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October 16, 2017

Register Today: CEP Event to Probe Solutions to Online Extremism

Registration is being accepted for CEP's November 13 panel discussion in Washington, D.C. on the challenges of extremism and terrorism in an online world. Speakers will include Dr. Hany Farid, the world’s leading authority on digital forensics...

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October 10, 2017

Register Today for CEP Conference in Brussels, Belgium

CEP will be hosting a distinguished lineup of policy experts as well as current and former lawmakers, including former British Head of Counterterrorism in the FCO Sir Ivor Roberts and EU Commissioner for the Security Union Sir Julian King, at its...

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October 3, 2017

CEP Conference in Brussels to Highlight Solutions to Spread of Extremism

CEP will be hosting the Building Alliances--Preventing Terror policy conference on in Brussels, Belgium on October 17 and 18. The event will bring together senior policymakers, academics, industry representatives, NGOs, and the private sector to...

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September 29, 2017

Anwar al-Awlaki’s Influence on U.S. and European Extremists

Six years after his death on September 30, 2011, the teachings of radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki , prevalent on platforms like YouTube, continue to radicalize and encourage acts of terrorism in the U.S. and in Europe. In Anwar al-Awlaki's Ties to...

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September 28, 2017

Google’s Counter-Narrative Program Falls Far Short of Combating Awlaki Material on YouTube

The continued presence of lectures by radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki on YouTube contradicts Google’s stated commitment to counteract the dangerous role played by extremist and terrorist content on its video-sharing platform, CEP said in releasing an...

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September 27, 2017

Anwar al-Awlaki Videos Ubiquitous on Google’s YouTube

Six years after his death, American-born cleric and al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki continues to radicalize U.S. and European extremists in part due to the ubiquity of his sermons and lectures on Google-owned YouTube, CEP said in releasing the...

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September 26, 2017

YouTube Inconsistently Applying “Warning Labels” to Awlaki Material

After years of refusing to remove lectures by radical cleric and all-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki on its platform, YouTube appears to have at least reluctantly acknowledged the influence of Awlaki ’s radicalizing material. CEP discovered a warning...

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September 25, 2017

Anwar al-Awlaki’s Violent Legacy Continues Years After His Death

CEP highlighted Anwar al-Awlaki ’s Violent Legacy in a collection of resources on the U.S.-born cleric who became a radicalizing figure tied to scores of extremists in the U.S. and Europe. Awlaki, the leader of external operations for al-Qaeda in the...

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September 8, 2017

Remembering the September 11 Attacks

CEP issued a statement today honoring the September 11 victims, which read in part: "While much has changed in the years since 19 hijackers deliberately crashed four jetliners in a deadly plot against the United States, the challenges posed by...

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August 24, 2017

The Violent Legacy of Sayyid Qutb

The world’s most dangerous terror groups, including ISIS and al-Qaeda, share a common ideological foundation in the writings and teachings of Egyptian author and Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Sayyid Qutb. More than 50 years after his death, Qutbism...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

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On January 23, 2019, two car bombs exploded outside of a mosque in Benghazi, Libya, killing 41 people and injuring 80 others. No group claimed responsibility for the blast, but remnants suggested an ISIS affiliate was responsible.  

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