ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Archie Alafriz
Archie Alafriz is a retired veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada's federal police force. Fourteen years of his service was in the National Security Program, where he was a subject matter expert on anti-terrorist resourcing. He was the team lead in Canada's landmark terrorist fund-raising conviction against the LTTE in 2010. Archie had investigated a myriad of listed terrorist entities like the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Hamas, Hezbollah, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), Mujahideen-e Khalq, Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, Jemaah Islamiyah and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Archie is a Senior Fellow at the Global Peace Institute, a UK-based think tank and a fellow at the DKI-Asia Pacific Center of Security Studies (APCSS), a US military hosted policy analysis facility in Hawaii. Archie worked with global academics from the RAND Corporation, the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. He has provided threat finance commentary for The Wall Street Journal. Archie was responsible for developing financing risk strategies in advance of 2010 Vancouver Olympics, created the Joint Financial Intelligence Group and the terrorist courier intervention program.
His first novel uses a fiction platform to narrate his analysis of the significant historical events that led to 9-11. He explains how "fake news" had been the tradecraft of security agencies for eons. Follow the money, he says, it always tells the real story. It is true that one’s terrorist is another's freedom-fighter. He says that in many cases, labels introduce prejudice and colour to our perception, invoking strong emotions that prevent us from seeing the marginalized, the disenfranchised and the mentally compromised. Archie wrote this story in hopes of diminishing our fears and opening our hearts to compassion.
Follow him on Twitter @alafrizarchie
His first novel uses a fiction platform to narrate his analysis of the significant historical events that led to 9-11. He explains how "fake news" had been the tradecraft of security agencies for eons. Follow the money, he says, it always tells the real story. It is true that one’s terrorist is another's freedom-fighter. He says that in many cases, labels introduce prejudice and colour to our perception, invoking strong emotions that prevent us from seeing the marginalized, the disenfranchised and the mentally compromised. Archie wrote this story in hopes of diminishing our fears and opening our hearts to compassion.
Follow him on Twitter @alafrizarchie