Posted on 02/10/2016 10:07:40 AM PST by Starman417
Obama's favorite JV team has chemical weapon and a new home in which to grow, courtesy of Hillary Clinton. In testimony before the Armed Serves Committee DNI James Clapper confirmed that ISIS has produced and used chemical weapons.
The nation's top intelligence official confirmed Tuesday that the Islamic State has succeeded in making and deploying chemical agents in Iraq and Syria -- calling it the first such attack by an extremist group in more than two decades.ISIS has new fertile ground and has as many as 5,000 fighters in Libya:The confirmation of mustard gas use came during Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he spoke to the Islamic State's growing sophistication online and in the battlefield.
He did not elaborate on where and when the chemical attacks occurred, though there has been mounting evidence the terror group was experimenting with chemical weapons.
"[The Syrian government] has used chemicals against the opposition on multiple occasions since Syria joined the Chemical Weapons Convention. ISIL has also used toxic chemicals in Iraq and Syria, including the blister agent Sulfur mustard," Clapper said.
He said this marks the first time an extremist group has produced and used a "chemical warfare agent in an attack since Aum Shinrikyo used sarin in Japan in 1995," referring to the Tokyo subway terror attack that year.
The self-described Islamic State, also known as ISIS, has long been making a push to capitalize on the chaos in Libya.ISIS's growth in Libya began in 2011:For over a year, it has carried out terror attacks, taken over territory and released propaganda from its franchise in Libya. Now, a new assessment from the Pentagonstates the number of ISIS fighters in Libya has doubled since the fall to over 5,000, spurring fresh debate among security officials over the possibility of foreign intervention.
Analysts and officials worry that Libya is increasingly becoming a sort of fallback option for ISIS as it loses territory and power in Syria and Iraq.
"If we look at the raw numbers, the presence of ISIS [in Libya]Â is definitely strengthening and growing. I think the security threat they pose is definitely going up," Riccardo Fabiani, senior North Africa analyst at political risk research firm Eurasia Group, told The WorldPost.
The rise of the Islamic State affiliate in Libya coincides with the country's continued conflict. Libya has been in a state of turmoil since a popular uprising backed by a NATO-led airstrike campaign ousted strongman Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.They call Libya "Hillary's War." Afterward, she found the affair quite amusing:Part of the key to ISIS's success as a terror organization is its ability to  metastasize in places that lack a strong civil society or central government. This was most evident in the group's large period of growth between 2011 and 2014, when itbenefited from the civil war in Syria and seized much of the territory it still holds.
In Libya, ISIS has found similar conditions in which to thrive. Since 2014, powerful militias have controlled the country, which is split between two rival governments -- one based in the western city of Tripoli and another in the eastern city of Tobruk. Efforts to establish a U.N.-backed national unity government have failed, and much of the country is lawless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y
More recently when asked to defend her actions in Libya, she asserted:
CLINTON: Well, we did have a plan, and I think it's fair to say that of all of the Arab leaders, Gaddafi probably had more blood on his hands of Americans than anybody else. And when he moved on his own people, threatening a massacre, genocide, the Europeans and the Arabs, our allies and partners, did ask for American help and we provided it. And we didn't put a single boot on the ground, and Gaddafi was deposed. The Libyans turned out for one of the most successful, fairest elections that any Arab country has had. They elected moderate leaders. Now, there has been a lot of turmoil and trouble as they have tried to deal with these radical elements which you find in this arc of instability, from north Africa to Afghanistan. And it is imperative that we do more not only to help our friends and partners protect themselves and protect our own homeland, but also to work to try to deal with this arc of instability, which does have a lot of impact on what happens in a country like Libya.It ought to sound familiar to you. The problem for Clinton is that none of it is true:
Specifically, her misstatements ought to have been corrected along these lines: Gaddafi didn't have "more blood on his hands of Americans than anybody else," unless you discount the Saudi support for Al Qaeda. He did not threaten "genocide," no matter how slack your definition of genocide. He threatened to kill the rebels in Benghazi; the threat was dismissed by US army intelligence as improbable and poorly sourced. But Hillary Clinton overrode US intelligence, outmaneuvered the Pentagon (the secretary of defense, Robert Gates, had opposed the NATO bombing unreservedly), mobilized liberal-humanitarian and conservative pro-war opinion in the media, and talked Obama into committing the US to effect regime change in a third Middle East country.I take issue with the last sentence and so would Barack Obama, who declared Iraq a success:Gaddafi was not "deposed." He was tortured and murdered, very likely by Islamists allied with NATO forces. The "radical elements" that are causing "a lot of turmoil and trouble" in "this arc of instability" are, in fact, Islamists whom Clinton picked as allies in the region, and she has pressed to supply them with arms in Syria as well as Libya. She really rates mention as an American mover of the "instability" in the region second only to Bush and Cheney.
...we're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq...There is more criticism from the left, including the failure of the media to press her on the Libya disaster fallout:
Yet the answer didn't hurt the Democratic frontrunner. That's because neither CNN moderators nor prospective Clinton supporters understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that occurred amid the predictable power vacuum that followed Ghadafi's ouster. "Libya today - in spite of the expectations we had at the time of the revolution - it's much, much worse," Karim Mezran, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, toldFrontline. "Criminality is skyrocketing. Insecurity is pervasive. There are no jobs. It's hard to get food and electricity. There's fighting, there's fear … I see very few bright spots."This might have something to do with the weak overall support for Hillary.Not surprisingly, ISIS has been largely absent from the democrat debates, and even Tom Brokaw noticed that democrats have no idea what to do with ISIS:U.S. arms found their way into the hands of Islamists.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Not just Hillary.
McCain, Graham and Rubio also were cheerleading our illegal bombing of Libya.
Can of worms and the blame for it belongs to BOTH parties.
EXCERPT Hillary Clinton has only one accomplishment; the Libyan War. Bombing Libya in support of a Muslim Brotherhood takeover was Hillary/s pet project. Obama unenthusiastically signed off on a war that he had told members of Congress is all Secretary Clinton’s matter.
The Pentagon fought Hillary/s illegal war every step of the way. Both the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs opposed Hillary/s plan to bomb Libya. One of the Chairman/s top aides said that he did not trust the reports coming out of the State Department and the CIA, then controlled by Clinton loyalist Leon Panetta. When it was clear that the Clintonites had gotten their war on, an irritated Secretary of Defense Gates resigned after failing to stop Hillary/s war and was replaced by Panetta.
As the State Department set the military agenda, the Pentagon retaliated by taking over the diplomatic agenda attempting to arrange a ceasefire with the Gaddafi regime over Hillary/s objections. Hillary was using the State Department to start a war while the military was trying to use diplomacy to stop a war. The Pentagon lost the power struggle and one of her minions took over the military to make sure that the Muslim Brotherhood Jihadists would be able to overrun another country.
Huma Abedin had beaten the Secretary of Defense.
Panetta, unlike Gates, shared Hillary/s Arab Spring agenda. After the war, he paid a visit to Tripoli and claimed that similar uprisings would be taking place around the Middle East, including in Syria.Military people never stopped loathing Hillary Clinton for her war and its consequences, the usurpation of a defense matter, the Al Qaeda training camps and the abandonment of Americans in Benghazi. That came to the surface during the Democratic debate when Senator Webb challenged Clinton on Libya.
Hillary Clinton smugly recited the same old lies about Gaddafi threatening to massacre large numbers of the Libyan people†and European allies begging her to stop a mass genocide. In reality, Hillary Clinton was the source of the claim that Gaddafi was about to commit genocide. This claim had no basis in reality and defense officials quickly shot it down. But that didn’t stop Obama from claiming during his war speech that he had bombed Libya to save Benghazi from a massacre. There was no massacre in Benghazi. At least not until Obama helped make a massacre of four Americans happen.
By September, the New York Times was asking where all the dead were. Morgue records showed that the dead on both sides actually numbered in the hundreds. The International Red Cross put the number of missing persons at around a thousand. The largest mass grave found had 34 bodies. Obama claimed that he had seen Gaddafi kill over a thousand people in a single day That never happened. It never happened when Gaddafi had actually captured a rebel city before.
--SNIP--Hillary Clinton hid emails discussing the exploitation of Libya’s oil fields. The Clintons had made an art out of merging their political and financial agendas. They had extensive ties with figures in the energy industry and the companies that dug into Libya’s energy sector, Royal Dutch Shell and BP, were Clinton Foundation donors.
Some of the deleted emails discussed this with Clinton Foundation employee Sidney Blumenthal, who was also providing Hillary Clinton with supposed intel from business interests while promising that the Libyan War would be an easy matter. Blumenthal encouraged shock and awe bombing in Libya.According to Congressman Gowdy, who has been investigating the events in Benghazi, Blumenthal pushed hard for a no-fly zone in Libya before the idea was being discussed internally by senior U.S. government officials. He blasted Obama for being unenthusiastic about regime change in Libya.
Blumenthal called for providing the Jihadists with armor piercing weapons and called Secretary of Defense Gates a mean, vicious little prick who is losing the debate. Blumenthal also offered the very specific national interest argument that Obama would later echo, suggesting that he was unknowingly repeating the talking points of a man he loathed which had been handed to him by Hillary Clinton. He also told Hillary Clinton that the war had to be ramped up or Obama would lose the election.
Having dragged Obama into Hillary/s war, Blumenthal was now pushing Hillary to blackmail him with the threat of losing the election if he didn’t escalate the conflict.
Meanwhile he was pursuing his interest in getting the Libyans to pay for military training from a private military company he was linked to.The entire nightmarish mess of Democratic conspiracy theories about Iraq, Blood for Oil, politicians fighting wars to win elections, corporate conflicts of interest and even private military companies are all here and no one will touch it. A roster of Democratic candidates still running against the Iraq War won’t talk about an illegal dirty regime change war that took place with their backing and support. Bernie Sanders, who sputters incoherently about the Iraq War, co-sponsored the Senate resolution supporting a No Fly Zone in Libya. This was the Senate resolution that Obama exploited as a fig leaf of Senate approval for his illegal war. Senator Sanders can’t criticize Hillary/s illegal war because he helped make it happen.
Hillary/s war has been an unmitigated disaster. Her lies about the war have been disproven. But not even the Democrats running against her are ready to hold her accountable for it.
If Hillary wins, it'll be worse this time around...
Don’t forget Marco Rubio...he was right there in Libya celebrating the terrorists taking over the country along with McCain and Graham.
See pic of them in Libya with their terrorist donors.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-blue-collar-billionaireand-news-you.html
Bttt!
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