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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StuxNet

StuxNet is a soft(ware) weapon

Reports indicate that StuxNet was used to saboutage the Iranian nuclear programme.

- StuxNet as a game-changer on the order of the F15 jet fighter
- stuxnet-is-game-changing-weaponized
- the-big-picture
- stuxnet-the-first-weaponized-computer-virus
- on the F15 comparison
- bits-before-bombs-how-stuxnet-crippled-irans-nuclear-dreams
- anandtech forum thread
- evolving-understanding-of-stuxnet
- strategypage

Nuclear scientist killed in Tehran was Iran's top Stuxnet expert

Reddit Articles

Wired.com articles:

Blockbuster Worm Aimed for Infrastructure, But No Proof Iran Nukes Were Target
All posts tagged ‘Stuxnet’

New Clues Point to Israel as Author of Blockbuster Worm, Or Not

ClearStream

WikiPedia Entry Summary:

"Clearstream Banking S.A. (CB) is the custody and settlement division of Deutsche Börse, based in Luxembourg.

It was created in January 2000 through the merger of Cedel International and Deutsche Börse Clearing, part of the Deutsche Börse Group, which owns the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Cedel, established in 1971, specialized in clearance and settlement. In 1996 it obtained a bank license. In July 2002 Deutsche Börse purchased the remaining 50% of Clearstream International for €1.6 billion. Deutsche Börse's strategy is to be a vertical securities silo, providing facilities for the front and back ends of securities trading. In 2008 Clearstream contributed €489 million to Deutsche Börse's total Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT) of €1,5 billion. It handled 114 million transactions, and was custodian of securities worth €10,6 trillion (Deutsche Boerse Annual Report, 2008).

In Révélation$ (2001), by investigative reporter Denis Robert and ex-Clearstream banker Ernest Backes, Clearstream was accused of being an international platform for money laundering and tax evasion via an illegal system of secret accounts (the "Clearstream Affair"). M Robert was sued and sentenced eight times by the French courts for defamation (Paris court of appeal, October 16, 2008)

In Spring 2004, a "Second Clearstream Affair" began, which attracted more attention in 2006. Peripheral to the primary Clearstream Affair, it accused several French political figures, industrial leaders, and members of the secret services of maintaining secret accounts at Clearstream, which allegedly were used to transfer kickbacks in a France–Taiwan frigates scandal. In this affair M Robert together with M de Villepin, Gergorin, lahoud and Bourges will face trial in September 2009"

BBC Article : France-Taiwan Arms-Deal Scandal

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In 1983, Clearstream director Gérard Soisson was found dead in Corsica, just prior to the publicization of the fact that Clearstream had been moving money for Vatican/Italian mob/US proxy/Masonic bank Banco Ambrosiano, itself at the centre of scandal as a result of high-profile murders and financial losses.