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Fishmongers Hall Inquest: The Jury’s Conclusion

This is my final blog on the inquest into the murders of Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt by an Islamist terrorist, Usman Khan, on the 29th of November 2019. Please see the previous blogs here for background information. The jury delivered its...

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May 28, 2021

BBC Newsnight: Fishmongers’ Hall attack: How did the police and MI5 fail so badly?

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson interviewed by BBC's Richard Watson: "Failings by the police, probation service and MI5 contributed to the deaths of two graduates killed by a convicted terrorist, a jury has found. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly...

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May 28, 2021

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson interviewed by BBC's Richard Watson: "Failings by the police, probation service and MI5 contributed to the deaths of two graduates killed by a convicted terrorist, a jury has found. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly...

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May 27, 2021

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler writes: "terrorist financers have adapted their methods, exploiting continuing vulnerabilities as well as taking advantage of new technologies to raise, transfer and store funds. The emergence of social...

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May 26, 2021

Violent Antisemitic Attacks Rising Globally

Coinciding with and immediately following the 11-day conflict between Israel and the U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), reports of antisemitic hate crimes, bigotry, and intolerance are spiking...

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May 24, 2021

Extremist Content Online: Facebook Pages Idolizing Christchurch Terrorist, Spreading Antisemitic Content Found

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 located several antisemitic Facebook pages...

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May 24, 2021

CEP & Das NETTZ Webinar: The New EU Digital Services Act (DSA) – Will Social Media Users Be Safer In The Future?

The draft Digital Services Act (DSA), published by the EU Commission in December 2020, seeks to build a safer and better Internet for all EU citizens. Unfortunately, despite introducing some promising new elements like transparency and auditing...

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May 23, 2021

CEP-published report "An Unholy Alliance: Links between extremism and illicit trade in East Africa" featured

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May 21, 2021

Austria Bans Terrorist Group Hezbollah In Its Entirety

Last week, Austria banned Hezbollah in its entirety, going a step further than European Union (EU) policy, which abides by a false distinction between the terrorist group’s so-called political and military wings. Vienna’s decision is the latest in a...

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May 20, 2021

CEP Executive Director David L. Ibsen writes: "The Christchurch Call was a commitment by governments and tech companies to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online while ensuring that the internet remained otherwise free and secure...

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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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