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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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CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "The mother and child were members of Iraq's Yazidi religious minority. Their captors, members of Islamic State (IS), are said to be German and Iraqi. At the time, Islamic State recruits felt invincible. They...
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"Meanwhile, a research analyst with the US-based Counter Extremism Project, Joshua Fisher-Birch, says it is disturbing how easy it is to find the [Christchurch] mosque shooting video online."
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"Josh Lipowsky, a senior researcher at the Counter Extremism Project, said 'This is a tactic that has been around for several years … It was originally used early on by Islamist extremists — ISIS, Al Qaeda, Hamas — but in the last five years or so...
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CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "We have a problem with violent extremists in prison. We don’t know where they all are, we can’t control them adequately even if we did and we can’t change them meaningfully. The outworking of these failures...
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CEP "U.S. White Supremacy Groups" report referenced: "The Counter-Terrorism Project (n.d) alleges white supremacists subscribe to neo-Nazi beliefs that the whites are superior to other races."
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CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid quoted regarding U.S. lawmakers' proposed targeted changes to Section 230: "I think we want to take as modest of a step as possible. Give it a year or two, see how it unfolds and make adjustments."
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CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid quoted: "To Farid, the choice for tech companies was simple: automatically filter out the mass quantities of obviously abhorrent content using hashing technology like PhotoDNA and worry about the gray areas later."
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CEP Executive Director David Ibsen and Deputy Director Lara Pham write: "Such calls for enhanced legal authority may seem understandable when viewed in the context of the aftermath of senseless, tragic attacks. However, U.S. laws treat foreign...
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"According to Joshua Fisher-Birch, a terrorism analyst at the Counter Extremism Project who specializes in groups like the Base, Watkins is a true radical. 'Watkins’ alleged crimes, as well as messages and videos attributed to him, show him as...
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"'We have not been looking at this problem with the same goggles as we have with jihadist groups, but now that we have started to do so, we realize that far-right groups can use the same organized crime methodologies to finance their activities,'...
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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