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September 19, 2024

" On this episode, Niall Paterson also speaks to former prison governor Professor Ian Acheson, author of the book Screwed - Britain's Prison Crisis And How to Escape It, about the prison environment, and how systemic a problem it has become."

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September 17, 2024

“…An 18-year-old Islamist in Munich, for example, radicalized on TikTok, about to attack the Israeli consulate. Only the quick intervention of the police prevented a catastrophe. The problem: Such cases often go unnoticed for a long time. “Without...

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September 17, 2024

CEP affiliated researcher Kacper Rekawek: "This process began over ten years ago and specifically after the 2012 protests in Moscow, when Russians gathered at Bolotnaya Square to express their disagreement with Putin’s third term as president. Having...

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September 17, 2024

“Lebanon's health minister says thousands have been injured after pagers used by the Hezbollah militia group exploded simultaneously. Hezbollah fighters and medics are among the wounded. Several deaths have also been reported. Hezbollah says it's...

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September 16, 2024

"…Hans-Jakob Schindler sees three main reasons for the increasing violence in the West Bank. ‘On the one hand, Hamas, which has been under enormous military pressure in Gaza for months, is of course trying to activate its networks in the West Bank as...

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September 14, 2024

“...It is really a tough time for the German government under any circumstances, but it's also coming towards a government that has not found its stride in simply governing," said Hans-Jakob Schindler, a former German diplomat and director of the...

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September 13, 2024

“...The fact that the man wanted to attack soldiers is not necessarily unusual for an Islamist perpetrator, says terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP): ‘The military is always part of the target spectrum.’...

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September 11, 2024

“Wednesday marks 23 years since 3,000 people were killed when terrorists hijacked passenger jets and purposefully crashed them in the worst attack on America in history. It was planned and carried out by al-Qaida, and while the U.S. has killed its...

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September 12, 2024

CEP Senior Advisor Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown interviewed: "A special meeting with the former British Ambassador to #Yemen , Edmund Fitton-Brown. The meeting includes many important points about the British and Western position in general on the...

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September 11, 2024

CEP Senior Advisor Edmund Fitton-Brown writes: "As we pass yet another anniversary of 9/11, let us think back briefly to the eve of that watershed moment: In the 1990s, this author worked on counterterrorism issues in London, Cairo, and Kuwait. There...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility. 

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