Photo Ben Curtis/APPosted on 09/12/2012 8:26:55 AM PDT by GVnana
Photo Ben Curtis/AP
The US ambassador in Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack after the diplomat's car was targeted in the eastern city of Benghazi, it was confirmed on Wednesday.
A statement from President Obama "condemned the outrageous attack on our diplomatic facility in Benghazi, which took the lives of four Americans, including ambassador Chris Stevens".
The president added: "Chris was a courageous and exemplary representative of the United States."
Earlier, Libya's interior ministry confirmed that Stevens died in the attack. "The American ambassador and three staff members were killed when gunmen fired rockets at them," a Libyan official told Reuters.
An unconfirmed photograph posted on Facebook appears to show a mob dragging a lifeless Stevens along the ground, his shirt off. Some reports say he suffocated to death. Libya's deputy prime minister, Mustafa Abushagur, said security forces had launched a manhunt to find the killers. "I condemn the cowardly act of attacking the US consulate and the killing of Mr Stevens," he said.
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So how do “not the mainstream of peaceful muslims, but a few radicals” get rocket propelled grenades and intelligence that the ambassador was going to be in Bengazi instead of Tripoli?
My instincts tell me that this administration wouldn’t mind if the next Republican POTUS were to inherit a situation requiring us to go to war in the Middle East...again.
This is simply the result of disastrous foreign policy on the part of Dear Leader, Barack Hussein Obama.
Obama and his running dog lackeys should be ashamed ~ this should have been one them, not someone with the training and talent of Ambassador Stevens wasted like that.
The horrible just fate of those gullible who vote for and endorse “Hope and Change”.
The good that can come out of this - Obama is seen for the lily-livered coward he is, and Hilary will be seen in all her PC-ness too. “We are saddened.” Oh, no, TEARS? That will really put the jihadis in their place.
What if Winston Churchill had said that? “The UK is saddened by Germany’s very mean and unwarranted carpet bombings of London.”
Gad, what fools.
Islam sucks.
Mohammed was a pedophile.
Just look at the horrifying conditions in which Islam’s billions of adherents live. Your religion begets your society, and muslim societies suck everywhere, 100% of the time.
The Koran states that Mohammed married Aisha when she was 6 years old, and consummated the relationship when she was 9 YEARS OLD. That’s pedophilia in any society in any era.
Islam sucks. Mohammed was a pedophile.
In the United States, we have a perfect First Amendment right to say what we think. I don’t much care whether Muslims are offended by what I think or say.
We also have a perfect Second Amendment right to help ensure the validity of our First Amendment rights.
:-)
RPGs are common men’s attire in your wilder parts of the MIddle East.
Libyan security forces moved the Ambassador to another building... then some of the LSF rated his location to the militants.
I read two Marines were also killed.
Supposedly the Ambassador's body is in US possession. No word how it was recovered.
No word how the Egyptian Embassy "Apology Statement" was issued without approval from the White House.
50 Marines are on the way to secure US interests, but by all accounts the consulate is burned to the ground.
“In the United States, we have a perfect First Amendment right to say what we think. I don’t much care whether Muslims are offended by what I think or say.”...
There IS a difference between shooting one’s mouth off and simply having been within earshot.
RIP.
You know it strikes me as odd they way our Intellectual elites try to give us “a perspective” as they soft sell Moslem Murder.
“There are different types of Moslem’s in the Middle East. We can’t lump them all in group”.
“We have not seen a statement by the Muslim Brotherhood condemning this atrocity”.
“We have to keep things in perspective. There are 85 million people in Lybia and 2,000 showed up at the embassy. Clearly those 2,000 are not representative of those 85 million”.
Really?
Really?
So let’s put this in my perspective.
85 million people were powerless to stop 2,000 animals from killing our people? Seriously, GTF over yourself.
Those 2,000 were given and will continues to receive imprimatur to act anyway they want, as agents and proxies for all Moslems, by deafening silence that says “Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. Go Ahead. Praise be to Alaugh”.
I heard this same crap after 911 and you idiots continue excuse Alaugh adherents and actually, make excuses for the murdering slobs as well by this statement.
All of Moslem Mudders with support and in secret they high five each other “Got another one today Mo”.
FU
FU
And FU
If I was President I would absolutely go Biblical on the whole Mohammedan wannabe’s, could be’s and their supporters.
I would wholesale slaughter every man under the age of 40 and call it “four score” and you are now F^&*(d for at least one generation.
See yuh...
“Lucky” I’m not the President....
I'm not sure that's right. Have you been to Turkey or Brunei? Qatar? The UAE? Great places.
A lot of Christian countries meanwhile are pretty lousy places to live. DR Congo? South Sudan? Haiti? Eritrea? Burundi? Mozambique? All are majority Christian.
I’ll also add that this comment “Your religion begets your society” makes no sense. What societal features, other than Christianity, do Canada, Belarus, Bolivia and the Congo have in common? My guess is nothing.
Killed?! He was murdered and his corpse defiled. Yellow journalism.
Have you been to Eastern Turkey? Not Ismir, Ankara, or Istanbul, but Diyabakir or points East? Pretty Rustic if you get my drift.
See what your "good intentions" got you, Mr. Stevens? What it got you was FRIGGING DEAD, you dumbass!
I find scant pity for the fool or his family.
His death is on his own head.
I've got the Nomex on so bring it, if any care to.
Being Jewish, I wouldn't dare go with my yarmulke on and Torah in hand. Would you?
Pluswhich, your few exceptions prove the rule.
Let’s look at big places with lots of people and a long history of adherence to the religion:
Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt. etc.
U.S. France. Germany. etc.
You pick which set you’d prefer to live in.
I think you'd probably be fine, actually. There are over 20,000 Jews in Istanbul. But yeah, I'm not saying these countries are perfect but they're all worlds better than the Christian countries I listed on just about every metric. I wouldn't want to walk down a street in DR Congo regardless of whether I'm wearing a yarmulke or not.
Actually, not so much:
On November 15, 2003, two trucks carrying bombs slammed into the Bet Israel and Neve Shalom synagogues in Istanbul, Turkey and exploded. The explosions devastated the synagogues and killed twenty-seven people, most of them Turkish Muslims,[1] and injured more than 300 others. Six Jews were among the dead.[1][2][3] An Islamic militant group, IBDA-C, claimed responsibility for the blasts, but Turkish government officials dismissed these claims, pointing out that this minor group did not have enough resources to carry out such an intricately planned and expensive attack.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Istanbul_bombings
And before you try the quick and easy reply that I’m not likely to be involved, please be advised that my wife’s Jewish office in Seattle was attacked by a jihadi, with a co-worker killed and several others injured.
Sorry buddy, but no dice. If you want "big places with lots of people" then you should include Mexico which is bigger than Germany and DR Congo which is bigger than France. Would I rather live in Congo or Pakistan? Pakistan if you held a gun to my head, but I really would rather get as far away as possible from either. My point is this -- religion is a lousy predictor of national culture or success.
Some countries are nice places to live and some are crappy places to live and there are a lot of things that influence success, peace and wealth. Religion doesn't seem to be all that important.
If you were worried, I'm pretty strongly against Islamic terrorists. Not sure what point you're making -- I'd still rather be in Turkey, Israel or the United States than DR Congo.
First Amendment says there is no difference.
The standard stations used in the rest of the world wouldn't work there ~ the termites would eat out the bottoms while the fungus ate the tops and corrosion would eat up all the metal in just months.
It's bad there!
What the UN weather guys worked up looked useable by even illiterate people over a long period of time, although they planned on using folks who could read and write to do the marks on the score sheets.
Then the civil war took a dive ~ supplies were low and the troops were starving. One of the existing radio sonde stations was attacked and the attendants were eaten!
After that the UN people couldn't get any of the locals to touch weather station equipment of any kind.
Eventually James Hansen at NASA just gave up and deleted Africa AND South America from the climatological data bases used for those infamous UN runaway greenhouse models!
Both are Traitor Losers who hate America!
Jimmy Carter's presidency was doomed by the Iranian hostage crisis after the US embassy in Tehran was stormed by Islamist extremists following the Iranian revolution.
A year after the 52 Americans were taken hostage, Carter lost the 1980 election. The hostages were released just as President Ronald Reagan, who defeated Carter, was sworn in.
Thanks to RushIsMyTeddyBear and Focaulut's Pendulum and for these graphic art realities!
In an older time, CIA SOG hunter-killer teams would be inbound to gather intel. Once collected they would begin their job descriptions. It is the only way to protect your embassy staff. It reminds me of back in the 80’s when Hezbullah terrorists were kidnapping embassy staff for ransom. They of course kidnapped many Americans. They then kidnapped a russian diplomat and sent the standard ransom demand letter. The KGB went into action and found out who the kidnappers were, and kidnapped the leader’s family. They then sent the kidnapper’s brother’s finger in their reply message and indicated a new part would be shipped daily until the diplomat was returned, which he was, within 24 hours. The Russians did not keep their end of the bargain entirely and killed all the male members of the kidnapper’s family.
Also, sending a Marine FAST team is kind of a poor response, unless the Marine expeditionary brigade is off shore and beginning to disembark or a brigade of Rangers are inbound. Although there would be a pile of dead bodies for each Marine, a FAST team is only 50 Marines. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot are the idiots at the Pentagon thinking endangering Marines in this manner?
I know you mean well, but. As a blond-headed Christian American woman, I don’t think I’d tempt fate either.
However, the right to offend via free speech doesn’t guarantee that the offended won’t try to murder or succeed in murdering the “offender”.
Three less Muslim Brotherhood supporting traitors in the State Department.
When it comes to Islam, free speech is not only just a theory, it's one that is very unpopular since it's OK to murder people for exercising it.
That's why we probably need to do what Coulter proposed ~ beat them back to the stone age ~..... er, that was General LeMay..... ~ well, whatever, force conversions and dispose of any who stand in the way ~
Do what you want -- but I think you'd be just fine in Dubai. Plenty of blonde Christian women of all nationalities. Not sure about the Congo or South Sudan, however...
They are probably thinking they are going to be sending out lots and lots and lots of little tiny airplanes and helicopters carrying little teeny tiny missiles that really blow up something fierce and just wiping out everybody stupid enough to show his RPG anywhere in his vicinity.
I like, I like...
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I was doing a search on a Geeky article and this turned up,,,,I have only done a quick scan,,,,
I had not read it before and it is not on the keyword lists that I normally watch....will add it!
I expect some of you I am pinging have read it before ,...but in the flood of sSTUFF here may have had it recess in your recollections....
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The US ambassador in Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack after the diplomat's car was targeted in the eastern city of Benghazi, it was confirmed on Wednesday.
Great reporting. </sarc>
Thank you very much.
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On Tuesday the US state department confirmed that one of its employees had been killed by the mob that stormed the US mission in Benghazi, incensed by a US film that they deemed blasphemous to the prophet Muhammad. Libyan officials said Stevens and two security staff were in their car when gunmen fired rockets at it, Reuters reported. The official said the US military had sent a military plane to transport the bodies to Tripoli and to fly them back to the US.
See #44.
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What if it was an intentional FOREIGN POLICY???
Inventive reporting any one. :) Oh well it is the Guardian.
Sometimes mucking around in the older articles turns up things of interest and also reminds us ho inaccurate they might be,,,,
In a car....hmmm??
Did they get the line that Stephens was in a car from them also?
Nov the British ambassador was attacked in his car...in a convoy of vehicles....
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