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Hamas and ISIS: The Ideological Ties That Bind

Following the horrific shooting attack at a Tel Aviv restaurant that killed four Israelis and wounded more than a dozen others in June, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said he was “shocked” by Hamas’s statements praising the attack and promising...

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August 3, 2016

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller on Fox

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Advisor Tara Maller Talks About ISIS's Secret Service Unit on Fox News' Shepard Smith.

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August 3, 2016

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller is interviewed on Fox News regarding the discovery of an ISIS division that plans and supports attacks in Western countries and the extent of ISIS's success in radicalizing and inciting attacks through its online...

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August 1, 2016

I asked the team whether showing prisoner abuses could play into the hands of ISIS propagandists, who already use elements of violent video games to recruit fighters. “In this case, I doubt it,” the developer said. “Even terror groups would...

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July 31, 2016

CEP Research Analyst Brian Stewart, in this op-ed, notes that ISIS took much of the world by storm. "In a 2014 interview with The New Yorker, US President Barack Obama pronounced the blood-spattered theocratic gang to be no more than a “JV squad”...

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July 29, 2016

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller on Fox News

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Advisor Tara Maller Discusses Presidential Candidates Receiving Intelligence Briefings on Fox News.

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Turkish Caliphate on the Rise

Coups are never a good thing, especially in countries that purport to be democracies like Turkey. Yet, the July 15 coup attempt would have been that country’s sixth since Kemal Ataturk enforced secularism in the 1920s after the demise of the Ottoman...

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July 15, 2016

CEP President Fran Townsend is interviewed about the terror attack in Nice, France, when a truck plowed into a crowd gathered to watch fireworks on Bastille Day, killing 84 people and injuring dozens of others.

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July 26, 2016

A California man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for attempting to join the Islamic State and lying on a passport application, federal officials said. Adam Dandach, 22, was arrested on July 3, 2014 at John Wayne Airport, where he was planning to...

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July 22, 2016

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller on Fox News

CEP Spokesperson and Senior Policy Advisor Tara Maller Speaks with Shepard Smith About Munich Attack.

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility. 

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