Thursday, June 23, 2016

Connecting the Dots on Radical Islam

June 23, 2016

Featured Stories

IPT Exclusive: Document Reveals Omar Mateen's Father Tied to Radical Islamist Groups

by Abha Shankar  •  June 20, 2016  •  IPT News FacebookTwitter
The father of Orlando mass shooter Omar Mateen has longstanding connections to prominent Islamist groups in the U.S., a document discovered by the Investigative Project on Terrorism shows. Seddique Matin is listed as president of a then-new American Muslim Alliance (AMA) chapter in Fort Pierce in a July 1997 announcement archived by the IPT.

Obama administration's absurd priorities

by Pete Hoekstra  •  June 17, 2016  •  FoxNews.com FacebookTwitter
U.S. leaders have developed a disgraceful habit of casting aside those who serve their country with honor and dignity – as well as those from other countries who worked as foreign assets – when they no longer find them useful.
Portugal will soon extradite former CIA officer Sabrina de Sousa to Italy for incarceration. Her crime? She executed the orders of her CIA superiors, who were acting under the direction of the administration with oversight from Congress.
A dual citizen of the United States and Portugal, an Italian court convicted her in absentia in 2009 for her alleged role in the kidnapping of radical Egyptian imam Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr in Milan. De Sousa says that she was nearly 200 miles away from the incident when it occurred.

Disconnecting the Dots: Blurring the Lines

by Patrick Dunleavy  •  June 22, 2016  •  IPT News FacebookTwitter
In my childhood, one of the fun games in the daily newspaper was a "connecting the dots" puzzle. A simple system of drawing a line from one numbered dot to the other produced a picture any child could see. Every now and then a typo would occur in the printing of the paper and the result was an unsolvable puzzle with a blurred image. The newspaper would issue an apology to its readers and that was that. A harmless mistake in an innocent game.
The same solution does not hold true in more serious fields.

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The IPT Blog

·         New Report Confirms IPT Analysis on Spread of Islamist Terror
A new congressional report confirms forecasts by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) concerning disturbing trends in the global spread of Islamist terror in 2016-2017. The IPT compiled its analysis from extensive research, sources and multiple databases such as the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database and published it in March.

Also in the News

Israel Builds Railway in Hope of Boosting Commerce With Arab Neighbors

by Orr Hirschauge and Rory Jones  •  June 22, 2016  •  The Wall Street Journal FacebookTwitter
More than a hundred years ago, the Ottoman Empire built a railway line that shuttled goods on steam locomotives from the Mediterranean Sea to the souks of Damascus and the Saudi holy city of Medina. Now Israel is poised to open new tracks tracing the old line between the port city of Haifa and a terminal 5 miles short of the Jordanian border.

Afghan War Rules Leave U.S. Troops Wondering When It's OK to Shoot

by MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS  •  June 20, 2016  •  The Wall Street Journal FacebookTwitter
In the amorphous twilight of the Afghan war, it isn't enough to draw a bead on the enemy. Before they shoot, U.S. troops have to navigate a tricky legal and political question: When is it OK for them to kill Taliban?

Feds reverse course, release full Orlando shooter transcript

by Julian Hattem  •  June 20, 2016  •  The Hill FacebookTwitter
The Justice Department made an abrupt about-face on Monday, releasing the full transcript of a 911 call made by Orlando shooter Omar Mateen, after originally redacting references to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

The Bedouin Billionaire for Muslim Integration

by SOHRAB AHMARI  •  June 20, 2016  •  The Wall Street Journal FacebookTwitter
Mohed Altrad came into this world after his father raped his mother somewhere in the Syrian desert. He doesn't know his date of birth or his age. He is likely in his 60s but can't be sure. He doesn't know where exactly he was born either. Today Mr. Altrad is the billionaire chairman of a global construction-services firm, the owner of a rugby team and an Officer of the French Legion of Honor.

Uranium Provides New Clue on Iran's Past Nuclear Arms Work

by JAY SOLOMON  •  June 19, 2016  •  The Wall Street Journal FacebookTwitter
WASHINGTON—The Obama administration has concluded that uranium particles discovered last year at a secretive Iranian military base likely were tied to the country's past, covert nuclear weapons program, current and former officials said, a finding that contradicts Tehran's longstanding denials that it was pursuing a bomb.
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