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Rita Katz

The word “jihad” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2010. Today the opening carries none. 20 remain further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.
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The opening as it read in 2010

Rita Katz (born 1963, in Basra , Iraq ) is a terrorism analyst and the co-founder of the Search for International Terrorist Entities Institute ( SITE Institute ), a private intelligence firm based in Washington, DC .1 The Institute tracks global terrorist networks, and intercepts and distributes secret messages, videos, and advance warnings of suicide bombings from terrorist groups' communications networks. "Q-A: The Terrorist Hunter Speaks; An amazing story of an Iraqi Jew at the heart of dismantling terrorism" . "Keeping an Eye on Al Qaeda: Rita Katz surfs jihadi websites for indications of terrorist activity" . "Bin Laden, Brought to You by ..." The Washington Post. pp.

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Today
“jihad” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 20. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is

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Then

terrorism analyst and the co-founder of the search for international terrorist entities institute

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terrorism analyst and the co-founder of the search international terrorist entities

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