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"Internal documents show that the Legion is struggling. Recruitment has stagnated. The Washington-based Counter Extremism Project wrote in March that the Legion and affiliated groups 'continue to feature individuals widely seen as unfit to perform their duties.'"

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March 27, 2023
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"World Geostrategic Insights interview with Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler on how terrorists operate and finance their activities through cryptocurrencies, the extent to which this phenomenon has been spreading in Europe and the United States, and the prospects for imposing robust regulation on the cryptocurrency industry and preventing the misuse of digital currencies for criminal activities, such as money laundering and terrorist financing."

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March 26, 2023
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"Think tank Counter Extremism Project says, 'The group’s ideology blends Islamism and Palestinian nationalism and seeks the destruction of Israel and the creation of an Islamic state between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River...Hamas’s preferred methods include suicide bombings, rocket and mortar attacks, shootings, and kidnappings.'"

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March 26, 2023
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CEP report A Year Of Foreign Fighting For Ukraine referenced in Belgian news: "Ukra En het Counter Extremism Project in Washington schreef in maart nog dat het Legioen en gelieerde groepen "'personen blijven aantrekken die algemeen beschouwd worden als ongeschikt om hun taken uit te voeren.'"

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March 25, 2023
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"Liam Duffy – strategic advisor for the Counter Extremism Project – joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for the latest episode of Last Orders. They discuss the Islamist threat to free speech, the panic over young people vaping, and the Portes-Snowdon wager."

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March 25, 2023
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"Internal documents show that the Legion is struggling. Recruitment has stagnated. The Washington-based Counter Extremism Project wrote in March that the Legion and affiliated groups 'continue to feature individuals widely seen as unfit to perform their duties.'"

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March 25, 2023
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"Despite those credentials, GiveSendGo, a site that promotes itself as the “'#1 Free Christian Fundraising Site', has yet to boot Pohlhaus from their platform. GiveSendGo was notified at least twice last year about the avowed neo-Nazi and his affiliations to the violent far-right. In September, an analyst at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), a non-profit terrorism watchdog, contacted GiveSendGo to say Pohlhaus was using it as a platform for making money and establishing a white nationalist community." 

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March 23, 2023
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CEP Senior Alexander Ritzmann writes: "This article assesses the alleged plot by the Reichsbürger group called Patriotic Union to overthrow the German government that was thwarted in December 2022. The article first outlines what is known about the plot. It then in turn examines the history, the ideology, the adherents, and the threat posed by the Reichsbürger."

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March 23, 2023
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CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "Even considering the usual moral squalor of jihadist violence, Merah’s spree stands out for its depravity. Yet, for some reason, he is still widely revered. Nicole Yardeni, a deputy mayor in the city, tells me that his name is sometimes viewed positively even outside of jihadist circles, as “a symbol of rebellion” against society. After all, Merah is the man “who brought France to its knees”, as one local youth reminded the mother of his first victim. Even at the time of the police manhunt and siege, Facebook posts and pages honouring the gunman attracted thousands of likes, while police prevented people from laying flowers at his apartment. (It goes without saying that the overwhelming majority, Muslim and non-Muslim, were horrified."

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March 20, 2023
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"Sir Ivor Roberts, senior adviser at the Counter Extremism Project, said it 'beggars belief' they are on YouTube 12 years on.

He added: 'It’s sickening to think such material can be easily accessed by children and vulnerable adults — and essentially act as recruiting videos, glamourising and justifying a violent neo-Nazi cause.

'The laws requiring wealthy social media giants to prevent such harmful material from being broadcast are simply not robust enough.'"

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March 19, 2023
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