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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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CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler speaks about the right-wing problem in Germany and the permissive environment for extremism and terrorism on the Internet.
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CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler discusses discernable patterns of extremists, in light of the attacks in Hanau, Germany on February 19, 2020, including online radicalization.
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Hans Jakob Schindler, a senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, talks to Al Jazeera following far-right terrorist attack in Hanau, Germany.
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"Organizations that monitor terrorist activity on the internet say they are still finding a lot of dangerous propaganda, more than two years after ISIS was defeated. On this week’s edition of The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J...
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"'Zuckerberg failed to deliver on his numerous pledges to address extremism on his platform, especially in the wake of the Christchurch massacre being streamed live on Facebook,' David Ibsen, the executive director of the Counter Extremism Project...
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"Josh Lipowsky, a senior researcher for the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), concurred that while the LRA has 'weakened, it has not disappeared.'"
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CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "In the meantime we must deal with things as they are. We need a framework for sentencing and releasing prisoners and this is in progress. The quantity of years given to an extremist is less important than the...
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"Recent events appear to have damaged The Base’s reputation among white supremacists, but Joshua Fisher-Birch, a researcher with the Counter Extremism Project, said it is too early to say what effect it will have on the group’s radicalized members."
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"The Counterextremism Project reports that a neo-Nazi album has been found on the file hosting service recently. Reports suggest that the music contains lyrics praising a “white ethnostate” and encouraging the “murder and genocide” of ethnic...
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"On this week’s edition of The Hunt, Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, tells WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green that confirmation is complicated."
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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