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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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“YouTube has refused to take down a rare neo-Nazi manifesto, which is a beloved text of violent far-right groups who lionise Adolf Hitler and cult killer Charles Manson. Siege, written by American neo-Nazi James Mason and published in 1992, discusses...
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CEP today extended an invitation to Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to join top American and European experts for a public conversation about the threat posed by extremist content that proliferates on Facebook. This invitation follows...
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CEP is spotlighting Ahmad Musa Jibril , a Michigan-based Salafist preacher known for his support of violence and role in radicalizing one of the 2017 ISIS London Bridge attackers. In his online lectures, Jibril is careful to not specifically call for...
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CEP reports weekly on methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms. Featured in this edition, CEP researchers located a site on the dark web for the pro-ISIS Electronic Horizon Foundation, also known as Horizon...
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CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "It’s 15 years since Facebook was born and – like all adolescents – it’s getting into trouble. However, Facebook’s kind of trouble is a little more serious than most teenagers. We at the Counter Extremism...
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CEP is spotlighting ISIS propagandist Abdullah al-Faisal, classified by the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center as a “violent extremist ideologue” and by the U.S. Department of the Treasury as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist who foments...
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CEP Senior Advisor and former UK Ambassador to Ireland Sir Ivor Roberts writes: "It is too easy to be smug about the relative peace that has prevailed in Northern Ireland over the past 20 years. The threat of a return to violence in Northern Ireland...
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"Less than two years after victory was declared over ISIS-aligned militants in Marawi, the threat of extremism has returned to the southern Philippines. In response, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to hit resurgent militants hard, but...
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CEP President Fran Townsend discusses the worldwide threat assessment presented in testimony to Congress and the importance of the relationship between the President and the intelligence community.
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Senior Diplomatic Advisor Ambassador Marc Ginsberg writes in the Diplomatic Courier: "On January 23, 2019, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) spotted on Google’s YouTube platform vulgar videos from the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, which would...
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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