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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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"The inflammatory website of a violent terrorist group responsible for killing hundreds of US and coalition soldiers in Iraq is currently being hosted by one of America's biggest web companies, nine.com.au can exclusively reveal. Kataib Hezbollah (KH...
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"The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) this week invited Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to host a public conversation about removing extremist content from the platform. The group extended the invitation following Zuckerberg's commitment earlier this...
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The U.S. has done a good job of locking up people who are convicted of terrorism, but what happens when those people have completed their terms? Lucinda Creighton, senior advisor to the Counter Extremism Project, joins host J.J. Green to discuss the...
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“YouTube has refused to take down a rare neo-Nazi manifesto, which is a beloved text of violent far-right groups who lionise Adolf Hitler and cult killer Charles Manson. Siege, written by American neo-Nazi James Mason and published in 1992, discusses...
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CEP Executive Director David Ibsen writes: "It’s 15 years since Facebook was born and – like all adolescents – it’s getting into trouble. However, Facebook’s kind of trouble is a little more serious than most teenagers. We at the Counter Extremism...
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CEP Senior Advisor and former UK Ambassador to Ireland Sir Ivor Roberts writes: "It is too easy to be smug about the relative peace that has prevailed in Northern Ireland over the past 20 years. The threat of a return to violence in Northern Ireland...
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"Less than two years after victory was declared over ISIS-aligned militants in Marawi, the threat of extremism has returned to the southern Philippines. In response, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to hit resurgent militants hard, but...
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CEP President Fran Townsend discusses the worldwide threat assessment presented in testimony to Congress and the importance of the relationship between the President and the intelligence community.
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Senior Diplomatic Advisor Ambassador Marc Ginsberg writes in the Diplomatic Courier: "On January 23, 2019, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) spotted on Google’s YouTube platform vulgar videos from the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, which would...
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“Designed to spread the vengeful ideology of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda, a website named Revolution Muslim (RM) was quietly launched into cyberspace in 2007 out of a Brooklyn apartment. RM was the brainchild of New Yorker Jesse Morton and Yousef al...
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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