Relevant to 911 [context at 55:00]:

> AMY GOODMAN: And then what happened? I think it might have—our feed to Istanbul, Turkey, might have frozen, but let’s see if he came back. Sami, you left us by saying then you got a call where you were supposed to invite everyone to Washington for an important announcement.

> SAMI AL-ARIAN: Right. And I did invite everybody, and I briefed them, and I told them that there will be an announcement, an important announcement, against the use of secret evidence by Bush that afternoon. And everybody was in town. Unfortunately, it was on 9/11. It was 3:00 on 9/11. So that meeting never happened. But everybody was asking, "How come all these Arab and Muslim leaders were in Washington, even though the airspace was closed for several days?" And the reason they were behind Bush when he visited a mosque and when he went to the National Cathedral is because they were already there. They were going to meet with him for that announcement.

> AMY GOODMAN: Wow!