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FBI Translator: U.S. Knew 9/11 Attack Was Coming

HeadlineApr 02, 2004

And an update from earlier this week. On Wednesday Democracy Now! interviewed Sibel Edmonds who was hired by the FBI after Sept. 11 to work as a translator. After receiving top security clearances, the Turkish-American translator was given intelligence gathered over the previous year related to Al Qaeda. Based on the documents she saw, Edmonds charges the FBI knew that Al Qaeda was planning to attack the U.S. with airplanes. The story is now making headlines around the world. The London Independent leads with the story on its front page today. UPI ran a major article on Thursday. The story is prominently featured on top websites including the Drudge Report. In case you missed Democracy Now!'s interview on Wednesday we wanted to replay an excerpt with Sibel Edmonds, the whistleblower the White House wants to silence. I asked her to comment on Condoleezza Rice's charge that the government had no information about an imminent domestic threat involving airplanes.

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