Reply #23: Good point

[paulthompson]

I can't say I know what things like this mean. However, if I were a guessing man, I would guess blueprints had been sent long before and this was some kind of last minute clarification. If you read 1000 Years of Revenge by Peter Lance, he discovered a guy, I think his name was Refai, who worked in some New York City government job all through the 1990s (I forget his exact job) and had access to all kinds of blueprints and other things. In fact, if I recall correctly, at one point he got accused of stealing stuff like that. At the same time, he was a radical militant type, and Lance even found pictures of him as one of the handlers for Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the "blind sheikh" who was an al-Qaeda leader and key figure in the first WTC bombing. Security in the US was generally so poor prior to 9/11 (and probably still lousy now) that I imagine most any organized group, be it al-Qaeda, or some intelligence agency, or whatever, could get their hands on skyscraper blueprints if they really wanted them. Why, just last night I read an article on how the headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security even isn't secure. So I don't find this kind of thing surprising.

I think the most interesting thing about Sibel Edmonds' blueprint story is the deliberate lying, mistranslation, and coverup to the FBI agent who wanted the information about it.