Newsweek: 90-YEAR-OLD U.S. ARMY VETERAN MISTAKEN FOR ISIS MEMBER 'AKHMED THE ONE-ARMED'
90-year-old U.S. Army veteran says the U.S. government has been confusing him with a Chechen ISIS member known as "Akhmed the One-armed," for the past three years, creating frustrating travel delays and resulting in lost mail. Wondering why he would be considered "a denied party," Mayer took to Google, eventually discovering that a Chechen militant called Akhmed Chatayev had once gone by the name David Mayer as one of several aliases. According to the Counter Extremism Project, Chatayev, who was born in Russia, is believed to be missing his right arm and left leg, explaining his nickname. He is wanted by Russian authorities for terrorist attacks perpetrated in his birth country as well.
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.