Independent New$ - FYI

April 2, 2004

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FYI

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> From: "Mark Esper" <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri Apr 2, 2004 10:07:06 PM US/Eastern
> To: "Mark Esper" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Independent News.htm
>
> Here is a bit of news that American media so far has not picked up on.
> It will. The source is a conservative British newspaper.
> Mark Esper
>

> 'I saw papers that show US knew al-Qa'ida would attack cities with
> aeroplanes'
>
> Whistleblower the White House wants to silence speaks to The
> Independent
>
> By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
>
> 02 April 2004
>
> A former translator for the FBI with top-secret security clearance
> says she has provided information to the panel investigating the 11
> September attacks which proves senior officials knew of al-Qa'ida's
> plans to attack the US with aircraft months before the strikes
> happened.
>
> She said the claim by the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice,
> that there was no such information was "an outrageous lie".
>
> Sibel Edmonds said she spent more than three hours in a closed session
> with the commission's investigators providing information that was
> circulating within the FBI in the spring and summer of 2001 suggesting
> that an attack using aircraft was just months away and the terrorists
> were in place. The Bush administration, meanwhile, has sought to
> silence her and has obtained a gagging order from a court by citing
> the rarely used "state secrets privilege".
>
> She told The Independent yesterday: "I gave [the commission] details
> of specific investigation files, the specific dates, specific target
> information, specific managers in charge of the investigation. I gave
> them everything so that they could go back and follow up. This is not
> hearsay. These are things that are documented. These things can be
> established very easily."
>
> She added: "There was general information about the time-frame, about
> methods to be used