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Work of fiction? What is this work of fiction that you speak of?
Are you suggesting that FBI translator Sibel Edmonds interview never took place on the Mike Malloy radio show, if so please show evidence that this is the work of fiction?
Are you suggestion that Sibel Edmond is not telling the truth, if so please show credible evidence that this is all work of fiction?
I see this myth all the time on ATS, “Bin Laden worked for the CIA up until 2001”. I am getting fed up of it and I have a few weeks of holiday coming up so I think I am going to write a thread debunking that little myth.
Are you suggesting that FBI translator Sibel Edmonds interview never took place on the Mike Malloy radio show, if so please show evidence that this is the work of fiction?
In the interview, Sibel says that the US maintained 'intimate relations' with Bin Laden, and the Taliban, "all the way until that day of September 11.
" These 'intimate relations' included using Bin Laden for 'operations' in Central Asia, including Xinjiang, China. These 'operations' involved using al Qaeda and the Taliban in the same manner "as we did during the Afghan and Soviet conflict," that is, fighting 'enemies' via proxies.
Are you suggesting that FBI translator Sibel Edmonds interview never took place on the Mike Malloy radio show, if so please show evidence that this is the work of fiction?
Bin Laden was never a CIA asset
No I am suggesting that the “information” she has divulged in this interview is a work of fiction.
During the 1990’s Bin Laden was involved in the bombing of the USS Cole in 1996
some would also argue he had some involvement in the 1993 trade canter bombing and fighting in Somalia however at all time America has been the ultimate target as he set out in his 1996 Fatwa.
The idea therefore that the Al’Qa’ida network was in fact a proxy army for America to attack other states is unfounded as the only state they attacked was the USA. Also the Taliban and Al’Qa’ida never existed during the conflict with the Soviets.
Conveniently most media chooses to forget the fact that Al Qaeda to the extent it ever existed, was a creation in the 1980's of the CIA, who recruited and trained radical muslims from across the Islamic world to wage war against Russian troops in Afghanistan as part of a strategy developed by Reagan's CIA head Bill Casey and others to create a "new Vietnam" for the Soviet Union which would lead to a humiliating defeat for the Red Army and the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union.
Now US NSC head Jones admits there is essentially no Al Qaeda anymore in Afghanistan. Perhaps it is time for a more honest debate from our political leaders about the true purpose of sending more young to die protecting the opium harvests of Afghanistan.
F. William Engdahl is author of Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order. He may be reached via his website at www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net...
Your source is either lying or misinformed
The only target Al’Qa’ida went for during the 1990’s was American and the Taliban never operated outside of Afghanistan so your sources claim is just wrong. There is no evidence other than her claims to give credibility to the suggestion that the Taliban and Al’Qa’ida were in reality a proxy army run by America to conduct operations in central Asia. In other words, her claim is made up it is fiction, a basic knowledge of history is all the evidence one needs to recognise the fallacy in this claim.
Edmonds put her concerns about the FBI's language department in writing to her immediate superiors and to a top official at the FBI. For months, she said she received no response. Then, she turned for help to the Justice Department's inspector general and to Sen. Charles Grassley, whose committee, the Judiciary Committee, has direct oversight of the FBI.
“She's credible,” says Grassley. “And the reason I feel she's very credible is because people within the FBI have corroborated a lot of her story.”
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Does the Sibel Edmonds case fall into any pattern of behavior, pattern of conduct, on the part of the FBI?
“The usual pattern,” says Grassley. “Let me tell you, first of all, the embarrassing information comes out, the FBI reaction is to sweep it under the rug, and then eventually they shoot the messenger.”
Special agent John Roberts, recently retired as a chief of the FBI's Internal Affairs Department, agrees. And while he is not permitted to discuss the Edmonds case, for the last 10 years, he has been investigating misconduct by FBI employees. He says he is outraged by how little is ever done about it.
“I don't know of another person in the FBI who has done the internal investigations that I have and has seen what I have, and that knows what has occurred and what has been glossed over and what has, frankly, just disappeared, just vaporized, and no one disciplined for it,” says Roberts.
Despite a pledge from FBI Director Robert Mueller to overhaul the culture of the FBI in light of 9/11, and encourage bureau employees to come forward to report wrongdoing, Roberts says that in the rare instances when employees are disciplined, it's usually low-level employees like Edmonds who get punished and not their bosses.
“I think the double standard of discipline will continue no matter who comes in, no matter who tries to change,” says Roberts. “You, you have a certain, certain group that, that will continue to protect itself. That's just how it is.”
Has he found cases since Sept. 11 where people were involved in misconduct and were not, let alone reprimanded, but were even promoted? Roberts says yes.
"That's astonishing," Bradley told Roberts. "You would think that after 9/11, that's a big slap in the face. 'This is a wake-up call here.'"
"Depends on who you are," says Roberts. "If you're in the senior executive level, it may not hurt you. You will be promoted."
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Last month, the FBI took the highly unusual step of retroactively classifying information it gave to Congress two years ago about the Sibel Edmonds case.
As for the FBI's language division, the bureau says it has dramatically beefed up its translation capabilities.
Newly Released FBI Documents Support Explosive Claims by Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds
Boiling Frogs - 17 March 2010
Recently released FBI documents prove the existence of highly sensitive National Security and criminal investigations of “Turkish Activities” in Chicago prior to September 11, 2001. These documents add further support to many of the allegations that former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds has claimed, in public and in Congress, since 2002. The documents were released under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request into an organization called the Turkish American Cultural Alliance (TACA), an organization repeatedly named by Ms. Edmonds as being complicit in the crimes that she became aware of when she was a translator at the FBI.
The documents released under FOIA are almost completely redacted, but they do support many of Edmonds’ claims, including:
There were a number of very serious FBI investigations into “Turkish activity in Chicago” involving a number of targets, including TACA
These investigations were related to “National Security” among other things.
These investigations were regarded as so sensitive that no files were to be uploaded to FBI’s computer system.
Congressional corruption was involved.
The FBI repeatedly conducted actual “physical surveillance” against Turkish and American targets.
Some of these investigations were shut down in 2001.
Who Is Sibel Edmonds? With Introduction By 9/11 Family Member Lorie Van Auken
People on ATS really need to learn how to cast a critical eye over their sources before they declear they have found the smoking gun.
This woman is clearly just feeding your ignorance in accepting this you can deny ignorance and that is what we are here for.
There is no shame in admitting you now realise she may have been misinformed.
PS: I do intend to publish a full thread in the coming weeks proving that Bin Laden was never a CIA asset, I will happily send you a U2U with a link to it when it is complete.