Reply #71: Yeah it could all be coincidence (after all 9.11 is littered with them)

[JohnyCanuck]

that it was Abramoff's boat the hijackers picked for a gambling cruise (or a money lauding operation) just days before they allegedly offed themselves and a couple plane loads of passengers,


However, Sibel Edmonds the FBI whistle blower does maintain that the 911 terrorists were protected because of their connections to important political figures in the US who were tied into drug dealing and money laundering operations.

The Village Voice
This Made Ashcroft Gag
Translator keeps blowing 9-11 whistle on FBI; U.S. Keeps shutting her up
by James Ridgeway
May 25th, 2004 12:00 PM

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Sibel Edmonds, the translator, said in an interview Monday with the Voice that the Florida case illustrates the issues and evidence she has been trying to make public for two years. Edmonds claimed to have translated testimony in criminal and counter-intelligence cases involving different FBI field offices, going back into the late 1990s. Much of this involved tracking money, she said.

Among the Farsi translators working for the FBI, she said, it was common knowledge that a longtime, highly regarded FBI "asset" placed in Afghanistan told the agency in April 2001 that he had information from his contacts there that bin Laden was planning a major attack, involving the use of planes, in one or another of big American cities—Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York among them. The agents who took down the information from the spy wrote up reports and sent them to their superiors. That was the last the agents heard of the matter.

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She said, however, that "there are a lot of activities in the U.S. A lot of money . . . and these activities involve money laundering, drugs, a support network for terrorism . . . people in high places . . . (people) in the political arena."

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Edmonds can't tell what she may know because Attorney General John Ashcroft recently invoked an arcane law to make her statements "classified"—including previously public statements and journalism quoting her on the case.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0421,mondo1,53783,6.html

I wonder just what money laundering activities and "people in high places" Ashcroft was so anxious to keep under wraps that he had Edmonds slapped with a gag order. Whoever it was, seems they must have had some pretty powerful connections at any rate.

Letter to Thomas Kean from Sibel Edmonds

.. To this date the public has not been told of intentional blocking of intelligence..This was the case prior to 9/11, and remains in effect after 9/11. If Counterintelligence receives information that contains money laundering, illegal arms sale, and illegal drug activities, directly linked to terrorist activities; and if that information involves certain nations, certain semi-legit organizations, and ties to certain lucrative or political relations in this country (emphasis mine /jc), then, that information is not shared with Counterterrorism, regardless of the possible severe consequences.


http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/1/1955/10277

If -- and based on the current state of evidence, we must stress the word "if" -- if further evidence links Mohammed Atta to G.O.P.-friendly shady operators, then many lingering questions may find an answer. Among those questions: Why was the ABLE DANGER team told to steer clear of Atta?

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001680.htm