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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 report by affiliated researcher Kacper Rekawek referenced in academic article, "Radicalisation, Foreign Fighters and the Ukraine Conflict: A Playground for the Far-Right?": "However, far-right fighters have fought on both sides of the Ukrainian...
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"Joshua Fisher-Birch, a researcher with the US-based Counter Extremism Project, says these training camps enable recruits with military experience to train others, adding to their threat. 'This very extreme neo-Nazi ideology, the way that they...
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CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "What happens to terrorist offenders inside our prisons has huge significance for their future potential targets on either side of the walls. There have been at least four terrorist attacks committed by serving...
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CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler spoke with J.J. Green of WTOP's The Hunt about hate groups and extremists praising the Atlanta attacks and calling for more violence against Asian Americans: "It's simply an attempt to create chaos and...
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Australian government officials in Canberra on Monday designated the neo-Nazi group Sonnenkrieg Division (SKD) as a terrorist organization, making it the first far-right group to be banned in the country. Following the designation, Australian...
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The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, white supremacist and extreme right online communities...
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CEP report on Western Foreign Fighters and the Yazidi Genocide referenced: "Parmi 67 témoignages de survivantes yézidies recueillis par l'ONG américaine Counter Extremism Project (CEP), environ 85 % des femmes ont été en contact avec des djihadistes...
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The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) invites you to a webinar book discussion with Dr. Simon Cottee, senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Kent, regarding his recently published study on the jihadist hotspots in the Caribbean.
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"According to the Counter Extremism Project, Muthana took part in vile ISIS propaganda and even urged jihadists in the US to go on deadly shooting sprees."
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CEP webinar on Western Foreign Fighters and the Yazidi genocide referenced: "Pour l’écrivain britannique Tom Holland, qui s’exprimait mardi lors de la présentation d’un rapport du Counter Extremism Project (CEP), un des problèmes est que les pays...
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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