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9/11 See other 9/11 Articles Title: The DOJ-FBI Have it Both Ways: 'Ain’t Nothing Here, but the Nothing Is Highly Classified & Sensitive' “Our simplicity-loving government-trusting & mainstream media-following majority has half of it right:-It is a conspiracy!” Once upon a time there lived a Saudi Clan in a city called Sarasota in the United States. The clan was visited by Mohamed Atta – the government-designated top hijacking terrorist who according to the government led the largest terrorist event in United States’ history – known as 9/11. The clan’s Sarasota house was visited by this lead hijacking terrorist not once, not twice, but many times. The clan also had visits from two other US government-designated 9/11 hijacking terrorists – Marwan Al-Shehhi, who supposedly crashed United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower, and Ziad Jarrah, who was supposedly at the controls of United Airlines Flight 93 when it crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Are you with me so far? Let’s simplify and sum this up so far for the sake of our simplicity-loving majority: Three 9/11 hijacking terrorists visited a Saudi Family in Sarasota repeatedly before 9/11. About a month before September 11, 2011, after government-confirmed multiple visits by the three 9/11 hijacking terrorists, this Saudi clan hurriedly left their Sarasota home, went to the airport, and left the country – mysteriously and in a hurry. I say hurriedly and mysteriously because: They left behind their fully-furnished luxury house, their three luxury cars, their luxury refrigerator filled with food, their furniture and clothing, and while their luxury swimming pool water was still circulating. They left everything behind and flew to Saudi Arabia-in panic mode. And they never came back. Let me quickly cite mainstream media reports-articles and government confirmation before our simplicity-loving and government-trusting majority categorize this tale as a ‘conspiracy’ and stop reading the remainder. In February 2012 the UK Telegraph reported the following: A Saudi Arabian accused of associating with several of the September 11 hijackers and who disappeared from his home in the United States a few weeks before the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, is in London working for his country’s state oil company. … Security records of cars passing through a checkpoint at the Prestancia gated community indicated that Mr. al-Hijji’s home, 4224 Escondito Circle, had been visited a number of times by Mohamed Atta, the leader of the 19-strong hijack team, who piloted American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre in 2001. The logs also indicated that Marwan Al-Shehhi, who crashed United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower, and Ziad Jarrah, who was at the controls of United Airlines Flight 93 when it crashed in a field in Pennsylvania, had visited the house. All three men had trained to fly at Venice Airport, which is 19 miles from Sarasota. … Abdulaziz al-Hijji and his wife Anoud left three cars at their luxurious home in a gated community in Sarasota, Florida — one of them new — and flew to Saudi Arabia in August 2001. The refrigerator was full of food; furniture and clothing were left behind; and the swimming pool water was still circulating. … You see, the tale I recounted was confirmed and reported by mainstream media outlets like Telegraph UK, Miami Herald, Seattle Times, Tampa Bay Times, and almost all major mainstream outlets-albeit with their usual shallow and never- to-be-truly investigated modus operandi. Here is a report by Seattle Times confirming the FBI’s confirmation and report on this never-truly investigated case: A Saudi family who left their Sarasota, Fla.-area home weeks before 9/11 had “many connections” to “individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001,” according to newly released FBI records. … The records cast new light on one of the remaining unresolved mysteries regarding Florida’s many connections to the 9/11 attacks: What went on before the attacks at the home of Abdulaziz al-Hijji and his family? … I hope having presented the discredited and disgraced US media confirmation of our tale (so far) persuades our government-trusting and simplicity-loving majority to continue reading. Despite all the evidence, all the confirmation and even some media exposure no one in our government ever bothered to truly investigate this case. The little poking around they did- which produced damning evidence, resulted in no ‘real report.’ This significant real-life tale with significant connections to the biggest terror event in the history of the USA never made its way into any of the pseudo investigative government reports-9/11 Commission or Senate-House investigations or reports. The clan continued to live happily after, not in Saudi Arabia but in England: A decade after the world’s worst terrorist attack, which claimed the lives of 3,000 people, Mr. al-Hijji is resident in London, working for the European subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s state oil company. Described as a career counsellor, he is based in the offices of Aramco Overseas Company UK Limited and lives in an expensive flat in central London. … Now back to the US government part of this story. The FBI has played this massive cover-up in their usual way: Putting damning evidence-reports and statements out confirming the case, and simultaneously denying the case and its intimate connections to 9/11, allow me to illustrate: Confirmation- A US counter-terrorist agent told The Daily Telegraph: “The registration numbers of vehicles that had passed through the Prestancia community’s north gate in the months before 9/11, coupled with the identification documents shown by incoming drivers on request, showed that Mohamed Atta and several of his fellow hijackers, and another Saudi suspect still at large, had visited 4224 Escondito Circle.” Denial & Cover up- Mr. al-Hijji’s account is supported by the FBI, which has stated: “At no time did the FBI develop evidence that connected the family members to any of the 9/11 hijackers … and there was no connection found to the 9/11 plot.’’ … Let’s run this again, starting with confirmation: An April 16, 2002, FBI report says “repeated citizen calls” led to an inspection of the home by agents of the Southwest Florida Domestic Security Task Force. “It was discovered that the (family name deleted) left their residence quickly and suddenly. They left behind valuable items, clothing, jewelry and food in a manner that indicated they fled unexpectedly without prior preparation or knowledge,” the report says. “Further investigation of the (name deleted) family revealed many connections between the (name deleted) and individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001.” … A Saudi family who left their Sarasota, Fla.-area home weeks before 9/11 had “many connections” to “individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001,” according to newly released FBI records. … And follow it up with denial: The FBI said Thursday that it had interviewed members of a Saudi Arabian family that left Sarasota shortly before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and found no evidence they were connected to the hijackers or the terror plot. In what he called a statement “to correct the public record,” Steven Ibison, special agent in charge of the Tampa office, took issue with a recent story that claimed the FBI found “troubling ties” between the hijackers and the al-Hijji family, the residents of a home in a gated Sarasota community. … Please be my guest and in your spare time comb through all the FBI reports and statements on this case to date. You are guaranteed to find: tons of evidence and confirmation followed by a few tons of denial. That’s the good ol’ boy FBI for you. Of course no matter the connections of this case to Saudi Arabia, and regardless of the clan’s current resident in our brother-nation the United Kingdom, our State Department has had zero to do with the entire case. As for our disgraced media – even the simplest question has not been asked to date: Why would they, Abdulaziz al-Hijji and his wife, leave a luxury house with all its furniture, three cars, almost all their clothing items and more behind- very hastily?! All this brings me to the latest development in the case which has been completely ignored by the US media: A senior FBI official has told a Fort Lauderdale federal judge that disclosure of certain classified information about Saudis who hurriedly left their Sarasota area home shortly before 9/11 “would reveal current specific targets of the FBI’s national security investigations.” … The government’s latest court filings, thick with veiled references to foreign counterintelligence operations and targets, deepen the mystery about a once- secret FBI investigation of Esam and Deborah Ghazzawi and their tenants, son-in- law and daughter, Abdulaziz and Anoud al-Hijji. The filings by Miami Assistant U.S. Attorney Carole M. Fernandez also seek to justify in the name of national security numerous deletions of information from FBI records about the decade-old investigation that were released recently amid the ongoing litigation. … One thing we must all credit our Department of Justice and the FBI for is this: consistency. In this case, the consistency in having it both ways-confirm and deny. Also the consistency in feeling no shame in engaging in confirmation and denial simultaneously: The FBI later confirmed the existence of the probe, but said it found no evidence connecting the Ghazzawis or the al-Hijjis to the hijackers or the 9/11 plot. … The newly released FBI records contradict the FBI’s public denials. One dated April 4, 2002 says the investigation “revealed many connections” between the Saudis who fled Sarasota and “individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001.” … For months, the FBI claimed it had no responsive documents regarding its Sarasota investigation. But on March 28, Hardy unexpectedly announced the Bureau had located and reviewed 35 pages of records. It released 31 of them. … That is right. The DOJ-FBI confirms the existence of evidence and reports connecting the Sarasota Saudi clan to 9/11, and claims that these reports are extremely sensitive and highly classified. They say ‘there ain’t nothing here,’ and that there were no connections between the Sarasota Saudi clan and 9/11, and at the same time they claim that this “nothing” is highly classified and sensitive. This is another case among hundreds that have been placed in the US Government Black Hole. This is a tale among a dozen others that have been censored and covered up by the United States government. Is this a conspiracy? Put all these cases, including the latest on the Sarasota Saudi Clan, in one place, and can you tell me it isn’t? Our simplicity-loving government-trusting and mainstream media-following majority has half of it right. It is a conspiracy. What they don’t have is the other half: A conspiracy, not one concocted by outside theorists, but a massive one carried out by our very own government. Reprinted with permission from BoilingFrogsPost.com. June 7, 2013 Sibel Edmonds is the founder and president of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC), a nonprofit organization dedicated to aiding national security whistleblowers. She has appeared on national radio and TV as a commentator on matters related to whistleblowers, national security, and excessive secrecy & classification, and has been featured on CBS 60 Minutes, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and in the New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The American Conservative, and others. Her book, Shooting the Messenger, co-authored with Professor William Weaver, is forthcoming from Kansas University Press in the fall of 2010. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
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What a coincidence that George W. Bush was also connected to the Sarasota area -- on the very day of 9/11! Yet, she wrote all that about the Saudi Sarasota connections to 9/11 without ever once noting his visitation there too or mentioning his name at all. Not even the word "president" appears anywhere other than at the end of the article in her bio-section. Except for those glaring omissions and some repetitiveness, it was an interesting approach to reach out to the official story believers with more Saudi conspiracy characters but this is an example of why I'm quite a bit more skeptical than numerous others apparently are about Sibel Edmonds and her motivations. Edited for spacing + sentences 3 and 4. ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
Being that you consistently and predictably bad mouth and attempt to discredit ALL actual researchers and authors who provide factual information related to 9/11 and other such events, I'd have to wonder more about YOUR motivations than those of Sibel Edmonds. [No edits required] Being that you consistently and predictably bad mouth and attempt to discredit ALL actual researchers and authors who provide factual information related to 9/11 and other such events, I'd have to wonder more about YOUR motivations than those of GreyLmist. [I might edit it later] You are a flaming liar. Show me where I've bad mouthed Sibel Edmonds, Steve Jones, Michael Rivero, or any other actual researcher or respected author. That I don't believe Internet commando wannabes such as yourself and fellow "no- planers" who also happen to be the same crew who jump ALL OVER EVERYONE and ANYONE who point out how far fetched and impossible your religiously held beliefs are concerning these matters, doesn't make me what you claim. You should read Classified Woman.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
I don't see any typographical errors there. :) ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
Does she say anything there about G.W. Bush's Sarasota connection like the Saudis? Her 9/11 focus is largely reinforcement of the Hijackers storyline with emphasis on Saudi connections and also the FBI/Intel failures excuse like the Bush admins' used; along with a NATO/GLADIO inside job element rather than the blowback theory. She's not quite the Turkish American that she's often described as. She was born in Iran and lived back and forth between there and Turkey until she was 18 -- about half of that time in each country; maybe 1 year longer in Turkey. Sibel's mother is allegedly Turkish but that's all that I've read of her; father is Azerbaijani -- worked as a doctor in Iran under the Shah + during the Iraq-Iran War. She was a part-time, multi-lingual translator for the FBI (Turkish, Azeri and some Farsi) but was soon fired. Claims she applied for a job there when finishing a psychology major at George Washington University in 1997-1998 and called them to check on her application in January or February of 2001. Says they claimed the application had been misplaced with some others, apologized for the delay, started re-processing it, and called her on 9/14/01 to start working -- a few days after 9/11; then she was fired in May 2002, 6 months later. In the Antiwar interview below she claims that she "was literally thrown out of the building", not even given time to clear her desk. She said later on in the interview that the only Turkish-speaking translator that the FBI still had was incompetent but that it was too risky for him to be fired because he might talk about what he knows so they jeopardize national security instead. Apparently, they weren't very worried about her knowing too much or talking like a whistleblower eventually if they fired her. Much of her standing as an activist was acquired by asserting that she couldn't talk and by presumptions that what she claims is factual but much of it that I've observed is in line with the official spin. Additional reference: An Interview with Sibel Edmonds: FBI Whistleblower Talks to Antiwar.com July 1, 2004 Page One and Page Two | Print the whole interview - Anti War Edited sentences 3-5 of paragraph 2 + paragraph 3 + spacing and Wikipedia link. ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
Sibel Edmonds - Wikipedia; FBI Career excerpt According to Edmonds, she began facing problems when she reported to FBI managers various incidents that she considered misconduct and incompetence involving her supervisor Mike Feghali and others that she says she observed while employed as a translator between December 2001 and March 2002. On 1 February 2011, Edmonds published a story on her own website, adding details of events she described as taking place in April 2001. The account centered around her post-9/11 role as translator of a pre-9/11 interview during which an informant had told the FBI agents: Date conflict there at Wikipedia on her short stint at the FBI. April 2001 would be months before she was even hired. Haven't read her book [Classified Woman] or checked the above referenced story at her website but, even if the April date noted at Wikipedia is a typo which should read: April 2002, there would still be a date conflict regarding that alleged incident of FBI negligence/incompetence/misconduct on the supposed Bin Laden-info translation matter, which she claims to have complained about at the time and as a whistleblower, because she was ousted from the FBI the month before that in March 2002. Edited sentence 3 of last paragraph. ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
Sibel Edmonds 1. Attractive 2. Whistleblower 3. She's still alive 4. Try saying "Sibel Edmonds" ten times. Sounds great. 5. We're friends on Facebook. facebook.com/sibel.edmonds Most of the posts on her wall are links to boilingfrogspost.com Here's a snippet of a glowing review of her book (marketed at classifiedwoman.com) which is penned by Colleen Rowley, Retired FBI Agent & Time Magazine Person of the Year, 2002: Colleen Rowley is called a 9/11 Whistleblower too on the alleged FBI/Intel Failures hoopla. Wikipedia notes, though, that two other women (Sherron Watkins from Enron and Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom) were also named Time Magazine Person of the Year in 2002 as whistleblowers. So, a more correct rendering of the title above for that credential section would be: a Time Magazine Person of the Year, 2002. What is most memorable to me about her but not even mentioned at Wikipedia is that she was moving against 5th Amendment Miranda Rights soon after 9/11. ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
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