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"In this week’s episode of “The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green,” Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, talks about who did it and why."

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler writes: "As Afghanistan’s illicit drug trade flows globally, the international community needs to get serious about this threat not only as a matter of public health but also as counter-terrorism financing. Heroin and increasingly the more lucrative methamphetamine bleed through transport routes, making their way to Brussels, Berlin, and other European cities by way of Iran, Turkey and the Balkan states, via Central Asia as well as the Indian Ocean and East Africa. Meanwhile, the Taliban is funnelling these profits into a war chest it can put towards further violence and extremism."

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler joined GLOBAL with JJ Green to discuss the September 5, 2022 suicide bombing outside the consular section of Russia’s embassy in Kabul on Monday, killing a top diplomat, a Russian security guard and four Afghans. Dr. Schindler discussed who could have been responsible and why.

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interview with Swiss TV (Italian) on the 50th anniversary of the Black September attack against the Israeli National Team at the Munich Olympics.

CEP Senior Research Analyst Sofia Koller interviewed about new policy paper: "In meinem neuen Policy Paper skizziere ich die Entwicklung der Strafverfolgung von Rückkehrerinnen in Deutschland. Bis etwa 2018 waren diese Frauen nicht systematisch Gegenstand der deutschen Strafverfolgung. Dann versuchte die Bundesanwaltschaft erstmals, die IS Rückkehrerin Sibel H. für die Mitgliedschaft einer terroristischen Vereinigung anzuklagen. Doch das lehnte der Bundesgerichtshof vorerst ab. Es hieß, diese Anklage könne nicht zugelassen werden, da der reine Aufenthalt im Gebiet des IS nicht dafür ausreiche. So mussten die Staatsanwälte die mitgliedschaftlichen Aktivitäten der IS-Anhängerin deutlicher herausstellen. Sie brauchten Beweise dafür, dass Frauen zum Beispiel durch Haushaltsführung und Kindererziehung, aber auch das Wohnen in besetzten Häusern das IS-System unterstützt hatten."

CEP Strategic Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "Many of Britain’s most dangerous jihadists are imprisoned, perhaps affording us this false sense of security. But the sporadic information we get from behind the prison walls is anything but reassuring. While much hope is pinned on the largely uncharted territory of “deradicalisation”, its targets are making a mockery of these efforts."
CEP Advisory Board Member Nathan Sales quoted: "Taliban rule has already allowed terrorist organizations to blossom in Afghanistan, and only more will grow, according to Currie and Nathan Sales, a former ambassador-at-large and coordinator for counterterrorism. They said these groups view the U.S. and its Western allies as top targets."
CEP Senior Research Analyst Sofia Koller and policy paper quoted: "Während die Männer für den IS in den Krieg zogen, bemühten sich die Frauen, dem Rollenbild der radikalen Islamisten gerecht zu werden: einen Kämpfer zu heiraten, ihm zu dienen und möglichst Kinder zu gebären. Aber war das wirklich alles, was sie im selbstgewählten Exil hielt? Einen Aufschluss darüber können die Urteile deutscher Gerichte gegen Rückkehrerinnen geben. Sofia Koller vom Counter Extremism Project (CEP), einer gemeinnützigen internationalen Organisation zur Bekämpfung extremistischer Ideologien, hat sich mit der Strafverfolgung solcher aus IS-Gebieten zurückgekehrter Frauen in einer nun veröffentlichten Studie auseinandergesetzt."

CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid quoted: "'We’re quickly entering a world where everything, even videos, can be manipulated by pretty much anyone who wants to,' said Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and an expert on deepfakes. 'What can go wrong?'"
"For this group, however, the main reason for participating in the war would not be to help the Ukrainian army against the Russian offensive, but to gain military experience. 'Some right-wing extremists have seen the war in Ukraine as an opportunity to gain combat experience that would otherwise not be available to them,' Joshua Fisher-Birch, a far-right expert and analyst at the Counter Extremism Project, tells VICE."
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