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IS Virtual Planners Ensure "Lone Wolves" Are Not Alone
September 28, 2016
The Islamic State has developed a cadre of virtual planners working in the darknet to recruit, radicalize, and train groups of "lone wolves" for attacks, primarily on Western civilian targets, underscoring that lone wolves are actually part of IS's strategic adaptation to shifts in the caliphate's territorial footprint.
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Islamist Extremism Endangers Turkey's Christians and Jews
September 28, 2016
Hardline Islamists in Turkey's state media and Islamic State cells inside Turkey are inciting violence against the country's small Christian and Jewish communities, scapegoating these vulnerable communities as "infidels," "seeds of Byzantium," and collaborators in the July coup attempt against Turkey's government.
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Islamist Attacks in US Reveal Recruitment of Recent Immigrants
September 28, 2016
The spate of "lone wolf" terror attacks across the US underscores the policy challenges in meeting jihadi recruiting campaigns that target "in betweeners," or young adults whose recent immigration to America confronts them with socioeconomic adjustments that are exploited by Islamist extremist propaganda.
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Jordanian Writer Is Murdered Before Blasphemy Trial
September 28, 2016
The murder of a prominent Jordanian writer outside the Amman court where he was facing trial on blasphemy charges for offending Islam has provoked an outcry over freedoms of speech, religion, and thought in a country critical to US efforts to combat Islamic State-related militancy and extremism.
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Russia Faces Militant Islamist Penetration, Encirclement
September 28, 2016
Russia's security establishment is warning of threats from militant Islamism, related to Islamically conservative Central Asian economic migrants and to aggressive Islamic State radicalization initiatives in Russia's mosques and underground Islamic education groups.
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