Vancouver’s Dr. Death and our terrorism ties

Tweet I’ve written before on the story of how a Vancouver public company’s main source of revenues was supplying the precursor drug which allowed Mexican drug cartels to cook crystal meth in underground factories in California, which started the crystal meth epidemic across the United States, and caused countless untimely deaths.  As of 2021, 52,400 […]

India seeking extradition of alleged listed terrorists in Canada

Tweet Arshdeep Dalla  The Government of India has designated Arshdeep Singh Gill (Gill) on its list of designated terrorists under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.  Gill lives in Canada and is a/k/a Arsh Dala, a/k/a Arsh Dalla. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), which published the designation on January 9, 2023 in the Gazette of India, states that Gill […]

Canadian charged with being ISIS fighter and for involvement in creation of gruesome beheading terrorist videos

Tweet A Canadian has been charged in the US with being an ISIS fighter, as well as providing material support to ISIS and producing, editing and disseminating ISIS material for approximately five years. He is alleged to be the narrator in some of the more gruesome ISIS videos of beheadings. The Canadian, Mohammed Khalifa, was […]

In ISIS Beatles case, UK Appeal Court rules that complying with some US MLATs to hand over evidence in an investigation is unlawful; relevant for Canada as well

Tweet Cruel and unusual punishment Everything I know about the Eighth Amendment and death penalty jurisprudence, I learned from former US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, from whom I had the privilege of studying law during a course on international human rights and constitutional law. US Supreme Court Justice Kennedy, as he was then, was […]

Israeli court rules that asset recovery for terrorism judgments can be collected from foreign duty and tax authorities

Tweet Judgment day in Jerusalem The Jerusalem District Court has ruled that damages awarded to victims of acts of terrorism can be satisfied over time from taxes and duties collected for another foreign state. The ruling arose from a tort litigation filed in Jerusalem involving claims for compensation from a number of terrorist acts committed […]

A Hezbollah terrorist sleeper agent with family in Canada, says his family name is akin to being the “Bin Ladens of Lebanon”

Tweet It seems that some of the “Bin Ladens of Lebanon” are living in Canada. Let’s go back a month ago to December 3, 2019. On that day, a man named Ali Kourani was sentenced to 40 years in prison in New York for terrorism-related activities. Kourani is deeply connected to the highest ranks of […]

G7 to focus on transnational criminal organizations, aviation infrastructure security, terrorist financing

Tweet The G7 released a special statement on financial crime, promising to re-double its efforts from the last 12 months on ending financial crime, in particular terrorist financing and international money laundering involving transnational criminal organizations. Every year there is a commitment to these goals but this time, the G7 has promised to turn their statements […]

World Check being sued over database of personal information

Tweet A number of persons and organizations are allegedly preparing to sue Thomson Reuters, the organization that runs World Check for wrongly listing them in a database as a financial crime risk. World Check created (apparently without informed consent at least under Canadian law), an online global database that purports to provide anti-money laundering, sanctions […]

The CIA on terrorism and tech

Tweet On June 16, 2016, the Director of the CIA testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in respect of the Islamic State (ISIS), terrorism and technology generally. Here is an executive summary: The CIA said there there has never been a time when there is such a “dizzying” array of national security issues […]

The $200 million a year refugee smuggling operation in Libya

Tweet A $200 million a year business and growing  The EU – Turkey deal to close the borders of the EU to refugees and migrants has shifted the human smuggling routes back to Libya. The focus back to Libya means ISIS’ large source of terrorist financing from this activity is flowing again, which may also […]