CEP in the News

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Januar 25, 2016

CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, writing in USA Today ,called on video sharing platform YouTube to immediately remove videos of the notorious American cleric turned al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki. “Because of his homicidal anti-American...

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Januar 25, 2016

U.S. intelligence agencies investigating the kidnapping of three Americans in Baghdad, Iraq last week are focusing their probe on three militant Islamic groups closely affiliated with Iran. Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Kata'ib Hezbollah and the Badr...

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Januar 25, 2016

CBSN's panel of global experts on radical Islam discuss why Brussels has become a recruiting hotbed for ISIS. The panel included; CEP Executive Director David Ibsen; Erin Saltman, a senior researcher at the United Kingdom's Institute for Strategic...

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Januar 22, 2016

U.S. intelligence agencies investigating the kidnapping of three Americans in Baghdad last week are focusing their probe on three militant Islamic groups closely affiliated with Iran, U.S. government sources said on Thursday. Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Kata...

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Januar 21, 2016

The 27 Bangladeshi men who were arrested under Singapore’s Internal Security Act were described as subscribing to the extremist beliefs and teachings of “radical idealogues” such as Anwar Awlaki. In December, the Counter Extremism Project, an...

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Januar 19, 2016

Hassan was reportedly in Twitter contact with Elton Simpson, one of two gunmen killed by police after he opened fire at an event featuring cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in Garland, Texas, in May, according to the Counter Extremism Project, a U.S...

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Januar 14, 2016

THE poisonous work of Birmingham cyber-hacker Junaid Hussain is being continued by fellow jihadis pumping out more than 90,000 Twitter messages a day. Now experts from the US-based Counter Extremism Project (CEP) say his ‘cyber warfare’ efforts have...

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Januar 8, 2016

As the director of the not-for-profit international policy organization The Counter Extremism Project, Mark Wallace is critical of Twitter’s take-down policies. “Twitter has looked upon itself as creating some sort of new constitutional right in the...

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Januar 8, 2016

Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani has reportedly been wounded in an air strike in Iraq's western province of Anbar, a military statement said on Thursday. Some jihadist sources say that Adnani was among the first foreign fighters in Iraq...

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Dezember 30, 2015

You might remember a story from about a year ago of a plumber from Texas whose used truck ended up in hands of Islamist militants in Syria. Last week, the plumber filed a lawsuit against the dealer that bought his truck and he's seeking $1 million in...

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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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