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Date: October 10, 2007 3:04:28 PM PDT
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Subject: SITE Gets Sore Eyes
White House Leak to Fox News
Severed a Link to Al-Qaeda's Secrets
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/09/
AR2007100900791_2.html?hpid=topnews
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... SITE -- an acronym for the Search for International Terrorist
Entities -- was established in 2002 with the stated goal of
tracking and exposing terrorist groups, according to the company's
Web site. Katz, an Iraqi-born Israeli citizen whose father was
executed by Saddam Hussein in the 1960s, has made the investigation
of terrorist groups a passionate quest.
Quoting Rita Katz --a Jersey housewife stereotypically married to a
doctor-- who operates SITE as a "home-based business" out of her
garage: "Mata Hari has nothing on me."
"We were able to establish sources that provided us with unique and
important information into al-Qaeda's hidden world," Katz said. Her
company's income is drawn from subscriber fees and contracts.
Katz said she decided to offer an advance copy of the bin Laden
video to the White House without charge so officials there could
prepare for its eventual release.
She spoke first with White House counsel Fred F. Fielding, whom she
had previously met, and then with Joel Bagnal, deputy assistant to
the president for homeland security. Both expressed interest in
obtaining a copy, and Bagnal suggested that she send a copy to
Michael Leiter, who holds the No. 2 job at the National
Counterterrorism Center.
Administration and intelligence officials would not comment on
whether they had obtained the video separately. Katz said Fielding
and Bagnal made it clear to her that the White House did not
possess a copy at the time she offered hers.
Around 10 a.m. on Sept. 7, Katz sent both Leiter and Fielding an e-
mail with a link to a private SITE Web page containing the video
and an English transcript. "Please understand the necessity for
secrecy," Katz wrote in her e-mail. "We ask you not to
distribute . . . [as] it could harm our investigations."
Fielding replied with an e-mail expressing gratitude to Katz. "It
is you who deserves the thanks," he wrote, according to a copy of
the message. There was no record of a response from Leiter or the
national intelligence director's office.
Exactly what happened next is unclear. But within minutes of Katz's
e-mail to the White House, government-registered computers began
downloading the video from SITE's server, according to a log of
file transfers. The records show dozens of downloads over the next
three hours from computers with addresses registered to defense and
intelligence agencies.
By midafternoon, several television news networks reported
obtaining copies of the transcript. A copy posted around 3 p.m. on
the Fox News Web site referred to SITE and included page markers
identical to those used by the group. "This confirms that the U.S.
government was responsible for the leak of this document," Katz
wrote in an e-mail to Leiter at 5 p.m.
Al-Qaeda supporters, now alerted to the intrusion into their secret
network, put up new obstacles that prevented SITE from gaining the
kind of access it had obtained in the past, according to Katz.
A small number of private intelligence companies compete with SITE
in scouring terrorists' networks for information and messages, and
some have questioned the company's motives and methods, including
the claim that its access to al-Qaeda's network was unique. One
competitor, Ben Venzke, founder of IntelCenter, said he questions
SITE's decision -- as described by Katz -- to offer the video to
White House policymakers <i.e., PR men> rather than quietly share
it with intelligence analysts.
"It is not just about getting the video first," Venzke said. "It is
about having the proper methods and procedures in place to make
sure that the appropriate intelligence gets to where it needs to go
in the intelligence community and elsewhere in order to support
ongoing counterterrorism operations."
Staff writer Spencer S. Hsu contributed to this report.
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<repost>
"This new video was not posted on any established Islamic web
site. It was 'intercepted' by a Jew named Rita Katz and turned
over to the news. This is not the first Al-Qaeda tape that Rita
Katz has turned over to the news."
http://www.savethemales.ca/
001887.html
Tonight on 60 Minutes:
Terrorist Chicken Laundering
By John Sugg, Creative Loafing (Atlanta)
Posted on June 12, 2003
http://www.alternet.org/story/16163/
Beware, if you visit Gainesville, Ga., of the terrorist chickens,
alleged feathered friends of Osama bin Laden operating out of
training camps (OK, deep fryers) near the shores of Lake Lanier. So
says CBS News' "60 Minutes."
The "60 Minutes" scenario, according to a breathless source on the
respected TV news magazine, is that maybe 10 million chickens are
recruited each year to become, um, martyrs for al-Qaeda. The loopy-
sounding theory (although stated as fact) is that chickens
disappear from a poultry farm's ledger books, and quicker than you
can say "secret seasonings," the proceeds are funneled to terrorist
groups.
The venerable news program touts as its hallmark an abundance of
diligent research. But not apparently on the chicken/terrorism
story. No proof in any form is offered that even one chicken was
"laundered," much less that millions were, as the network's source
alleges.
Lawsuits filed this month in Atlanta and Washington claim much was
amiss with CBS's fact-checking -- mainly that the network didn't
check facts before it claimed several Muslim groups based in
Herndon, Va., had terrorist ties.
For a start, the litigation contends, correspondent Bob Simon never
bothered to ask Mar-Jac Poultry of Gainesville -- whose investors
include some individuals connected to the Virginia groups -- about
its squadrons of alleged terrorist-tinged fowls.
Instead, Simon relied on a woman called "Anonymous" who, in her
lurid book dubbed "Terrorist Hunter," boasts: "Mata Hari had
nothing on me."
With the media flagellating itself over credibility problems
following the Jayson Blair meltdown at The New York Times, the use
of anonymous sources is risky territory. Readers and viewers
suspect that accounts from such sources are often embellished.
So, you'd think "60 Minutes" would be a tad wary of a woman who
perceives herself as a femme fatale -- and who unabashedly boasts
that she's an invaluable asset to right-thinking federal agents and
a bane to bumbling G-men.
In the "60 Minutes" report, Anonymous -- later identified as a self-
appointed spy named Rita Katz -- points to a chart that purportedly
shows the flow of dollars from the Virginia outfits to Osama bin
Laden. Mar-Jac Poultry, a pillar of Gainesville business since
1948, is named on the chart.
"Chicken is one of the things that no one can really track down,"
Katz says to CBS' Simon. "If you say in one year that you lost 10
million chickens, no one can prove it. They just died. You can't
trace money with chickens."
The organizations were searched by customs agents last year. But,
Katz claims to be the international super spy (0.007?) who donned a
burkha and penetrated Muslim groups -- the Virginia raids were her
handiwork. (No charges have been filed, and Mar-Jac's lawyers say
they've been told their client isn't a target.)
"CBS News aided and abetted a disguised and anonymous character
assassin's hit-and-run tactics," says Nancy Luque, a Washington
lawyer for the Muslim groups. Luque is demanding $80 million for
her clients in Washington. Her Atlanta colleague, former federal
prosecutor Wilmer "Buddy" Parker, seeks an unspecified amount
that's certain to be in the millions.
Despite the penchant of CBS' Simon for ambush interviews -- with
the implied admission of guilt by those who won't talk -- he
wouldn't respond to my written questions. A CBS spokesman assumed
the litigation posture, claiming the network had committed no sin.
Katz, meanwhile, wouldn't answer specific questions about her
evidence and where she gets her funding. She did huff: "The more
aggressive your attack on us, the more everyone will realize what
an excellent job we are doing."
Now you know how I felt, Ms. Katz. I just finished with a lawsuit
with your mentor -- which I won.
Beginning in the early 1990s, there was a concerted effort by some
supporters of Israel's right-wing Likud Party to silence
Palestinian voices and undermine the peace process in the Middle
East. Leading the pack was self-styled terrorism expert Steven
Emerson. Katz was his "research director" until sometime last year
when the two split.
Emerson has one word for Arabs and Muslims -- "terrorist." He made
so many gaffes -- most memorable, his 1995 attempt on CBS to link
the Oklahoma City bombing to Muslims -- he has been run out of many
respectable newsrooms. His response was the smear job. When the
Washington Post shunned him, he branded the paper "pro-Hamas." When
the Miami Herald strafed Emerson's shoddy claims, he wrote the
city's Jewish leaders claiming the paper's reporter "was nothing
short of racist."
As The Nation reported in 1995: "Intellectual terrorism seems to be
a part of Emerson's standard repertoire. So is his penchant for
papering his critics with threatening lawyers' letters."
I was one of those papered.
In 1998, I wrote several articles focused on Palestinian academics
at the University of South Florida. Emerson was the prime mover of
allegations against the academics, via his own work and through a
Tampa Tribune reporter he recruited.
Included in my reports were several disclosures that punctured
Emerson's already damaged reputation:
-- He had told a congressional panel (and he would later write in
his 2002 make-a-buck-off-9-11 book, "American Jihad") that a group
of Islamic extremists had eluded law enforcement, and federal
agents had warned Emerson that the terrorists intended to kill him.
I sent the congressional statement to the Justice Department.
Spokesman John Russell said the department's criminal division knew
Emerson, but didn't know about any threat to his life.
(Later, after meeting with Emerson and his lawyers, Russell's boss
wrote that someone in the FBI knew of a death threat and warned
Emerson; that assertion was and remains hearsay. But Emerson's
lawyers, in a court hearing, said an agent of State Department's
Bureau of Diplomatic Security, not the FBI, alerted Emerson to the
threat. Neither Justice nor the FBI has ever vouched for the
inflammatory details in Emerson's tale.)
-- Emerson in 1997 promised Associated Press high-level FBI
documents, but never delivered, reporters Richard Cole and Fred
Bayles told me. Emerson finally provided Cole and Bayles a paper
with many portions blacked out. Cole and Bayles had obtained the
same document -- without the deletions -- from Emerson's assistant.
It became apparent to the reporters that the redacted portions were
self-referencing phrases. "It was really his work," Cole told me.
"He sold it to us trying to make it look like a really interesting
FBI document."
My reporting outed Emerson's veracity problems to two key
constituencies -- the federal government and the media. In 1999, he
sued my paper (CL's sister in Tampa, the Weekly Planet), AP's Cole
and me. That suit, because of repeated stalls by Emerson, dragged
on for four years.
It would take 9-11 to resurrect Emerson, who now is a chattering
head on MSNBC.
But Emerson lost his lawsuit. A judge ordered him to produce proof
of his allegations. Last month, Emerson ran away.
We have to wonder if Emerson's proof ever existed. Not a single
federal agent (and he claims to have many as pals) would come
forward, take an oath, and say, "Emerson told the truth." Not a
single document to bolster his version. No proof. Nada. Zilch.
Rita Katz parrots Emerson's old tales. They claimed victory after
Palestinians were arrested earlier this year in Tampa -- although
the basis for the indictments, recently revealed federal wiretaps,
was not the "proof" long cited by Emerson and his allies.
Katz's book pretends to be a history. Strange history. For example,
she misses by almost a full half-year the date when a notorious
terrorist leader left the United States and returned to the Middle
East. That error is an astounding one for an "expert."
The book appears to have two purposes -- to broadly link domestic
Muslim and Arab groups with Osama bin Laden, and to undermine the FBI.
The first is easy to understand; it's basic agitprop, the Big Lie.
Failure to understand the reality and nuances of Islam and the Arab
street has fueled a turf war among government law enforcement
agencies. Katz and Emerson are merchants of ignorance -- and they
need gullible law enforcement agencies.
Katz's book slams the FBI and glorifies Customs -- with such
elegant prose as "the jerks from the FBI." At issue was which
agency would head a money-laundering operation known as Green Quest.
In May, the FBI won the fight, much to Katz's dismay.
A former high-level CIA counterterrorism official calls Katz's book
"a joke."
"It is clear that the FBI thinks that Customs' investigation of
[the Virginia Muslim groups] was being run by a bunch of amateurs,"
the official, Vince Cannistraro, told me, "and that perception
played a part in Justice/FBI's play to take away terrorist
financing investigations from Customs."
Cannistraro also said Customs was compromised in the Virginia (and
chicken farm) attacks by a political agenda -- thanks to Katz,
Emerson and company.
Katz depicts the FBI as venal and incompetent. That's not my
assessment, and I've known many agents for years.
Of course, Katz relies on officials such as Immigration and
Naturalization Service agent Dan Cadman -- who was nailed in the
1990s for deceiving a congressional task force and then covering up
his deceits.
The FBI has had its share of blemishes, but that has a lot more to
do with politics at the top than with the dedication of the grunt
agents. I asked one of them, Tampa counterterrorism supervisor Jay
Koerner, if he thought Katz had contributed much to investigations
of terrorists. Koerner replied: "Hell, no."
So, you know what I think? I'll bet those chickens in north Georgia
aren't terrorists after all.
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Cyber Jihad: The Phantom Menace
July 13th, 2007
http://fanonite.org/?s=brzezinski
About the same time the story broke of US soldiers in Iraq trading
photos of dead Iraqis for porn, the various media outlets in UK
were bombarded with messages of a new terrorist initiative: an
alleged organization by the name of the Global Islamic Media Front
(GIMF) had just launched a new online channel, the Voice of the
Caliphate where from now on it will broadcast its messages. The
message was forwarded by someone at the BBC to my PhD supervisor
and media analyst, David Miller, who decided to have a look. The
website seemed to have been put together in a hurry, and had
nothing except screen shot of a purported broadcast. It had a link
to a video, except when he tried to download, it said the site had
exceeded its 16 downloads limit. At that point he asked me to find
the source of the news.
When I checked the source of the news, it turned out to be an
organization called Search for International Terrorist Entities
(SITE). The name in itself is dubious enough, but on further look
it turned out that it is an Israeli intelligence front, founded by
Rita Katz, an Iraqi born daughter of an Israeli spy and Josh Devon,
a neocon from Wolfowitz’s SAIS at Johns Hopkins.
It seemed curious that Voice of the Caliphate which had yet to make
its debut on the world scene make its first appearance not via the
familiar channels, but through the website of an organization
called Search for International Terrorist Entities (SITE).
On further investigation it turns out that there were no references
to it or its supposed parent group (GIMF), prior to a Washington
Post article from August 7, 2005 where Rebecca Givner-Forbes from
the Terrorism Research Center, another dubious organization, makes
a reference to GIMF. Besides SITE, the only other references to it
are from Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), an Israeli
intelligence front. French terrorologist Jean-Pierre Filiu in an
interview claimed the organization has been around since 2003,
except there are no references to it anywhere prior to August 7,
2005. On Lexis/Nexis, the bulk of present references come from a
Zionist-extremist weblog, The Jawa Report.
It appears to me the organization is a figment of the Israeli
intelligence and its neocon cohorts’ rather fertile imagination. It
is useful in creating diversions if there is damaging news. It is
also useful in incriminating those who fall foul of the warmongers.
For example, reporting on the Al-Jazeera correspondent Taysir
Alony’s conviction in a Spanish court, the SITE quoted some
laudatory comments from “VOC” to imply guilt and took for granted
Alony’s alleged role in “helping to finance al-Qaeda by acting as a
courier for the group during reporting work in Afghanistan”.
In 2002 it was reported that the Bush administration had gathered a
bevy of Hollywood producers to conjure up the most improbable
terrorist scenarios against which the department of homeland
security would then defend the country.
Zbigniew Brzezinski has already warned against this unchecked
growth of the ["private"] security industry, which can’t but
sustain itself through the conjuring up of phantom menaces.
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HOW TO BECOME AN INSTANT “EXPERT” ON THE MIDDLE EAST
http://thx1138.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/how-to-become-an-instant-
expert-on-the-middle-east/
Some of these think tanks are huge, while others are boiler room
operations involving no more than an individual with a computer.
Instead of blogging, these lone hacks write “studies” that support
Zionist wars of aggression. One example of a boiler room agent
(again chosen at random by the editors of AGAINST ZIONISM) is the
abrasive Rita Katz (below right), an Iraq-born Jewess whose family
emigrated to Israel, where she married a Jewish doctor. Later the
doctor got a job in the USA.
She tried working at a couple of different jobs, but employers
found her pushiness intolerable. When the Bush regime engineered
9-11 (with funding from the Saudis and guidance from Mossad) Katz
realized that few people in the U.S. government knew anything about
the Middle East other than, “Israel good, all others bad.” (Most
Congressmen today still don’t know the difference between Shiites
and Sunnis.) Voila–she had stumbled upon a Goyim goldmine.
Because Katz was born in Iraq, she spoke Arabic, and started
translating documents in her spare time. Then she presented her
results to anyone who would listen. Like most people in her
“profession,” Katz is a failed novelist, but found that the Goyim
are willing to pay for imaginary terror “threats” that involve
everything from botulism to poisoned adhesive on the back of
printed postage stamps.
Katz published a “non-fiction” book titled Terrorist Hunter: The
Extraordinary Story of a Woman Who Went Undercover to Infiltrate
the Radical Islamic Groups Operating in America. In it, Katz
arrogantly boasts that, “the F.B.I. didn’t possess one-thousandth
of my knowledge on the relevant issues.”
Since Katz is female, the program “60 Minutes” brought her in for a
segment on her book. Katz, who fancies herself a secret agent (as
does everyone else in the Zionist propaganda game) appeared on “60
Minutes” wearing a disguise.
Occasionally her arrogance and stupidity get her into trouble, as
when she told authorities that Mar-Jac Poultry, a Georgia chicken
farm, was sending money to terrorists. The charge was absurd, and
Mar-Jac Poultry filed a lawsuit against Katz.
Regarding translation, an Arabic word can have four or five
different meanings, but when Katz “renders” an Arabic document
“correctly,” it turns out to be a call for suicide bombing.
Fortunately the Goyim don’t know the difference. Unfortunately the
field of “open-source counterterrorism” is now packed with James
Bond wannabees who fight each other for attention.
Katz realized she had to find a niche, so she teamed up with one
Josh Devon, who she met at school. Mr. Devon had majored in social
sciences in college, and faced a lifetime of flipping burgers and
sitting at home reading science fiction novels.
Thus he was delighted when Katz showed him how to exploit the
horror of 9-11 for fun and profit. Now Devon <who's still
attending school> runs Katz’ “Search for International Terrorist
Entities” web site.
The subject of translations brings us to a special category of
“think tanks” that focus on creative interpretations of documents
from the Middle East. This is a crucial area, since the Goyim
“know,” for example, that Iran’s President Ahmadinejad said,
“Israel must be wiped off the face of the map.” The Goyim “know”
this because it’s been repeated countless times in the news media.
Of course this is another Zionist lie, like the hoax about Jews
having to wear stars in Iran. No such idiom exists in Farsi.
Ahmadinejad simply quoted an old speech of the Ayatollah Khomeini,
who said, (translated strictly) “The occupation regime over
Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.”
Among the leaders in Zionist “translation” services is the Middle
East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), which was started by two
flaming Zionist Jews. One was Yigal Carmon, a former colonel from
Israeli military intelligence. The other was Meyrav Wurmser, whose
Jew hubby Douglas was special assistant to beaver-haired John
Bolton when the latter was an Undersecretary of State. In 2004,
the FBI charged Douglas Wurmser with passing espionage secrets to
AIPAC and to Ahmad Chalabi. After that, Douglas Wurmser slithered
off to the place where all Zionists go when they are out of power
or out of favor: a think tank. Today he is a member of the ultra-
Zionist American Enterprise Institute.
Back in 1996, Douglas Wurmser and his wife Meyrav helped Richard
Perle and Douglas Feith write the “Clean Break” paper (the actual
title was “Rebuilding Zionism”), which called for an end to peace
talks with Palestinians. It also urged the bombing of Syria, and
demanded that the Goyim invade Iraq.
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