Thursday April 4th – 2pm
Posted Apr 4, 2013 01:13:35 PM.
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2:00pm- Guest: Lorne Dawson, Co-Director of the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society and Professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at University of Waterloo.
2 Canadians from London, Ontario, Ali Medlej and Xristos Katsiroubas, took part in and died in an al-Qaida-linked attack on a remote Algerian gas refinery in January. They were among 19 terrorists and 38 hostages killed. How did these 2 become involved in terrorism.
2:30pm- Guest: Simon Palamar, Research Assistant with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).
Escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The U-S isn’t taking any chances as North Korea rachets up the rhetoric. The North is warning Washington that its military has been cleared to wage an attack using “smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear” weapons. In response, the Pentagon is deploying a missile defence system to the U-S Pacific territory of Guam to strengthen regional protection against a possible attack.
