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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 Research Analyst Marielle Harris was interviewed by BBC Radio about the attack at an Orlando, Floriida gay nightclub. “We know that Mateen was bipolar and that he was reported to have hit his wife. We also know that he was questioned by the FBI...
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Reeling from the worst attack on American soil since 9/11, the US authorities believe at this stage that Omar Mateen was probably a deranged lone gunman who simply took the Isis name as a badge rather than being a trained operative of the group. “The...
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CEP President Fran Townsend was interviewed on CSPAN about what led up to the mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando, Florida, in which 50 people died, including the gunman.
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CEP President Frances Townsend and Michael German, former FBI officer, are interviewed on CNBC TV and discuss the difficulty in connecting the dots of terrorists' digital networks .
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Thought puzzle for liberals: Does calling ISIS “homophobic” qualify as “Islamophobia?” Seems that way given the scant media attention to the group’s murderous persecution of gays since they rose to power. But a little-noticed report issued this month...
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The suspect in the mass shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida, has been named by officials as 29-year-old American citizen, Omar Mateen. The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) issued a statement on 12 June in response to the deadly Sunday...
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Tara Maller of the Counter Extremism Project joined MSNBC's Brian Williams to provide updates on the shooting at the Orlando nightclub, and explained how the United States might prevent future mass shootings.
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Fifty people were killed and 53 injured when 29-year-old U.S. citizen Omar Mateen opened fire inside gay night club Pulse, in Orlando, Florida. Gary Adshead spoke to Marielle Harris from the Counter Extremism Project about whether this attack was...
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This article about the killing of 49 people at an Orlando, Florida, gay nightclub quotes heavly from CEP's research report, "ISIS's Persecution of the Gay Community."
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CEP Spokesperson and Senior Policy Advisor Tara Maller offered expert analysis of both the military and civilian dimensions of the continuing battle for Fallujah, a city in the majority Sunni area of western Iraq that has been held by ISIS for...
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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