"Hezbollah, Hamas, and Houthis ... and all eyes on the skies over Iran. Catch Jonathan Schanzer’s discussion on the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Morning Brief w/ terrorism expert Edmund Fitton-Brown. We’ve got lots of ground to cover on Iran's terror network, so make sure to tune in."

“Interview featuring CEP Senior Director, Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler on the topic of Counter Terrorism Financing”

“It was apparently intended to be an ultimate, devastating blow against Israel. This is suggested by new findings on the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023. According to the New York Times and the Washington Post, the terrorist strategists around their leader Jahia Sinwar planned their attack in detail for more than two years. […] Hans-Jakob Schindler calls Iran's reaction to Hamas's request "typical". The leadership of the Islamic Republic almost always avoids an open "no" in negotiations and prefers to use formulations such as "further clarification required", says the senior director of the international Counter Extremism Project and head of the Berlin office.”

“"We are trying to bring some normality back to the lives of the affected communities."Any volunteer who comes to North Carolina or Florida to help the victims of hurricanes Helene and Milton could say the same. But the man who says this in front of a camera in a video posted on Telegram on October 6 and shared on most social networks is not just anyone. […] "The Patriot Front is also clearly fascist, and its logo is inspired by that of Benito Mussolini's Italian National Fascist Party ," says Matthew Feldman. It is also a group anchored in a culture of violence that "is linked to the American network of neo-Nazi cells of the Active Club Network ," says Joshua-Fisher Birch, an American analyst for the Counter Extremism Project (CEP), an international organisation that fights extremist movements.”

“Reviving England’s warrior culture” by posing as a sports club. That is what a far-right group linked to a violent white supremacist collective is doing, which has been recruiting young people to achieve that goal, according to a BBC investigation. […] Alexander Ritzmann, a researcher at the international organisation The Counter Extremism Project and an advisor to the European Commission's Radicalisation Awareness Network, says he has “never seen a far-right network grow so fast”. He described Active Club as a “sophisticated operation” and warned that if it was allowed to “continue to operate and multiply, the likelihood of targeted political violence would increase.” He added that his aim was to “build a kind of militia hidden behind the image of a sports club, but which in reality is preparing for organised violence.”

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson quoted: "Ian Acheson, who reviewed the threat of Islamist extremism in prisons in 2016, cautioned against a move towards viewing the many hundreds who were convicted of criminal offences during the riots as a single group susceptible to far-right ideas, a narrative that could be welcomed by extremists."

"Israel says it's preparing a strong military retaliation after Iran launched more than 200 missiles into Israeli territory last week. Hans Jakob Schindler, Senior Director at the Counter Extremism Project, believes that only the US military could strike nuclear underground facilities in Iran and warns of the potential fallout."

"The FBI has broken up a plot to launch a terror attack in Oklahoma City on Election Day.

An Afghan national who came to the U.S. in 2021 on a special visa, allegedly plotted with a relative to attack people in line to vote with automatic assault weapons. The plan was foiled when they tried to buy the weapons and were tricked by undercover FBI agents.

In this episode of “The Hunt with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green,” Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, said the plot was very well planned."

CEP Advisor Liam Duffy writes: "“MI5 has one hell of a job on its hands.” That was the warning yesterday from the agency’s Director-General, Ken McCallum, in a speech which touched on everything from Russian espionage to Iranian assassination plots, and from the present competition with China to the violent echoes of last century’s conflict in Northern Ireland."

"Netanyahu's stance toward a peace deal may hinge on who wins the US presidential elections in November, said Edmund Fitton-Brown, a senior advisor to the Counter Extremism Project."