SITE Institute

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Not to be confused with SETI or SETI Institute.

The Search for International Terrorist Entities (SITE) Intelligence Group [2] is an organization which tracks the online activity of terrorist organizations[1]. The SITE Institute was founded in 2002 by Rita Katz and Josh Devon, who had left the Investigative Project (a private Islamist-terrorist tracking group). [2]

[edit] "Al-Qaeda" tapes

  • (July 4, 2007.) A video by Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri was obtained by SITE "ahead of its release on the internet by militant web sites".[3] It was "first reported by IntelCenter and SITE, two U.S.-based groups that monitor militant messages".[4] (The video had been "provided by al-Qaeda's As-Sahab Media to IntelCenter".[5])
  • Sept. 7, 2007: SITE obtained a 30-minute video of "Osama bin Laden" and provided it to Associated Press. Bin Laden's image is "frozen" for all but 3½ minutes of the tape. [6] SITE "beat al-Qaeda by nearly a full day with the release of the ... video". [7] The US government later pronounced the video authentic. See also 2007 Osama bin Laden video.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Islamists Bring Fight to Capital of Algeria." The New York Times. April 11, 2007 [1]
  2. ^ Benjamin Wallace-Wells, "Private Jihad: How Rita Katz got into the spying business", The New Yorker, May 29, 2006.
  3. ^ Associated Press, "Al-Qaida Deputy Speaks in New Video" (caption to video still), ABC News online, July 5, 2007.
  4. ^ Print version of ABC article
  5. ^ Agence France Presse, "Al-Qaeda number two slams Hamas for seeking negotiations", July 4, 2007.
  6. ^ Associated Press, "New Usama Bin Laden Video ...", Fox News, Sept. 8, 2007.
  7. ^ Joby Warrick, "Bin Laden, Brought to You by ...", Washington Post, Sept. 12, 2007, p.A01.

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