Terrorism

Money laundering laws not working, Senate committee says

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White-collar crime, Organized crime, Terrorism
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Laura Payton – March 20, 2013

The laws meant to deal with money laundering and terrorist financing in Canada aren't working and need a major overhaul to be effective, according to a Senate banking committee report released Wednesday.

The time for incremental change of the country's anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing laws, described as the regime, has passed, the report says. The committee wants to see changes that make Canada:

Pakistani Journalist Who Covered Security and Terrorism Is Found Dead

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Freedom of the press, Terrorism
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Carlotta Gall – May 31, 2011

A well-known Pakistani journalist has been found dead after being abducted over the weekend in an upscale neighborhood here and receiving repeated threats from Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency.

The journalist, Syed Saleem Shahzad, 41, wrote predominantly about security and terrorism issues for the Hong Kong-based Asia Times Online and the Italian news agency Adnkronos International. He disappeared Sunday evening in the center of this capital just two days after writing an article suggesting that a militant attack on the navy’s main base in Karachi on May 22 was carried out because the navy was trying to crack down on cells from Al Qaeda that had infiltrated the force.

Pirates 'Cut ransom deal with terrorists' for safe port of call

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Organized crime, Terrorism, Africa, Piracy
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Anthony Loyd & Patrick Hosking – February 24, 2011

Somali pirates are reported to have reached a multimillion-dollar deal with local Islamic militants, allowing them a cut of future ransom payouts in return for anchorage at Harardhere, a port controlled by al-Shabaab fighters.

The agreement, sealed last week by the release of pirate chiefs imprisoned by al-Shabaab, threatens to pour insurance money from the shipping industry directly into the terrorist organisation that has close links to al-Qaeda.

Moscow bombings and Russian corruption

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Corruption, Policing, Terrorism, Government negligence, Russia
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Moscow bomb attacks in context: Russia's corruption problem

Q&A with Masha Gessen – January 26, 2011

One of the words often used in association with Russia these days is "corruption." According to Transparency International, an international organization that measures relative corruption around the globe, Russia is in 154th place out of 176 countries. (Canada is sixth).

Many observers believe it's one of the key reasons that attacks like the one on Jan. 24 at the Domodedovo Airport aren't prevented by its security services.

Guardian Roundup of Wikileaks Stories

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USA, Corruption, Organized crime, Wikileaks, Terrorism, Russia
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December 2, 2010

The following is a summary, published by The Guardian (UK) of the main stories appearing in the media today following the release of thousands of diplomatic cables by Wikileaks.

These include stories in the Guardian, Der Speigel, Le Monde, El Pais and the New York Times.

Air India Inquiry: Canada treated victims as adversaries, CSIS, RCMP failed

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RCMP, CSIS & CSE, Terrorism, Air India disaster
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Salim Jiwa – June 17, 2010

VANCOUVER – The government of Canada treated the families of victims of the Air India disaster as “adversaries” and attempted to shield itself from civil liabilities to the point where it totally ignored the needs of those who had been terrorized by the biggest act of aviation sabotage in world history.

That is the damning conclusion of the Air India inquiry commission report released this morning in Ottawa. As well, the report blasts incompetence in functioning of the RCMP and CSIS and recommends the formation of a Security Superman to act as a coordinator of functions of intelligence gathering and criminal prosecutions.

A terrible legacy

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CSIS & CSE, Terrorism, Air India disaster
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Twenty-five years later, the Air India victims' families still grieve, and Sikh radicalism continues to flourish in Canada

David B. Harris – June 7, 2010

Turmoil and tragedy swept this quiet southern Irish village a quarter-century ago, as fate – and Canadian-made terrorism – made it part of the catastrophe that was the June 23, 1985 Air India airliner bombing.

Townsfolk here and farther afield threw themselves into determined but fruitless seaborne rescue efforts, helped in the traumatizing retrieval of remains, opened homes to grieving victims' relatives and witnessed the erecting of a monument to the memory of the 329 souls of Flight 182.

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