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September 13, 2021

"The director of the Counter Extremism Project, Hans-Jakob Schindler, has worked in the UN Security Council unit that monitors ISIS and Al Qaeda. He believes extremists from Europe may now travel to Afghanistan to train, and that terrorist attacks...

Press Release

September 13, 2021

CEP Webinar: The Financial Structures of Violent Right-Wing Extremist Networks in Germany

The financing of violent right-wing extremist organizations and actors has increasingly become the focus of policy discussions. In 2020, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), commissioned by the German Federal Foreign Office, published a comprehensive...

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September 10, 2021

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales quoted: "'The new Taliban is very much the same as the old Taliban,' former Ambassador Nathan Sales, the Trump-era head of the State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau, told Fox News. 'They still...

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September 10, 2021

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales interviewed: "There are still far too many Americans left behind enemy lines. One American left behind is too many. So, today's a good start. But I have to say we should not be praising the Taliban as...

Videos

September 10, 2021

CEP Senior Advisor Sir Ivor Roberts on BBC News

On September 10, 2021, CEP Senior Advisor, former British diplomat and counter-terrorism chief, Sir Ivor Roberts appeared on BBC Two and BBC News to discuss the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the current situation in Afghanistan.

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September 10, 2021

On September 10, 2021, CEP Senior Advisor, former British diplomat and counter-terrorism chief, Sir Ivor Roberts appeared on BBC Two and BBC News to discuss the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the current situation in Afghanistan.

CounterPoint Blog

U.K. Proposal Fails Victims of Northern Ireland Terror

September 8 began the start of the trial of 20 people accused of carrying out the November 13, 2015, Islamist terror attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. A victims’ representative summed up the obligation of the French state to the hundreds...

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September 9, 2021

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sale quoted: "'The new Taliban is the same as the old Taliban. They haven’t ‘moderated’ a bit. By appointing FBI-wanted terrorists to leadership positions, and scheduling their inauguration for the...

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September 9, 2021

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales quoted: "'The Taliban have made clear that they intend to govern Afghanistan as a terror state,' said Nathan Sales, the State Department’s counterterrorism coordinator under Mr. Trump."

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September 9, 2021

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Nathan Sales quoted: "'I think the United States is dramatically better in counterterrorism today than we were 20 years ago,' Amb. Nathan Sales, former ambassador-at-large and coordinator for counterterrorism...