SITE Institute, MEMRI Spread Bogus Intelligence Reports Of Fresh Attacks In US
By  Khadija Abdul Qahaar, Jihad Unspun, March 12, 2006
Bogus news circulating through the "Intelligence" media including  SITE Institute and  MEMRI on pending Al-Qaeda attacks inside the United States sourced in a message by a purported Al-Qaeda undercover soldier Rakan Ben Williams shows both are disseminating propaganda for profit.
The last evidence of exploitive journalism comes with the release by  Global Islamic Media Front’s (GIMF) Final Warning To The American People on behalf of "Rakan Ben Williams" on March 10, 2006 that was given wings by both intelligence outlets. The GIMF message was published in both Arabic and English and posted to a small number of forums before SITE and  MEMRI (המכון לחקר התקשורת המזרח התיכון) endeavored to give it wider birth. In it, "Williams" issues a host of threats and alleges that his group is simply waiting for the "go" order from Shiekh Osama bin Laden to carry out operations inside the US.
For the record, GIMF has absolutely no affiliation to Al-Qaeda. None, zero, zip.
The expressed purpose of the group is to wage electronic jihad and they have not the means, ability or even the slightest intention of carrying out the threats they issue. Rightly or wrongly, their agenda is simply engaging in misinformation in an effort to terrorize the enemy and this is widely known.
On November 24, 2005, GIMF posted a similar warning that included an explicit threat to assassinate Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Australian Prime Minister John Howard, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Tony Blair and George Bush. This was given equal attention by the two "intelligence" outlets however it remains little more than empty words in cyberspace after a few good giggles on the Arabic boards by those who mistakenly think this is useful. The Brothers of Tawheed place their faith in Allah for victory and act in defense of the Ummah; they do not engage in idle threats or throw volleys to the Americans that weaken the efforts of the Mujahideen. Child's play.

While misinformation does not bode well on Muslims, its implications on the so-called intelligence media like SITE and  MEMRI that fuel these spurious threats is even more astounding. Either  SITE has absolutely no intelligence or they are willfully distributing this information to further their agenda. The SITE Institute claims it "tracks terrorist activity online for various groups, including the Department of Homeland Security." Charging a whopping $5000 USD per seat per year for their Intel Service ,   SITE is peddling tabloid journalism for profit plain and simple, capitalizing on fueling Western fear by dramatizing so-called security threats that even the novice readily dismissed. MEMRI on the other hand has an even more sinister goal and that is to establish a negative view of Arabs as terrorists to further the cause of Zionism so the fact that they distributed several excerpts of the Final Warning To The American People message is less surprising.
The co-founder and president of  Middle East Media Research Institute and the registered owner of its website is an Israeli called  Yigal Carmon (יגאל כרמון). Colonel Carmon spent 22 years in Israeli military intelligence and later served as a counter-terrorism adviser to two Israeli prime ministers, Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin. More shocking still, its work is subsidized by US taxpayers as an "independent, non-partisan, non-profit" organization that has tax-deductible status under American law. MEMRI’s efforts to promote racism still go unhindered however their credibility as an intelligence news media continues to decline with every spurious caveat like this one they publish.
While these vaporous threats where disregarded for the most part before sinking like a stone and the West can relax over "Rakan Ben Williams", Americans should not rest easily. Both Sheikh Osama Bin Laden and Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahri in their latest statements specifically put America on notice that attacks on US soil were forthcoming unless the Americans abandoned their war on Islam and rest assured, the real Al-Qaeda does not issue empty ultimatums.
Source: Jihad Unspun (JUS)