CEP in the News

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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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September 11, 2024

"'You still have a central media service and a central command that directed, for example, the attacks in Russia. But right now I think there is a much more diverse network recruiting these young people,' says Pieter Van Ostaeyen, an analyst who has...

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September 9, 2024

"Edmund Fitton-Brown, Senior Advisor to the Counter Extremism Project and former Ambassador of the UK to Yemen, told MailOnline: 'ISIS methodically kept itself alive during the height of military and counterterrorism pressure it faced by creating a...

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September 8, 2024

"According to Joshua Fisher-Birch, an analyst at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), 'These groups will continue to hold anti-immigration rallies before the November election because they see an opportunity to recruit and gain publicity within the...

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September 8, 2024

“... Update, 5:01 p.m.: According to extremism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), there is a "very aggressive and relatively large Islamist scene" in Austria. There is a "huge illegal arms trade in Austria." You can...

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September 6, 2024

"Thousands of prisoners are to be freed early to ease overcrowding in England’s prisons. @JonnyDymond asks Ian Acheson, former prison governor, what most concerns him about this new scheme."