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Video: MSNBC Turns on Obama, Admits Benghazi Cover-Up
Capitolism Institute ^ | 5/11/13

Posted on 05/11/2013 4:04:10 AM PDT by Impala64ssa

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To: Impala64ssa

I find it interesting that there’s a change in the media exactly at the time John McCain proposes cable TV switch to a pay-per-channel approach.

....maybe the media realizes Benghazi now needs to be covered, otherwise they’ll look foolish. ...maybe they realize they’d better get their act together because the business landscape may change from under them.


81 posted on 05/11/2013 9:18:57 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: moovova

Those two missiles ( recently) fired at that Russian airliner over Syria were REAL. Thank god they really missed. Wait till the first American airliner has to resort to evasive measures... this cat ain’t going back in the bag.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Yes, this is evidence of Obama’s handiwork in Benghazi
in giving Libyan ordnance to the Muslim Brotherhood.

Link to write up on that missile attack on the Russian Airliner:

http://rt.com/news/rockets-russian-plane-syria-575/

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“’Missiles fired at’ Russian plane with 159 passengers flying over Syria “

Russia, Syria, Planes, Security, Transport Two missiles were reportedly fired at a Russian plane with at least 159 passengers on board flying over Syrian territory.

On Monday Interfax cited “an informed source in Moscow,” which reported that a Russian passenger plane was attacked, while flying over a mountainous area of Syria.

“Syrian [officials] informed us that on Monday morning, unidentified forces launched two ground-to-air missiles which exploded in the air very close to a civilian aircraft belonging to a Russian airline,” the source told the Russian agency.

“No one was injured, and the plane was not damaged. The aircraft landed in Kazan as had been planned,” the Russian Federal Agency for Tourism told news agencies. There were 159 passengers and eight crewmembers aboard the aircraft.

The plane that was allegedly targeted belonged to Nordwind Airlines – a Russian charter air carrier – and was identified as an Airbus A320. On April 29 it was en route to the city of Kazan, in Russia’s republic of Tatarstan, from Egypt’s resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on its website the plane’s crew at 4:55pm Moscow time (12:55 GMT) “detected battle action on the ground that, according to the crew, could constitute a threat to the 159 passengers on board the plane.”

The ministry is now “taking emergency measures to clarify all the circumstances of this situation, including making contact with the Syrian authorities,” spokesperson Aleksandr Lukashevich said.

Airbus A320 specifications

Cockpit crew: 2
Seating capacity: up to 180
Length: 37.57 m
Wingspan: 34.10 m
Operating empty weight: 42,600 kg
Cruising speed: 828 km/h
Maximum speed: 871 km/h
Maximum range: 5,900 km
Service ceiling: 12,000 m
On Tuesday, Interfax’s source informed that the aircraft was allegedly attacked when it was flying at an altitude of 9,800 meters.

“The first missile detonated at 9,200 meters, the second one at 8,900 meters”, the source said.

After the crew reported the incident to Syrian ground control, the flight was allowed to gain altitude of nearly 1,000 meters more, according to the source.

Meanwhile, Russia’s federal air traffic agency Rosaviatsia on Monday issued a directive to all Russian airlines prohibiting routes through the Syrian airspace. Previously in February it issued a warning to all Russian airlines to avoid routes over conflict zones.

Russia’s major airlines - Aeroflot, Transaero, S7, Tatarstan - have avoided Syrian airspace for months due to the situation on the ground, despite additional time and fuel expended to avoid Syrian territory.

Meanwhile, Syrian aviation authorities received no indication of the alleged attack on the Russian plane, says the director of Syrian Airlines, Ghaida Abdullatif.

“We contacted the service that monitors traffic within Syrian airspace. None of the air traffic control services or other ground services at the airports in Damascus and Latakia have confirmed the information of a Russian plane being fired at.”

Russian experts believe that, so far, there are no grounds to claim that the aircraft became a target of a missile attack. Moreover, some of them voiced their doubts that a passenger plane can actually perform the kind of maneuvers that would allow it to avoid a missile attack.

“Planes are usually attacked either from the side or from above. A pilot could not have seen the missiles,” Vladimir Gerasimov, a Russian pilot and an expert on flight security told RT.

“A passenger plane crew simply couldn’t see what’s behind. And if something is approaching the plane from the opposite direction – the speed doubles, so there is no time to do anything,” he added.

Danny Makki of the Syrian Youth Movement in the UK believes that the incident is no doubt a rebel attack, which could have been carried out with weapons supplied by neighboring governments or taken off the Syrian army. He thinks that the attack is an intentional one and should receive widespread condemnation, just as the attacks carried out by government forces do.

“The most likely thing that could have happened was rebel fire from missiles that could have been given by regional countries or government forces… no rebel forces would fire a missile at civilian aircraft without it being done intentionally. So it is essentially another reprehensible act that would have been committed by rebel forces, and should gain condemnation from all the states after it is clearer who actually committed it”, Makki said.

“But it does show that these are not the liberal forces which the West wanted to arm in the first place,” he added.

The civil war in Syria between the government of President Bashar Assad and opposition forces has been raging for over two years, claiming the lives of more than 70,000 people according to UN estimates. Assad says he is fighting an insurgency that has been sponsored from abroad.


82 posted on 05/11/2013 9:33:43 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Impala64ssa; don-o
Don’t ever give up, slow down, or accept defeat. Keep questioning, challenging, and protesting. Obama’s agenda is slowly grinding to a halt.

YES!

83 posted on 05/11/2013 10:04:12 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: tomkat; Former Proud Canadian

Of course it was deliberate. They even had the Mozlem guy make the stupid video already and it put on yougube shortly before.

The thing was entirely arranged. They wanted Stevens dead, probably because he knew all about (and likely assisted and arranged) weapons to go to jihadis in Syria. They wanted all those in Benghazi to die, but two former SEALS messed up the plan, and lost their own lives doing so.


84 posted on 05/11/2013 10:07:52 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Liz; Grampa Dave; sickoflibs; ken5050; The Mayor; NYer; GOPJ

” Alas, Benghazi effectively dashed Obomba’s plan to command the world to kneel in obeiance to “Savior Obomba.”

Yep.


85 posted on 05/11/2013 10:16:42 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: Grampa Dave

bump for later


86 posted on 05/11/2013 10:20:49 AM PDT by real saxophonist (If something is TRULY 'common sense', then a law about it is unneccesary.)
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To: Candor7

Thanks. I’ve been looking for the specs for the MANPADS, how smart, range, etc....


87 posted on 05/11/2013 12:15:29 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Candor7

He used NATO to destroy an entire country.

88 posted on 05/11/2013 2:17:46 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Come Visit Tasmania!)
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To: little jeremiah
Close, but no cigar.

Here is what really happened. There was no "consulate" in Benghazi. Both outposts and everything in Benghazi was a CIA operation from start to finish. They were running guns and training jihadis to fight in Syria. It was a very risky business.

Ambassador Stevens not only knew about it but was tasked with running it, at least the diplomatic liason part.

The jihadis, trained and armed by the CIA, decided to make a statement in blood on September 11, what a surprise.

Upon hearing that their whole operation was literally going up in flames Obama, Hillary, and Valarie Jarret were immobilized by fear and incompetence. They should have sent all available forces to Benghazi immediately. They should have tasked a couple of fighters to buzz the compounds several times at 500 feet at Mach 1.1. The resulting sonic booms would have caused the jihadis to simultaneously poop themselves and run like hell.

Instead, Valarie and her puppet told the military to stand down. Huge mistake, but, what do you expect? They are both moslems, after all.

89 posted on 05/11/2013 2:57:26 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

I didn’t add all that but it’s what I’ve read and figured was the score. You put it very succintly, thank you.


90 posted on 05/11/2013 3:27:45 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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