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CEP Resource Details History, Violent Activities of White Supremacist Group the Ku Klux Klan
(New York, NY) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) today released a new resource that documents the history, beliefs, violent activities, and evolution of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), America’s oldest and best known white supremacist organization...
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Counter Extremism Project Supports Twitter's Renewed Effort to Battle Extremists; Calls for Even Stronger Response to Violent Extremism
(New York, NY) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) applauds Twitter’s announcement of its renewed efforts to suspend accounts tied to violent extremist groups and their supporters. Eighteen months after CEP initially raised the alarm over the...
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CEP Resource Details Rise, Tactics of Violent Pakistani Terror Group Lashkar-e-Taiba
CEP released a new resource detailing the history and violent activities of Islamic terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which has played a central role in indoctrinating, recruiting, and training thousands of jihadists in Pakistan since the 1980s. In...
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CEP Resource Details History, Leadership of National Democratic Party of Germany
CEP released a new resource on the National Democratic Party of Germany, an ultranationalist political party described by the German intelligence service as “racist, anti-Semitic and revisionist."
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ICYMI: CEP CEO Mark D. Wallace Calls on YouTube to Remove Notorious Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in USA Today Op-Ed
CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, in an op-ed published in USA Today January 25, called on video sharing platform YouTube to immediately remove videos of the notorious American cleric turned al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki.
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CEP Issues Updated Resource Following Deadly al-Shabab Attack at Mogadishu Beachfront
CEP issued an updated resource on Somali Islamic terror group al-Shabab following its deadly attack at a popular seaside hotel and restaurant in the capital of Mogadishu that killed at least 26 people.
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CEP Mourns the Passing of British Humanitarian and Publisher Lord George Weidenfeld
Following is a statement from CEP CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace on the death of England’s Lord George Weidenfeld at the age of 96 “I had the privilege and honor of knowing and working with Lord Weidenfeld, a remarkable humanitarian and visionary...
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CEP Releases Updated Resource on the Taliban Following Attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan
CEP is releasing an updated resource on the history, ideology and leadership of Islamist extremist group the Taliban following its attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan on January 20 targeting students and independent television journalists. At least...
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Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Kata’ib Hezbollah, and the Badr Organization
CEP released updated resources on three powerful Iraqi Shiite militias. One of the Iranian-backed Shiite militias is reportedly responsible for the disappearance of three Americans from an apartment in Baghdad on January 15.
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CEP Releases Resources on Al-Mourabitoun and AQIM Following Burkina Faso Attacks
(New York, NY) – The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) is releasing updated resources on violent Islamic terror groups al-Mourabitoun and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), following their attacks across the West African country of Burkina Faso...
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