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On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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"On this week’s episode of “The Hunt with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green,” Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, says it means the Taliban needs help."
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"It has also been revealed recently by the Counter Extremism Project that many pro-Islamic State comments that promote violent extremism have remained on social media websites, mainly Facebook, as late as the first week of October. New IS video has...
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"Morton, a former Al-Qaeda recruiter, co-founded Parallel Networks, an organization dedicated to combating extremism. He currently is working on the development of Naseeha, an experimental intervention hotline for potential cases of radicalization of...
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"According to the Counter Extremism Project, an organization that tracks far-right extremists, The Base works to train members to fight in a race war and also encourages the 'onset of anarchy so it can then impose order from chaos.'"
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"Joshua Fisher-Birch, with the Counter-Extremism Project in New York City, said while the sentence is shorter than what the prosecution was asking for, it's important to remember that Mathews did receive the additional sentencing with the terrorism...
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CEP quoted: "'Despite being banned from Twitter and Facebook, Choudary has signed up for a plethora of other social media platforms on which to post ... diatribes calling for the creation of an Islamic caliphate ruled under Sharia law, all while...
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"David Amess, a British politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP), was killed by a 25-year-old self-radicalized man on Oct. 15. On this episode of The Hunt, with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green, Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler...
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"Liam Duffy, advisor at the Counter Extremism Project, has warned the UK is going in 'the wrong direction' to understand how to manage the threat due to a string of common misconceptions."
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CEP strategic advisor Liam Duffy writes: "But the biblical scenes which dominated news cycles when IS first descended on the Yazidis are already fading from memory, and so far, justice for the genocide has not been delivered."
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CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson quoted: "Ian Acheson, a former prison governor who advised the Justice Secretary on controlling extremists behind bars, said the scheme had developed a 'parish hall mentality' and become 'blunted by layers of...
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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