Metro UK: Thousands of freed Isis and Al-Qaeda fighters ‘regrouping’ in Afghanistan
"Chief among those likely to turn the country into fertile ground for terror is Farooqi, who was arrested by Afghan forces in April 2020 in Kandahar.
He was Isis’s emir in South and Central Asia at the time, according to analysis by the Counter Extremism Project CEP).
David Ibsen, Executive Director of the New York-based think tank, told Metro.co.uk: ‘Farooqi is a dangerous mastermind for Is-K and his potential release undoubtedly poses a grave threat to Western interests and safety."
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.