Please Support Our Work By Donating to the Counterterrorism Foundation

By Andrew Cochran

I write to solicit your financial support for the Counterterrorism Foundation and the Counterterrorism Blog. My colleagues and I are now in our fourth year of offering independent, comprehensive, and often exclusive news and analysis about the extent of terrorism worldwide. The Counterterrorism Blog is recognized by the worldwide community of counter-terrorism researchers, policymakers, and press specialists as a primary source for independent, objective news and analysis. In all that time, we have done this without ads or subscriptions, and through a great deal of volunteer effort. Contributions to CTF and CTB are fully tax-deductible and go to support such important work as:

• Coverage and analysis of terrorist attacks and threats anywhere and anytime, from Indonesia and the Philippines, to Algeria and Morocco, to the UK and United States, and the changes in terrorists’ methods and tactics;

• Exclusive or first-look information about issues such as terrorist financing; the campaign to target elements of the Iranian regime; the FARC drug pipeline; and the numerous activities of designated terrorist Viktor Bout, recently arrested in Thailand;

• Exclusive information about U.S. efforts in Iraq to puncture the financial network of Al Qaeda in Iraq and enable Iraqis to push AQII out;

• The Holy Land Foundation’s links to Hamas and the worldwide Muslim Brotherhood financial network, gathered from numerous sources in the counter-terrorism community, capped by an exclusive live event in Washington on the evidence; and

• Information on the cutting edge of “tech terror” beyond Internet-based terrorist training, to “Second Life” and “virtual world” terrorism communities and jihadist botnets.

And so much more.

You can also mail checks payable to “The Counterterrorism Foundation” to our headquarters at 122 C Street, NW, Suite 380, Washington, DC, 20001. For a donation of $150, you will receive your choice of an autographed copy of either Douglas Farah’s Merchant of Death, about Viktor Bout, or Daveed Gartenstein-Ross’ My Year Inside Radical Islam: A Memoir, a story of the revelations about the Islamic foundation where he worked and his personal conversion. For a donation of $250, you will receive both books, autographed by the authors. For a donation of $5,000, we will list the contributor's name or logo on the Counterterrorism Foundation website as a "Sponsor."

Key officials in the U.S., such as the former counterterrorism coordinator for the State Department and top officials of the New York Police Department’s Counterterrorism Division, have told us they read the Counterterrorism Blog daily. Last year, the New York Times called us “One of the leading blogs on terrorism,” and reporters from around the world ask us all the time for information for their stories. Contributing Experts are quoted or cited several times a week in publications, broadcasts, and websites worldwide. What started as a small group of Americans now includes Contributing Experts posting from India and Indonesia.

Over a year ago, I wanted to ensure that The Counterterrorism Blog could continue as a permanent entity, with a sound legal and financial footing to pay for the website and perhaps to sponsor independent research. We have made enormous strides during the past year:

• The IRS granted the Counterterrorism Foundation tax-exempt status in September, and the Foundation now owns the Counterterrorism Blog web address;

• The Foundation filed its first tax return with the IRS, with the professional assistance of independent CPAs;

• The Foundation’s board now consists of six members dedicated to funding the Counterterrorism Blog and special research projects; and

• We received sufficient donations to pay for the maintenance and protection of the website for a year (and we need all the protection we can get - we have been cyber-attacked often).

It’s time to take the next step and to ask your help in continuing to build this non-partisan force in counter-terrorism to expose the dangers, the connections, the successes and the failures. Please give today.

AGAIN: For a donation of $150, you will receive your choice of either an autographed copy of either Douglas Farah’s Merchant of Death, about Viktor Bout, or Daveed Gartenstein-Ross’ My Year Inside Radical Islam: A Memoir, a story of the revelations about the Islamic foundation where he worked and his personal conversion. You choose the book. For a donation of $250, you will receive both books, autographed by the authors. For a donation of $5,000, we will list the contributor's name or logo on the Counterterrorism Foundation website as a "Sponsor."

So please give today. You can mail checks payable to “The Counterterrorism Foundation” to our headquarters at 122 C Street, NW, Suite 380, Washington, DC, 20001. Or you can contribute through our dedicated PayPal account, accessible below.

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