Monterey Language Institute

From 9/11 Encyclopedia:

The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, founded in 1946 as the Military Intelligence Service Language School, provides foreign language services to Department of Defense, government agencies and foreign governments. This U. S. government school used to train the military in languages, including Bin Laden's dialect, Urdu. Source: washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/graphics/attack/hijackers.html

Monterey combines more than only one smoking gun regarding the September 11th attack: Due to some sources, Monterey Language Institute was on high alert on September 10th, 2001. Early reports circulated around September 2001 and later had been picked up by copvcia.com and CentrexNews. centrexnews.com/columnists/skousen/2001/1012.html

Profile: Colonel William M. Dietrick is Commander Defense Language Institute in Garrison, Monterey Monterey Institute of International Studies: Ibrahim Marashi is a Research Associate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. His research focuses on the diffusion of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and missile technologies in the Middle East, particularly Iraq and Iran. Prior to joining CNS, Marashi worked with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University on a project classifying captured Iraqi state documents. He was a researcher on Iran-Iraq affairs at the US State Department, Congressional Research Service, and National Defense University. The Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) of the Monterey Institute of International Studies is the world's largest non-governmental organization devoted to combating the spread of weapons of mass destruction. With a full-time staff of more than 50 specialists located in Monterey, Washington DC, and Almaty, Kazakhstan, the Center's five research programs examine all aspects of nonproliferation, publish online databases, and train graduate students.

At least two of the three Bin Laden Video  translators, Ali al-Ahmed, Dr. Kassem M. Wahba (Johns Hopkins University ->) and George Michael (Diplomatic Language Services), had been organised by Monterey and their translation was released on their website at lib.sfu.ca/kiosk/ Another name of a fourth translator was classified.

On the website of the Diplomatic Language Institute one can find out, that most of their clients are members of the US Government personnel. They are able to learn 30 languages there, incl. Bin Laden's dialect Urdu. http://www.dls-inc.com/

The language institute is led by Andrew G. Ratliff, who took on December 28th, 1998 navigator lessons as a pilot at Randolph Air Base in Texas. afpc.randolph.af.mil/pahistory/release/

In another bizarre twist, the third translator, Ali al-Ahmed was already involved in the early investigations of the FBI. Ali ah-Ahmed is director of the Saudi Institute, an independent human rights watchdog group, that has researched the hijackers' identities. Ali ah-Ahmed said, Abdulaziz Alomari, who was identified by the FBI as one of the hijackers who crashed into the World Trade Centre, "used someone else's passport". 
Source: news.com.au/common

More disturbing, at least one of the official hijackers Saeed Alghamdi may have been a student at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. Source: pressconnects.com/archive/attack/stories/091701N1.html

As reported, the same Saeed Alghamdi trained at a school operated by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (->). Source: washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/graphics/attack/hijackers.html

Other reports mention Mohammad Atta and Abdulaziz al-Omarim at Monterey.
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In June 2001, Colonel Steve Butler of the Monterey Language Institute wrote a public letter, in which he affirmed that President Bush did nothing to warn the American people because he "needed this war on terrorism". Butlers military assignment brought him into contact with at least one of the alleged hijackers. Butler was a leading officer overseeing students. It can be assumed, that he may well know considerably more than he is saying about US military-intelligence apparatus involvement in the September 11 events.

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