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August 16, 2021

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales quoted: "U.S. intelligence officials had previously said it would take up to two years for al-Qaeda to reconstitute in Afghanistan. Nathan Sales, who served as a senior counterterrorism official...

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August 15, 2021

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales quoted: "Biden may not be as insulated by public opposition to the war as he thinks he is, critics said. Nor is it a given that Trump’s support for a withdrawal transfers immunity to Biden, said...

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August 13, 2021

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen commentary featured: "Yet however appalling it might be to watch progress made over decades wiped out in a matter of days, this is only the start. For whatever words come out of their mouths, the Taliban have not...

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August 13, 2021

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid writes: "Apple has taken the modest but long overdue step of extending a decade-old technology to protect children online, with appropriate protections for user privacy. It should not be criticized for these efforts...

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August 11, 2021

CEP's Daniel Roth quoted: "‘The Iranian threat to shipping in the Gulf is substantial and borne out by numerous examples of Iranian attacks, hijackings, detentions and increasingly, drone strikes. ‘Iran considers the Gulf its private lake, which it...

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August 11, 2021

"The ‘kamikaze’ unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which are designed to explode upon impact, are a ‘core element’ of Tehran’s attempts to exert its presence in the region, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) said."

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August 2, 2021

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "If big tech platforms are willing to cooperate with legislators and work within the new legal regimes that have been established to regulate them, the decade to come may yet see them partially restore the...

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July 27, 2021

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "Neo-Nazis are the fastest growing cadre of violent extremists in our prisons, and now yet another offender motivated by far right ideology has entered our creaking jail system. Last week, Andrew Dymock was...

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July 23, 2021

CEP statement quoted: "...survivors of Breivik's attacks had voiced concern regarding his 'status as an inspirational figure among far-right extremists.' '[This status] underlines the need for greater action to target the dissemination of known...

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July 21, 2021

"On this week’s episode of “The Hunt, with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green,” Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, says ISIS is slowly gaining strength."

Daily Dose

Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On May 8, 2019, Taliban insurgents detonated an explosive-laden vehicle and then broke into American NGO Counterpart International’s offices in Kabul. At least seven people were killed and 24 were injured.

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