Copyright 2012 The Investigative Project on Terrorism Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:44:27 -0500 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/3430/lawmakers-warn-cairo-over-ngo-crackdown Fri, 3 Feb 2012 17:44:26 EST More than 40 members of the House of Representatives have signed letters warning that U.S. aid to Egypt could be jeopardized if the country's military leadership refuses to show respect for human rights and "support a transition to a democratic system http://www.investigativeproject.org/3429/house-hearing-growing-terror-connection-to-drug Fri, 3 Feb 2012 16:33:42 EST There will be "hell to pay" if the United States doesn't stop the growing link between Latin American drug cartels and Iranian-sponsored terror, former Drug Enforcement Administration operations chief Michael A. Braun told a House hearing on Thursday. http://www.investigativeproject.org/3428/idf-facebook-story-called-a-fraud Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:33:21 EST A photograph purporting to show an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier abusing a Palestinian girl went viral on Facebook earlier this week. The photo, uploaded by a Facebook user named Wesley Muhammad, was said to show the Israeli soldier pressing a boot http://www.investigativeproject.org/3426/fbi-director-warns-of-rising-cyber-threat Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:58:21 EST FBI Director Robert Mueller called cyber threats the top future threat facing America in testimony this week before the Senate Intelligence Committee, InformationWeek reports. The broad range of online threats, both from state and non-state actors, http://www.investigativeproject.org/3427/planting-trees-is-racist Fri, 3 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST An international campaign wants to stop a non-profit environmental organization that has been functioning for more than 100 years by purporting fallacies and anti-Israel propaganda. The Jewish National Fund (JNF) was established with the hope to help the http://www.investigativeproject.org/3425/assad-regime-starts-to-implode Thu, 2 Feb 2012 17:40:30 EST U.S. intelligence officials are surprised over the rapid deterioration of the Syrian Army, the Washington Post's David Ignatius reported Thursday. U.S. intelligence reports say that on Monday, 350 Syrian soldiers defected from the national Army http://www.investigativeproject.org/3423/muslim-group-defends-third-jihad Thu, 2 Feb 2012 15:58:17 EST A group of American and Canadian Muslims is standing by the content of a documentary criticized by Islamist groups and the media after it was shown to New York Police Department officers last year. In doing so, the American Islamic Leadership Coalition http://www.investigativeproject.org/3421/iranian-government-threatens-us-in-gulf Wed, 1 Feb 2012 18:04:11 EST Iran has increased its threats against the West and targets in the Arabian Gulf, in response to Western sanctions and the boycott of Iran's Central Bank, a report from the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) shows. The report shows that the http://www.investigativeproject.org/3420/9-british-terror-plotters-plead-guilty Wed, 1 Feb 2012 13:55:18 EST Four British terror suspects have admitted to plotting to blow up the London Stock Exchange, while five more coconspirators pled guilty to related terrorism offenses, the BBC notes. The group pled guilty Wednesday after the judge promised that the leader http://www.investigativeproject.org/3419/report-iran-syria-behind-bahrain-plots Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:23:41 EST Five men arrested for plotting terror attacks in Bahrain are connected to Iran's Revolutionary Guard and reportedly received military training in Syria, ABC News reports. The November arrests of the suspects, who allegedly planned to assassinate Bahraini http://www.investigativeproject.org/3418/qaradawi-no-chopping-off-of-hands-nowbut-later-is Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:34:53 EST The Muslim Brotherhood's leading religious voice thinks that shari'a law should be instituted in Egypt—but in a gradual fashion—according to a translation put out by The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). Yusuf al-Qaradawi was interviewed last http://www.investigativeproject.org/3417/egyptian-daily-promotes-anti-us-medical-conspiracy Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:44:53 EST A U.S. Naval medical research team has been manipulating Egyptians' DNA and poisoning its citizens for 60 years, according to a translation of an article published Friday in the Egyptian daily Al-Wafd. The verbal barrage against U.S. Naval Medical http://www.investigativeproject.org/3416/jasser-takes-on-media Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:32:10 EST Critics of the New York Police Department's use of the film "Third Jihad" for training not only have their facts wrong, they're missing one of the program's key point, argues Muslim reformist M. Zuhdi Jasser. Jasser, who narrated the film, responded with http://www.investigativeproject.org/3415/khadr-going-free-and-public Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:36:21 EST Canadian terrorist Omar Khadr, a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who pled guilty to a litany of al-Qaida terrorism charges in October 2010, soon will be released to Canada. As the Toronto Sun's Ezra Levant puts it in his new book, The Enemy Within, Khadr's http://www.investigativeproject.org/3414/turkey-denies-hamas-funding-reports Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:50:00 EST Turkish officials are denying media reports that Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was promised $300 million during his visit to Turkey earlier this month. "There is no cash aid to Hamas, but Turkey is, of course, engaged in projects to deliver