Posted on 09/15/2012 7:44:31 AM PDT by barryobi
AL-Qaeda said the deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya was in revenge for the killing of the network's number two Sheikh Abu Yahya al-Libi, SITE Intelligence Group reported.
"The killing of Sheikh Abu Yahya only increased the enthusiasm and determination of the sons of (Libyan independence hero) Omar al-Mokhtar to take revenge upon those who attack our Prophet," said al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula said in a statement, quoted by the US-based monitoring group.
Al-Qaida's Yemen-based offshoot did not claim direct responsibility for Tuesday's attack on the US consulate in Benghazi that killed the US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans.
But it stressed that "the uprising of our people in Libya, Egypt and Yemen against America and its embassies is a sign to notify the United States that its war is not directed against groups and organisations ... but against the Islamic nation that has rebelled against injustice."
The statement comes four days after al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri issued a video eulogising Libi, his late deputy and propaganda chief who was killed in a drone strike in June.
Mohammed al-Megaryef, the head of Libya's national assembly, said today that the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi was planned and "meticulously executed."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytelegraph.com.au ...
Expected release from the White House:
“Information released by al-Qaida that the attacks in Benghazi were in revenge for the killing of al-Libi. al-Qaida is mistaken. That is NOT why they attacked the US embassy. They meant to say that they were angry at the anti-Muslim movie that was recently released. al-Qaida does NOT know what they are talking about. WE will tell them what they are angry at. They are not qualified to make such announcements about themselves. WE are professionals and are the only ones fully qualified to determine the source of their anger.”
NOTHING TO SEE HERE. This is all over a YouTube video.
This is just a “small but savage” group of extremists.
Everybody move along.
However, now in the land of 0pansy, there will be a ‘green’ tax because companies ‘..didn't build that..’ and that unionCrap folks had less control in the situation.
Side note: I like your name. Is it you, your kids, or both? Speaking of Marines that is. My Marines (cousins and such) are now in the psycho Gulf and Afgan.
Bless you and yours MarineDad. God Bless. (is that still legal to say?)
redshawk.
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