[wvns] Rita Katz, SITE and Bin Laden
Rita Katz, SITE and Bin Laden
Sat, 08 Sep 2007
http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/09/rita-katz-site-and-bin-laden.html
Since the MOSSAD asset MEMRI has been discredited by its phony
transcripts of alleged "aL-CIA-duh" recordings, there now appears a
group that is doing translations called SITE. SITE is credited with
the transcripts behind the latest video of BL.
Has any independent organization translated the recent BL video or
will we be forced to rely on SITE? Here's some info on SITE:
The Terrorism Library, on cusory investigation, looks to be a straight
data scrape from the U.S. Department of State's Patterns of Global
Terrorism
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2003, Appendix B.
The list of Publications often provides a very short synopsis of a
news item, with a reference given for a translation from their premium
service, other times they offer full mirrors of news items, poorly
marked-up.
Rita Katz is Director and co-founder of the SITE Institue. Born in
Iraq, her father was tried and executed as an Israeli spy, whereupon
her family moved to Israel [the move has been described as both an
escape and an emmigration in different sources]. 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 was called as a witness in the trial, but the government didn't
claim she was a terrorism expert. During the trial it was discovered
that Katz herself had worked in violation of her visa agreement when
she first arrived in America in 1997. She also admitted to receiving
more than $130,000 for her work as an FBI consultant on the case.
Source Watch
It was telling that CNN, when airing the latest video from BL, never
mentioned once who performed the translation.
Guess they didn't want to get into sticky details, like the one that
the head of SITE, Rita Katz's father, was executed for being an
Israeli spy. Or that Katz has been receiving money from the FBI.
But that wouldn't influence anyone's impartiality, now would it??
And that Bin Laden. The last time he appeared, the Republicans were
needing help in the 2004 presidential elections. Now he appears just
as the Republicans are needing help in continuing the war against Iraq
and selling the next war against Iran. Boy oh boy, is that BL clever
or what?
He should go to work for the CIA.
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SITE_Institute
SITE Staff
Rita Katz is Director and co-founder of the SITE Institue. Allegedly
born in Iraq, her father was tried and executed as an Israeli spy,
whereupon her family moved to Israel [the move has been described as
both an escape and an emmigration in different sources]. 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 is also the author of the book Terrorist Hunter (HarperCollins,
2003) in which she chronicles her infiltration into US-based Arab
groups to investigate terrorist connections as a private investigator.
Josh 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.
Note: Wharton College is most likely the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania.
[edit]The trial of Al-Hussayen
Al-Hussayen was a doctoral student at the University of Idaho in
Moscow, Idaho. He was charged for supplying material support to a
terrorist group because he volunteered to setup and maintain a website
for the Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA), a group that has
been investigated by the Federal Government, but never charged.
He was detained for 1 1/2 years before his trial in which the jury
acquitted him on all terrorist-related charges, two of the immigration
charges and hung on the remainder of immigration charges. The
government alleged that his immigration violations were that he had
worked as a volunteer as IANA webmaster, and may have received $300
for this work spread out over multiple years.
Katz was called as a witness in the trial, but the government didn't
claim she was a terrorism expert. During the trial it was discovered
that Katz herself had worked in violation of her visa agreement when
she first arrived in America in 1997. She also admitted to receiving
more than $130,000 for her work as an FBI consultant on the case.
After the acquittal, Assistant U.S. Attorney Terry Derden, the
prosecuter of the case, admitted that the charges were weak, but what
mattered was that they'd disrupted Al-Hussayen from engaging in
actions for which they were unable to secure a conviction.
Sources: Seattle Times and The Spokesman-Review (see below).
SITE Articles on Al-Hussayen
Interestingly, SITE has at least two news articles about Al-Hussayen,
one a report on a Wall Street Journal article, and the second one from
the Ann Arbor News (improperly referenced by SITE as "Ann Arbor,
Michigan News"), which describes a second possible financial motive
for Katz's testimony against the Muslim organisations other than the
government's remuneration:
"Katz was hired to research terrorism by 911 Families United To
Bankrupt Terrorism, a collection of about 1,000 relatives of those who
lost their lives in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon. That group filed a civil lawsuit in
August 2002 against organizations they say finance terrorism."
[Odd, that they didn't end up suing her! -WVNS]
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