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One Year After Orlando Massacre: Radicalizing Influence of ISIS Continues
CEP's new resource, Orlando Nightclub Attack, clearly shows that one year after an American ISIS follower Omar Mateen carried out the deadliest gun attack on American soil in killing 49 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, the power...
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ICYMI: Dr. Hany Farid Discusses eGLYPH Technology for Detecting Extremist Content Online
CEP Senior Advisor and Dartmouth College Computer Science Professor Dr. Hany Farid was interviewed on June 5 by CNN’s Jake Tapper about the eGLYPH technology and the reluctance of Internet and social media companies to utilize it. In an editorial in...
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Will Qatar Ever Expel Terror Leaders?
CEP launched its HARBORS Campaign: Qatar, today, an effort to convince the country to arrest, expel, and end its financial and material support to 12 sanction-designated or wanted individuals. Prior to Gulf state neighbors announcing the severing of...
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Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Others Cut Diplomatic Ties with Qatar
Two CEP reports, Qatar: Extremism and Counter-Extremism and Qatar, Money and Terror: Doha’s Dangerous Policies, reveal the extent to which Qatar shelters and finances extremists and terrorists, undermining regional and international security. Saudi...
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CEP Applauds Prime Minister May’s Call to Action Against Ideology of Islamic Extremism and its "Safe Space" Online
CEP issued a statement condemning the terror attack on London Bridge and at the nearby Borough Market that claimed the lives of seven people and wounded dozens more, and applauded Prime Minister May’s call for a crackdown on extremist ideology that...
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Who Speaks for Iraqi Sunni Arabs?
CEP released a new resource on the Iraqi Islamic Party, founded as a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and the largest Sunni Islamist party in the country. The IIP is perceived as a sectarian party and has been accused of nurturing the wave of...
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ICYMI: CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid on the Problem of Online Extremism
CEP Senior Advisor and Dartmouth College Computer Science Professor Dr. Hany Farid, the world’s leading authority on digital forensics and hashing technology, was interviewed by Scientific American, The Verge , and On the Media, regarding the failure...
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ISIS Claims Credit for Bombing that Killed at Least 22, Including Children
The suicide attack that claimed the lives of at least 22 people outside the Manchester Arena on May 22 fits a pattern of terrorists targeting crowded areas to maximize civilian casualties, CEP said, in releasing updated reports on terror targets and...
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CEP Condemns Terror Attack at Concert in Manchester, England
CEP released a statement of strong condemnation following the apparent terror attack in Manchester, England that claimed the lives of at least 19 people.
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Four Years After Lee Rigby’s Murder, Online Radicalization, Vehicle Attacks Still Plague U.K.
On May 22, 2013, British soldier Lee Rigby was rammed with a car and then brutally hacked to death. Four years later, CEP has found that the plague of online radicalization and vehicle attacks still haunt the U.K., prompting lawmakers in a May 1...
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