The second explanation for General Musharraf's half-measures is that he is afraid of the extremist groups.
He said extremist groups use the Web more as a marketing and communication tool.
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U.S. officials say they have evidence that Iran is supplying weapons to Iraqi extremist groups.
But the university and society said there was a threat of violence from outside "extremist groups".
Until then, the intelligence service and the armed forces kept close tabs on extremist groups.
The security minister, Feliks Kulov, recently gave warning about extremist groups in the country's southern regions.
The U.S. government watches right-wing extremist groups because we know they are dangerous.
The new statistics come after a string of crimes linked to extremist groups.
Security Council cited "grave concern over the reported military movements and attacks by terrorist and extremist groups" in northern Mali.
Labour leader Ed Miliband backed the government's efforts to respond to the growing threat posed by al-Qaeda and other violent extremist groups.
Addressing reporters in Geneva, Rupert Colville urged it and other extremist groups to stop "cowardly attacks" against civilians, security forces, Nigerian officials and foreign nationals.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told CNN that "extremist groups have an important role in the level of violence that is going on" in Syria.
But in terms of assessments of what numbers or percentage or which individuals might be affiliated with extremist groups, I can't address that from here.
Additionally, popular sites such as Facebook have strict terms of usage, which make it difficult for extremist groups -- and their sympathizers -- to build a following.
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The 211 gang is one of the most vicious white supremacist groups operating in U.S. prisons, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremist groups.
Another hacker known as th3j35t3r, who has previously sided with the U.S. military against online extremist groups, promised in his twitter feed to strike back at LulzSec.
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Both the United States and Kenya are concerned about the growing acts of piracy off the coast of Somalia and the instability caused in Somalia by extremist groups.
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The SPLC report also offers a bit of good news: The number of "immigrant-bashing" extremist groups -- so-called nativism organizations -- is way down from 2011, falling by 88%.
It will also withdraw support from extremist groups - even non-violent ones - and cut off funding to those opposed to what the government calls "fundamental and universal" British values.
As world leaders, we all know that there are extremist groups and non-state actors seeking that capability right now, seeking to gain access to nuclear materials to make a nuclear bomb.
There have been a number of militants who were arrested in Indonesia involved in one of the extremist groups over there, who had studied in one of the madrasses in Pakistan.
"It is strongly in the interests of Syria, of the wider region and of the United Kingdom that we support them and deny space to extremist groups, " the foreign secretary added.
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Besides forcing the Saudis to admit that extremist groups such as al-Qaeda were in their midst, the Riyadh bombings also caused the local population to rethink their view of fundamentalist militancy.
Still, others fear that moves for brisk shifts in the policies of U.S. allies could prove even more destabilizing because they might allow extremist groups or Iran to exploit the situation to their advantage.
Nigeria's federal government, along with Western intelligence agencies, has long worried that extremist groups in the north may link up with Islamist terrorist groups elsewhere in Africa, in particular with al-Qaeda in the Maghreb.
The event will look at ways of dealing with piracy off the coast of Somalia, protecting ships in the Gulf of Aden, challenging extremist groups in Somalia and the risk of UK citizens being radicalised there.
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The members of the Security Council reiterated their serious concern at the threats posed by the Taliban, Al-Qaida, and other extremist groups, to the local population, national security forces, international military and international assistance efforts in Afghanistan.
He said it would ask "serious questions" including whether rules for charities were too lax and allowed extremists to prosper, whether enough was being done to disrupt groups that incite hatred, and the problem of extremist groups in universities.
Dr Matthew Goodwin, an expert on right wing extremists at the University of Nottingham who gave evidence to the committee, told the Today programme that there was a danger different extremist groups could end up engaging in violent clashes.
In a joint statement, Reading University Muslim Society, Reading University Students Union (RUSU) and the University of Reading said they agreed the event had been "undermined by the increasing threat of violent protest from extremist groups outside the University community".
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