CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "This is an attempt to get a hold of this instrument of Russian aggression, that's what Wagner really is. As you know the U.S. government quite awhile ago already designated Wagner a global organized crime network, which I think is a little bit closer to the truth than necessarily using the terrorism label. Of course the terrorism label has a couple of advantages. If you declare a group a terrorist organization, then you have all of a sudden all of the counterterrorism instruments at your disposal to hinder the operations of the group that you didn't have at your disposal before."
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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