CEP in the News

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January 14, 2020

CEP Senior Research Analyst Josh Lipowsky writes: "Hezbollah has clearly demonstrated it has no compunction about striking inside Europe. Germany must no longer allow it the opportunity. The misplaced belief that designating the group in its entirety...

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January 14, 2020

"Joshua Fisher-Birch of the Counter Extremism Project, a U.S.-based terrorism watchdog, told VICE doxing and swatting are common “intimidation tactics” used “to target racial, ethnic, or religious groups, harm opponents, or to try to prevent...

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January 9, 2020

"In addition to its dizzying array of attacks, Al-Shabab is accused of carrying out stonings, amputations and beheadings as “regular punishment for criminal and apostates,” according to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP). The U.N. has also charged...

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January 9, 2020

"An engineering team led by Dartmouth College digital forensics expert Hany Farid developed the technique. Microsoft worked with Farid and the makers of messaging services like Kik and the popular game Roblox. It will be distributed for free starting...

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January 7, 2020

"As for Mr. Trump’s contention that a “few” ISIS fighters are Greek nationals, the nonprofit Counter Extremism Project concluded that the number was “not well documented” but said that Greece had been used as a transit point for fighters of European...

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January 7, 2020

"Hany Farid, a digital forensics expert at the University of California at Berkeley whose lab has worked with Facebook on deepfakes, similarly criticized the company’s new approach, calling it too 'narrowly construed.'"

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January 7, 2021

"Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has been named one of the world’s most dangerous extremists. According to the Counter Extremism Project website, Dr Mahathir is ranked 14th among the world’s top 20 most dangerous extremists."

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January 5, 2020

"The State Department further noted that of the 306 assassinations that happened in 40 countries around the world in 2018, Somalia accounted for 60 of them and Al-Shabaab was responsible for 51. Al-Shabaab also deployed the use of IEDs more...

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January 3, 2020

"Organizationally, the IRGC falls under the Joint Armed Forces General Staff as a part of the Ministry of Defense. But the military remains subordinate to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, with elected civilian authorities exercising no real control...

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December 31, 2019

"Supporters of an Iran-backed militia tried to storm the American embassy compound in the Iraqi capital, driving the U.S. to send military reinforcements and pointing to the fraught challenge for Washington in maintaining forces in Iraq.Some pitched...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

In Their Own Words:

We reiterate once again that the brigades will directly target US bases across the region in case the US enemy commits a folly and decides to strike our resistance fighters and their camps [in Iraq].

Abu Ali al-Askari, Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) Security Official Mar. 2023
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