USA Today and Gallup.
A majority of respondents …

Apologizing to Maher Arar: A Beginning, Not an End
February 8, 2007 – 8:56 pm | No Comment
Apologizing to Maher Arar: A Beginning, Not an End

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Faisal Kutty, vice-chair and counsel to the Canadian Council on American Islamic Relations and a doctoral candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School York University in Toronto where he also practices law, …

American and U.S. Anti-terror practices on Trial: Maher Arar Saga Not Over Yet
February 8, 2007 – 7:44 pm | No Comment
American and U.S. Anti-terror practices on Trial: Maher Arar Saga Not Over Yet

By Faisal Kutty
“My priority right now is to clear my name,” said Maher Arar during his first public appearance in 2003 upon his return after being tortured for over a year in Syria. The Arar …