- If a new article just published Saturday in the Times
of London based upon information provided by US government whistleblower
Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the
FBI, is correct, we have not only solid evidence of prior knowledge of
9-11 by high up US government officials, but evidence of treasonous activity
by many of those same officials involving efforts to provide US nuclear
secrets to America's enemies, even including Al Qaeda.
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- The story also casts a chilling light on the so-called
"accidental" flight of six nuclear-armed cruise missiles aboard
an errant B-52 that flew last Aug. 30 from Minot AFB in North Dakota to
Barksdale AFB in Shreveport, Louisiana.
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- The Sunday Times reports that Edmonds, whose whistleblowing
efforts have been studiously ignored by what passes for the news media
in American news media, approached the Rupert Murdoch-owned British paper
a month ago after reading a report there that an Al-Qaeda leader had been
training some of the 9-11 hijackers at a base in Turkey, a US NATO alley,
under the noses of the Turkish military.
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- Edmonds, who was recruited by the FBI after 9-11 because
of her Turkish and Farsi language skills, has long been claiming that in
her FBI job of covertly monitoring conversations between Turkish, Israeli,
Persian and other foreign agents and US contacts, including a backlog of
untranslated tapes dating back to 1997, she had heard evidence of "money
laundering, drug imports and attempts to acquire nuclear and conventional
weapons technology." But the Turkish training for 9-11 rang more alarm
bells and made her decide that talking behind closed doors to Congress
or the FBI was not enough. She had to go public.
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- Edmonds claims in the Times that even as she was providing
evidence of moles within the US State Department, the Pentagon, and the
nuclear weapons establishment, who were providing nuclear secrets for cash,
through Turkey, to Pakistan's intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence,
or ISI, agencies within the Bush administration were actively working to
block investigation and to shield those who were committing the acts of
treason.
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- Pakistan's ISI is known to have had, and to still maintain
close contacts with Al-Qaeda. Indeed, the Times notes that Pakistan's nuclear
god-father, General Mahmoud Ahmad, was accused of sanctioning a $100,000
wire payment to Mohammed Atta, one of the 9/11 hijackers, immediately before
the attacks.
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- Edmonds claims, in the Times article, that following
the 9-11 attacks, FBI investigators took a number of Turkish and Pakistani
operatives into custody for questioning about foreknowledge of the attacks,
but that a high-ranking US State Department official repeatedly acted to
spirit them out of the country.
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- Edmonds was fired from her FBI translating job in 2002
after she accused a colleague of having illicit contact with Turkish officials.
She has claimed that she was fired for being outspoken, and in 2005 her
position was reportedly vindicated by the Office of Inspector General of
the FBI, which concluded that she had been sacked for making valid complaints.
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- One of those whom Edmonds claims in the Times report
was being investigated in connection with the nuclear information transfers
was Pentagon analyst Lawrence Franklin. Franklin was convicted and jailed
in 2006 for passing US defense information to American Israel Public Affairs
Committee lobbyists and sharing classified information with an Israeli
diplomat. Franklin, in 2001, was part of the Pentagon Office of Special
Plans, a kind of shadow intelligence unit set up by the Bush administration
inside the Pentagon whose job it was to gin up "evidence" to
justify a war against Iraq. In that capacity, he (along with several other
OSP members and arch neocon schemer Michael Ledeen) was also identified
by Italian investigative journalists working for the newspaper La Republican,
as having been at a crucial meeting in December 2001 in Rome with the Italian
defense and intelligence service ministers. La Republicca reports that
at that meeting a plan was hatched to fob off forged Niger embassy documents
as evidence that Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein was trying to buy uranium
ore from Niger.
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- If Edmonds' story is correct, and Al-Qaeda, with the
aid of Turkish government agents and Pakistani intelligence, and with the
help of US government officials, has been attempting to obtain nuclear
materials and nuclear information from the U.S., it casts an even darker
shadow over the mysterious and still unexplained incident last August 30,
when a B-52 Stratofortress, based at the Minot strategic air base in Minot,
ND, against all rules and regulations of 40 years' standing, loaded and
flew off with six unrecorded and unaccounted for nuclear-tipped cruise
missiles.
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- That incident only came to public attention because three
as yet unidentified Air Force whistleblowers contacted a reporter at the
Military Times newspaper, which ran a series of stories about it, some
of which were picked up by other US news organizations.
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- An Air Force investigation into that incident, ordered
by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, claimed improbably that the whole thing
had been an "accident," but many veterans of the US Air Force
and Navy with experience in handling nuclear weapons say that such an explanation
is impossible, and argue that there had to have been a chain or orders
from above the level of the base commander for such a flight to have occurred.
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- Incredibly, almost five months after that bizarre incident
(which included several as yet unexplained deaths of B-52 pilots and base
personnel occurring in the weeks shortly before and after the flight),
in which six 150-kiloton warheads went missing for 36 hours, there has
been no Congressional investigation and no FBI investigation into what
happened.
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- Yet in view of Edmonds' story to the London Times, alleging
that there has been an ongoing, active effort for some years by both Al
Qaeda and by agents of two US allies, Turkey and Pakistan, to get US nuclear
weapons secrets and even weapons, and that there are treasonous moles at
work within the American government and nuclear bureaucracy aiding and
abetting those efforts, surely at a minimum, a major public inquiry is
called for.
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- Meanwhile, there is enough in just this one London Times
story to keep an army of investigative reporters busy for years. So why,
one has to ask, is this story appearing in a highly respected British newspaper,
but not anywhere in the corporate US media?
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