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Islamic Sectarian Tensions Spike with Saudi Execution of Shiite Cleric
January 04, 2016
Largely Shiite protests rocked the Mideast after Saudi Arabia executed a high-profile Shiite cleric on charges of terrorism, with Shiites condemning Saudi Arabia's fundamentalist Wahhabi regime as another version of the Sunni jihadist Islamic State ("IS").
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China Sees Rising Radicalization-Repression Cycle Among Uighur Muslims
January 04, 2016
China analysts are raising concerns about the destabilizing effects in the county's geostrategically important Xinjiang province and beyond, due to the intensifying cycle of state repression and domestic and foreign radicalization of the Sunni Turkish Uighurs.
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UK Government Focuses on IS Sleeper Cells Among Medics in Sudan
January 04, 2016
Intelligence evidence pointing to the Islamic State's ("IS") transnational recruitment of British medics in Sudan has led the UK to expand the focus of its domestic counter-extremism policies to British nationals at Khartoum’s University of Medical Sciences and Technology.
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Euro-African Jihadi Groups Coalesce in North Africa as Staging Ground
January 04, 2016
Diverse jihadi groups in North Africa and especially Libya are using the region as a critical staging ground for sharing intelligence, finance, and operational expertise for attacks ranging across Africa and into Europe.
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Information Gaps on US Visa Overstays Stoke Security Concerns
January 04, 2016
US legislators have raised concerns over the admission by government security officials that they have little information on the number of people who have overstayed their visas in the US, despite a nearly 20-year-old federal law requiring the development of a system that tracks visa overstays and calls from security experts after the 9/11 attacks to implement such a system.
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