Who is Rita Katz and What is SITE ?

SITE (wikipedia) has been the source of many propaganda videos purporting to represent the views of previously AQ, and more recently ISIS/ISIL.

Given the allegations that both AQ and ISIS/ISIL are primarily the creations and tools of Western intelligence and Gulf-state money, it would be worth considering the political allegiances of the principal at SITE, Rita Katz.


According to wikipedia:

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Rita Katz (born 1963) is a terrorism analyst and the co-founder of the Search for International Terrorist Entities (SITE) Intelligence Group, a private intelligence firm based in Washington, DC.

The Institute tracks global terrorist networks, and intercepts and distributes secret messages, videos, and advance warnings of suicide bombings from terrorist groups' communications networks.
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Katz, a fluent Arabic speaker, was born in Basra in Southern Iraq in 1963 to a wealthy Iraqi Jewish family. After the Six Day War and shortly after Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party seized power in Iraq in 1968, her father was arrested on charges of spying for Israel. The family's property was confiscated by the state, and the rest of the family put under house arrest in a stone hut.  The following year, after having been tortured, Katz's father was convicted and executed in a public hanging in the central square of Baghdad to the roaring applause of more than half a million Iraqis; the government offered free transportation to people from the provinces, and belly dancers performed for the crowd. Katz's mother managed to escape on foot with her three small children to Iran, and from there they made their way to Israel.

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Katz's SITE Institute, co-founded with Josh Devon in July 2002, was funded by various federal agencies and private groups. It analyzes "corporate records, tax forms, credit reports, video tapes, internet news group postings and owned websites, among other resources, for indicators of illicit activity"

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