Terrorism

Leak of Bin Laden Video Harms Company

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A government leak of an Osama bin Laden video secretly obtained by a company that monitors intelligence has alerted al-Qaida to the private surveillance operation.

“Techniques that took years to develop are now ineffective and worthless,” Rita Katz, the firm’s founder, told the Washington Post. Her company, the SITE Intelligence Group, had given the video to the government on the condition that it not be revealed until al-Qaida released it.

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