Posted on 12/01/2012 11:13:54 AM PST by raptor22
Parallels: A mission was attacked after warnings, Americans were killed after security requests were denied, and a diplomat went on TV to explain it all — our current U.N. ambassador, after embassy bombings in 1998.
'What troubles me so much is the Benghazi attack in many ways echoes the attacks on both embassies in 1998, when Susan Rice was head of the African region for our State Department," Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said Wednesday after two hours with our U.N. ambassador. "In both cases, the ambassador begged for additional security."
In both cases, Susan Rice was involved more than she would like to admit.
In the spring of 1998, Prudence Bushnell, the U.S. ambassador to Kenya, sent an emotional letter to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright begging for a more secure embassy in the face of mounting terrorist threats and a warning that she was the target of an assassination plot.
The State Department had repeatedly denied her request, citing a lack of money. But that kind of response, she wrote Albright, was "endangering the lives of embassy personnel."
A matter of months later, on Aug. 7, 1998, the American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya were simultaneously attacked with car bombs. In Kenya, 12 American diplomats and more than 200 Africans were killed.
As in Benghazi, requests for more security were denied, warnings were issued, prior incidents were ignored and Susan Rice went on TV to explain it all.
(Excerpt) Read more at tcotblog.ning.com ...
0bama was notified immediately and automatically when the Benghazi consulate triggered the "Imminent Danger Notification System" alert. He did nothing.
Judge Jeanine Investigates Benghazi Gate Part 4 - 10/20/2012 video 6:53
Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer (U.S. Army ret.), former CIA Station Chief Gary Berntsen and former CIA operative Mike Baker
Howie Carr interview with Col. Hunt On The Newest Libyan Revelations audio 28:37
There are three scandals here...
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Denial of requests for security were a dereliction of duty. The lies and misdirection about the "video" after the attack were fraud and malfeasance under the color of authority. The inaction during the attack was something more than that.
The failure to act during the attack is the direct equivalent of desertion IMO.
ONE man had the authority to act that night.
ONE man deserted his post!
EXCLUSIVE: CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack, sources say
0bama abandoned his post. 0bama Is A Deserter!
BTTT
Susan Rice and Sandy Berger were also heavily involved in Clinton’s bombing of the “aspirin factory” in Sudan to get Iraqi WMD.
Also, 1998 was an interesting year in Africa:
FEBRUARY 1998 : (UK’S TONY BLAIR CONTACTS CLINTON TO DISCUSS RESOLVING THE LIBYA PROBLEM - LIBYA TRYING TO CHANGE ITS PARIAH STATUS - See Asst Sec of State MARTIN INDYK - he was involved in the later meetings between Clinton Admin and Libyan intelligence operative Musa Kusa)
MARCH 1998 : (LIBYA ISSUES THE FIRST INTERPOL ARREST WARRANT FOR OSAMA BIN LADEN)
AUGUST 1998 : (ABU HAMZA VIDEO REFERS TO A SHIP [”BOOTY”] COMING INTO A HARBOR -— SEE OCT 2000 USS COLE BOMBING IN YEMEN)
AUGUST 5, 1998 : (IRAQ RELEASES STATEMENT)
AUGUST 7, 1998 : (AFRICA : TERRORISTS ATTACK US EMBASSIES IN KENYA & TANZANIA) Terrorists Bomb U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/955407/posts
AUGUST 7, 1998 : (KENYA & TANZANIA : US EMBASSIES BOMBED; SPECULATION FOCUSED ON IRAQ UNTIL MUHAMMAD ODEH WAS CAUGHT BY PAKISTAN ON A BOGUS PASSPORT- SINCE ODEH COULD BE TRACED TO AL QAEDA, IRAQI LINKS WERE OVERLOOKED)
AUGUST 7, 1998 : (AFRICA : KENYA & TANZANIA US EMBASSY BOMBINGS - IN LIGHT OF IRAQ’S AUGUST 5 STATEMENTS, US EMBASSY BOMBINGS LOOK LINKED TO IRAQ, BUT ADMINISTRATION CHOOSES TO FOCUS PUBLICLY ONLY ON BIN LADEN) - “More Criticism; Sudan and Iraq,” By Laurie Mylroie , Iraq News, SEPTEMBER 2, 1998
AUGUST 7, 1998 : (US EMBASSIES BOMBINGS & HERNDON VA’S TARIQ HAMDI {See SATPHONE, SAMI AL ARIAN, ABC NEWS’ PETER JENNINGS, CANNISTRARO, IIIT, TURKEY}) -———The Jihadi Journalist : The Real Peter Jennings (Debbie Schlussel Says There’s Nothing Laudatory About Peter Jennings Alert)
Debbie Schlussel.com ^ | 08/08/05 | Debbie Schlussel
AUGUST 8, 1998 : (SUDAN : TWO SUSPECTED US AFRICA EMBASSY BOMBING {see 1990sKENYA & 1990sTANZANIA} CONSPIRATORS ARE ARRESTED IN SUDAN, BUT THE STATE DEPT REFUSES TO ALLOW AN FBI TEAM TO TRAVEL TO KHARTOUM TO DISCUSS EXTRADITION/RENDERING OF THE SUSPECTS)
AUGUST 1998 : (THE FBI’s JOHN P. O’NIELL SUPERVISES INVESTIGATION OF THE US EMBASSY BOMBINGS IN KENYA & TANZANIA) John P. O’Neill is the FBI’s top terrorist expert - “Body of FBI Terrorist Fighter Found in Wreckage of Trade Center,” The Associated Press Published: Sep 21, 2001 (* My note : O’Niell was reportedly killed in the Sept 11, 2001 attacks on the US)
AUGUST 12, 2005 : (TURKEY : HERNDON VA CELL’S IRAQI-BORN TARIK A HAMDI, THE AMERICAN CONTACT FOR ONE OF BIN LADEN’S FRONT ORGS [?CDLR?], IS NOW WORKING FOR THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT’S FOREIGN MINISTRY IN TURKEY -— See IIIT, VINCE CANNISTRARO, SAMI AL ARIAN, COMMITTEE FOR DEFENSE OF LEGITIMATE RIGHTS aka CDLR [{See COLUMBIA MO CELL’S AL MASARI & LONDON UK CELL’S KHALID AL-FAWWAZ {See GALLOWAY, LONDON}])
AUGUST? 1998 : (DAYS AFTER US EMBASSY BOMBINGS IN AFRICA, CLINTON ADMIN FAILS IN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON OBL —See OMAR BIN LADEN)
-——Does Omar Bin Laden’s Tell-All Reveal the Contents of Sandy Berger’s Pants?, Pajamas Media ^ | Sept 18, 2009 | Annie Jacobsen Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2009 4:39:07 PM by gaijin
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Richard Clarke, also said in front of the 9/11 Committee that the Clinton administration bombed the “aspirin factory” in Sudan hoping to kill al Qaeda’s chief bomb-maker, BUT HE WAS IN IRAQ MEETING WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN! [SOURCE?]
1998 : (SUDAN : ATTACK ON AL SHIFA PHARMACEUTICAL PLANT FAILS TO KILL AL QAEDA’S CHIEF BOMB-MAKER BECAUSE THE BOMBMAKER WAS IN IRAQ MEETING WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN AT THE TIME)
AUGUST ?, 1998 LATE : (SUDAN {—— see 199800africa}: IRAQI VP TAHA YASIN RAMADAN STOPS OFF IN KHARTOUM TO VIEW THE PHARMACEUTICAL FACTORY BOMBED BY THE USA WHILE ON HIS WAY TO THE NON-ALIGNED SUMMIT IN SOUTH AFRICA; MAKES COMMENTS THAT THE US WAS SPURRED ON BY ‘ZIONISTS’)
OCTOBER 4, 1998 : (REPORT SURFACES THAT CLINTON ADMINISTRATION DID NOT CONSULT WITH JOINT CHIEFS OR THE FBI ABOUT AUG 1998 AFGHANISTAN & SUDAN BOMBING RAIDS———1998africa)
DECEMBER 1998 : (USA : SARIN NERVE AGENT SPILL AT CHEMICAL WEAPONS INCINERATOR-—See 199800WMD [AND MAYBE RELATED TO SUDAN AL SHIFA BOMBING?*])
DECEMBER 1998 : (YEMEN: ADEN CHRISTMAS PLOT FOILED—SEE USS COLE, ABU HAMZA-)
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