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November 3, 2016

Military-oriented videos have been the bedrock of IS propaganda, but the group’s ability to govern once featured heavily as well — on average accounting for one-fifth of the media analyzed by Milton and a quarter of IS videos reviewed in separate...

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Oktober 26, 2016

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Policy Advisor Tara Maller was interviewed on Yahoo News on POTUS by host Olivier Knox, discussing the national security issues that were at the forefront in 2016.

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November 22, 2016

The U.S. is taking aim at an Islamic State terror group operative thought to have played a key role in launching the terror attacks on both Paris and Brussels. On Tuesday, the State Department sanctioned Abdelilah Himich, a Moroccan-born Frenchman...

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Oktober 21, 2016

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Policy Advisor Tara Maller speaks with MSNBC's Thomas Roberts about the impact Russia might have on the 2016 election.

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Oktober 21, 2016

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses the fight for Mosul, Russian hacking and drones used by ISIS that killed two Kurdish soldiers in northern Iraq.

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Oktober 17, 2016

Western governments have criticised social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for being slow to stop the spread of terrorist material. But few critics have as much technical expertise as Hany Farid, a professor of computer...

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Oktober 3, 2016

The poisonous rhetoric of Anwar al-Awlaki, a smooth-talking American-born imam who taught Muslims in San Diego in the years leading up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become a constant factor in homegrown terror plots since his death five years...

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September 30, 2016

In an op-ed, CEP CEO Ambassador Mark Wallace details the number of violent extremists who wre directly inspired by American-born imam turned al-Qaeda terror plotter Anwar al-Awlaki, even years after his death, due to the popularity of his videos on...

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September 23, 2016

There are also new concerns that other members of the bombing suspect’s family may have had pro-jihadist views, reports CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues. “It seems like the family may have adopted some of the same viewpoints as he did, but again...

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September 22, 2016

The attackers in San Bernardino, Orlando and New York all had expressed support for the Islamic State, and they and the Boston bombers were devotees of the voluminous online work of Mr. Awlaki, who was killed in an American drone strike in 2011. He...

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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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