The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) invites you to a webinar on Tuesday, January 30, 2024, to present a policy paper concerning the threat to global security posed by the Houthi attacks on the international shipping industry since the outbreak of the...
CEP Senior Advisor Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown: "'This isn't about Gaza. It's about the Houthis trying to disrupt international trade and the world economy just for the sake of it. Solidarity against this is very important,' said Edmund Fitton-Brown, the UK's former ambassador to Yemen...
'What they have morphed into in recent years is a free fighting outfit. They love to fight. They enjoy conflict,' said the ex-diplomat, who is now an adviser to the Counter Extremism Project, a non-profit group based in Germany and the US."
On January 16, 2024, Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Senior Advisor Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown was a witness before a UK Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry on "The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy." The following video features Edmund's responses to questions from Members of Parliament regarding topics ranging from U.K. and U.S. policy, the status of ISIS, al-Qaeda, the Houthis, Iran, relations with Gulf states, and terrorism and organized crime.
CEP Senior Advisor Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown testified before the United Kingdom Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee for hearing, "The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy,"
CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed for story "The US has carried out a second day of military strikes on Houthi rebel targets in Yemen. US officials say the new targets posed a threat to shipping in the Red Sea, which has been disrupted by Houthi attacks in recent weeks. Houthi leaders have vowed to retaliate following the attacks."
"The Houthis are a Yemeni militia group named after their founder, Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi. They represent the Zaidi branch of Shia Islam and emerged in the 1980s in opposition to Saudi Arabia's religious influence in Yemen. With an estimated 20,000 fighters, their official name is Ansar Allah. The group controls most of the west of Yemen and oversees the Red Sea coastline.
Vanessa Feltz speaks with the former UK ambassador to Yemen, Edmund Brown and lecturer in political science Arash Azizi."
"Houthi rebels have promised to retaliate for airstrikes carried out by the US and UK in Yemen. Washington and London say they hit the targets to protect international shipping from Houthis attacks. Counter extremism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler says there is no alternative to using force to keep traffic flowing in the Red Sea."
Yesterday, a U.S.-led coalition launched retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed Houthi rebel targets in Yemen in an effort to weaken the group’s ability to conduct its campaign against commercial shipping in the Red Sea. Together with British forces...
Presentation: Ari Heistein, Author of the CEP report series, Yemen Specialist and Defense Technology Professional
On January 11, 2024, CEP hosted a webinar to present a new, in-depth report concerning a major source of Houthi intelligence and revenue: telecommunications in Yemen.
The Houthis may have appeared unsophisticated to outside observers when they took Sanaa in 2014. However, since then they have had a very deliberate approach toward information technology. The Houthis have made it a priority to control all Internet and cellular communications companies in their territory, providing unfettered access to private communications, the creation of an “information bubble” to indoctrinate the Yemeni public, and a source of considerable revenue in an otherwise bleak Yemeni economy.
CEP’s report on Yemeni telecommunications documents Houthi efforts to control, shape and surveil the Yemeni information space. The terror group has undertaken significant measures to this end, from major transactions with multinationals via straw companies to imprisonment of senior officials to force their compliance with Houthi demands. As it stands, there are no real alternatives in Yemen to the telecommunications companies other than those under Houthi control.
Discussant: Amb. Edmund Fitton-Brown, Senior Advisor, Counter Extremism Project (CEP)
On January 11, 2024, CEP hosted a webinar to present a new, in-depth report concerning a major source of Houthi intelligence and revenue: telecommunications in Yemen.
The Houthis may have appeared unsophisticated to outside observers when they took Sanaa in 2014. However, since then they have had a very deliberate approach toward information technology. The Houthis have made it a priority to control all Internet and cellular communications companies in their territory, providing unfettered access to private communications, the creation of an “information bubble” to indoctrinate the Yemeni public, and a source of considerable revenue in an otherwise bleak Yemeni economy.
CEP’s report on Yemeni telecommunications documents Houthi efforts to control, shape and surveil the Yemeni information space. The terror group has undertaken significant measures to this end, from major transactions with multinationals via straw companies to imprisonment of senior officials to force their compliance with Houthi demands. As it stands, there are no real alternatives in Yemen to the telecommunications companies other than those under Houthi control.
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On May 8, 2019, Taliban insurgents detonated an explosive-laden vehicle and then broke into American NGO Counterpart International’s offices in Kabul. At least seven people were killed and 24 were injured.
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