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August 25, 2022

CEP Webinar: 30 Years Of Western Jihad – A Discussion With Jytte Klausen

(New York, N.Y. / London) – Ahead of the 21st anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) invites you to attend our upcoming webinar with Professor Jytte Klausen , curator of the Western Jihadism Project at...

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August 24, 2022

Al-Shabaab Kills 21 And Wounds More Than 100 In 30-Hour Siege Of Mogadishu Hotel

Somali security forces ended a 30-hour assault by al-Shabaab militants on the Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu last weekend that left 21 people dead and 117 wounded. This was the first major attack by the extremist group since Somali President Hassan Sheikh...

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August 22, 2022

Extremist Content Online: Pro-ISIS Tech Group Releases List Of 12 Recommended E-Mail Services

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week the pro-ISIS tech group Qimam Electronic Foundation...

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August 19, 2022

Extremist Content Online: Facebook Edition

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit Meta-owned Facebook to spread propaganda, recruit followers, and incite violence in order to hold the popular social media platform accountable for its...

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August 18, 2022

Khomeinism Continues To Influence Radical Islamic Thought

Last Friday, Hadi Matar allegedly stabbed Salman Rushdie while the author was lecturing in western New York. The attack came over 30 years after the Islamic Republic of Iran’s first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a 1989 fatwa...

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August 16, 2022

Extremist Content Online: Cloudflare Hosting Holocaust Denial Website And Store

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. Last week, CEP researchers identified a Holocaust denial website and a...

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August 15, 2022

Attacks And Assassination Plots Highlight Threat Of Iranian Terror

Last Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against Shahram Poursafi, a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), for plotting a murder-for-hire attack against former U.S. National Security Adviser...

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August 15, 2022

CEP Analysis: One Year Since The Taliban’s Takeover In Afghanistan

Today, on the first anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, CEP Senior Director and former coordinator of the ISIL (Da’esh), al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Monitoring Team of the U.N. Security Council Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler observed...

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August 12, 2022

CEP Statement On Attack Of Author Salman Rushdie

Counter Extremism Project (CEP) CEO Ambassador Mark D. Wallace released the following statement condemning Hadi Matar’s stabbing of Indian-born British-American author Salman Rushdie this morning while he was lecturing at the Chautauqua Institution...

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August 12, 2022

Extremist Content Online: Facebook Edition

The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit Meta-owned Facebook to spread propaganda, recruit followers, and incite violence in order to hold the popular social media platform accountable for its...

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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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