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CEP Mentions
Frankfurter Allgemeine (FAZ): “Hamas makes a lot of money in Europe.”
Longform interview with CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler about Hamas financing in Germany and Europe.
Deutschlandfunk: Lone radicalization: Are there more and more lone Islamist perpetrators?
CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler interviewed regarding Islamist radicalization online and terrorism threat in Germany.
Deutsche Welle: Germany rocked by Russian spy scandal
CEP Senior Director Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler on arrest of Russian spy in Berlin and extradition of Russian diplomat from Germany.
Analysis
The Atlantic: Lessons From the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
In late 1967, a young Nicaraguan American UCLA graduate named Patrick Arguello wrote to a friend about the death of Ernesto “Che” Guevara. The insurgent leader had been killed in Bolivia by CIA-trained Special Forces while trying to raise the rural masses against their right-wing government. Che was a hero of Arguello’s, and he was devastated by the news. But Che’s death did not signal “the end of the struggle,” Arguello wrote. Soon Arguello was running errands for the Sandinistas, and in 1970 he was shot and killed by an Israeli air marshal as he attempted to hijack a plane on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
United States
Jewish News Syndicate: California county’s ‘tortured history of white supremacy’ highlights US extremism, journalist says
In writing his new book on the 2018 murder of Blaze Bernstein—a gay Jewish college student killed in Orange County, Calif.—investigative journalist Eric Lichtblau set out to tell a true-crime story that also captures the rise of white supremacist violence in the United States. Lichtblau told JNS that he wanted to “really localize” the phenomenon and “show how homegrown it was in its elements.”
National Review: Busting Up a Nexus of Narco-Terrorism
In the Western Hemisphere, some of the gravest threats to U.S. security arise not from conventional armies but from transnational crime-terror networks that exploit permissive states to traffic drugs, engage in money laundering, move people, evade sanctions, and provide cover for terrorist facilitation. Under President Trump, U.S. policy toward the hemisphere has shifted from passivity to pressure. The objective is straightforward: Dismantle hostile networks operating in our near abroad and deny them permissive access.
El Paso Herald Post: Mexican Woman Charged Under Terrorism Charges Who Allegedly Operated in El Paso Delivered to U.S. Prosecutors on Tuesday
On Tuesday seven Mexican military aircraft departed México and landed in six airports across the nation. The military planes were delivering Mexican prisoners accused of drug trafficking to be prosecuted in the United States. Among the 37 prisoners being delivered to American prosecutors included the first Mexican citizen to be charged “with providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.”
Canada
Homeland Security Today: Montreal Man Who Allegedly Threatened to Bomb Public Transit Facing New Terrorism Charge
A Montreal man, who was previously convicted of supporting al-Qaida, is facing two new charges at the provincial level. The 51-year-old Mohammed Abdullah Warsame is being charged with uttering threats and another for terrorism for allegedly threating to burn, destroy or damage Passport Canada offices in Montreal and Quebec City.
Germany
Agence France-Presse: Germany begins trial of eight neo-Nazi ‘Saxonian Separatists’
Eight alleged members of a German far-right militant group dubbed the “Saxonian Separatists” went on trial Friday in the eastern city of Dresden. The men, aged between 22 and 26, face charges including membership in a terrorist organization and conspiracy to commit treason. According to prosecutors, its members believed German society was on the brink of collapse and plotted to violently conquer part of the eastern German state of Saxony to create a new neo-Nazi state.
United Kingdom
Jerusalem Post: Experts warn of national risk after investigations find decade-old Houthi shell companies in UK
The Houthis have run a shell company in London for a decade now, raising concerns about sanctions evasion, intelligence collection, and national security, an investigation, first published by Abu Dhabi-state owned outlet The National and later confirmed by The Jerusalem Post, found. Experts told the Post that the propaganda network poses a significant risk as it opens new doors for Iranian-backed terrorists to enter the UK and provides a way for Tehran and the Houthis to evade sanctions.
Guardian: Counter-terrorism police investigating ‘highly targeted’ attacks on Pakistani dissidents in UK
Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism command is investigating a series of “highly targeted” attacks on two Pakistani dissidents living in Britain which may bear the hallmarks of states using criminal proxies to silence their critics. One person has been arrested after a series of four attacks which began on Christmas Eve. One of the attacks involved a firearm. The attacks took place in Cambridgeshire and Buckinghamshire against two prominent supporters of the jailed former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan.
Fox News: Trump pressures UK over Hamas-linked figure as US intel flags potential terror threat
The Trump administration has stepped up pressure on Sir Keir Starmer after imposing sanctions on a Britain-based activist accused by U.S. intelligence of working on behalf of Hamas, according to reports. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced Jan. 21 that it was "taking action against Hamas’s covert links to nonprofit organizations." The statement went on to name six Gaza-based groups and the Popular Conference for Palestinians Abroad (PCPA).
Afghanistan
BBC: Taliban release female athlete, 22, after 13 days in jail
A 22-year-old Afghan woman who was reportedly running a taekwondo gym for girls has been released after spending 13 days in jail, a spokesman for the Taliban's supreme court confirmed. Khadija Ahmadzada was detained for being in "violation" of rules "regarding women's sports gyms", a spokesman for the Taliban's ministry of vice and virtue told the BBC. Sports clubs have been closed to women since 2021, shortly after the Taliban returned to power.
Gaza Strip/West Bank
Guardian: Trump’s Gaza plan is a rebuff to Israeli extremists, but will soon be put to test
Amid the hullabaloo and self-congratulation of Donald Trump’s “board of peace” launch in Davos, his administration laid out specific plans for the short- and long-term future of Gaza, aimed at a lasting peace. The blueprint set out on Thursday was extremely ambitious. It envisages a unified Palestinian-run Gaza, which represents a rebuff to the aims of Israeli extremists, including some in the governing coalition, who have sought the deportation of Gaza’s population and the building of Israeli settlements in its place.
Iraq
Jewish News Syndicate: US commends Iraq’s work in detaining ISIS terrorists
Washington lauded Iraq for detaining ISIS terrorists in secure facilities, after a recent announcement that the United States will be transferring up to 7,000 ISIS detainees from Syria to Iraq. “As a member of the Coalition to Defeat ISIS, Iraq is on the front line in confronting the threat that ISIS still poses to all countries,” the U.S. State Department said in a statement on Jan. 22.
Israel
Ynet: As deadline expires, Israel shifts focus to Iran while weighing a strike on Hezbollah
On January 1, the deadline set, at least declaratively, for Hezbollah to disarm expired. But despite threats from Israel and the United States, for now the routine of fighting on the northern front has been preserved, with numerous IDF enforcement strikes and quiet from the Lebanese terrorist organization, but little beyond that.
Yemen
Yemen Online: Houthis Release GPC Secretary-General Ghazi Al-Ahwal After Months of Detention
Sources within the General People’s Congress (GPC) party in Sana’a reported today that Houthi militias have released the party’s Secretary-General, Ghazi Al-Ahwal, after holding him in the intelligence service’s prisons since August. According to senior GPC figure Hussein Hazeb, the release came under direct instructions from the militia’s leader. Al-Ahwal had been detained as part of a broad crackdown by the Houthis that targeted political leaders and activists in areas under their control, according to party and human rights sources.
Jerusalem Post: Houthi leaders absent from public events amid rising concerns following Israeli strikes - report
Houthi top leaders have been absent from activities organized by the terror group in their capital, Sanaa, among other cities under the group’s control in northern Yemen, Saudi news outlet Asharq al-Awsat reported on Wednesday. Specialists identify the lack of leadership presence as a direct reflection of security concerns and a state of high alert within the Houthis following Israeli strikes, which have targeted the terror group’s leaders.
Australia
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Who is the Neo-Nazi who was booed at Hobart's March for Australia rally?
At a rally under the banner of March for Australia in Hobart last year, Clarence councillor Emma Goyne wanted the crowd to know, "I'm not racist, I'm not homophobic". She continued by telling attendees at the gathering, "we are all migrants" — but it was "mass migration" she and like-minded others believed was the reason they were protesting.
Sydney Morning Herald: ‘A scary time’: Nazi terror links revealed as disbanding sparks fears of violence
Australia’s biggest neo-Nazi group has been in direct contact with dozens of terrorists and extremist groups overseas and experts say they are more dangerous than ever as they officially disband to escape new hate laws. An investigation by this masthead has uncovered fresh details of the extent of the National Socialist Network’s entanglement with terrorists and criminals, some of whom have given the neo-Nazi group money, and trained its members overseas.
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