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Benghazi: New Evidence Emerges
The Administration announced after the Benghazi attack that a protest by Muslims had turned violent.
The Administration also stated that there was nothing which could have been done to save the people killed within the consulate.
But the number 2 American official in Libya – Deputy Chief of Mission in Libya Gregory Hicks, who became the Chief of Mission after Ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed – says everyone who worked at the Benghazi consulate thought it was a terrorist attack from the get-go:
Similarly, Democratic Congressman Stephen Lynch agrees that the U.S. talking points after the Benghazi attack were false:
Congressman Daryl Issa notes that the U.S. ignored requests for more security, and theorized that the motive was to underplay the danger from terrorism:
More disturbing are tales of the lack of assistance from the U.S. As CBS News reports:
Throughout the night, sources say Americans on the ground in Libya at times felt helpless and abandoned.
“We relied on Washington for dispassionate assessment,” one eyewitness told CBS News. “Instead, they [Washington officials] were asking us what help we needed. We answered: ‘Send reinforcements!’ ”
But they were told immediate help wasn’t available.
Embassy personnel say they repeatedly asked the Defense Attache on site in Tripoli for military assistance.
“Isn’t there anything available?” one Embassy official says he asked. “But the answer was ‘no.’”
“What about Aviano?” the official pressed, referencing the NATO air base with US assets in northeastern Italy. “No,” was the answer.
Two of the four Americans killed that night died hours after the first attack began…
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Counterterrorism sources and internal emails reviewed by CBS News express frustration that key responders were ready to deploy, but were not called upon to help in the attack. National Security Council Spokesman Tommy Vietor told CBS News the CSG was not needed.
But most devastating of all is Hicks’ testimony that the U.S. prevented rescuers from reaching Benghazi. As CBS News reports:
The deputy of slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens has told congressional investigators that a team of Special Forces prepared to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks was forbidden from doing so by U.S. Special Operations Command Africa.
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Hicks told investigators that SOCAFRICA commander Lt. Col. Gibson and his team were on their way to board a C-130 from Tripoli for Benghazi prior to an attack on a second U.S. compound “when [Col. Gibson] got a phone call from SOCAFRICA which said, ‘you can’t go now, you don’t have the authority to go now.’ And so they missed the flight … They were told not to board the flight, so they missed it.”
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Hicks told congressional investigators that if the U.S. had quickly sent a military aircraft over Benghazi, it might have saved American lives. The U.S. Souda Bay Naval Base is an hour’s flight from Libya.
“I believe if we had been able to scramble a fighter or aircraft or two over Benghazi as quickly as possible after the attack commenced, I believe there would not have been a mortar attack on the annex in the morning because I believe the Libyans would have split. They would have been scared to death that we would have gotten a laser on them and killed them,” Hicks testified. Two Americans died in the morning mortar attack.
The Real Story at Benghazi
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:
The Hindustan Times reported in 2011:
“There is no question that al Qaeda’s Libyan franchise, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, is a part of the opposition,” Bruce Riedel, former CIA officer and a leading expert on terrorism, told Hindustan Times.
It has always been Qaddafi’s biggest enemy and its stronghold is Benghazi.
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. (Indeed, the New York Times reported last week that virtually all of the rebel fighters are Al Qaeda terrorists.)
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.
This brings us to the murder of ambassador Stevens …
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. (WND alleges that it was not a real consulate.)
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.
That is what I think really happened at Benghazi.
Was CIA Chief David Petraeus’ Firing Due to Benghazi?
CIA boss David Petraeus suddenly resigned, admitting to an affair. But Petraeus was scheduled to testify under oath the 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. For decades, the U.S. has backed the most radical, fundamentalist, violent Muslims.
The U.S. government has been consistently planning regime change in Syria, Libya and Iran 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.
Liberals rightfully lambast Bush for getting us into the disastrous Iraq war.
But Obama has in fact launched wars in Libya, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan … and up to 35 African nations (and see this).
Obama – citing a Nixon administration official’s justification for invading Cambodia – has claimed his power extends into every country in the world … well beyond those where we are engaged in hostilities.
Obama has dramatically escalated the use of drone assassinations, which are creating many more terrorists than they are killing. The former chief military prosecutor at Guantanamo says that Obama’s drone surge is as damaging to our country as Bush’s torture program. I think he’s actually underestimating damage from the program, as drones have become the number 1 recruiting tool for Al Qaeda (especially since children are now being targeted for drone assassination … Oh, and torture is still happening on Obama’s watch; background).
And the Obama administration has probably supported even more terrorists – in Libya, Syria and elsewhere – than Bush. See this, this, this, this and this.
In other words, both GOP and Dem politicians are supporting destability, terrorism and war.
Those are the deeper truths regarding Benghazi.
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OT, GW but I wanted to pass this on if you haven't seen it: http://www.naturalnews.com/037556_fukushima_power_plant_collapse.html
If one spent fuel pool goes up, they all do because the site will become unapproachable. That would damn near do it.
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TEPCO is damned if they pump, and damned if they don't.
What are the risks if they pump?
Land subsidence, risking the stability of the wrecked reactor buildings, endangering spent fuel pools.
Heating up of water-cooled melted fuel in the ground under the reactors.
Increasing radiation released to the air from melted fuel.
Increasing radiation into the Pacific Ocean as contaminated water drains from the ruins.
What are the risks if they don't pump?
Continued releases of highly contaminated ground water into the Pacific Ocean.
Continued destruction of the Pacific Ocean ecosystem.
Continued destruction of the Pacific Seafood Industry.
I'm deep worried about it. That could end the economic-financial crisis.
Tokio is almost already done... No QE can fix that shit.
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Fuck, I never knew it was that bad.
that's because "they" didn't want you to know how seriously fucked the planet will be if/when this goes terminal. ever play the video game Fallout?
They started World War I because someone shot the Arch-duke of Austria or some fucking thing. Get busy people. That one cost 37 million human lives that some geniuses were willing to sacrifice for something no one remembers the reason for anymore ...
Hell, during the Civil War, they put away over 26,000 American men in only one day.
Battle of Antietam
Date: September 17, 1862
Location: Maryland
Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee
Union Commander: George B. McClellan
Confederate Forces Engaged: 51,844
Union Forces Engaged: 75,316
Winner: Inconclusive (Strategic Union Victory)
Casualties: 26,134 (12,410 Union and 13,724 Confederate)
Banksters. They make a lot of money off wars. European bankster families. Honest Abe killed 1.1 million men for nothing. When the european bankster families were done with Abe and might have feared someday he might talk - they took care of him. LBJ - Gulf of Tonkin (get Vietnam going) and USS Liberty? Who owned him? He was a tribe member too through his grandmother. Vietnam War and War on Pverty by bagel boy took us off the gold standard.
The US was off the gold standard by 1934. The amount of FED researve notes printed by 1933 was 4 times as large as the stockpile of gold so they were unbacked. The gold confiscation was undertaken for that reason.
Freddie,
Enjoy your posts.
JFK threatened to, and likely would have, disbanded the CIA because they were/are 4th branch of govt accountable to no one. Also, he forbade Israel from going nuclear.
Joe Kennedy purchased the election. Joe ordered his Teamster cronies (remember the decades when every single Teamster president was convicted and sent to federal prison?) to order IL Protestant union members to vote for the Roman (JFK) who they distrusted because of perceived religious differences (hint, now there are no differences, the Tribe owns them both). Next JFK is in the White House and his brother Bobby tosses Teamsters in prison left and right, which did not endear JFK to the Teamsters after they got him elected.
Next thing you know, JFK is dead, LBJ is president, and soon after Israel is a happy nuclear armed camper.
Oliver Stone's movie JFK is generally accurate except the Jewish producers omitted Mossad's contribution in the assasination.
And don't forget he also picked a fight with the scumbags at the FedRes and began printing Treasury notes.
Easier t list who didn't have it in for him. hujel
Yes. I agree with you. Supposedly the names were named and it was three hit men from Marsailles (sp?). LBJ's actions with the USS Liberty and Gulf of Tonkin to get Vietnam going speaks volumes. Did the Crown family own Gerneral Dynamics aka North American back in the day? LBJ was a tribesman and one of the most evil and greedy f**ks who ever walked this earth.
The French connection thing is dubious at best, Freddie. Possible? Sure. But take a longer look at Charles Harrelson and who the other two tramps are (not Sturgis and Hunt, both of whom were also involved).
the details of the benghazi incident were in vince foster's file drawer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_foster#Death
using the same tactic (frontal assult on entrenched positions), the British lost 57,000 in one morning at the Somme.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme#First_day_on_the_Somme:...
My great-grandfather was with A.P.HILL at Cold Harbor II. The blue coats lost 6,000 in about a half hour.
When it was over, the wounded & dead lay there, Grant would not (as was the custom) send a message to Lee allowing him to collect the wounded & the dead, (which were his) as this meant, it was not his field to ask of, it was Lee's.
So, there they lay, the buzzards coming down to feast. The shrieks of the living wounded and the about to die of wounds.
"The Confederates, consisting mostly from the I and III Corps who fought from behind earthworks, slaughtered the Federals as soon as they moved forward.
inexplicable and incredible butchery beganBefore the assault, the Union soldiers had been in no doubt as to what they were up against. Many were seen writing their names on papers that they pinned inside their uniforms, so their bodies could be identified. The II and XVIII Corps, followed later by the IX Corps, assaulted along the Bethesda Church-Cold Harbor line. The concealed Confederates waited patiently; the earthworks suddenly bristled with thousands of rifles. Seconds later, in a volcanic blast of sound and flame, the Confederate line erupted. Then the "
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Along the entire Union line, the men on the line crumpled in heaps from the Confederate fire. Wright and Smith made little headway in the crossfire. Only on the Union left did 2 brigades of Hancock's corps penetrate the Confederate line. The Federals stood on the breastworks momentarily before being blown away by rifle and canister fire. The assault along the entire front had been completely repulsed in less than a half-hour. Union forces lost between 3,000 and 7,000 men in about 40 minutes. Grant called off the attacks at midday after visiting his corps commanders."
http://www.mycivilwar.com/battles/640531.html
Nmewn is a 911 truth denier. Why ever believe anything he writes?
Never trust a 911 truth denier. Ever.
Ah, there's nmewn, the 911 truth denier, at it again. Let no thread exist without his input.
Johnny-One-Note crashing and burning again. Why can't you strike while the iron is hot instead of trolling me two days later?
Afraid you might burn your widdle fingers? ;-)
Albert Pike stgarted the Civil War. He was the grand master of the Scottish Rite lodge, headquartered in Charleston SC. Ostensibly, he was a confederate general, and was given command of the Indian territories (oklahoma). He embezzled 250,000 dollors in gold, and was placed under arrest, but escaped into the Arkansas hills and sent a letter of resignation to the Confederate command while in hiding.
Despite his lackluster carreer as an officer, he is the only Confederate general, or Confederate official of any sort, to have a statue in washington DC. He lived until his death at the masonic headquarters in washington, secretly directing the affairs of the govt from that location.
The Civil War was a war of unification, designed to be conducted at a particular time. Wars of Federal unification were conducted simultaneously in Germany and Italy by Bismarck and Mazzini, respectively, during the 1860's.
In Pike's letter to Mazzini, he describes three global wars, culminating in a One world Govt, and the triumph of the worship of Lucifer.
The senseless slaughter and death of war is a sacrifice to Satan. We are now in the third and final war of Albert Pike. Benghazi is just a tell-tale of who is behind that war.
Thank you.
Looks as dreary as that civil war battle of the crater event...
i know it's way off topic. but not a man on either side of those lines would put up with our government today.
stormailor, having walked gettysburg and antitam, I have lost any respect for CW generals, Lee was a fool..did they understand the weapons that came available in that war? WWI the same, Which brings to mind our current crop of General officers, bread to follow orders, and that is why revolts in the military, rarely are done by top generals, they are all lap dogs and not too bright at that.
The US military has never understood the idea of domestic enemies being IN goverment, fools and lap dogs all.
Nam vets, may want to read Dakota Myers(medal of honor) book on the afgan fight, you will see nothing has changed in the Army, they are repeating the "mistakes of viet nam". that they swore they never would. His fight to save his civil action team is filled with much like bengazi, refusal of support for hours until that team was killed , also 4 brave Americans left to die because higher ups followed the ROI.
The Somme debacle was doomed from the start. The original plan was to bomb the shit out of the German lines, then attack. Logistics caused only a fraction of the necessary artillery and shells to be delivered in time for a July 1 attack. Haig, I think, had promised the French that they would attack on July 1, and held to that schedule even though the German lines were intact due to the shell shortage. The schedule was more important than 60,000 lives.
my great-great-great his brother and his son all fought in company c 14th nc. another great,great was captain of company h 14th nc. from june of 61 to appomattox. from may 5th through may 12th of 1864. wilderness through the mule shoe at spotsylvania there were a combined 75000 casualities.
may 12th at the mule-shoe was the most brutal combat of the entire civil war, corpses shot to jelly. 21 hours of continuous combat,
read gordon rhea 4 book series wilderness through cold harbor, of the thousands of civil war books i have read, they are amoung the best
I've visited most of the Civil War battlefields, plus the Somme, Ypres, Arras, and saw the graves and shell holes.
The 150th anniversary of Gettysburg is this year. How much do you want to bet the MSM doesn't even mention it?. If Obama does anything to commemorate it, it will be an embarrassment.
These are the FACTS. Don't believe me, then see this, this, this, that, that, this and that, and over there, here, and beyond. Of course all of those places lead back to ME. Because i can source myself. because I have a blog. on the internet.
Carless ranter, George didn't even ref FOX news that attempted many months ago to shed the light of truth on this epic fail of a "3AM phone call" and then unbelievable coverup. Hillarys commercial of the 3am phone call was so prescient. Seems neither were qualified to handle that type of phone call. George gave CNBC credit to keep lame ass liberals at least somewhat happy that they were exposed by one of their own kind yet you could not stand it when your own news agency exposes the truth so you atteck the messenger.
Typical!!!
An 'american' world is a self referencing world.
cHinEse purples are most jealous of American success throughout world history- more contributions to civilization in past 150 years than all of cHInee works in 150 centuries. Oh, also, please stop pooping on sidewalks. Most unbecoming...
An 'AnAnonymist' world is a self fellating world.
Voted "dick breath" post of the month.
I think George avoids use of stupid words like "facts." If I'm correct, which I think I am, this leads me to believe you don't much read the man you attempt to criticize.
Fail.