CEP in the News

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July 3, 2023

[Translated from German] "A report by the Counter Extremism Project, an international non-profit organization, on transnational connections shows how closely interwoven neo-Nazis from Object 21, a group that was believed to have been smashed after...

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June 30, 2023

"Kacper Rekawek, a non-resident research fellow at the Counter Extremism Project, a Washington-based think tank, places the PMCs within a tradition of Russia having many different elements within its armed forces."

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June 29, 2023

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "There has been excitable, not to say sometimes unhinged, reporting around the introduction of draft legislation to require private venues to toughen their defences against the threat of bombers and marauding...

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June 27, 2023

"The far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD) made a historic breakthrough when it won a district election on Sunday thanks to an “unfortunate intersection” of flashpoints over immigration and the Ukraine war coinciding with the vote, extremism...

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June 26, 2023

"Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, presented the latest trends in the Taliban’s relations with transnational narcotics syndicates, showing how heroin and methamphetamines produced in Afghanistan are smuggled...

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June 25, 2023

"For several years now, law enforcement and researchers have been monitoring racially and ethnically motivated violent white supremacist groups and their growing fascination with our country's power grid. Many in these groups are 'accelerationists,'...

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June 23, 2023

"The event was held on Thursday, and involved the Permanent Missions of Afghanistan, Canada and Spain, jointly with the Afghanistan Policy Lab of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) and...

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June 23, 2023

"As reported by Fast Company, analysts with the Counter Extremism Project claim that they were used to seeing various radical groups requesting donations in cryptocurrencies."

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June 21, 2023

"Analysts with the Counter Extremism Project were used to seeing radical groups asking for donations in crypto currencies. Everyone from neo-Nazis to ISIS sympathizers liked Bitcoin, as it helps avoid oversight from banks and regulators. But in 2020...

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June 20, 2023

"'PIJ is dedicated to eradicating Israel and establishing an autonomous Islamic Palestinian state in the lands currently comprising Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. PIJ believes that the land of Palestine is consecrated for Islam, that Israel usurped...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

In Their Own Words:

We reiterate once again that the brigades will directly target US bases across the region in case the US enemy commits a folly and decides to strike our resistance fighters and their camps [in Iraq].

Abu Ali al-Askari, Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) Security Official Mar. 2023
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