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Why Did CIA Director Petraeus Suddenly Resign … And Why Was the U.S. Ambassador to Libya Murdered?
The Deeper Questions Behind the Ambassador’s Murder … and the CIA Boss’ Sudden Resignation
While the GOP is attacking (and Dems defending) the Obama administration in connection with the murder of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, there is a deeper story.
Sure, it is stunning that the State Department never requested backup or that people such as Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer allege that President Obama personally watched in real time the attacks as they occurred via video feeds from drones flying over the Benghazi consulate.
But these claims only can be assessed – and the whole confusing mess only makes sense – if the deeper underlying story is first exposed.
Many Syrian Terrorists Come from Libya
The U.S. supported opposition which overthrew Libya’s Gadaffi was largely comprised of Al Qaeda terrorists.
According to a 2007 report by West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center’s center, the Libyan city of Benghazi was one of Al Qaeda’s main headquarters – and bases for sending Al Qaeda fighters into Iraq – prior to the overthrow of Gaddafi:
Al Qaeda is now largely in control of Libya. Indeed, Al Qaeda flags were flown over the Benghazi courthouse once Gaddafi was toppled.
(Incidentally, Gaddafi was on the verge of invading Benghazi in 2011, 4 years after the West Point report cited Benghazi as a hotbed of Al Qaeda terrorists. Gaddafi claimed – rightly it turns out – that Benghazi was an Al Qaeda stronghold and a main source of the Libyan rebellion. But NATO planes stopped him, and protected Benghazi.)
CNN, the Telegraph, the Washington Times, and many other mainstream sources confirm that Al Qaeda terrorists from Libya have since flooded into Syria to fight the Assad regime.
Mainstream sources also confirm that the Syrian opposition is largely comprised of Al Qaeda terrorists. See this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this.
The U.S. has been arming the Syrian opposition since 2006. The post-Gaddafi Libyan government is also itself a top funder and arms supplier of the Syrian opposition.
The Real Story At Benghazi
This brings us to the murder of ambassador Stevens and the sudden resignation of CIA boss David Petraeus.
The Wall Street Journal, Telegraph and other sources confirm that the US consulate in Benghazi was mainly being used for a secret CIA operation.
They say that the State Department presence in Benghazi “provided diplomatic cover” for the previously hidden CIA mission.
Reuters notes that the CIA mission involved finding and repurchasing heavy weaponry looted from Libyan government arsenals.
Business Insider reports that Stevens may have been linked with Syrian terrorists:
There’s growing evidence that U.S. agents—particularly murdered ambassador Chris Stevens—were at least aware of heavy weapons moving from Libya to jihadist Syrian rebels.
In March 2011 Stevens became the official U.S. liaison to the al-Qaeda-linked Libyan opposition, working directly with Abdelhakim Belhadj of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group—a group that has now disbanded, with some fighters reportedly participating in the attack that took Stevens’ life.
In November 2011 The Telegraph reported that Belhadj, acting as head of the Tripoli Military Council, “met with Free Syrian Army [FSA] leaders in Istanbul and on the border with Turkey” in an effort by the new Libyan government to provide money and weapons to the growing insurgency in Syria.
Last month The Times of London reported that a Libyan ship “carrying the largest consignment of weapons for Syria … has docked in Turkey.” The shipment reportedly weighed 400 tons and included SA-7 surface-to-air anti-craft missiles and rocket-propelled grenades.
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Reuters reports that Syrian rebels have been using those heavy weapons to shoot down Syrian helicopters and fighter jets.
The ship’s captain was ”a Libyan from Benghazi and the head of an organization called the Libyan National Council for Relief and Support,” which was presumably established by the new government.
That means that Ambassador Stevens had only one person—Belhadj—between himself and the Benghazi man who brought heavy weapons to Syria.
Furthermore, we know that jihadists are the best fighters in the Syrian opposition, but where did they come from?
Last week The Telegraph reported that a FSA commander called them “Libyans” when he explained that the FSA doesn’t “want these extremist people here.”
And if the new Libyan government was sending seasoned Islamic fighters and 400 tons of heavy weapons to Syria through a port in southern Turkey—a deal brokered by Stevens’ primary Libyan contact during the Libyan revolution—then the governments of Turkey and the U.S. surely knew about it.
Furthermore there was a CIA post in Benghazi, located 1.2 miles from the U.S. consulate, used as “a base for, among other things, collecting information on the proliferation of weaponry looted from Libyan government arsenals, including surface-to-air missiles” … and that its security features “were more advanced than those at rented villa where Stevens died.”
And we know that the CIA has been funneling weapons to the rebels in southern Turkey. The question is whether the CIA has been involved in handing out the heavy weapons from Libya.
In other words, ambassador Stevens may have been a key player in deploying Libyan terrorists and arms to fight the Syrian government.
Other sources also claim that the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was mainly being used as a CIA operation to ship fighters and arms to Syria.
Many have speculated that – if normal security measures weren’t taken to protect the Benghazi consulate or to rescue ambassador Stevens – it was because the CIA was trying to keep an extremely low profile to protect its cover of being a normal State Department operation.
Why Did CIA Chief David Petraeus Suddenly Resign?
CIA boss David Petraeus suddenly resigned, admitting to an affair. This could be the real explanation, given that affairs of high-level intelligence chiefs could compromise national security.
But the timing of Petraeus’ resignation becomes more interesting once one learns that that he was scheduled to testify under oath next week before power House and Senate committees regarding the Benghazi consulate.
Many speculate that it wasn’t an affair – but the desire to avoid testifying on Benghazi – which was the real reason for Petraeus’ sudden resignation.
The Big Picture
Whatever the scope of the CIA’s operation in Benghazi – and whatever the real reason for the resignation of the CIA chief – the key is our historical and ongoing foreign policy.
For decades, the U.S. has backed terrorists for geopolitical ends.
The U.S. government has been consistently planning regime change in Syria and Libya for 20 years, and dreamed of regime change – using false flag terror – for 50 years.
Obama has simply re-packaged Bush and the Neocons’ “war on terror” as a series of humanitarian wars.
And the U.S. and its allies will do anything to topple Iran … and is systematically attempting to pull the legs out from Iran’s allies as a way to isolate and weaken that country.
Americans should ask ourselves if that’s what we want …
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Hope springs eternal ;-)
So Petraeus leaves the CIA job, for whatever reason, and now he cannot testify before the Senate. What is the logic here? Now that Petraeusis is a private citizen he is off-limts?
If the Senate wanted to question me, why do I think I'd be dragged there in chains, if necessary.
"Both sources agreed that it is difficult to speculate whether Petraeus decided to extract himself from the leverage that the controversy had over him by the Obama regime on his terms, or whether his resignation was conducted solely by the terms of the Obama regime. Otherwise, both sources agreed that his resignation would buy the administration some valuable time, and the change in status of Petraeus as the active CIA director would also have an effect on the manner in which he is required to provide testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
The change of status, from an active CIA official and government employee, to a citizen bound by far reaching confidentiality agreements, would change his ability to testify. "He can also lawyer-up," added one source."
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/archives/7098#more-7098
He'll be forced to testify...in the House...as a private citizen, your move O'Barry.
How many times will Executive Privlege be used by Wonder Boy to keep the People in the dark about what they've been up to overseas?
Nyet. If P talks, he is a dead man. If he keeps quiet, he will become a very wealthy man. That's how ZOG works.
OK. So the Senate is in the hands of the Demos. The Repub House will call Patraeus. Wait, no they won't. They lost his email address.
lol...many on both sides are freaking out right about now to be sure.
This is the man, as alluded to elsewhere, that really does know >>>NOW<<< where the bodies are buried, so to speak. In my estimation he is smart enough to have already secured that information for its release.
Incompetence has consequences, eventually ;-)
No, he can't be a private citizen. Officers get to have a rather eternal obligation, but he could do a Singlaub or Sam Griffith. He's tainted a bit though, so to speak.
And with "Woodward and Bernstein" (stolen shamelessly from multiple sources, it is so obvious) aka the MSM, the unmain-stream media, and the Patriot Ledger now on the side of the president, the perverted situation is rather amusing.
... er ... it is Saturday night, weed is in the air, the people who ought to care are in partay mode! and the 3 MM McCain voters who sat on their asses are sitting on their asses.
Dang.
- Ned
"No, he can't be a private citizen. Officers get to have a rather eternal obligation..."
Yes, understood.
But it is Saturday night, the country is going to hell in a hand basket and if you can't beat em join em, so to speak.
I'm changing my party affiliation to Libertarian, this was the last straw. We can't get rid of a confirmed communist turned fascist in our republic? We are being obliterated over stupid shit like "abortion and free government birth control pills". The female (all colors) vote is a large part of this equation. If the fact is, the ENTIRE MESSAGE can't get out, that uncontrollable spending on everything (including the above) will destroy us all, there needs to be a tactics change.
They will be doing it the old fashioned way in the future (because of fiscal policy ruination and bankruptcy)...no matter what anyone thinks of it anyways and we, as a society never wanted that in my estimation in the first place.
Just take it off the table...its a "big fucking deal" to our better halves...we should listen...and not give our real opponents so many weapons to use on us and the country as a whole.
doop om
nmewn:
If you are changing your party affiliation the easiest option is to the
DO-NOTHIN DUDES
We require nothing---no dues, no alliegences, no conventions, no nominations, no voting, no taxes, no-DOING
But it does take a lot of discipline to DO-NOTHING, but we have 'no sanctions' either and will do nothing about a single thing
Welcome to our party om
Sounds like a pretty laid back party...I like the no taxes part.
I was lookin around my spread here today...checking out all "my stuff". I did a quick back of the envelope tally and discovered I could retire tomorrow and become part of the DO-NOTHING PARTY very easily.
nmewn:
OK, You are 'in'-----Welcome to the party om
I'll vote Libertarian LONG before I ever vote for a Democrat or Republican again. Tone down the Randian religiosity a bit, and I'll vote Libertarian the next time I can.
Religion in politics makes me want to puke. I get enough of it at church.
Randian religiosity? great phrase. And I echo your sentiment. Separation of church and state.
One of our greatest strengths (and weakness) as a nation, is separation of church and state.
My views will not be the same as anothers, so I made a pact long ago that I won't force those views through the power of the state on another. Try to covince?...yes, force, no.
This as been lost somewhere along the way.
Its time for a reaffirmation of what we are or we can just call the whole thing off...which I've always been fine with too.
then why do you have bibles in your court rooms?
nmewn, you are such a fabulist, see, here it is really quite simple:
Really, you can look it up. It is in this thing that couldn't possibly exist: the U.S. Constitution. of course the U.S. Constitution couldn't exist without the bill of {negative} rights for the Government. Why, those would be the 10 first Amendments commonly called the "Bill of Rights", those rights obviously obtaining to American Citizens (and AnAnonamous-go fuck yourself at this point and pray continue into \inf)
Yep, I'm with you on the re-affermation. Peaceful, peaceful, take care of everyone, and peaceful.
- Ned
I grew up around Boston, and Sam Adams was enough of a character 200 years later that they could name a beer chain after him and I can go to the left coast and have an imported beer ;-O
Yes my brothers, fonz & Ned...I'm ready to reassert what we are.
In no uncertain terms this time.
Breying Brussel banksters, AnAnus chi-coms, Ghordian knotheads, ORIan sentimentalists, need not apply...time for US to get real.
"Its time for a reaffirmation of what we are or we can just call the whole thing off...which I've always been fine with too.
Fucking bingo.
Irony dictates they would use bicycle chains.
If they can get attention off the financial BS, like the profiteering off SANDY and the mountain of debt that is gonna be left in its' wake, all the better for the WH.
They could care less at the loss of an ambassador and it shows.
What astounds me is all the other ambassadors staying put.
Hey guys and gals, this current administration is gonna do nothing if you get kidnapped or killed.
two things,
1) this "Benghazi" story is a beachball they're trying to hold under water, watch for surprise "leaks" anywhere
2) "ambassadors" know the role they play - you might do some research on that role. (hint: not in the job title)
Quote from:
American Ambassador To Libya Reaps What His Masters SowedIt makes me think back on those halcyon days...when Col North ran the secret gov't, and Daddy Bush and Bill Clinton ran drugs thru Mena Ark, to pay for weapons to sell to Iran, to buy weapons to give to the Salvadorian and Guatamalan Right Wing Death Squads trained at Ft. Benning.. . (in exchange for drugs) all while Ronnie smiled and bloviated about the Evil Empire...
What a scandal!
Not.
This whole Bengazi affair will go down the same rabbit hole, never to be seen again.
It will be brought beck up again however, on Judgement Day.
I do pity the evil ones.
Splendidly put.
good point. our foreign policy is a lot like an artifical sweetener
Aspartame!
brought you full circle back to ole Rummy.
the evil warlock
Before working for Ollie, Fawn Hall used to date my roomate...she used to come into the bar where I was bartending, the Bayou, in Gorgetown, on the waterfront.
Fawn Hall is where all the Bambis live on campus.
she has a nice name for a dame, whose attributes became flame of the arrow of pale rider of psy ops.
As point woman with a head to make Gilda feel giddy and Ollie feel pretty titty shredder...but thats my pointed extrapolation.
fawn hall photos - Recherche Google
Soooo...
Did she smell nice? Look nice? With a lame hook like that, we'll require more details as punishment.
Up arrow for Fawn Hall.
lets see......5 months before the election and one week after the election is a hearing on Bengazi.......and Petraeus just decided to stop banging that pussy inside that very small window
These last sentences define our foreign policy best:
"For decades, the U.S. has backed terrorists for geopolitical ends.
The U.S. government has been consistently planning regime change in Syria and Libya for 20 years, and dreamed of regime change – using false flag terror – for 50 years.
Obama has simply re-packaged Bush and the Neocons’ “war on terror” as a series of humanitarian wars.
And the U.S. and its allies will do anything to topple Iran … and is systematically attempting to pull the legs out from Iran’s allies as a way to isolate and weaken that country.
Americans should ask ourselves if that’s what we want …"
The retard, W. Bush, and his unholy team of neocons, really fubar'd this entire middle east.
Obama confuses the shit out of me because he's lighting the middle east on fire one drone attack at a time. He's anti torture, but one hell of a judge, jury, and executioner with those hellfire missiles. Pretty soon, there will be enough collateral damage to build a standing army of pissed off relatives of victims to storm the White House and string Barack up by his buster browns.
Historically, the US backs a lot of bad guys so we may pursue our interests.....whatever those may be.
Since the retard W, however, our policy is so convoluted, we kill/install/kill/install, everybody believes the USA is an imperial power, hell bent on plundering the assets and national interests of whomever they so desire.
Mark my words; the time will come, probably sooner than later, where some US politician gets murdered, or some US city gets destroyed. Not only will the rest of the world not give a shit, half the people in our own country will be silently celebrating.
When I figured out that Al Qaeda has always been a CIA operation, all of the other crap in the ME started making a lot more sense.
And in that light, the Libya fiasco makes perfect sense as another CIA 'event.' No, they don't give a rat's ass about killing their own to get the job done. Often, that's a benefit to have 'heroes' to foist on a public that doesn't want to know better.
CIA and State Department are quite often the same operation. Sometimes, I'll bet they even swap places just to alleviate the boredom. The whole rotten corpse stinks because it's fetid and wormy inside.
It's time to get past the moral outrage and just accept the fact that the whole damned federal government is about 40 years past its pull date. US government is caving in on itself from moral rot within those hallowed marble walls. The evidence is everywhere.
"... really fubar'd this entire middle east. "
Well, nyet, they were not nearly so good as to come into a fucked up situation and make it worse.
And you use the word "convoluted" with respect to ME policies?
child
- Ned
Watch for evidence of dissent among the ranks.
+1000
It will be blowback of the type only usually seen after a Vindaloo curry.
Because funding and supporting our alleged worst foe to help overthrow a lesser foe sounded like such a great idea at the time. Geez, nobody along the line pondered what could go wrong? Some people can't plan far enough ahead to play checkers, let alone chess. Great, let's put them in charge of foreign policy! Blowback's a bitch, ain't it?
Here is another theory to consider:
"In March 2010, when Petraeus was still head of the US Central Command, he gavetestimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee which included this observation about one of the “challenges to security and stability” faced by the United States:
Abe Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, one of the leading American Zionist lobby groups, was so alarmed he issued a statement condemning Petraeus’ testimony, asserting in part of it:
What Foxman and other Israel lobbyists understood correctly was that Petraeus was articulating a view that is increasingly common within the US establishment, but is an absolute taboo when it comes to stating it publicly: that US “interests” and Israeli “interests” are not identical, and that Israel might be a strategic burden, rather than an asset to the United States."
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2012/11/10/was-petraeus-brought-down-by...
such words certainly couldn't have helped petraeus. one wonders how long the u.s. will be able to fund with money and credibility such vanity projects as greater israel, the war on drugs and especially the bankster bailouts, this last of which never had even momentary political support by the masses.
“The other thing I would add is what John Bolton said, and I think he’s absolutely right. There is no way that this is going to get in way of the Benghazi story coming out. In an odd way and sort of [a] discouraging way, now that the story is attached to a sex scandal, it will become a story that will be pursued by the media. … They were holding off to protect Obama before, and also perhaps out of lack of interest. But just given the nature of our journalism, it will now become the hottest story around. And you can be sure that even the mainstream papers, which did not show any interest whatsoever in this story up until the election, are going to get on it and now it will become — it will unravel.” -- Charles Krauthammer
"John Bolton said"..........Right away you can assume the rest is subterfuge or as they say in my neck of the woods.......a lying pile of shit from a fucking slimedog pile of shit
most of john bolton's ideas are vastly bad ones but his point that putting some cock and cunt in the libya story (in a roundabout way) makes it more rather than less likely to unravel seems salient.
Jon Stewart asked "Bonkers" Bolton if there was any county he wouldn't want to bomb. The only country he could think of was the United States.
thats why its always much easier and less messy to suicide them off......guess Petraeus would have been a hard suicide to pull off
Seems like they killed a previous CIA director without any problem
'Who murdered ex CIA Chief William Colby?' - by Zalin Grant
« ... Saturday, April 27, 1996. William Colby, a former director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, was alone at his weekend house across from Cobb Island, Maryland, 60 miles south of Washington, D.C. ... he was found dead in the water nine days later, it was said that he had gone out paddling his canoe at nightfall and drowned. ... I knew William Colby. And I didn’t believe that for one second. »
http://www.pythiapress.com/wartales/colby.htm
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For a quite wilder view of Petraeus, from an Irish website favoured by conspiracy connoisseurs ... Tyler D. sez to be very sceptical about this site ... but interesting reading anyway:
« President Barack Obama has accelerated the purge of US Military officers involved in a coup against his regime by the “firing in disgrace” of former Four-Star Army General and current Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) David Petraeus ... after his refusal to meet at the White House with Obama this past week, US Federal Forces loyal to the President stopped General Petraeus’ vehicle in DuPont Circle in Washington D.C. yesterday (Friday) morning whereupon a short gun battle ensued ... »
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1626.htm
The opening words from that link tell you all you need to know-
"The Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) is reporting today..."
That site is not even for conspiracy connoisseurs, it's for sheeple-
And yes that is double entendre.