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cdw
02-15-2004, 11:12 AM
can this be true? (http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12138)

She knew the dessert is customarily served in the Middle East at weddings, births and other celebrations, and asked what the happy occasion was. To her shock, she was told the Arab linguists were celebrating the terrorist attacks on America, as if they were some joyous event. Right in front of her supervisor, one translator cheered: She found out later that it was her supervisor's wife who helped organize the office party there at the bureau's Washington field office, just four blocks from the J. Edgar Hoover Building. "If there were, and are, persons within the language department that either intentionally prevented translation because of their agendas, or persons who were, and are, not qualified to properly translate, it is likely that terrorist communications prior to 9-11 were missed; and it is likely that current and future terrorist communications will likewise be missed," Edmonds wrote Justice's Inspector General Glenn A. Fine in a Jan. 5 letter. "I have alleged, and the FBI has confirmed (to Senate investigators), that there are in fact such persons in the language department." Fine still has not released the findings of his internal probe, even though Edmonds first filed her complaint with his office almost two years ago. Speaking for Fine, Justice official Carol Ochoa said the investigation is "still ongoing."

She alleges she was told to slow down and work was sabatoged so more money would be funnelled into the department. Her boss has since been promoted, according to her after he threatened to sue them for discrimination.

What could possibly take so long to confirm or show her allegations to be false?

Coot
02-15-2004, 01:13 PM
Cyd, I have no idea whether this is true or not, but the source is suspect. The slant is very obvious when you look at the following...taken in context:

Feghali, who holds several foreign language degrees, has been an FBI language specialist for several years. He was a key translator in the government's case against al-Qaida operatives charged in the U.S. embassy bombing in Kenya, and even testified in court.

Sources say he is planning to move back to Lebanon.

A key player in the 9-11 plot and the likely pilot of United Airlines Flight 93, the suicide plane that crashed apparently en route to the U.S. Capitol, was Ziad Samir Jarrah, a Lebanese.

cdw
07-29-2004, 08:11 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/29/politics/29fbi.final.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1091142284-/WYjkEOFrO4ZfDUWb8yF0Q

Seems the case is not dying... and they are revisiting it. As they go, they are classifying things...

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