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Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master
NRT-0308 Impacts of the Leak of the Bin Laden Tape:
Impacts of the Leak of the Bin Laden Tape
The White House says it is concerned by the leak of a private security firm's eavesdropping
on al-Qaida communications. The private firm SITE Intelligence Group notified the White House
last month that it had obtained a new video from terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. The company
offered it to US officials on the condition that they not reveal its existence until after
al-Qaida released it, thereby protecting the integrity of the surrepititious means thorough which
the company got the tape. But within hours, the tape was broadcast worldwide, destroying what the
SITE founder says are techniques that took years to develop and are now ineffective and worthless.
(VOA 09OCT07)
An alleged leak has tipped off al-Qa'ida (AQ) to a security breach in one of its internet-connected
networks, enabling the group to block one of the most prominent sources of information on its
propaganda activities, according to an online British press report. Rita Katz, founder of
Washington-based Search for International Terrorist Entities (SITE) Intelligence Group, complained
to the US Government that officials gave copies of an Usama Bin Ladin video to Fox News hours before
AQ officially released the footage. The offending leak on Fox News' web site reportedly had page markers
easily sourced to AQ, allowing the group to identify the source SITE was exploiting. SITE had
reportedly obtained the video through a security flaw in AQ's network that it had exploited for years,
and had passed the material to the government on the condition it remained secret. "Techniques that
took years to develop are now ineffective and worthless," said Ms. Katz. "We were able to establish
sources that provided us with unique and important information into al-Qa'ida's hidden world.
(www.telegraph.co.uk 10OCT07)