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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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"It has since been acquired by the Counter Extremism Project, a non-government organisation that combats extremist groups by pressuring financial support networks, countering the narrative of extremists and their online recruitment, and advocating...
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"“These groups see the next four years as a mix of positives and negatives but overall as an opportunity to enlarge their movement” said Joshua Fisher Birch, a terrorism analyst at the New York-based Counter Extremism Project. “Extreme-right groups...
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"This house with its twisted history has now been bought by the Counter Extremism Project from a Polish family whose ancestors had lived there since before and after the war - when it was seized by the Nazis."
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"“My dream, and those of our colleagues, is that every visitor, every fellow, every academic that comes here takes action to fight extremism and antisemitism wherever they come from,” said Mark Wallace, the CEO of the Counter Extremism Project."
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"It has since been acquired by the Counter Extremism Project, a non-government organisation that combats extremist groups by pressuring financial support networks, countering the narrative of extremists and their online recruitment, and advocating...
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“Eighty years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau , the impact of what happened there during World War II is still felt. Although the first news about the site was broadcast on the radio, in film and in newspapers...
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"The new owner is the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), an organisation that studies global extremism and advises state actors on how to push back. It has big plans for the former Höss house, renamed the Auschwitz Research Centre on Hate, Extremism...
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“We spoke to former prison governor Ian Acheson. He’s now the Senior Advisor to the Counter Extremism Project. We began by asking him why Prevent missed so many signs to stop Axel Rudakubana before he went on to kill. Ian Acheson: We don’t have the...
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“Tomorrow marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the German-Nazi concentration and death camp where more than 1.1 million people were murdered between 1940 and 1945, about 85% of whom were Jews. Other victims included...
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"Due to the nature of his crimes and the likelihood he will have a price on his head, it is not thought that Rudakubana will receive the same treatment. “It is extremely unlikely he will be sent to a YOI. Even the most secure, which is probably HMP...
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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