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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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"'QAnon conspiracies are centered around the idea of a powerful elite secretly manipulating current events,' Counter Extremism Project senior research analyst Josh Lipowsky told JNS. 'QAnon subscribers have politicized the conspiracies around an...
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"A former officer in the army of Saddam Hussein, Mawla joined the ranks of Al-Qaeda after the US invasion of Iraq and Hussein's capture in 2003, according to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) think-tank."
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"My next guest will be Kacper Rekawek. Kacper is an affiliated researcher at the Counter Extremism Project and a GLOBSEC associate fellow. Between 2016 and 2019 he led the latter’s national security program and has published on a broad range of...
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"Last month, the group carried out at least 23 attacks in Syria alone, according to data compiled by the Counter Extremism Project. Those attacks were aimed mostly at forces loyal to Mr. Assad."
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CEP Senior Director Hans-Jakob Schindler quoted: "As the crisis developed, there was an increase in right-wing populism, AfD [the far-right party that became the third force in the federal parliament], all kinds of right-wing groups, and then, within...
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"While most international attention has been focused on the “post-caliphate” Islamic State insurgencies in northeast Syria and Iraq, ISIS has steadily carried out an ever-expanding insurgency against the Syrian regime and its allies in central Syria...
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"According to the Counter Extremism Project, a nonprofit international policy organization, al-Faisal was born Trevor William Forrest in Jamaica but converted to Islam and changed his name while living in Saudi Arabia as a teenager. He eventually...
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CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakbo Schindler speaks on WTOP's The Hunt about domestic terrorism on the rise in the U.S. and the connection to Europe. The threat has long been transatlantic and intra-European, but the current situation
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"'Ghaani has a history of ties in Afghanistan dating back to the 1980s when he helped arm and support Shiite communities there on behalf of Iran,' said Josh Lipowsky, senior research analyst at the Counter Extremism Project (C.E.P.). 'Ghaani's...
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"According to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP): 'A 2015 U.K. government investigation concluded that the Brotherhood has 'promoted a radical, transformative politics, at odds with a millennium of Islamic jurisprudence and statecraft....' In line...
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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