Posted on 10/29/2012 1:41:02 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
A Libyan Salafi group which has denied it was involved in a deadly assault on the American consulate in Benghazi said on Tuesday Libya would turn into "an inferno for U.S. troops" if the U.S. military retaliated.
Yousef Jehani, a senior member of Ansar al-Sharia, told Reuters that the armed group, which espouses an austere form of Islam, wanted to avoid confrontation but was ready for a showdown if Washington acted "foolishly".
Any U.S. military intervention could push Libyans to wage a holy war, or "jihad", to defend their nation, said Jehani, whose group is a powerful force in Benghazi, a stronghold for Islamists and cradle of the revolution which toppled Muammar Gaddafi last year.
"If one U.S. soldier arrives, not for the purpose of defending the embassy, but to repeat what happened in Iraq or Afghanistan, be sure that all battalions in Libya and all Libyans will put aside all their differences and rally behind one goal of hitting America and Americans," Jehani said.
The consulate attack was part of wider anti-American protests that erupted across the Middle East over an obscure, amateurish U.S.-made video that insulted the Prophet Mohammad.
Libya closed its air space over Benghazi airport temporarily due to heavy anti-aircraft fire by Islamists aiming at U.S. reconnaissance drones flying over the city, days after the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans died in the attack.
The closure of the airport prompted speculation that the United States was deploying special forces in preparation for an attack against the assailants of the consulate. Two U.S. warships headed for the coast off Libya.
DRONES OVER BENGHAZI
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You have surely done a good job Obozo, Turned the entire ME upside down, Maybe you just didn’t kiss enough a$$ you little punk.
Is the glass parking lot still off the table?
how humiliating is that?
to have a third world tin horn punk lay terms to us.
“The consulate attack was part of wider anti-American protests that erupted across the Middle East over an obscure, amateurish U.S.-made video that insulted the Prophet Mohammad.”
Reuters repeating the lie even now! Unfreakinbelievable!
Ping.
Reuters didn't get the email. When the lie changes, it's important to pass the revision along. Check the little red book. We must have gotten the three stooges variation of communists.
Obama did the apology tour because we were hated and feared. Now we are hated and scorned. Nice job BO, much better.
the more likely scenario is that Egypt will invade libya officially to advance the caliphate but really for libyan oil revenues because egypt is flat broke. When starvation breaks out the muslim brotherhood and salafists are going to be severely embarrassed. they want to avoid that.
al queda will serve as the libyan 5th column for egyptian interests.
And now a Libya group says America had better not attempt to retaliate. Wonderful of obama to tell the world what he’s going to do so the muslims can get ready for it.
Turn Libya into a waste land and do it in one week. And warn the middle east that any attempt to stop will result in destroying your Country.
0-BOMB-A bombed Libya without Congressional approval and all he got was four dead Americans’ bloody T-shirts.
I guess it is the Fall harvest for that US State Department supported Arab Spring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Y-WIdHuM4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y
Hey Jehani, calm down.
This isn’t a big deal, buddy.
If Obama sends any Americans to Libya, he want’s you to kill them.
Peace, man....
But I imagine they are pretty full of themselves after they burned our stuff down....and ran us out of town....makes them the Big Dog in the neighborhood.
Do these guys work at The Weather Channel?
So 0bama is cowed by a bunch of terrorists?!?!
They need to empty a few Trident tubes and turn Libya into a parking lot and tell Iran and all the other ragheads there's plenty more where that came from!
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