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August 4, 2022

"'This would be an easy win for the Iranians,' said Mr. Schindler, who is now New York-based senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, an international policy organization focused on extremist ideology. 'This could be a point where a chip...

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August 4, 2022

CEP Senior Advisor Lucinda Creighton interviewed: "Europe’s terrorist content bill came into effect just two months ago and represents a positive step forward. The Counter Extremism Project, with whom I work, supported it. The bill is not a vague...

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August 4, 2022

“Hans-Jakob Schindler, a senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, which tracks jihadi groups, noted that al-Adel ‘has become very high value’ since al-Zawahiri was killed, ‘and the Iranians usually take advantage of such situations.’”

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August 3, 2022

CEP provided information for a United Nations Report of the Secretary-General: "Such narratives are characterized by violent masculinity and overlap with conspiracy theories, associating feminism with the purported decline of the family and reduced...

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August 3, 2022

CEP Advisory Board Member Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown interview: "The significance of Zawahiri being in Kabul is substantial. The monitoring team had already reported that we understood from Member States that he was present in Afghanistan. We...

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"Hans-Jakob Schindler, Sr. Director of the Counter Extremism Project (former Coordinator of the U.N. Al Qaida, Taliban, ISIS monitoring team) discusses what happened."

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August 3, 2022

"Former UN terrorism expert Hans Jacob Schindler, director of the Counter Extremism Project, issued a warning to nations to remain vigilant. 'Zawahiri’s death is a significant counter-terrorism success, but it should not be cause for anyone to let...

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August 2, 2022

"'He accepted major new players in the Al-Qaeda network,' said Hans-Jakob Schindler, director of the NGO Counter-Extremism Project and a former UN advisor. 'So it is a blow to Al-Qaeda,' he said. But 'it's not going to stop anything' planned by Al...

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August 2, 2022

CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "Succédant en 2011 à Oussama ben Laden tué dans un raid américain au Pakistan, il a joué un rôle moteur dans le processus de décentralisation qui a permis à Al-Qaïda de survivre aux épreuves...

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August 2, 2022

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson quoted: "The assassination of Ayman al-Zawahiri is a settling of accounts for the US, who brought ultimate justice to one of the reputed architects of 9/11. It also partly vindicates President Joe Biden’s promise that...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers. 

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