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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."
CEP Advisory Board Member Dr. August Hanning quoted: "'It was clear to all experts that [the withdrawal] meant the great danger of the Taliban taking power in Afghanistan,' Dr. August Hanning, former German state secretary of the Federal Interior Ministry and director of Federal Intelligence Services, explained. 'But the prevailing mood in Germany was that government, Parliament and public were tired about the mission and the poor results of the mission in Afghanistan. Therefore, this announcement was also associated with a feeling of relief.'"
CEP Senior Advisor Dr. Hany Farid quoted: "Hany Farid, professor in digital forensics at the University of California, Berkeley, said of the fake Zelensky video: 'The next time the president goes on television, some people might think, ‘Wait a minute – is this real?’ I suspect it’s the tip of the iceberg.'"
"The Union of Good is an umbrella fundraising organization of charities and was designated as a terrorist organization by the US Treasury, in 2008. This is because it is an organization created by Hamas leadership to transfer funds to the terrorist organization. As noted by the Counter Extremism Project, the Union of Good includes the Qatar Charity and the Eid Charity."
"Two years later, he met a man from Eritrea whose father Islamist propaganda, according to the Counter-Extremism Project."
CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler discusses the cost of terror attacks, how global terrorist networks organize and fund low-cost attacks, and how extremists are using new technology such as cryptocurrency to finance their activities.
"A group of experts gathered by the Counter-Extremism Project believes the number of pro-Ukraine foreign fighters present in-country ranges from 'several hundred… to a few thousand.' Fighters from Eastern Europe and former Soviet republics still seem to constitute the bulk of arrivals, with Poland, Georgia, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania among the most frequently mentioned in open sources as countries of origin."
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