September 11 Commission Report - Gnostic Liberation Front

airliners, and about how the operatives knew nothing of the plan until the last minute.
With Osama directly implicating himself and Mohammed Atta, how does that fit with
this analysis?
The answer to this question is a lot easier to establish than some of the other questions
presented by this investigation. There are a number of observations found in the foreign
press that need to be brought into play, to make four arguments:
1. The videotape “proof” presented by the US Justice Department is a doctored tape.
"Whether or not the voice was his can be debatable. The Arabic-speaking contact of Pravda.Ru in
Lisbon pointed out that anyone could have dubbed on the voices because there are no close-ups of
the lips of the people while speaking. What he could hear was a lot of mumbling and during the
mumbling, the supposed translation comes up with some incriminating phrases." [Timothy
Bancrofy-Hinche, Pravda.Ru]
"Prof. Gernot Rotter, professor of Islamic and Arabic Studies at the Asia-Africa Institute at the
University of Hamburg sums it up: "The American translators who listened to the tapes and
transcribed them apparently wrote a lot of things in that they wanted to hear but that cannot be
heard on the tape no matter how many times you listen to it." [German TV channel "Das Erste",
on the show Monitor, 12/20/2001]
"Arabist Dr. Abdel El M. Husseini, one of the translators, states, "I have carefully examined the
Pentagon's translation. This translation is very problematic. At the most important places where it
is held to prove the guilt of Bin Laden, it is not identical with the Arabic." [German TV channel
"Das Erste", on the show Monitor, 12/20/2001]
If for some reason, someone would not want to believe the US Government would do
such things, they should talk to Sibel Edmonds, a translator for the FBI, who claimed,
before being legally silenced by the US Attorney General, that her work was distorted:
"FBI translator Sibel Edmonds was offered a substantial raise and a full time job to encourage her
not to go public that she had been asked by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to retranslate and
adjust the translations of [terrorist] subject intercepts that had been received before September 11,
2001 by the FBI and CIA. Edmonds, a ten year U.S. citizen who has passed a polygraph
examination, speaks fluent Farsi and Turkish and had been working part time with the FBI for six
months--commencing in December, 2001.
"In a 50 reporter frenzy in front of some 12 news cameras, Edmonds said "Attorney General John
Ashcroft told me 'he was invoking State Secret Privilege and National Security' when I told the
FBI I wanted to go public with what I had translated from the pre 9-11 intercepts."
“I appeared once on CBS 60 Minutes but I have been silenced by Mr. Ashcroft, the FBI follows
me, and I was threatened with jail in 2002 if I went public," Edmonds told tomflocco.com.[DOJ
Asked FBI Translator To Change Pre 9-11 Intercepts, by Tom Flocco, 3/24/2004]
To reinforce her story, consider the following report in the Washington Post of a
former CIA agent, suing in US court, that he was forced to distort information about
weapons of mass destruction, and was punished for not complying with the
command.
"WASHINGTON — A senior CIA operative who handled sensitive informants in Iraq asserts that
CIA managers asked him to falsify his reporting on weapons of mass destruction and retaliated
against him after he refused. The operative, who remains under cover, claims in a lawsuit made
public yesterday that a co-worker warned him in 2001 "that CIA management planned to 'get him'
for his role in reporting intelligence contrary to official CIA dogma." ….(The context of the
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