[PN] Importance of Translation (5 August 2004)

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* Resources

Complete 911 Timeline [1980-2004, a long list of confirmed facts - Ed.]
Center for Cooperative Research, June 2004
http://cooperativeresearch.org/searchResults.jsp?events=on&dosearch=Updates&project=911_project&periodlastchanged=June+2004

* Periodical articles

[Halle] Berry condemns plastic surgery
"There is this plastic, copycat look evolving and that's frightening 
to me. It's really insane and I feel sad that's what society is doing 
to women."
Staff reporter, iafrica.com, 4 August 2004
http://entertainment.iafrica.com/news/339136.htm

Public Letter to 9/11 Commission Chairman from FBI Whistleblower
"The translation of our intelligence is being entrusted to individuals
with loyalties to our enemies. Important 'chit-chats' and 'chatters' 
are being intentionally blocked. Why did your [9/11 Commission] report
choose to exclude this information and these serious issues despite the
evidence and briefings you received? How can budget increases address
and resolve this misconduct by mid-level bureaucratic management? How 
can the addition of a new bureaucratic layer, "Intelligence Czar", in its cocoon removed from the action lines, address and resolve this
problem?
... After almost three years the American people still do not know that 
thousands of lives can be jeopardized under the unspoken policy of 
'protecting certain foreign business relations' ...
Translation units are the frontline in gathering, translating, and 
disseminating intelligence. A warning in advance of the next terrorist 
attack may, and probably will, come in the form of a message or 
document in foreign language that will have to be translated. 
... That message may come to the attention of an agent of a foreign 
organization who works as a translator in the FBI ... If then an attack 
occurs, which could have been prevented by acting on information in 
that message, who will tell family members of the new terrorist attack 
victims that nothing more could have been done? There will be no 
excuse that we did not know, because we do know."
by Sibel Edmonds, CommonDreams.org, 1 August 2004
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0802-06.htm

Collegially, Steve McCarty
Professor, Osaka Jogakuin College, Japan
Online library: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html
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