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Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP, also known as Islamic Association for Palestine) was an organization convicted of providing material support for terrorism in the United States for Hamas. The organization was established in 1981 and has been defunct since 2004.[1] It described itself as "a not-for-profit, public-awareness, educational, political, social, and civic, national grassroots organization dedicated to advancing a just, comprehensive, and eternal solution to the cause of Palestine and suffrages of the Palestinians." For a time it also used the name American Muslim Society (AMS) and operated as the American Middle Eastern League for Palestine (AMEL).[2]
The Islamic Association of Palestine had strong ties to the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development and to several organizations established in the U.S. that were alleged to serve as fronts for Hamas.[3][4] Founders included Mousa Abu Marzook, funder and 1989 member of IAP Board of Directors.[5]
- ^ Kushner, Harvey W. (1998). "The future of terrorism: violence in the new millennium". ISBN 9780761908692. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
- ^ Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha, CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment, Middle East Forum Quarterly, Spring 2006.
- ^ "Indictment," United States of America vs. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas Dallas Division), filed 26 July 2004.
- ^ Memorandum to R. Richard Newcomb, Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of the Treasury, by Dale L. Watson, Assistant Director for Counterterrorism, FBI.
- ^ Epstein, Matthew (10 September 2003). "Testimony of Matthew Epstein Before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security "Saudi Support for Islamic Extremism in the United States"" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 May 2012. Retrieved 2007-03-02.