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Source: Washington Post

Early yesterday morning, a South Carolina Web designer who works at home managed to scoop al-Qaeda by publicly unveiling its new video, a feat she has accomplished numerous times since 2002. Within hours, cable news stations were broadcasting images of Osama bin Laden commemorating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and crediting the 50-year-old woman, who uses the pseudonym Laura Mansfield.

A similar event occurred Friday, when another group beat al-Qaeda by nearly a full day with the release of the first video images of bin Laden to appear publicly since 2004. That group, the SITE Institute, provided the tape to government agencies and news organizations at a time when many well-known jihadist Web sites had been shut down in a powerful cyberattack by unknown hackers.

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Though government intelligence agencies may independently obtain the same material through their own sources, Venzke said each release of a new video triggers requests from his government subscribers. "We're one of the primary sources for a lot of this stuff," he said.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/11/AR2007091102465.html

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So wait... this group has been ahead of the actual terrorists in releasing Bin Laden's video and the DHS doesn't think that's at all strange? The Administration can infiltrate peace groups, quakers, anti-war protesters and treat them as terrorist groups but a repeated convenient leak of Bin Laden's videos by the same group doesn't raise any eyebrows?

It makes you wonder... is Bin Laden in their basement shooting these things?

Rp