Good question - Lamb said it’s something they did before and it worked - while later they said each country is unique - which is it one might wonder. I listened intently to the hearing for the name, it was mentioned a couple of times as Feb17 - fine, but is was later mentioned as the Feb 17 Brigade - not fine. They obviously knew by mentioning the full title would be problematic so they ommitted it. They can’t even say the name “Martyr” at the hearing yet could hire them to guard our personnel. That’s a problem.
Feb 17th and al Sharia work together, from what one can gather, they weren’t skilled enough to plan and execute such a sophisicated attack since they just formed last year but they were the spies and perhaps the shooters in the aftermath. There’s speculation that it’s a north African al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb...in saying it’s al-Qaeda links all of them together and doesn’t tell us anything per se. They each have their own specific names, and their own specific government Party which means they have their own leader, and that’s the people that need to be tracked (it’s probably already known who they are by their mosque). Most of these groups are either Salafists/Wahabbis now or currently growing their beards. They’re growing in huge numbers. Germany’ intel in 2010 said they had 5-6,000 Salafists in their country.
Who was expert enough to pull off the attack...most say it had to be military. It was either the aforementioned al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb or perhaps some of the Green Military Brigade officers who defected. An opportunity to get back for the way Ghaddafi’ died and/or stay aligned with the hardcore al-Qaeda/Salafists.
Exactly. You're one of the only people around who I've seen who is thinking about the sophistication of the attack, and what that means.
Think about the fact that they used MORTARS (indirect fire) effectively, and ANTI-AIRCRAFT weapons. That's amazing. Where did they get such heavy equipment? How did they learn to use it? I understand from some early reports that the indirect mortar fire was amazingly accurate, landing on our personnel as they retreated to supposedly secret safe houses. That means great intelligence, spotters for the mortar teams, radio comms, training, etc.
This was an incredibly sophisticated attack, and we've got nobody anywhere in public investigating that.
I want to know one thing that I believe will be the thread that unravels the whole thing:
Were the weapons American or Russian?
I'll bet they are American weapons, which means 0bama supplied them either to Islamonazis to defeat Ghaddaffi, or Morsi in Egypt sent in the teams. Either way, that fact would blow this Administration to smithereens.