The Investigative Project is one of the world's largest intelligence archives on Islamist and Middle Eastern terrorist and militant groups.

It was founded in 1995 by American investigative journalist Steven Emerson. Emerson is a terrorism analyst for NBC and a leading authority on Islamist financial networks and operational structures.

Emerson set up the project after the broadcast on the U.S. Public Broadcasting Service of his award-winning documentary Jihad in America, which exposed the operations of Islamist groups in the U.S. He is the executive director of the project, which employs between two and 15 researchers.

Jason Korsower, a twenty-nine-year-old researcher for the Investigative Project, was found dead in his Washington, D.C. apartment on November 26, 2004. A graduate of Colgate University, Korsower had served in the Israeli army and had previously worked for the New York-based news agency, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, which described him as an expert on Muslim extremism. Dr. Randy Hanzlick, the Fulton County medical examiner, said in mid-December that it looked likely he would rule out homicide in the case. There was no evidence of physical injury, Hanzlick said, and he was leaning toward concluding that Korsower had a heart-related problem. [1]

Books and papers by Steven Emerson

• (2002), American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us, Free Press; 2003 paperback edition, ISBN 0743234359
• (1995), The worldwide Jihad movement: Militant Islam targets the West (Policy forum), Institute of the World Jewish Congress, ASIN B0006F8JCA
• (1991), Terrorist: The Inside Story of the Highest-Ranking Iraqi Terrorist Ever to Defect to the West, Random House; Villard paperback edition, ISBN 0679737014
• (1990), with Duffy B., The Fall of Pan Am 103: Inside the Lockerbie Investigation, Putnam, ISBN 0399135219
• (1988), Secret Warriors: Inside the Covert Military Operations of the Reagan Era, Putnam, ISBN 0399133607
• (1985), The American House of Saud: The Secret Petrodollar Connection, Franklin Watts, ISBN 0531097781
• (1982), Dutton of Arabia, New Republic, ASIN B0006Y0BWM

References

• Steven Emerson's bio
• How I made 'Jihad in America' and lived to tell about it" by Steven Emerson, February 26, 2002
• "FBI investigates mysterious death of a young Jewish terrorism expert" by Ron KampeasJewish Tribune, December 16, 2004

Further reading

• IP News Service website, a news service soon to be offered by Emerson's Investigative Project
• Emerson's January 25, 2000 testimony to the House of Representatives' Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims
• Emerson's February 24, 1998 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Government Information, entitled "Foreign Terrorists in America"
• Steven Emerson's Crusade by John F. Sugg, Extra!, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, January-February 1999