SITE Institute



The Search for International Terrorist Entities (SITE) Institute is an organization which tracks the online activity of terrorist organizations. The SITE Institute was founded in 2002 by Rita Katz and Josh Devon, who had left the Investigative Project (a private Islamist-terrorist tracking group).

"Al-Qaeda" tapes

 * (July 4, 2007.) A video by Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri was obtained by SITE "ahead of its release on the internet by militant web sites".  It was "first reported by IntelCenter and SITE, two U.S.-based groups that monitor militant messages".  (The video had been "provided by al-Qaeda's As-Sahab Media to IntelCenter". )


 * Sept. 7, 2007: SITE obtained a 30-minute video of "Osama bin Laden" and provided it to Associated Press.  Bin Laden's image is "frozen" for all but 3½ minutes of the tape.   SITE "beat al-Qaeda by nearly a full day with the release of the ... video".  The US government later pronounced the video authentic.  See also 2007 Osama bin Laden video.