About The Investigative Project on Terrorism The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) is a non-profit research group founded by Steven Emerson in 1995. It is recognized as the world’s most comprehensive data center on radical Islamic terrorist groups. For more than a decade, the IPT has investigated the operations, funding, activities and front groups of Islamic terrorist and extremist...
Mortgage Fraud Funding Jihad
The nexus between mortgage fraud and terrorism investigations. An excerpt from Front Page Magazine: Tarik Hamdi was charged last year for immigration and mortgage-loan fraud as part of an investigation into the role of an Islamic charity, the International Institute for Islamic Thought of Herndon, Virginia, that Hamdi worked for and was being investigated for ties to terrorist financing...
Shin Bet: Palestinians Working to Improve Missile Capabilities
From Shin Bet: Palestinians Working to Improve Missile Capabilities: The Palestinians are taking advantage of the restraint demonstrated by the Israel Defense Forces to bolster their arms and improve the range of their rocket fire, Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) Director Yuval Diskin told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Tuesday. He said Hamas was sending hundreds of men to...
Jordanian Islamists Accused of Plot to Assassinate Bush
From Jordanian Islamists Accused of Plot to Assassinate Bush:
Jordan on Wednesday put on trial three suspected Islamists for conspiring to assassinate President George W. Bush when he visited the country last year, as part of a previously undisclosed plot to bomb the U.S. and Danish embassies.
Report: Jihadist threat to Britain worst since 9/11
Via Jihad Watch: “It is thought the plotters could number more than 2,000,” up from the 1600 estimated last November. “Secret report: Terror threat worst since 9/11,” by Sean Rayment for the Telegraph: The terrorist threat facing Britain from home-grown al-Qaeda agents is higher than at any time since the September 11 attacks in 2001, secret intelligence documents reveal...
British Muslim beheading plot foiled
Sky News reports that a total of nine British Muslims have now been arrested in a plot to kidnap a British soldier who is a Muslim and has fought in Afghanistgan, and “post a video of the hostage being tortured and killed on the internet.” The suspects are said to be of “Pakistani origin.” A police spokesman who gave a press interview a little while ago said, “We are...
Muslim suicide bomber kills 3 in Israeli resort town
From CBCNews: The first suicide bomber to attack Israel in nine months three other people Monday after targeting a small bakery in a resort town. Two Palestinian militant groups, Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, claimed joint responsibility for the attack, which occurred in a residential neighbourhood in the southern Israeli town of Eilat. The attacker came from the West Bank, a...
What was the Maalot High School Massacre?
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