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New book claims 9/11 hijackers spoke Balochi
Not sure what to make of this, maybe the hijackers picked up some Baluchi when they were in South Western Afghanistan and used it as a code language. At the end is an excerpt from the book with a strange claim by former CIA operative Bob Baer. Hat tip Bharat RakshakSome of the 9/11 hijackers are said to have spoken in Balochi in the run-up to that tragedy that grabbed world headlines in 2001. According to Parick Keefe, the author of a new book on how the United States intercepts electronic communications worldwide, terrorists whose conversations are picked up by the National Security Agency, the most secret of American spying establishments, often use slang, obscure references and sometimes speak languages such as Balochi, a language shared by the 9/11 hijackers. Keefe, according to the Daily Times, believes that no one at the National Security Agency speaks Balochi. The world's chatter, as such intercepts are known in the spying trade, has grown so dramatically as to overwhelm the capabilities of the eavesdroppers. Keefe says it is not humanly possible for the millions of intercepts the US makes to be deciphered and interpreted. Bob Baer told me, "You've got to have the linguists. Look at the guys who brought down the World Trade Center. They were all Baluch. Christ, I don't know anyone who speaks Baluch. " (Baluchi is an Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken by the Baluch people, of whom there are only an estimated 100,000 in the world, mostly in Pakistan.). "The fact is that [Mohammad] Atta and his cousin were both Baluch and who knows who else they had in a support network working out of Karachi." Baer continued. "And NSA barely had any Dari speakers."(Dari is the Afghan dialect of Farsi.) ."I think they just had one when the war started in October. So I can't imagine they trained any Baluch speakers." Posted by: Paul Moloney 2005-04-19 |
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