The Search for International Terrorist Entities (SITE) Intelligence Group is an organization that tracks the online activity of terrorist organizations. The SITE Institute was founded in 2002 by Rita Katz

Rita Katz

Rita Katz is a terrorism analyst and the co-founder of the Search for International Terrorist Entities Institute , a private intelligence firm based in Washington, DC....

 and Josh Devon, who had left the Investigative Project (a private Islamist-terrorist tracking group). In early 2008 it ceased its operations, and some of its staff formed the SITE Intelligence Group, a for-profit entity, to continue some of its activities.

"Al-Qaeda" tapes

• July 4, 2007: A video by al-Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri was obtained by SITE "ahead of its release on the internet by militant web sites". It was "first reported by IntelCenter and SITE, two U.S.-based groups that monitor militant messages". The video had been "provided by al-Qaeda's As-Sahab
  As-Sahab
  The As-Sahab Foundation for Islamic Media Publication , is the media production house of al-Qaeda, used to relay the organization's views to the world...
  
   Media to IntelCenter
  IntelCenter
  IntelCenter is a United States company, founded in 1993. It is based near Washington, D.C., in Alexandria, Virginia.The company "is a private contractor working for intelligence agencies". Its stated purpose is to "study terrorist groups and other threat actors and disseminating that information...
  
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• 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. SITE "beat al-Qaeda by nearly a full day with the release of the ... video". The US government later pronounced the video authentic. See also 2007 Osama bin Laden video
  2007 Osama bin Laden video
  The 2007 Osama bin Laden video originally appeared in a banner ad on an Islamic militant website regularly used by Al-Qaeda on September 6, 2007. The ad carried a picture of Osama bin Laden and the logo of Al-Qaeda's media production company, As-Sahab. An accompanying translated message read "Soon,...
  
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• May 3, 2011: The organization translated a lengthy statement signed by Al Qaeda’s General Command that confirmed Osama Bin Laden's death
  Death of Osama bin Laden
  Osama bin Laden, then head of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, shortly after 1 a.m. local time by a United States special forces military unit....
  
   and promised retaliation for that death.

See also

• Internet Haganah
  Internet Haganah
  Internet Haganah is a "global intelligence network dedicated to confronting Internet activities by Islamists and their supporters, enablers and apologists." It is composed of U.S...
  
  
• The Jawa Report
• Jihad Watch
  Jihad Watch
  Jihad Watch is a blog affiliated with the David Horowitz Freedom Center, which is run independently by American author Robert Spencer. It is considered an important platform for the counterjihad movement....
  
  
• NEFA Foundation

External links

• SITE Intelligence Group
• New Yorker Magazine 2006 Profile of the SITE Institute
• New York Times 2004 Profile of the SITE Institute
• MSNBC story featuring Rita Katz
• Katz By Rahel Musleah
• News item about SITE involvement in defamation of Muslim charities
• "Keeping an Eye on Al Qaeda": Newsweek
  Newsweek
  Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
  
  interview with Rita Katz, Sept. 11, 2007, dealing with the Sept. 7, 2007 "Bin Laden" video, etc