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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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There are at least 40 Americans – far more than previously believed – actively serving in the Islamist terror group Al Shabaab, including dozens of radicalized killers from Minnesota’s prominent Somali-American community, experts told Fox News. "In...
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Forces fighting the terror thugs of ISIS captured a bizarre pick-up truck with tank-style treads. In October an investigation was launched into how so many Toyotas ended up in the hands of ISIS. Mark Wallace, a former US Ambassador to the United...
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CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, writing in USA Today ,called on video sharing platform YouTube to immediately remove videos of the notorious American cleric turned al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki. “Because of his homicidal anti-American...
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U.S. intelligence agencies investigating the kidnapping of three Americans in Baghdad, Iraq last week are focusing their probe on three militant Islamic groups closely affiliated with Iran. Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Kata'ib Hezbollah and the Badr...
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CBSN's panel of global experts on radical Islam discuss why Brussels has become a recruiting hotbed for ISIS. The panel included; CEP Executive Director David Ibsen; Erin Saltman, a senior researcher at the United Kingdom's Institute for Strategic...
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U.S. intelligence agencies investigating the kidnapping of three Americans in Baghdad last week are focusing their probe on three militant Islamic groups closely affiliated with Iran, U.S. government sources said on Thursday. Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Kata...
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The 27 Bangladeshi men who were arrested under Singapore’s Internal Security Act were described as subscribing to the extremist beliefs and teachings of “radical idealogues” such as Anwar Awlaki. In December, the Counter Extremism Project, an...
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Hassan was reportedly in Twitter contact with Elton Simpson, one of two gunmen killed by police after he opened fire at an event featuring cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in Garland, Texas, in May, according to the Counter Extremism Project, a U.S...
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THE poisonous work of Birmingham cyber-hacker Junaid Hussain is being continued by fellow jihadis pumping out more than 90,000 Twitter messages a day. Now experts from the US-based Counter Extremism Project (CEP) say his ‘cyber warfare’ efforts have...
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As the director of the not-for-profit international policy organization The Counter Extremism Project, Mark Wallace is critical of Twitter’s take-down policies. “Twitter has looked upon itself as creating some sort of new constitutional right in the...
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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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