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IP 108 is right. There's no call to have this linkfarm in the article - if reliable secondary sources talk about the testimony, we could write about it and consider using these primary sources to elaborate
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* {{official|http://www.investigativeproject.org}}
* {{official|http://www.investigativeproject.org}}
* [https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/joint-subcommittee-hearing-iran-s-support-terrorism-worldwide Joint Subcommittee Hearings - Iran's Support for Terrorism Worldwide] (video)
* [https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/joint-subcommittee-hearing-iran-s-support-terrorism-worldwide Joint Subcommittee Hearings - Iran's Support for Terrorism Worldwide] (video)
'''Various IPT reports and transcripts of Congressional testimony'''
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*[http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/8.pdf "Foreign Terrorists in America: Five Years After the World Trade Center Bombing"], Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Government Information, February 24, 1998, Testimony of Steven Emerson, Executive Director IPT
*[http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/11.pdf "Classified Information to Prevent the Presence of Terrorists"], U.S. [[United States House Committee on the Judiciary|House of Representatives Judiciary Committee]], May 23, 2000 Testimony of Steven Emerson, Executive Director IPT
*[http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/12.pdf "The MO of Terrorist Networks in the United States"], U.S. House of Representatives Government Reform Committee, Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans Affairs, and International Relations, October 11, 2001, Steven Emerson, Executive Director IPT
*[http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/13.pdf "Preserving Our Freedoms While Defending Against Terrorism"], U.S. [[United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|Senate Judiciary Committee]], December 4, 2001, Testimony of Steven Emerson, Executive Director IPT
*[http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/14.pdf "Fundraising Methods and Procedures for Terrorist Organizations"], U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, February 12, 2002, Testimony of Steven Emerson, Executive Director IPT
*[http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/16.pdf "Terrorism, Al-Qaeda, and the Muslim World"], [[National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States]], July 9, 2003, Testimony of Steven Emerson, Executive Director IPT
*[http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/19.pdf "Money Laundering and Terror Financing Issues in the Middle East"], U.S. [[Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs]], July 13, 2005, Testimony of Steven Emerson, Executive Director IPT
*[http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/324.pdf "Saudi Arabia: Friend or Foe in the War on Terror"], U.S. Senate Committee on Judiciary, November 8, 2005, Testimony of Steven Emerson, Executive Director IPT, Testimony of Steven Emerson, Executive Director IPT
*[http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/20.pdf "The Homeland Security Implications of Radicalization"], U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment, September 20, 2006, Testimony of Steven Emerson, Executive Director IPT
*[http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/350.pdf "Assessing the Fight Against Al-Qaeda"], [[United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence|U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence]], April 9, 2008, Testimony of Steven Emerson, Executive Director IPT
*[http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/357.pdf "State Department Outreach with Islamist Groups]," U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade, July 31, 2008, Testimony of Steven Emerson, Executive Director IPT
*[http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA13/20140304/101832/HHRG-113-FA13-Wstate-HoekstraP-20140304.pdf "Joint Subcommittee Hearing on Iran's Support for Terrorism Worldwide"], U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, March 4, 2014, Testimony of Pete Hoekstra, IPT Senior Fellow
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Investigative Project on Terrorism
AbbreviationIPT
Formation1995 (Project) / 2006 (Foundation) [improper synthesis?]
TypeThink tank
HeadquartersWashington, D.C., United States
Executive Director
Steven Emerson
Websitewww.investigativeproject.org

The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) is a Washington D.C.-based non-profit research group founded in 1995 by counterterrorism expert, Steven Emerson, who also serves as its executive director.

History and mission

The Investigative Project on Terrorism was founded by Steven Emerson in 1995[unreliable source?][1] shortly after the release of his documentary film, Terrorists Among Us: Jihad in America, which first aired in the United States in 1994 on the PBS series Frontline.[2] Shortly after the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, he suggested it was the work of Muslim terrorists, and admitted his mistake when Methodist Timothy McVeigh was implicated.[3] The organization collects archival material about people it believes are Islamic extremists and terrorists[4] from a variety of sources including "websites, list-serves, publications, informants, undercover recordings, government records, court documents, and so on".[2] Some of IPT's work has underlain articles, television specials about radical Islamic involvement in terrorism, and government action against Islamist organizations based in the United States.[1] The liberal think-tank Center for American Progress (CAP) stated that the IPT was one of ten foundations constituting what it called "the Islamophobia network in America".[5][undue weight? – discuss]

In January 2014, former congressman and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Pete Hoekstra, was named the Shillman Senior Fellow for IPT specializing in national security, international relations, global terrorism and cyber security.[6]

Indictments and trial evidence

According to an article in the Middle East Quarterly, "the IPT has access to information and intelligence to which the government is not privy, and has been instrumental in shutting down more than a dozen Islamic charitable terrorist and nonviolent front-groups since 2001."[7][better source needed]

  • December 2001, CBS: 48 Hours - Erin Moriarity interviewed Steven Emerson, Executive Director of IPT, for the CBS television documentary series, 48 Hours. The episode, "Target Terrorism", was broadcast on January 30, 2002. Emerson said that Sami al-Arian was running an organization in the United States that "was one and the same as the Islamic Jihad".[8] In February 2003, Arian was indicted for alleged fundraising and material support activities on behalf of terrorist organizations, including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). According to the Tampa Bay Times, Arian signed a plea agreement in which he admitted to "conspiring to help people associated with Palestinian Islamic Jihad" and covering up his knowledge of the PIJ associations by lying to Jim Harper, a St. Petersburg reporter covering Al-Arian in the mid-1990s, and others.[9]
  • 2007 and 2008 Holy Land Foundation Trials - prosecution relied on evidence produced by IPT, one of the three groups responsible for much of the analysis of exhibits and the links from Holy Land Foundation (HLF) to Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), and the extended MB network.[10] On May 27, 2009, in federal court in Dallas, "U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis sentenced the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) and five of its leaders following their convictions by a federal jury in November 2008 on charges of providing material support to Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization."[11][better source needed] As a result of IPT's vast archives on the activities of Hamas front groups in the United States Law enforcement officials commented that IPT had an instrumental role in prosecuting and convicting the Holy Land Foundation, a trial that resulted in sweeping convictions for all defendants in 2008.[7]

Funding

IPT is funded via the Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation[improper synthesis?], a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization established in 2006, and largely operated via SAE Productions, a Delaware-based company founded by Emerson in 1994.[1][12][13] The arrangement avoids the need for the kind of public disclosure associated with tax-exemption, which IPT has argued is necessary for security reasons: "The very nature of our work mandates that we protect the organization and its staff from threats posed by those that are the subject or our research by preserving the confidentiality of our methods."[14]

The Nashville Tennessean has stated that money is transferred from the non-profit IPT back to the for-profit SAE.[15][better source needed] The Tennessean quoted Charity Navigator president Ken Berger's comment on this fact: "Basically, you have a nonprofit acting as a front organization, and all that money going to a for-profit. It's wrong. This is off the charts."[15] IPT stated in response that "[a]t issue in the Tennessean story is the relationship between the IPT Foundation, a tax-exempt charity, and SAE Productions, a for-profit company run by IPT Executive Director Steven Emerson. The foundation accepts private donations and contracts with SAE to manage operations. The Tennessean article pays only lip service to the legitimate security issues that dictated this structure and that the IRS has reviewed and approved it."[16]

IPT says it "accepts no funding from outside the United States, or from any governmental agency or political or religious institutions".[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "About The Investigative Project on Terrorism". IPT. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
  2. ^ a b Ziegler, Andrew, International Jihadists Infiltrating America?, American Diplomacy, January 15, 2008. Accessed April 1, 2014.
  3. ^ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/i48-hours-i-tracking-terror/
  4. ^ Jeffrey H. Norwitz (2009). Pirates, Terrorists, and Warlords: The History, Influence, and Future of Armed Groups Around the World. Skyhorse Publishing Inc. p. 206. ISBN 978-1-60239-708-8.
  5. ^ Greg Barrett (2012). The Gospel of Rutba: War, Peace, and the Good Samaritan Story in Iraq. Orbis Books. p. 147. ISBN 978-1-60833-113-0.
  6. ^ "The Honorable Pete Hoekstra Joins The Investigative Project On Terrorism As The Shillman Senior Fellow". PRNewswire-USNewswire. January 14, 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-03-11.
  7. ^ a b "Steven Emerson Combating Radical Islam". Middle East Quarterly. Winter 2010. Retrieved March 2014. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  8. ^ "Target Terrorism". {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |transcript= ignored (help)
  9. ^ "In his plea deal, what did Sami Al-Arian admit to?". Tampa Bay Times. April 23, 2006. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
  10. ^ Andrew Cochran (November 29, 2007). "Special Public Event: Panel on Holy Land Foundation & Muslim Brotherhood". Retrieved March 21, 2014.
  11. ^ "Federal Judge Hands Downs Sentences in Holy Land Foundation Case". DOJ Office of Public Affairs. May 27, 2009. Retrieved March 21, 2014.
  12. ^ Nathan Guttman and Larry Cohler-Esses, The Forward, 17 November 2010, Terror Expert Emerson Feels His Own Heat Over Finances
  13. ^ Bob Smietana, The Tennessean, 24 October 2010, Anti-Muslim crusaders make millions spreading fear
  14. ^ Ray Locker, Managing director, IPT, Letter to The Forward, 24 November 2010, The Investigative Project on Terrorism Responds
  15. ^ a b John Sugg (Jan–Feb 2011). "What people in Nashville now know about Steven Emerson". Washington Report on Middle East Affairs: 25ff.(subscription required)
  16. ^ "Note to Readers on Tennessean Story". IPT. October 25, 2010. Retrieved March 5, 2014.

External links

Various IPT reports and transcripts of Congressional testimony

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