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"Edmund Fitton-Brown, a senior adviser at the Counter Extremism Project and formerly UKs ambassador to Yemen, echoed these apprehensions, cautioning about the additional dangers posed by the Houthi rebels in Yemen, which form another component of Irans "axis of resistance that might expand the already tenuous situation across the Middle East."

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October 2, 2024
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"Hans-Jakob Schindler of the Berlin-based Counter Extremism Project breaks down Israel's four stated objectives for its land incursion into southern Lebanon. He told DW that keeping the Israeli operation against Hezbollah "limited, localized and targeted" will pose a challenge."

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October 1, 2024
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“After Iran has responded with ballistic missile attacks on Israel's ground offensive into Lebanon, Ask DW answers your questions. We'll be joined in the studio by DW's Middle East analyst Shani Rozanes and by security expert and senior director of the Counter-Extremism Project Hans-Jacob Schindler as well as journalist Karim El-Gawhary from Beirut.” 

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October 2, 2024
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"Alexander Ritzmann, a researcher with international organisation The Counter Extremism Project and an adviser to the European Commission’s Radicalisation Awareness Network, said he had "never seen a network in right-wing extremism grow so fast".

He said AC was a "sophisticated operation" and warned if the movement was "allowed to continue to operate and multiply, the likelihood for targeted political violence will increase"."

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September 30, 2024
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"… Just as Israel has come under attack from drones and missiles fired by Iran’s allied militias in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, so has Israel struck out at targets in all those countries. Edmund Fitton-Brown, a former British ambassador to Yemen and now a senior adviser with the Counter Extremism Project, tells the BBC: "The Houthis have continued to try to attack Israel and have known intent to try to upgrade their capabilities to make their attacks more effective". He says there is little cost to Israel here "because they are not attacking a legitimate sovereign entity". This year Israel has struck targets in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Gaza, the West Bank and is widely believed to be behind the assassination of the Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July. With the firm backing of the US and its warships poised offshore, Israel has set course to take on almost all its enemies at once."

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September 30, 2024
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"Edmund Fitton-Brown, Senior Advisor to the Counter Extremism Project and former Ambassador of the UK to Yemen, told MailOnline: 'If you look at the Hezbollah leadership roll call, they are mainly dead, many of them in the past week or so.

'It's not clear to me whether there is an heir apparent. And would they want primarily a fighter or a political or religious leader?'"

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September 30, 2024
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CEP Seniod Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed: "Hezbollah has confirmed the death of Hassan Nasrallah. During his three decades as leader, Hezbollah became one of the most powerful paramilitary groups in the Middle East. Here's a look back on his life."

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September 28, 2024
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"Security expert Hans-Jakob Schindler calls the action unusual. After the killings of Hamas leader Ismail Haniya and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the Iranian regime must assume that its security measures, which were long considered adequate, are no longer sufficient. “Israel has been interested in eliminating Nasrallah for years, but has been hesitant to attack Nasrallah directly,” says the expert from the international Counter Extremism Project. There have already been threats: While the Israeli Air Force was preparing its attack on Nasrallah's bunker in Beirut on Friday evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech to the UN General Assembly in New York that "the long arm of Israel" could reach any place in Iran . His "message to the tyrants of Tehran" was: "If you attack us, we will attack you."”
 

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September 28, 2024
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"Edmund Fitton-Brown, Senior Advisor to the Counter Extremism Project and former Ambassador of the UK to Yemen, told MailOnline: 'Any successful upgrade of Houthi capabilities would also likely draw a kinetic Israeli response.'"

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September 28, 2024
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"Born in Lebanon in 1964, Safieddine has been part of Hezbollah since it was founded in 1982, according to the Counter Extremism Project, an advocacy group based in Washington. The US designated Safieddine a “specially designated global terrorist” in 2017."

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September 28, 2024
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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

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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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