There is disinforamtion being seeded into the air. What is more likely is —given that the Turkish ambassador dined at the compound with Stevens right before the attacks— that Stevens was looking for the Turks to ferry weaponry to the Muzzie Brotherhood, for use against Israel. Al Qaeda got wind of it and decdied to stop that mission cold. Turkey is a friend of the MB and not al qaeda, so the false meme that Turkey would ship MANPADS to al qaeda fighting Syria is most unlikely. As you say, likely what was planned and Stevens was sent to carry out was shipping Qaddafi’s soviet supplied weaponry to the MB to aid against Israel.
... that Stevens was looking for the Turks to ferry weaponry to the Muzzie Brotherhood, for use against Israel.
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But we are also reading that Israel and Turkey are about to launch a joint program to build an undersea pipeline to ship natural gas to Turkey and then on to Europe.
I have no doubt that the Regime intended for the missile end users to be Syrians fighting Assad. But the notion that there would be few missile diversions or that all these nuts were going to form up, cut their hair and take orders from a pampered black guy is RIDICULOUS IN THE EXTREME.
They had and now have an unrealistic view of their ability to shape a VERY volatile state of affairs.