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EU Expands Authority to Sanction Terror Supporters
September 21, 2016
The Council of the EU has approved a legal framework that permits the supranational organization to independently identify terrorist groups and individuals, including the Islamic State, al Qaeda, and their supporters and associates, in order to ban their EU travel and freeze their assets within the bloc.
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France Struggles with Islamist Radicalization in Prison
September 21, 2016
An article in The Economist explores the complications encountered by French policymakers and officials who are struggling to isolate those convicted of Islamist extremist activities from other inmates to reduce the amount of radicalization that occurs in the country's prison system.
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IS Claims Minnesota Terror Attacker as Foot Soldier
September 19, 2016
The Islamic State has claimed the Somali-American man who went on a stabbing rampage at a Minnesota mall as a "soldier" of the global jihadi organization in what appears to be either a lone-wolf or an aspirational attack that is part of the corrosive influence of international Islamist terrorism.
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Al Qaeda Sows Fear Between American Muslims and Non-Muslims
September 19, 2016
Al Qaeda's social media sites are recycling propaganda messages by its best-known English-language recruiter to turn Muslims and non-Muslims in America against each other, using the US presidential election campaign to cultivate Muslim-American fears of Islamophobia, and using regular Islamist terror attacks to cultivate non-Muslims' fears about global jihadi expansion.
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Experts Predict Shift of IS Front Line to US and Europe
September 19, 2016
Security experts anticipate that Islamic State operatives relocating from the contracting Mideast territorial footprint of the caliphate will make Europe and America the new front line for jihadi attacks and recruitment and radicalization activities.
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