"Hans-Jakob Schindler, the director of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), said this was justified.
“If you have to ask for permission before you break ties with al-Qaeda, from the leadership of al-Qaeda, the sincerity of the ideological reorientation is in question,” he said."
"A bit like the Taliban, the de facto rulers of Afghanistan since the summer of 2021, who are not yet recognised as such by the international community, HTS may have difficulty getting off Western lists of terrorist organisations. A position that German Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) think tank and former expert at the United Nations Security Council, considers justified. He stresses that HTS "glorified Hamas' attacks" against Israel on October 7, 2023.”
"Hans-Jakob Schindler, the director of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), said this was justified.
"If you have to ask for permission before you break ties with al-Qaeda, from the leadership of Al-Qaeda, the sincerity of the ideological reorientation is in question," he told AFP."
This nineteenth and final monthly report will analyse the most important events and trends in Jihadi-terrorist social media reporting from the Sahel in the month of June 2024. Although the number of reported incidents by al-Qaeda and Islamic State...
At dawn September 17, 2024, the Malian capital of Bamako witnessed one of the most brazen terrorist attacks seen in recent years. Armed gunmen first stormed a barracks of the gendarmerie in the south of the capital and subsequently attacked the...
“Wednesday marks 23 years since 3,000 people were killed when terrorists hijacked passenger jets and purposefully crashed them in the worst attack on America in history. It was planned and carried out by al-Qaida, and while the U.S. has killed its founder, Osama bin Laden, and his successor, Ayman al-Zawahri, the militant group is still active. On this week’s episode of The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green, Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, said two of al-Qaida’s original members are still out there and evidence suggests the group is training and plotting again.”
On the morning of September 11, 2001, America suffered the worst terrorist attack in its history when al-Qaeda terrorists launched coordinated suicide attacks against a range of targets on U.S. soil. Having smuggled knives and box-cutters through...
The month of May saw a significant increase in social media output from both the Islamic State as well as JNIM--as was expected given the continuous rise of online activities of both groups in recent months . The number of statements published during...
“Fearing terrorist attacks, the organizers have canceled the three upcoming concerts of US pop star Taylor Swift in Vienna. Terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler says that we must not give in to the pressure of terrorists.”
"To gauge the level of threat, elDiario.es spoke to one of the leading experts on the subject: Hans-Jakob Schindler, founder and current director of the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) –based in New York and Berlin– and former head of the UN Security Council Sanctions Monitoring Team against the Islamic State (Daesh), Al Qaeda and the Taliban. A diplomat and expert in intelligence and security, Schindler has been studying the evolution and development of organisations considered strategic threats by a large part of the international community since the 1990s."
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