Guest: Phil Gurski, CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting
About: As ISIS continues to lose ground in Syria and Iraq, Canada, like other countries who saw their citizens head to other countries as foreign fighters, has to now address the threat of some of these foreign fighters coming back. Internationally, according to Soufan Centre, 5,600 ISIS fighters have returned Iraq and Syria to their countries of origin. This includes about 400 of the 3,417 fighters from Russia, 760 of the 3,244 from Saudi Arabia, 800 of the 2,926 from Tunisia, 271 of the 1,910 from France, and 425 of the 850 people from the UK. What threat, if any, do these returning foreign fighters pose to Canada? To other countries? How should governments practically approach this issue?
Phil Gurski is the CEO of Borealis Threat and Risk Consulting, who worked as a strategic analyst in the Canadian intelligence community for over 30 years and specializes in radicalization and homegrown Al Qaeda/Islamic State/Islamist-inspired extremism.
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