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Oktober 20, 2018

Hate preacher Anjem Choudary was a free man last night despite fears that he will "wage war" on Britain. The Islamic extremist, who was released from prison yesterday, smiled as he posed for photographs outside his bail hostel. Lucinda Creighton...

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Oktober 18, 2018

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: “I am in no doubt that Anjem ¬Choudary poses a genuine, serious risk to national security when he returns to our streets. He is clearly a narcissist whose ¬attention-seeking behaviour is driven by a deep-seated...

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Oktober 17, 2018

Social media and delivery services have become new outlets for organised crime activities when it comes to illicit cigarette trade, according to a new study that has raised eyebrows among EU policymakers. The study published on Wednesday (17 October)...

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Oktober 17, 2018

Order of Dawn, which claims to be based in either the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, or Slovakia, is crowdfunding the Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency to support a sickening planned wave of violence, according to the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), an...

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Oktober 11, 2018

CEP Senior Research Analyst Josh Lipowsky writes: "Google and social-media outlets must back up their statements with action and demonstrate that hate, prejudice and cleverly veiled incitements to violence will not be welcome online. The “white man,”...

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Oktober 4, 2018

In August, as neo-Nazis rioted in Chemnitz, Germany, YouTube users were recommended videos from extremist sources blaming the riots on refugees. YouTube was also castigated by researchers at the Counter Extremism Project and by MSNBC host Chris Hayes...

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Oktober 3, 2018

The spectre of ISIS-linked material on YouTube has been revealed by a high-tech research project that has tracked the terror group's uploads to the channel. The US-based Counter Extremism Project (CEP) found that in a three-month period this year 1...

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September 25, 2018

CEP Advisory Board Member Sir Ivor Roberts writes: "Like the investment banks, today’s big tech is focused on profit at the expense of its responsibility to society. Our research at the Counter Extremism Project has uncovered how tech companies fail...

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September 22, 2018

Al Jazeera: Brazilian police arrested a fugitive who the United States accuses of being the financier for the Lebanese group Hezbollah. Assad Ahmad Barakat was arrested in Foz de Iguazu, a city in the border region between Brazil, Argentina and...

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September 20, 2018

CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "Brussels-based think tank Centre for European Policy Studies and the Berlin office of the international organization, Counter Extremism Project (CEP) have teamed up to study this NetzDG law, seeing it as a...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

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On May 8, 2019, Taliban insurgents detonated an explosive-laden vehicle and then broke into American NGO Counterpart International’s offices in Kabul. At least seven people were killed and 24 were injured.

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