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January 21, 2025

CEP Analyst Greg Waters writes: "Syria’s first post-Assad protests broke out on Dec. 25 after a video claiming to show the destruction of an Alawite shrine spread rapidly across Facebook. The video was quickly debunked as several weeks old, the...

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January 21, 2025

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "The assailant in the Southport massacre has pleaded guilty to the murders of three children in the town last year. Keir Starmer has leapt with unusual speed to authorise a public inquiry into what drove Axel...

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January 21, 2025

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "We are rapidly becoming a low trust society and this has serious implications for ‘community cohesion.’ The term, coined by academics after the 2011 riots has lately become a soubriquet for institutional...

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January 20, 2025

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson quoted: "Writing in today’s Times, Ian Acheson, who held senior positions at several prisons including governor of HMP Erlestoke, John Podmore, the former governor at HMP Belmarsh and HMP Brixton, and Professor David...

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January 20, 2025

"They make no mention of their neo-Nazi sympathies and avoid public discussion about “politics, Jews or history,” the New York-based Counter Extremism Project reports. Members are encouraged to look and act like “regular guys” and maintain a focus on...

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January 17, 2025

"Since Auschwitz was liberated in January 1945, the house at 88 Legionow Street had been in the private hands of a Polish family. But last year it was acquired by the Counter Extremism Project, a New York-based NGO that has sought to combat extremism...

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January 17, 2025

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "On 23 September last year at 6.30 p.m. in the evening in a street in Woolwich, London, Daejaun Campbell cried out, ‘I’m 15, don’t let me die’ as he bled out on a pavement after being stabbed. You probably won’t...

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January 16, 2025

"Since Auschwitz was liberated in January 1945, the house at number 88 Legionow Street had been in the private hands of a Polish family. But last year it was acquired by the Counter Extremism Project, a New York based NGO that has, sought to combat...

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January 16, 2025

"Hamas has ability to rebuild if circumstances allow, expert Hans-Jakob Schindler tells DW Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, has told DW that the ceasefire deal is "a victory" for the hostages and Palestinian...

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January 16, 2025

“The house at 88 Legionow Street is imposing and ugly on the outside, but functional and spacious within. With temperatures below freezing and snow thick on the ground, visitors really notice the blast of warm air coming from the radiators when they...

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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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