Sibel on 9/11: Here's what we know

lukery (here and here) has compiled in one place what we know about what Sibel Edmonds knows about 9/11. I will here give a few oversized chunks; you are encouraged to read the original.

In April 2001, a respected, long-term informant gave an interview to two FBI agents. The details of the interview are documented internally within the FBI (on so-called "302 forms"), and have been confirmed and reported in various respectable media outlets such as the Chicago Tribune.

Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, who has apparently seen the transcript of the interview, testified to the 911 Commission for more than 3 hours. When the 911 Commission report was released, Sibel was furious that significant, relevant information that she had provided had been excluded from the report, and she decided to share some of the details in an open letter to the Commission.

In the letter, among other things, she outlined some of the information that was provided by the informant in the April 2001 interview:

Through his contacts in Afghanistan, he received information that:

1) Osama bin Laden was planning a major terrorist attack in the United States targeting four or five major cities;
2) the attack was going to involve airplanes;
3) some of the individuals in charge of carrying out this attack were already in place in the United States;
4) the attack was going to be carried out soon, in a few months.

Was this info the basis of the now-infamous August 6 Presidential Daily Brief? Apparently not. That data seems to have come from elsewhere, perhaps from France's "man inside."

Both the American media and the 911 Commission have stubbornly refused to look into this story:

On April 14 in the Village Voice, James Ridgeway wrote:

"Despite the best efforts of the Jersey Girls, leaders of the 9-11 Family Steering Committee, no member of the 9-11 commission this afternoon asked FBI chief Robert Mueller embarrassing questions about two former FBI translators who claim to have knowledge bearing on the attacks. One of them says she is being suppressed and can't talk because Attorney general John Ashcroft has placed a gag order on her."

Did the CIA get the info in a timely fashion? No.

[Michael] Scheuer was the head of the Bin Laden unit, Alec Station, at the CIA. Scott asked Scheuer about the pre-911 warning that Sibel speaks of - and Scheuer said that he'd never heard of it...

The FBI-CIA rivalry is ancient. Still, I cannot see how the Bureau would get such data before the Agency, and no one can understand why the FBI would sit on it.

A commenter on lukery's site asks some darn good questions regarding terrorists al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar, whose presence within the U.S. was known, and even after they had attended the Malaysian terror summit:

Why didn't the CIA put them on no fly lists? Why didn't the FBI put them on no fly lists? The INS? Remember, these officials (like Scheuer and Clarke and Tenet) have told us that al Qaeda were the most dangerous terrorists on planet Earth and in the summer of '01 the system was blinking red.

Follow this trail, and you will see why the right has secretly funded what I call the "tranny" movement -- which was designed to place all non-official views of 9/11 behind what we may call a "laughter curtain." There are a lot of Joe Sixpacks and Mary Sixpacks out there who have never heard of Sibel Edmonds -- but they have heard nonsense about controlled demolitions and missiles striking the Pentagon. That situation did not occur by accident. Not for the first time in American history, the conspiracy theorists are the conspirators.