CEP in the News

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September 9, 2024

"Edmund Fitton-Brown, Senior Advisor to the Counter Extremism Project and former Ambassador of the UK to Yemen, told MailOnline: 'ISIS methodically kept itself alive during the height of military and counterterrorism pressure it faced by creating a...

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September 8, 2024

"According to Joshua Fisher-Birch, an analyst at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), 'These groups will continue to hold anti-immigration rallies before the November election because they see an opportunity to recruit and gain publicity within the...

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September 8, 2024

“... Update, 5:01 p.m.: According to extremism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), there is a "very aggressive and relatively large Islamist scene" in Austria. There is a "huge illegal arms trade in Austria." You can...

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September 6, 2024

"Thousands of prisoners are to be freed early to ease overcrowding in England’s prisons. @JonnyDymond asks Ian Acheson, former prison governor, what most concerns him about this new scheme."

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September 5, 2024

"According to the police, the man is an 18-year-old who was born in Austria and has Bosnian roots. There are many indications that the incident has a radical Islamist background, says extremism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler from the Counter Extremism...

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September 5, 2024

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson: "A re you ready for SDS40? You might need to be if you’re unlucky enough to live in a high crime area. This is the anodyne descriptor for the government’s emergency release of an estimated 5,000 offenders this month...

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September 2, 2024

"The clubs are ‘arguably the largest and fastest growing violent extreme-right network’, and are spreading across the UK, according to the insights provided to Metro.co.uk by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP)."

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September 2, 2024

CEP Senior Advisor Edmund Fitton-Brown writes: "Iran has defined itself in opposition to Israel, the United States, and the wider West since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Over the course of half a century of complex regional and global events, the...

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September 2, 2024

"The nonprofit Counter Extremism Project (CEP) released a report claiming 69 confirmed attacks by ISIS in central Syria in March. The attacks resulted in the deaths of at least 84 Syrian soldiers, and 44 civilians and more than doubled the total...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On August 23, 2017, Boko Haram insurgents attacked several villages in northern Nigeria’s Borno State. The extremists shot at villagers and slit their throats, killing 27 people and wounding at least 6 others. 

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