Bin Laden, Brought to You by . . .

[MessiahRp]

Source: Washington Post

Early yesterday morning, a South Carolina Web designer who works at home managed to scoop al-Qaeda by publicly unveiling its new video, a feat she has accomplished numerous times since 2002. Within hours, cable news stations were broadcasting images of Osama bin Laden commemorating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and crediting the 50-year-old woman, who uses the pseudonym Laura Mansfield.

A similar event occurred Friday, when another group beat al-Qaeda by nearly a full day with the release of the first video images of bin Laden to appear publicly since 2004. That group, the SITE Institute, provided the tape to government agencies and news organizations at a time when many well-known jihadist Web sites had been shut down in a powerful cyberattack by unknown hackers.

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Though government intelligence agencies may independently obtain the same material through their own sources, Venzke said each release of a new video triggers requests from his government subscribers. "We're one of the primary sources for a lot of this stuff," he said.

More at link...

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/11/AR2007091102465.html

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So wait... this group has been ahead of the actual terrorists in releasing Bin Laden's video and the DHS doesn't think that's at all strange? The Administration can infiltrate peace groups, quakers, anti-war protesters and treat them as terrorist groups but a repeated convenient leak of Bin Laden's videos by the same group doesn't raise any eyebrows?

It makes you wonder... is Bin Laden in their basement shooting these things?

Rp

[Lucinda]

1. Hmmmm

might explain his "Just for Men" beard :)

Very odd though

[Snazzy]

2. it's exactly right

Gadzillion in defense and intel spending and a 'private citizen' is the only person who gets a-list early release on UBL vids.

Yeah....

[Up2Late]

3. SITE and the IntelCenter are U.S. Government Contractors...

...or at least IntelCenter is, they sell the all the Terrorist videos on DVD for $39.99, almost as soon as they hit the internet.

SITE is one of the prime sources for terrorist videos for FOX "news," plus they have lots of other very dangerous stuff available on their site. I find the SITE website very dangerous, but hey, 1st Amendment right?

I don't want to give links to their sites, but if you Google the word As-Sahab, you'll find them.

Or you can get most of the videos free at this link: <http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22As-Sahab%20Media%22&sort=-%2Fmetadata%2Fpublicdate>

[xchrom]

4. they can scoop the videos -- but can't get bin laden?

makes one wonder....

[rosesaylavee]

7. Shhhhhhhh. OBL inconveniently died in 2002. n/t

[IamyourTVandIownyou]

5. According to ziopedia.com, SITE has Israeli Intelligence links.

Not surprisingly, SITE is connected to Israeli intelligence. “Rita Katz is Director and co-founder of the SITE Institute. Born in Iraq, her father was tried and executed as an Israeli spy, whereupon her family moved to Israel . She received a degree from the Middle Eastern Studies program at Tel Aviv University, and is fluent in Hebrew and Arabic. She emigrated to the US in 1997.” Katz’s partner, Josh Devon, is less colorful. “Devon is Senior Analyst and co-founder of the SITE Institute. He has a BA from University of Pennsylvania (English) and a BS from Wharton College (Economics). Devon is currently attending the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University with the intentions of receiving an International Studies Degree with a focus on the Middle East,” that is to say a globalist perspective on the Middle East. According to this article, SAIS is a CFR cover. “CFR member Zbigniew Brzezinski is SAIS Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy…. CFR member Paul Wolfowitz, Ph.D. is SAIS Chairman and Dean.” As well, SAIS appears to be connected to the American Enterprise Institute, where the neocons get their criminal minds.


http://www.ziopedia.org/articles/war_on_terror/_israeli_connected_site_institute_hypes_dead_grecian_formula_terrorist/


hmmmm...

[rosesaylavee]

6. So there is a market developing for OBL videos?

That makes sense. Bet there will be a whole 'new' series of them now. What's the going rate? Maybe I will 'find' one or two too.

Gotta love capitalism.

[Javaman]

8. Well it all has to do with exclusive rights...

you see OBL's agent just inked a 7 figure deal with a major movie studio for the rights to his life and one of the parts of the deal was to allow the release of some of his new stuff to various bloggers. He's trying to create a "buzz".

It's a sad thing when my snarking is hard to distinguish from reality.

[stubtoe]

9. K&R

Maybe someday the MSM anchors will actually start to question these "Osama" apparitions ... nah. Just another one of my brain farts.