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Abdelhakim Belhadj This man traveled often between Libya and Turkey before the attack. He is now the head of the Military Council of Tripoli. But he was previously very closely associated with al-Qaeda. Belhadj fought as a mujahid in Afghanistan during the 1980s, with the troops of bin Laden against the Red Army. He then founded a group of Islamic jihadists in Libya. He moved along Pakistan, Turkey, Sudan, Iraq... where he fought alongside al-Qaeda's actual leader, al-Zarqawi. Belhadj met with leaders of the Free Syrian Army in Istanbul, as well as on the Syrian-Turkish border. In fact, it is Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the interim president of Libya, who sent him there. Belhadj was part of a Libyan delegation which proposed to send not only weapons, but also Libyan fighters to Syria, in order to support the insurrection. The new Libyan authorities offered money, arms and men to the uprising against the Assad regime. After chasing Gaddafi, hundreds of Libyan young men, still filled with revolutionary fervor, are eager to overthrow the dictator next ... The CIA was also involved in this trade. CIA agents working in conjunction with the Turkish intelligence agency Millî İstihbarat Teskilati (MIT), near the Turkish-Syrian border, organized arms deliveries to rebel groups in Syria. Abdelhakim Belhadj was also involved. Belhadj, a leader of the revolutionary effort against Gaddafi and now an active agent of the Libyan government, surely had access to Qaddafi's stockpiles of weapons, and to weapons provided by the Obama regime. He was probably aware of the CIA Annex in Benghazi, of the high value of its stock. We know he has been closely linked to al-Qaeda. We also know that the group which claimed responsibility for the attack of 11 September 2012, Ansar al-Sharia, the terrorist group that plundered the stock of money and weapons to the Annex to the CIA, is a front for al-Qaeda. We also know that it is in contact with the leadership of the Free Syrian Army, the CIA, and the Turkish government.

The U.S. mission in Benghazi was participating in running weapons from Libya to Syria via Turkey. Then something went wrong at delivery: Free Syrian Army members fought elements of the Muslim Brotherhood over an imporant cargo. Five days later, an American Ambassador is dead, and an Annexed managed by the CIA is pillaged.
Did Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood command the Turkish diplomat and a terrorist group to help set up the assassination of Ambassador Stevens, and the subsequent looting of the CIA annex, which contained PLENTY of weapons and PLENTY of cash?

Samar Srewel, who is reportedly an FSA activist who did help organizing the naval consignment of the al-Entisar, reportedly told The Times:

The Muslim Brotherhood, through its ties in Turkey, was seizing control of this ship and the cargo. This is what they do. They buy influence with their money and guns.

Erratum: The Libyan-flagged vessel Al Entisar (The Victory) was on the port of Malta on August 27 2011*, not 2012.

With the sources:

The Libyan-flagged vessel Al Entisar (The Victory) was on the port of Malta on August 27 2012.


According to a Fox News investigation, shipping records confirmed that the Al Entisar docked at the Turkish port of Iskenderun on September 6. Iskanderun, or 'Alexandrette' on the map below, is quite close to Idlib (where the Syrian civil war was raging then).
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Fox News reported that, according to a report by the Times of London (September 14, 2012), the Al Entisar was carrying 400 tons of cargo when it dock in Iskanderun.

Some of it was humanitarian, but also reportedly weapons, described by the report as the largest consignment of weapons headed for Syria's rebels on the frontlines.

The cargo reportedly included surface-to-air anti-aircraft missiles, rocket-propelled grenades and shoulder-launched missiles.
According to Fox News, the ship's Libyan captain told the Times of London that "It was reported there was a FIGHT about the weapons and who got what between the Free Syrian Army and the Muslim Brotherhood."

A key element here is what happened with the al-Entisar in Turkey, 5 days before the attack. That looks to me as the actual reason of the meeting between Stevens and the Turk.

Al-Entisar is a Libyan ship (which is NOW in Istanbul, Turkey !!) which was in early September 2012 by the non-governmental organization Insani Yardim Vakfi (IHH), an self-defined Islamic group.
Al-Entisar docked the Turkish port of Alexandretta, a few kilometers from the Syrian province of Idlib, which lies at the heart of civil war in Syria, a few days before the attack on Benghazi, on 6 September 2012. It allegedly carried 400 tons of cargo, including heavy weapons such as SAMs and rocket launchers.
According to the captain of the ship, a Libyan, there was a fight about these weapons, between members of the Free Syrian Army and elements associated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Free Syrian Army had then been fighting for a year on the ground against the Assad regime. It is she who was then providing the command structure organizing multiple bands of wars and defected military units.
Incidentally, the IHH, the Turkish Islamic NGO who was in charge of Al-Entisar, is prohibited by Israel since 2008. It worked in the service of the Muslim Brotherhood. Close to Hamas (which is a faction of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza) and to the Islamic regime of Erdogan, it is financed by islamic groups. It is well known that the NGO has been working for a long time to provide arms and funds to several militant factions of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East.
The Muslim Brotherhood, through their links with Turkey Erdogan, tried to take control of the ship and its cargo. And a fight broke out in Alexandretta between the Brotherhood and the Free Syrian Army. Could this fight have been linked to the murder of Stevens five days later, and to the looting of the CIA Annex?

First, the State Dpt said that Ty went to the 'Consulate'. Now it appears he stayed at the Annex. Which is it? Did he stay at the Annex, protecting it, or did he go to the so-called Consulate?

Quote from Diana West, who exchanged with the Turk:

Here is what [Ali Akin Sait] wrote:

Facts:
- I arrive at the US Consulate at 18.30 and our meeting ended at 19.30. At 19.45 we left the premises completely.
- The venue and hour of the meeting was fixed by Chris.
- When i was there and left the area there was nothing abnormal. There were no roadblocks, no armed men, nothing extraordinary or suspicious. I left my car with 2 security guards in it in front of the Consulate in the middle of the road for an hour.
- On that evening neither Chris nor me was worried about our security. Basically, we did not perceive such a threat for that day. He was relaxed. Among the issues we also mentioned the general security situation in Benghazi and Chris said that he is aware of deteriorating security situation here in general and as a caution he preferred to stay at the Consulate rather than going out to restaurants, mentioning what happened to the convoy of the British Ambassador in Benghazi several months ago. I agreed and confirmed his view.
- I was informed by Turkish police advisor in the UN mission in Benghazi about the attack around 22.00 o'clock. We all thought and told that it was a protest against the movie just as the one in Cairo. I did not realize until next morning how it was serious and deadly.
- I do not think that it was an attack against Ambassador Stevens. I do not think that they knew that he was there. If they had known that they would not have left him there.
Me, personally, i did not know that there was an annex. US diplomats are very discreet about their security arrangements and we respect that due to the threats they are faced.

Source: http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2345/Benghazi-The-Turkish-Timeline.aspx

Do you know where is the Turk? Will Ali Akin Sait testify? He was likely in cahoots with the terrorists.

YouTube link wasn't active; here it is:

Ain’t about blamaing nobody, but about mapping what happened, so as to understand better what is going on NOW.

CIA’s Global Response Staff (GRS)

Part of the expansion of the CIA’s paramilitary capabilities, GRS units are *secret* security forces created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Ty Woods and Glen Doherty were both members of the CIA’s GRS, an organization that has recruited hundreds of former U.S. Special Forces operatives and veterans of police department SWAT teams to serve as armed guards to provide a layer of security for CIA officers in high-risk outposts, whose counterterrorism assignments carry a level of risk.

Was David Ubben working for the GRS as a contractor ??

Diplomatic Security agent David Ubben is being treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, according to investigative reporter Catherine Herridge.

In the so-called US 'Consulate' in Benghazi, Ubben helped recover the dead body of Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith.

Later, he was fighting the terrorists from the roof of the CIA Annex--alongside Ty Woods and Glen Douherty, the two former Navy SEALs who were killed that night.

Recap of the event

Between 19:30 and 20:30, Ambassador Christopher Stevens met Turkish Consul General Ali Akin Sait.

Then the American escorted the Turk to the door to say *goodbye*.
"Everything is calm at 8:30 PM. There is nothing unusual," according to a briefing from the U.S. State Department. BUT Associated Press (AP) reported a testimony from neighbors, Libyans in Benghazi living next to the compound, according to which there were "150 bearded gunmen [...] sealing off the streets leading to the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. They set up roadblocks with pick-up trucks mounted with heavy machine guns, according to witnesses. The trucks bore the logo of Ansar al-Shariah, a powerful local group of Islamist militants who worked with the municipal government to manage security in Benghazi [...]".

According to AP, "The neighbors all described activists who put up checkpoints around the enclosure to about 8:00 PM."

The Turkish Consul General had to go through the blockade as he left the vicinity of the compound, and the attack began as soon as he went through.

Where is that Turk by the way? Any news?

According to State Department's Charlene R. Lamb, a Diplomatic Security agent working at the Tactical Operation Center activated immediately the Imminent Danger Notification system, as soon as the attack began.

Ambassador Steven, Sean Smith, and four Security agents--including David Ubben--were within the main compound.

David Ubben was among the agents who pulled out the dead body of Sean Smith, and rushed it into the armored vehicle that brough them back to the CIA Annex. Ubben was involved in both buildings' attacks.

Ty Woods was already at the CIA Annex. Doherty had flown from Tripoli to Benghazi with 3 others via a private plane.

[Glen Doherty] had arrived in Libya one day earlier, working with a team of CIA security contractors (“GRS”: Global Response Staff). They heard the news that the mission was under attack and a team of four of them rushed in to help. They chartered a flight as quickly as possible by showing up at the airport and convincing a pilot to fly them to Benghazi for $30,000.

In Benghazi they were frustratingly detained while negotiating with the right militias to reach where they wanted to go. They knew that the battle was raging and had now shifted from the temporary mission to the Annex. As soon as they could, they hired a car to rush them to the Annex, arriving at around 5 AM.

At the Annex, they joined the fight. Glen [...] fired on attackers from a defensive position inside. He heard that Ty was directing the defensive operation from the roof and went to join him. On the fortified roof, Glen hugged Ty, who gave him a hearty endorsement in introducing him to the 2 other men up there, one GRS and one DSS (State Department security). [...]

Enemy mortars “bracketed” the building, over--and under--shooting it before three struck the roof in quick succession. The first killed Ty and critically injured the other GRS agent. The second killed Glen instantly. Each of the three severely injured the DSS agent.

It was shortly after 6 AM. At this point, readings from an unarmed drone suggested about a hundred more militants were on the move towards them. The decision was made to evacuate everyone to the airport. [...] The two others wounded on the roof remain very severely injured, but are recovering.

David Ubben was one of them. We don't know yet if he was DSS or GRS.

CIA’s Global Response Staff (GRS)
Part of an expansion of the CIA’s paramilitary capabilities, GRS units are *secret* security forces created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Ty Woods and Glen Doherty were both members of the CIA’s GRS, an organization that has recruited hundreds of former U.S. Special Forces operatives and veterans of police department SWAT teams to serve as armed guards to provide a layer of security for CIA officers in high-risk outposts, whose counterterrorism assignments carry a level of risk.

Was David Ubben working for the GRS as a contractor ??

Beyond hiring former U.S. military commandos, the agency has collaborated with U.S. Special Operations teams on missions including the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and has killed thousands of Islamist militants and civilians with its fleet of armed drones.

GRS units also provide security for personnel from other agencies, including National Security Agency teams deploying sensors or eavesdropping equipment in conflict zones. They map escape routes from meeting places, pat down informants and provide an “envelope” of security.

In Benghazi, a GRS team rushed to the burning State Department where Ambassador Stevens was killed in an attempt to rescue U.S. diplomats, then evacuated survivors.

Glen Doherty was a GRS contractor on his second CIA assignment in Libya. He had served in other places, including Mexico City.

“He wasn’t there to protect an embassy. He was there to recover RPGs [rocket-propelled grenades],” said Doherty's sister. He was providing security for CIA teams tracking Libyan stockpiles of weapons.

By effectively occupying a part of the Boston metro area, law enforcement officers made a mockery of the 4th Amendment.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

-- The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution

Since there was no "hot pursuit," no argument was available to Law Enforcement Officers allowing searches of private property without consent or a warrant.

The exception to the rule has become the rule under Obama -- to an unprecedented extent.By effectively occupying a part of the Boston metro area, law enforcement officers made a mockery of the 4th Amendment.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

-- The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution

Since there was no "hot pursuit," no argument was available to Law Enforcement Officers allowing searches of private property without consent or a warrant.

The exception to the rule has become the rule under Obama -- to an unprecedented extent. The Obama régime has been systematically institutionalizing arbitrary decision.

The very distinction between peace and war, and between foreign and civil war, is impossible where the emergency becomes the rule. This began under Bush, with the Patriot Act. But it has been consolidated by the Obama administration.

1) Obama appeals to the principle of the state secret to block any judicial oversight of “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

2) Obama asserts an exception for suspects considered terrorist threats.

3) Obama institutionalizes trial by military commission on domestic soil for individuals deemed “unlawful combattants” -- in order to lower the bar of what constitutes admissible evidence and to restrict a suspect’s rights to legal defense.

4) Obama expands the system of secret “black sites” into which unlawful combattants disappear without a trace, whilst extending the mandate of the CIA (beyond information gathering) to military special-operation interventions.

Source

Obama has made the CIA becomes a full-spectrum paramilitary force unto itself, carrying out the shadowy war games of the régime under the cover of secrecy provided by its black sites. Obama also issues secret Executive Orders giving the Pentagon’s US Special Operations Command CIA-like surveillance capabilities. Perpetually poised for instant delivery of extralegal action on demand, the USOC reports directly to the president personally.

5) The practice of targetted assassination has expanded significantly under Obama. The régime has even extended targetted assassination to US citizens.

6) Obama used the national security rationale to institute exceptions to constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure. And he has expanded the high-tech surveillance system by invoking state secrets to prevent judicial oversight.

Obama has also declared war on whisle-blowers, prosecuting with draconian zeal individuals who leak government and military information.

7) Obama deployed the military in Libya without consulting Congress — and never went back to Congress for its rubber stamp.

The use of extralegal powers is becoming the norm. The exception is becoming the norm. And that’s why a hot war is inevitable. THE EXCEPTION is now THE NORM, and peace cannot be distinguished from war any longer. The Consitution is out of order, inoperative, neutralized.

The Constitution and the State of Exception Article 1 of the Constitution establishes that "the Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it" -- but does not specify which AUTHORITY has the jurisdiction to decide on the exceptional suspension.

Another passage of Article 1 declares that the power to declare war and to raise and support the army and navy rests with Congress, BUT Article 2 states that "the President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States."

Let's just look at a few precedents:

During the Civil War (1861–1865), Lincoln acted counter to the text of Article 1 (on April 15, 1861) by proclaiming that an army of seventy-five thousand men was to be raised and convened a special session of Congress for July 4. In the ten weeks that passed between April 15 and July 4, Lincoln acted de facto as a total dictator. On April 27, Lincoln authorized the General in Chief of the Army to suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus whenever he deemed it necessary along the military line between Washington and Philadelphia. Furthermore, on February 1862, Lincoln imposed censorship of the mail and authorized the arrest and detention in military prisons of persons suspected of "disloyal and treasonable practices".

In the speech he delivered to Congress July 4 1861, President Lincoln justified his actions as the holder of a supreme power to violate the Constitution in a situation of necessity:

"Whether strictly legal or not, [the measures he had adopted had been taken] under what appeared to be a popular demand and a public necessity" in the certainty that Congress would ratify them. Those exceptional measures were based on the conviction that even fundamental, natural law could be violated IF the very existence of the union and the juridical order were at stake:

"Are all the laws but one to go unexecuted, and the Government itself go to pieces lest that one be violated?"

--Lincoln

Although Congress was aware that the constitutional jurisdictions had been transgressed, it could do nothing but ratify the actions of the President, as it did on August 6, 1861. Strengthened by this approval, Lincoln proclaimed on September the emancipation of the slaves on his authority alone and later generalized the state of emergency throughout the entire territory of the United States, authorizing the arrest and trial before courts martial of "all Rebels and Insurgents, their aiders and abettors within the United States, and all persons discouraging volunteer enlistments, resisting militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal practice, affording aid and comfort to Rebels against the authority of the United States."

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During World War One President Wilson assumed broader powers than those Lincoln had claimed. However, instead of ignoring Congress, as Lincoln had done, Wilson had those extraordinary powers delegated to him by Congress. Instead of declaring a state of emergency, he had exceptional laws issued. From 1917 to 1918, Congress approved a series of acts (from the Espionage Act of 1917 to the Departmental Reorganization Act of 1918) that granted the President COMPLETE CONTROL over the administration of the United States and not only prohibited disloyal activities (such as collaboration with the enemy and the diffusion of false reports), but even made it a crime to "willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States" (from the Sedition Act of 1918).

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Since the power of the President is grounded in the emergency linked to a state of war, the metaphor of war became a part of the presidential vocabulary whenever decisions considered to be of vital importance are being imposed.

In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt was able to assume extraordinary powers by presenting his actions as those of a Commander in Chief during a military campaign:

"I assume unhesitatingly the leadership of this great army of our people dedicated to a disciplined attack upon our common problems.…I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken Nation in the midst of a stricken world may require.…But in the event that the Congress shall fail to take [the necessary measures] and in the event that the national emergency is still critical, I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me. I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis—broad Executive power to wage war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe."

--Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933

From the constitutional point of view, the New Deal was realized by delegating to the President (through a series of statutes culminating in the National Recovery Act of June 1933) an UNLIMITED POWER to CONTROL every aspect of the economic life.

The outbreak of World War Two extended these powers with the creation of a "Office of Emergency Management" [the ancestor of today's FEMA]. On September 7, 1942, FDR renewed his claim to TOTAL CONTROL during the emergency:

"In the event that the Congress should fail to act, and act adequately, I shall accept the responsibility, and I will act.…The American people can…be sure that I shall not hesitate to use every power vested in me to accomplish the defeat of our enemies in any part of the world where our own safety demands such defeat."

On February 19, 1942, the FDR administration proceeded with the internment of seventy thousand American citizens of Japanese descent who resided on the West Coast (along with forty thousand Japanese citizens who lived and worked there).

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By constantly referring to himself as the "Commander in Chief of the Army" after September 11, 2001, President Bush's was attempting to produce a situation in which the emergency becomes the rule.

The logic of politics has become a logic of war.

Thank you so very much for that. I'm processing that avalanche of info.

Meanwhile, Boston Jihad Imam Suhaib Webb (@ImamSuhaibWebb; Facebook account here) claims never to have seen the Tsarnaev bros:

Originally intended to minister to an urban congregation of African-American Muslims, the mosque project was turned over by the city, with no fanfare and little notice, to the control of suburban-based Muslims of largely Saudi Arabian heritage: the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB), which more recently became the Muslim American Society of Boston (MAS-Boston).

The Boston Redevelopment Authority, which is the city’s municipal planning agency and which is comprised of mayoral appointees, conveyed the land for the ISB’s purchase in 2000 at more than $400,000. However, the city of Boston only charged ISB $175,000 for the land, with an agreement that the ISB perform other services for the city to make up the $225,000 remainder. The ISB agreed to deliver a series of lectures at Roxbury Community College, to assist the Roxbury Community College Foundation in its fundraising efforts, and to maintain a Boston “play area.” The deal was later described in media coverage as “an apparent financial handout” and a “possible government subsidy” from the city of Boston to the ISB.

Thank you.

Do you have any link regarding the pursuit against the Boston Redevelopment Authority?

I don’t care if he was thrown out or not; what’s interesting here is that he did attend that mosque, the ISBCC.

In this YouTube video, Anwar Kazmi describes Dzhokhar as "an infrequent visitor" of the ISB "in the last year-and-a-half or so."