Copyright 2013 The Investigative Project on Terrorism Mon, 20 May 2013 13:00:54 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The Investigative Project on Terrorism :: Writings http://www.investigativeproject.org Steven Emerson (steve@ctnews.org) webmaster@investigativeproject.org en-us http://www.investigativeproject.org/4024/mb-leader-zionist-filth-pollutes-holy-places Mon, 20 May 2013 13:00:54 EST Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie used anti-Semitic language in a statement commemorating Israel's independence – what Palestinian's call the Nakba (catastrophe). Muslims must liberate Palestine from Israeli control and purge the "holy places of http://www.investigativeproject.org/4023/boise-man-arrested-on-terrorism-and-wmd-charges Fri, 17 May 2013 15:10:39 EST A 30-year-old Uzbekistan national living in Boise, Idaho, was arrested Thursday morning as part of a wide scale federal terrorism investigation. Fazliddin Kurbanov is charged in separate indictments in Idaho and Utah for conspiring to support the Islamic http://www.investigativeproject.org/4022/al-nusra-executes-syrian-soldiers-in-the-name Fri, 17 May 2013 14:24:00 EST Eleven shots ring out – plus two more for good measure – leaving 11 Syrian soldiers dead or dying in the sand. Moments earlier, flanked by the black flags of Jhabat al-Nusra, an unidentified man invokes the "name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate" http://www.investigativeproject.org/4021/grand-deception-documentary-by-steven-emerson Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 EST "Jihad in America: The Grand Deception," a new film by Investigative Project on Terrorism Executive Director Steven Emerson, was honored this week as the best documentary at the 2013 International Beverly Hills Film Festival. A jury of entertainment http://www.investigativeproject.org/4019/in-his-own-words-boston-bomber-ties-attacks-to Thu, 16 May 2013 15:09:18 EST One can only begin to imagine the moment; huddled beneath a tarp, severely wounded from a shootout with police, his brother and accomplice dead potentially by his own hand, hiding from one of the largest manhunts in American history, and all but certain http://www.investigativeproject.org/4018/article-alleges-hamas-money-laundering Thu, 16 May 2013 11:55:00 EST Hamas has several business fronts operating in Saudi Arabia and Sudan which launder money for the terrorist group, the Arab News claimed in a report Wednesday. The report claims "high-level Gulf sources" confirmed a previous story in Kuwait's al Seyassah http://www.investigativeproject.org/4020/a-risky-alliance-the-danger-of-arming-syrian Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 EST Time and time again, the United States has set itself up for long-term failure in the interest of preserving short-term face. American forces fighting in Afghanistan have faced threats from training and munitions provided to the Afghan fighters in the http://www.investigativeproject.org/4017/analysis-air-strikes-in-syria-a-calculated-risk Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 EST The recent air strikes in Syria, attributed by foreign reports to the Israeli Air Force, should be seen as part of a larger, covert struggle between Israel and Iranian-backed terror organizations, with each side preparing itself for the next round of http://www.investigativeproject.org/4016/keeping-our-heads-in-the-sand-after-boston Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 EST The Obama administration's policy banning references to "Islamic extremism" and "jihad" in discussions about terrorism drew criticism during last Thursday's House Homeland Security Committee hearing on the Boston Marathon bombings. The bombings "should http://www.investigativeproject.org/4015/cair-testimony-reinforces-fringe-ideology Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 EST Making the absence of proof a proof of its own, the Council on American-Islamic Relations argues that the FBI's failure to identify Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as terrorist threats before the Boston Marathon bombings proves that counter-terror stings http://www.investigativeproject.org/4013/dc-judge-awards-hizballah-victims-84-billion Fri, 10 May 2013 13:58:00 EST A District of Columbia federal judge levied $8.4 billion in damages on the Iranian government Thursday, in a case brought by victims of Hizballah's Beirut attacks on the U.S. Embassy and its Annex. Sixty-three people were killed in the April 1983 embassy http://www.investigativeproject.org/4012/hearing-local-law-enforcement-never-informed Thu, 9 May 2013 17:46:29 EST Last month's Boston Marathon bombings exposed that federal and local law enforcement agencies still haven't corrected failures in intelligence sharing emphasized after the 9/11 attacks, according to testimony given Wednesday before the House Homeland http://www.investigativeproject.org/4010/fresh-palestinian-wishes-for-israel-annihilation Thu, 9 May 2013 13:25:00 EST In January, reporter Richard Behar called out the media for ignoring newly uncovered recordings showing Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi referring to Jews as "the descendants of apes and pigs" and saying that Muslims should "nurse our http://www.investigativeproject.org/4011/qatar-duplicitous-game Thu, 9 May 2013 00:00:00 EST In the first of a two-part assessment of its growing role on the world stage and dubious influence on Middle East and Arab politics, Paul Alster looks at Qatar's carefully crafted image that masks the real direction of this autocratic nation. In part two http://www.investigativeproject.org/4009/whistleblowers-high-level-bureaucratic-errors Wed, 8 May 2013 17:55:30 EST Three State Department whistleblowers told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday that bureaucratic wrangling led to the tragedy in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012 that left four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher