SITE Institute

The Search for International Terrorist Entities (SITE) Intelligence Group [http://www.siteintelgroup.org/] is an organization which tracks the online activity of terrorist organizations ["Islamists Bring Fight to Capital of Algeria." "The New York Times". April 11, 2007 [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/world/middleeast/11cnd-algieria.html?ref=world] ] . 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). [Benjamin Wallace-Wells, " [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/05/29/060529fa_fact?printable=true Private Jihad: How Rita Katz got into the spying business] ", The New Yorker, May 29, 2006.]

"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". [Associated Press, " [http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3346944 Al-Qaida Deputy Speaks in New Video] " (caption to video still), ABC News online, July 5, 2007.] It was "first reported by IntelCenter and SITE, two U.S.-based groups that monitor militant messages". [ [http://www.abcnews.go.com/print?id=3346944 Print version of ABC article] ] (The video had been "provided by al-Qaeda's As-Sahab Media to IntelCenter". [Agence France Presse, "Al-Qaeda number two slams Hamas for seeking negotiations", July 4, 2007.] )

* 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. Associated Press, " [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296065,00.html New Usama Bin Laden Video ...] ", Fox News, Sept. 8, 2007.] SITE "beat al-Qaeda by nearly a full day with the release of the ... video". [Joby Warrick, " [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/11/AR2007091102465.html Bin Laden, Brought to You by ...] ", Washington Post, Sept. 12, 2007, p.A01.] The US government later pronounced the video authentic. See also 2007 Osama bin Laden video.

References

External links

* [http://www.siteinstitute.org/ Search for International Terrorist Entities (SITE) Institute website]
* [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060529fa_fact/ New Yorker Magazine 2006 Profile of the SITE Institute]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/23/international/worldspecial2/23qaeda.html?ei=5090&en=cb3ad05bfb7fd5f4&ex=1253592000&partner=rssuserland&pagewanted=print&position=/ New York Times 2004 Profile of the SITE Institute]
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4639986/ MSNBC story featuring Rita Katz]
* [http://www.hadassah.org/news/content/per_hadassah/archive/2003/03_NOV/profile.htm/Profile:Rita Katz By Rahel Musleah ]
* [http://www.masnet.org/news.asp?id=147 News item about SITE involvement in defamation of Muslim charities]
*" [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20697164/site/newsweek Keeping an Eye on Al Qaeda] ": Newsweek interview with Rita Katz, Sept. 11, 2007, dealing with the Sept. 7, 2007 "Bin Laden" video, etc