Posted on 09/12/2012 7:21:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In the confusion surrounding the murders of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya yesterday, the Libyan government --- which exists due to the military intervention of the US and NATO --- initially left the impression that loyalists to dead dictator Moammar Qaddafi conducted the assassinations. CBS, however, now reports that the Libyan government has changed its tune. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and the other diplomatic personnel got moved to another building by Libyan security forces when the consulate was attacked, and then betrayed by them to the attackers:
Military officials told CBS News an anti-terrorism team of U.S. Marines was being deployed to Libya to help secure U.S. interests in the country following the attack. The State Department said, however, that no Americans were remaining at the facility in Benghazi. State officials would not confirm how many Americans were evacuated, or to where.
Wanis al-Sharef, a Libyan Interior Ministry official in Benghazi, said the four Americans were killed when the angry mob, which gathered to protest a U.S.-made film that ridicules Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, fired guns and burned down the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
He said Stevens, 52, and other officials were moved to a second building, deemed safer, after the initial wave of protests at the consulate. According to al-Sharef, members of the Libyan security team seem to have indicated to the protesters the building to which the American officials had been relocated, and that building then came under attack.
Stevens, 52, was the first U.S. ambassador to be killed in the line of duty since 1979.
The dispatch of more Marines to Libya comes a little late, writes Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart, who wonders why the US didn’t have more Marines stationed at this mission in the first place. Or did they have any?
Security at the consulate was apparently provided by Libyan nationals hired by the United States. While security for American embassies is typically provided by our own Marines, the two Marines reported killed in yesterday’s attacks appear not to have been stationed at the embassy, but were sent there from another unknown location as the violence erupted. There is also no indication if these two Marines were the only American military personnel on site at the time of Ambassador Stevens’s death.
All reports indicate that the security forces at the consulate were overwhelmed by the size of the militant crowds and offered no resistance as they stormed the building, looted it, and killed the four Americans.
As the facts surrounding the destruction of the American consulate and death of Ambassador Stevens become known, investigators will focus on these question: Did the State Department provide adequate security for our embassy staff there? If not, why not?
And finally, the most important question of all: Where were the Marines?
We’d better get those answers quickly … perhaps as quickly as tomorrow. The Muslim Brotherhood, which now controls Egypt, has called for a “peaceful protest” on Friday throughout all the country — and wants “all national forces” to participate in it:
Egypt’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood on Wednesday called for nationwide protests Friday after a film deemed offensive to Islam sparked a deadly attack in Libya and furious protests in Cairo.
The Brotherhood calls “for peaceful protests on Friday outside all the main mosques in all of Egypt’s provinces to denounce offenses to religion and to the Prophet,” the Muslim Brotherhood’s Secretary General Mahmud Hussein said in a statement.
He also urged all “national forces to join the protests.”
The Muslim Brotherhood, from which President Mohammed Morsi emerged, is the largest and most organized political force in the country.
We’d better figure out our security in Cairo ASAP, or get our people out of there. This is going downhill fast, and the weak-sauce responses from the Obama administration is very clearly not dissuading radicals from their purpose.
Update: Libya’s interim president, Mohammed el-Megarif, issued an explicit apology for the murders of Stevens and the three other Americans:
Mohammed el-Megarif described the attack as “cowardly” and offered his condolences on the death of Ambassador Chris Stevensand the three other Americans. Speaking to reporters, he vowed to bring the culprits to justice and maintain his country’s close relations with the United States. He said the three Americans were security guards. ….
“We extend our apology to America, the American people and the whole world,” el-Megarif said.
Contrast that with the silence coming from Egypt’s leadership after the attack on the US embassy.
With Muslim “security forces” killing our military almost daily in Afghanistan, why in the world do our diplomats trust any of them? This naivete cost these men their lives.
Well, I know that 2016: Obama’s America is insulting to the Progressive’s prophet, but I haven’t heard of one insulting the Muzzie’s. Knowing them it is probably something that came out five years ago and they are just know hearing about it in their sandhuts.
“While the United States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, we must all unequivocally oppose the kind of senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants. “- B Hussein Obama
I worked late last night and this is the first I have heard of this betrayal and outrage. Brutally killed AND DRAGGED THROUGH THE STREETS!!!!!?? My God how much more do we as Americans have to put up with. I am sick of this. I don’t care if these people like us...I want them to fear and respect us. Speak softly and carry the biggest damn stick in the neighborhood.
Why is the msm lying to cover for the terrorists? I just heard hillary give a statement saying that the Ambassador was taken to a hospital. There is a HUGE difference between what she said and what is being reported. I also wonder how the “handful” of radicals she referred to was actually a mob of thousands who proceeded to cheer the burning of our flag. Not one report mentioned these descrepancies.
Unless they were Jews...
What a strong President should do are the following:
1) Demand that the perpetrators be brought to justice.
2) Since the crime was committed in AMERICAN TERRITORY, America will try them and sentence them.
3) Tell Libya and Egypt that unless the above demands are fulfilled, THE CHECKS ARE NOT COMING.
We then give them a deadline.
If by the deadline, the above demands are not fulfilled, we do what Reagan did to Khadaffy.
Either turn that place into glass or personally go to the embassy with libyan-only guards, pull down that offensive black flag and raise the Flag of the United States of America.
Then, when you return to these shores, get on your knees and beg the forgiveness of the citizens of these United States. Do that or talk to the hand..
silver lining? this should quash any ‘further aspirations’
for her thighness. a huge failure at the end of her
term as s.o.s. hussane will throw her under the bus on this
one.
Every embassy or consulate I’ve been to had locals as the first line of defense. They can speak the language. The military bases are the same way except some places they will have US personnel with them.
There should NEVER be any checks sent to these savage sand dwelling goat f#ckers...there never SHOULD have been any. Taking taxpayer money to support people who HATE us is an insult to every American who pays taxes.
They hate us, they’ve ALWAYS hated us, they WILL always hate us. Fair enough...why support your enemy...let ‘em die. Every last friggin one.
Wait a minute. THis can't be right.
OBAMA JUST SAID IN THE PRESSER THAT THE LIBYAN SECURITY FORCES FOUGHT SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE MARINES TO DEFEND THE AMBASSADOR!
So what is Bark doing today? Flying off for campaign Fundraisers, of course:
10:35 am - The President delivers a statement Rose Garden Open Press
10:45 am - The President receives the Presidential Daily Briefing Oval Office Closed Press
1:15 pm - The President departs the White House en route Joint Base Andrews South Lawn Open Press
1:30 pm - The President departs Joint Base Andrews en route Las Vegas, Nevada Press Information
6:00 pm - The President arrives Las Vegas, Nevada Local Event Time:
3:00 PM PDT- McCarran International Airport Open Press
8:25 pm The President delivers remarks at a campaign event Local Event Time:
5:25 PM PDT- Cashman Center
9:40 pm- The President departs Las Vegas, Nevada en route Aurora, Colorado Local Event Time:
6:40 PM PDT- McCarran International Airport Open Press
11:10 pm - The President arrives Aurora, Colorado Local Event Time:
9:10 PM MDT- Buckley Air Force Base Open Press
Well, OBVIOUSLY, trusting in MUSLIMS is NOT a good idea. Having them as front men is fine, but you need a back-up force to provide REAL proection.
Better yet, instead of setting up Ambassadors in Islamic cities, we should be INCINERATING them (the Islamic cities) - ALL of them.
At times like these I agree with O’Barry... we should reduce our Nuclear stockpile... by using some of the older outdated warheads on Libya... maybe Egypt as well...
LOL!!!!
At times like these I agree with O’Barry... we should reduce our Nuclear stockpile... by using some of the older outdated warheads on Libya... maybe Egypt as well...
Do you think they could be keeping the Iraqi WMD (the ones that never existed, and were removed just before the US bombing) secure?
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