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March 8, 2017

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller on MSNBC

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Policy Advisor Tara Maller on MSNBC describes how WikiLeaks' release of documents on CIA hacking can weaken intelligence capabilities.

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March 8, 2017

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses the ramifications of the Wikileaks release of documents that allege CIA hacking of cell phone transmissions and messaging applications.

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March 1, 2017

A group that monitors extremist activity on Wednesday called for the parent company of WordPress.com to shut down websites the group says are used by the Islamic State and al-Qaeda affiliates to publicize ‘vile’ and violent acts, including videos of...

Press Release

February 27, 2017

U.S. Drone Strike Targets Al-Qaeda Second In Command

Abu al-Khayr al-Masri, the the deputy to al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and the son-in-law to Osama bin Laden, was reportedly killed in northwest Syria by a U.S. drone strike. Masri was an al-Qaeda member for three decades and was wanted for the...

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February 27, 2017

“Fortunately, Farid is thinking about some of society’s most menacing issues.“Hany is creative, unrelenting and above all, a problem-solver,” said Mark Wallace, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and current CEO of the Counter Extremism...

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February 23, 2017

Documents Reaffirm Awlaki’s Role in Radicalizing “Underwear Bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

F.B.I. interviews with attempted airplane suicide bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, detailed by the New York Times , document the direct role played by U.S.-born cleric and al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki in planning and directing the plot. CEP...

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February 23, 2017

Governments across Europe have accidentally paid taxpayer-funded welfare benefits such as unemployment funds, disability pensions and housing allowances to Islamic State militants who have used the money to wage war in Iraq and Syria, authorities and...

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February 23, 2017

Islamic State group fighters are funding their jihad with taxpayer-funded welfare benefits from European Union governments. In France, officials said they will no longer give welfare to the hundreds of citizens who have joined ISIS in Syria. France...

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February 22, 2017

There are essentially three ways terrorists can be stopped from committing violent acts across the world. They can be killed with drones and other targeted attacks, prevented from accessing materials leading to radicalisation via the internet or they...

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February 21, 2017

CEP President Fran Townsend joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss President Trump's revised travel ban and his newly appointed National Security Adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster.

Daily Dose

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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