Event Date: January 8, 2019 - 12:00PM to 1:30PM
Location: FSS5028, 120 University Private, Ottawa
Presented by CIPS
Approximately 200 Canadians have elected to leave to fight with terrorist groups abroad such as Al Qaeda, Islamic State, Al Shabaab and others. Some are known, or believed to be, dead. Others have apparently returned home, status unknown. Still others are languishing in foreign prisons in countries where the death penalty is a real possibility. What should Canada do about the survivors? What obligations do we have to those incarcerated abroad? What threat do these terrorists pose to our society should we repatriate them? These issues and more will be discussed by an author and former member of CSIS.
Phil Gurski is a former strategic analyst at CSIS specializing in Islamist extremism and worked for more than 30 years in the Canadian intelligence community. He is the author of five books including Western Foreign Fighters: the threat to homeland and international security.