The courtroom has become the newest challenge for counter-terrorist experts as an active front in the war on terror. Battles are being won through convictions holding terrorists and their organizations legally accountable for their crimes and through punitive sentences rendering them inoperable. It is imperative that we guard and use our legal systems to condemn and dismantle terrorist organizations and the deceptive fronts, which support them.

ICT has developed a service indispensable to those bringing court cases against financial and other institutions, which have supported terrorist activity. This includes individuals seeking damages, law firms dealing with torts cases, governmental agencies, law enforcement agencies, and justice departments using legal means to prosecute terrorist organizations and their operatives. Drawing on their extensive research, professional skills, operational backgrounds, and diverse linguistic capabilities, ICT senior researchers can provide masterful documents tailored precisely to the needs of particular cases, can serve as expert witnesses and can advise on the presentation of evidence within the appropriate context.

Since 2002 members of ICT staff have been preparing reports documenting and analyzing evidence for ongoing cases, supplying testimony as expert witnesses in courts both in Israel and abroad as well as escorting sensitive and classified evidence internationally. ICT extensive databases, library of exclusive reports, diverse language capabilities and operational experience in counter-terrorism makes it one of the leading authorities in its field.

Possibly the leading factor targeted for successful prosecution is the terrorist networks’ financial infrastructures. Their finances are the lifeblood of the organization enabling training, purchasing of ammunition, maintenance of safe houses, recruitment, propaganda activities, procurement of false documents and perpetration of attacks. It is also a concrete and traceable activity that yields evidence and provides links to particular individuals and organizations. By identifying and tracking money illegally funneled through banks, charitable front organizations and through direct and indirect money laundering, the rule of law can be used as a powerful weapon in countering terrorism. ICT has been providing these services since 2002 and has compiled exhaustive reports documenting terror networks and their financial workings in detail. ICT’s staff brings together the qualitative research of academicians with the practical understanding of experienced, counter-terrorist experts.

For more information contact Col (res.) Jonathan Fighel