Posted on 10/15/2012 2:03:40 PM PDT by drewh
The Associated Press reports:
Administration officials say the White House has put special operations strike forces on standby and moved drones into the skies above Africa, ready to hit militant targets from Libya to Mali, if U.S. investigators can find the al-Qaida-linked group responsible for the death of the U.S. ambassador in Libya.
But the officials say the administration also is weighing whether the short-term payoff of being able to claim retribution against al-Qaida is worth the risk that such strikes would be ineffective and rile governments in the region.
Details were provided by three current and one former administration official, as well as an analyst who was approached by the White House for help. All four spoke only on condition of anonymity.
The White House would not confirm the reports.
(Also on POLITIOC: Clinton defends State on Benghazi)
"The investigation is on-going and we have nothing new right now. As [Pentagon spokesman] George Little has briefed recently, the DoD continues to monitor the situation closely and we are ready to respond with additional military measures when directed by the president," Robert Firman, a spokesman for the Department of Defense, told POLITICO.
Philip Ewing contributed to this report.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Maybe he won’t even make the debate .... he is CIC and there are pressing military matters and all that, you know ... he blew off Bibi, what’s blowing off Romney and some silly debate? /s
I believe it was called "Viet Nam"...
“ready to hit militant targets”
Under the radar: Target the now useless Benghazi CIA compound.
Silly rabbit. The State Department will find out that the video (which was really at fault after all) was actually funded by a Tea Party group in rural Texas. The attack begins tomorrow at 4pm.
-PJ
-PJ
Uh huh
An attack will have a negative environmental impact. Our diplomats in Austria will have to go without their new GM Leafs.
How many Obama wars?
We know who the bad guys are, but our military cannot help us. Our only hope is that patriotism will overcome fraud in three weeks, and that we'll be able to remove the bad guys from office peacefully on election day.
“We don’t even know who the bad guys are...”
Oh, I imagine they are on speed dial at the White House. They are the same folks, including Al Queda, that we were helping when they were fighting Kadafi. THAT is why Obama has not been forthcoming on this whole thing.
I can’t get ONE stinkin’ lib to tell me where the he**
code stink has been hiding!
How many countries does this evil jacka** have our
troops involved in???
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