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Extremist Content Online: Pro-ISIS Propaganda Group Releases Video

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, the pro- ISIS propaganda group War and Media Agency released a video titled “We Have Not Forgotten You and Will Not Forget You” on Telegram and multiple other websites that called for the freeing of ISIS prisoners. Additionally, the twelfth issue of the pro-ISIS web magazine “Voice of Hind” was released on numerous websites, which featured articles that encourage violence against the Pakistani Shia population and accused the Taliban of being mercenaries for the West in Afghanistan .
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Eye on Extremism: January 25, 2021

“Somali officials and the Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) claimed killing 189 al-Shabab fighters late Friday and in the early hours of Saturday in an operation in southern Somalia. Talking to VOA Somali Service by phone, Lower Shabelle Governor Abdulkadir Mohamed Nur Siidi said...
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The Spectator: We need to stamp out extremism in our prisons

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "Jonathan Hall QC, the government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, has launched an inquiry into how our prison service is managing the threat posed by terrorism. The backdrop to his review is the rapidly accumulating evidence that,...
Extremism News Roundup

Eye on Extremism: January 22, 2021

“Twin suicide bombings ripped through a crowded marketplace in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 32 people and wounding at least 75 others in the first such attack in Iraq’s capital in more than two years. The explosions shattered a period of relative calm after Islamic State lost...