Terror Threat
International and Homegrown Terrorists and Their Threat to Canada
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2007
- Category
- Terrorism, Peace, Security (National & International)
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781550027365
- Publish Date
- Nov 2007
- List Price
- $35.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459718630
- Publish Date
- Nov 2007
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
The discovery of a suspected homegrown Islamic terrorist cell in our own backyard last year shocked most Canadians. The question arose: Is this country next on Al Qaeda’s hit list? But although terrorism in Canada did not begin with Al Qaeda, its fundamental dynamics are as unfamiliar to most of the public as the minutiae of quantum physics.
How could such shocking developments happen in a nation of "peacekeepers" that opposed the American intervention in Iraq? The majority of Canadians have no idea why soldiers are presently sacrificing their lives in Afghanistan. Terror Threat provides an examination of every key facet of current terrorist operations affecting this country – and it does so in a way that shows how serious the danger really is. Who are these people? How do they operate? And why in the world are they trying to kill us?
About the authors
Dwight Hamilton has been an editor at two of Canada's largest professional journals. He is a former member of Canadian military intelligence.