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		<title>Hate crimes are not always terrorism.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2021 22:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Director Paul G. Buchanan has researched and written for over thirty years about terrorism and irregular warfare. He has participated in counter-terrorism analysis and policy development while working in and with US government intelligence and military agencies, including leadership and recruitment profiling. With this background, he offers an assessment of the recent supermarket stabbings ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Was Sri Lanka attack retaliation? &#8211; Analysis</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2019/04/24/was-sri-lanka-attack-retaliation-analysis/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has made a statement responding to the suggestion that the Sri Lanka bombings were retaliation for the Christchurch attacks. &#8220;We have seen reports of the statement from the Sri Lankan Minister of state for defence, alleging a link between the the Easter Sunday terrorist attack and the March 15 attack in ]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Paul Buchanan – Radio NZ Dispatch: Attacks &#8220;very unlikely&#8221; retaliation &#8211; security expert</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2019 09:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Security expert Paul Buchanan said he thought the two attacks were &#8220;very unlikely&#8221; to be linked. &#8220;I would take these claims with a very healthy dose of scepticism, and the reason for that is both ISIS and the Sri Lankan government have their own reasons to deflect from the local nature of the attack. ISIS ]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>White supremacists left out of designated terrorists list</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2019/04/11/white-supremacists-left-out-of-designated-terrorists-list/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[36th Parallel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2019 09:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Radio New Zealand reported that not a single right-wing extremist or white supremacist is listed on the United Nations&#8217; register of terrorists. Police published the list of Designated Terrorist Entities exactly one week after the Christchurch terror attacks. RNZ contacted 36th Parallel&#8217;s principal Dr Paul Buchanan for his view, he said for too long intelligence agencies had ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Spy agencies have not had hands tied &#8211; Paul Buchanan</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2019/03/26/spy-agencies-have-not-had-hands-tied-paul-buchanan/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2019 08:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[National Party leader Simon Bridges says the Government should reconsider the surveillance programme Project Speargun, which the previous National government abandoned in 2013. He says intelligence agencies have their hands tied behind their backs, and the programme &#8220;would have done more to keep New Zealanders safe&#8221;. Radio New Zealand sought the view of 36th Parallel&#8217;s ]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Paul Buchanan &#8211; Radio New Zealand Dispatch: &#8216;New Zealand must own this terrorist attack&#8217;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2019 08:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Opinion &#8211; The terrorist attack on two Christchurch mosques is a watershed moment in New Zealand history. In the days, months and years ahead much soul-searching will be conducted about the social and political factors that contributed to the massacre of 50 people. Here we shall focus on two: the spread of hate speech via social ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A hard rain is a&#8217;gonna fall.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2015/05/23/a-hard-rain-is-agonna-fall/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2015 06:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Although 36th Parallel Assessments is loathe to prognosticate on fluid situations and current events,we have been thinking about how the conflict in Iraq has been going. Althoughwe do not believe that the Islamic State (IS) is anywhere close to being the global threat that it is portrayed to be in the West, we do believe ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Analytic Brief: Counter-terrorism is a matter of law enforcement.</title>
		<link>https://36th-parallel.com/2015/01/28/analytic-brief-counter-terrorism-is-a-matter-of-law-enforcement/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Buchanan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Known for its South Pacific focus, 36th Parallel Assessments covers global strategic and geopolitical issues as well. From time to time  matters of global import are highlighted in our analytic brief series. This is one such occasion. Counter Terrorism is a matter of law enforcement. Paul G. Buchanan &#160; Photo: Roland Godefroy via Wikimedia Commons ]]></description>
		
		
		
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