Have you Heard of Sibel Edmunds?

Up until yesterday, I didn’t know who she was, but her name is buzzing on the net recently because of her allegations and the US government’s continued attempts to silence her. Sibel Edmonds is a former FBI translator and founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition. She has received awards for her defense of free speech, including the Sam Adams Award in 2004 and the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award in 2006. Recently, Google and Blogger have shut down her blog, as she describes: “My Blog Site http://123realchange.blogspot.com is now blocked by Google’s Blogger. They will not let me post during this most sensitive period, when I am about to provide deposition on Foreign US government illegal operations in the United States!”

What types of illegal operations does she wish to address? As a Turkish-American FBI translator, she was exposed to a lot of classified information regarding the Middle East. She claims that she saw documents describing how Osama Bin Laden was planning attacks on 4-5 US cities with planes. These reports, that the FBI received in April 2001, from a reliable Iranian intelligence asset, described how some of the people were already in the country and the attacks would happen in a few months. She submitted this information to the official 9-11 investigation committee, but, as we know, this and any other information contrary to the hypothetical surprize attack story was kept out of the report.



According to Prison Planet, "On July 31, Edmonds told the Mike Malloy Show the U.S. government had “intimate relations” with Osama bin Laden right up to the day of the attacks in New York on September 11, 2001. “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,” reported the Brad Blog."

People often say “If 9-11 was a cover-up surely some insiders would confess.” What most people don’t realize is that the government’s standard procedure is to issue a gag order saying this information is “a breach of national security,” which in many cases, it seems, is just a self defense mechanism against criminal exposure. Such is the case with Sibel Edmunds. But she refuses to submit to the gag order and desires to expose the truth for what it is. The name Sibel means female prophet, and she does have the characteristics of a brave speaker of truth. For more information on her, this article seems pretty thorough. And there’s a video interview at this site if you’re into videos.

If she does have the opportunity to present her evidence in court, it could be the last straw against the government's attempts at damage control and could open up a more serious investigation. Up until yesterday, I didn’t know who she was, but there's a firestorm on the net recently because of her bombshell allegations and the US government’s continued attempts to silence her. Sibel Edmonds is a former FBI translator and founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition. She has received awards for her defense of free speech, including the Sam Adams Award in 2004 and the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award in 2006. Recently, Google and Blogger have shut down her blog, as she describes: “My Blog Site http://123realchange.blogspot.com is now blocked by Google’s Blogger. They will not let me post during this most sensitive period, when I am about to provide deposition on Foreign US government illegal operations in the United States!” What types of illegal operations does she wish to address? As a Turkish-American FBI translator, she was exposed to a lot of classified information regarding the Middle East. She claims that she saw documents with her own eyes describing how Osama Bin Laden was planning attacks on 4-5 US cities with planes. These reports, that the FBI received in April 2001, from a reliable Iranian intelligence asset, described how some of the people were already in the country and the attacks would happen in a few months. She submitted this information to the official 9-11 investigation committee, but, as we know, this and any other information contrary to the hypothetical surprize attack story was kept out of the report.

According to Prison Planet, "On July 31, Edmonds told the Mike Malloy Show the U.S. government had “intimate relations” with Osama bin Laden right up to the day of the attacks in New York on September 11, 2001. “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,” reported the Brad Blog."
People often say “If 9-11 was a cover-up surely some insiders would confess.” What most people don’t realize is that the government’s standard procedure is to issue a gag order, or worse, saying this information is “a breach of national security,” which in many cases, it seems, is just a self defense mechanism against criminal exposure. Kurt Sonnenfeld, an official videographer at the post 9-11 site, has been charged with false allegations and has been living in exile after he simply desired to show what his videos contained to the public. The name Sibel means female prophet, and she does seem to have the characteristics of a Biblical prophet, someone ordained to speak truth at any cost. For more information on her, this article seems pretty thorough. And there’s a video interview at this site if you’re into videos.

If she does have the opportunity to present her evidence in court, it could be the last straw against the government's attempts at damage control and could open up a more serious investigation. Do you believe she is a good example of one fighting for truth and free speech or do you believe people should just passively submit to government censorship, forget about past crimes and move on? Though she's an award winning activist with an important story, why is there so little coverage of her in the mainstrean media regarding her important revelations?
(In their November 1, 2009 issue, the American Conservative published a bombshell article on Edmonds, whom the Civil Liberties Union has called "The most gagged person in US history.")
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