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Media and Democrats Try to Make Obama’s Foreign Policy Disaster About Mitt Romney (long article)
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | September 12, 2012 | Rush Limbaugh
Posted on Wednesday, September 12, 2012 5:05:56 PM by Kaslin
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: So let me tell you what’s happening out there, folks. I’m gonna give you a timeline here in just a second. I’m gonna tell you things that you probably don’t know about what’s happening in the Middle East, and I’m gonna tell you why it’s happening and why idiots are wrong about why it’s happening. But what really is going on, is there is a coordinated effort by the media, in coordination with the White House, to turn this story... what is this about? I’m trying to be calm, cool, collected, reserved, professional. We’re in the midst of a disaster.
This is a full-fledged foreign policy disaster from the moment the embassy in Cairo put that statement out yesterday, before any of this happened, it’s the most amazing thing. It is a pre-apology. I’ll read it to you in just a second. What they’re trying to do is make all of this about Romney. We’re in the midst of a genuine... second term of Jimmy Carter, anybody? 1979, anybody? We’re in the middle of an absolute disaster, a foreign policy disaster. And there’s a coordinated effort to make it about Romney and whether or not he should speak; whether he should say anything about it; whether or not it’s presidential for Romney. We’re only supposed to have one president at times like this. Well, we don’t have one, unless Romney speaks up, and that’s the sad reality.
Here’s the general time frame. Our embassy in Cairo issued an apology preemptively on behalf of private US citizens and whatever they might say. They did this on 9/11. I want to read to you the statement.
“The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy,” except for the Catholic Church when it comes to abortion, and then the US government doesn’t give a rat’s rear end. “We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.”
Now, what is that about? Well, it turns out it’s about two things. Now, remember, this statement was issued before anything had happened. Nothing has happened yet. It was their 9/11 statement, from the embassy in Cairo. Well, there are two things going on. You’re not gonna believe this. The first is that some guy is making a movie about the prophet Mohammed that is unflattering, and he’s using his First Amendment free speech rights to do it. People have seen trailers of the movie, it is what it is. It’s apparently highly offensive. So this statement is put out to cover for that and to criticize that American for doing this. They didn’t name him. They didn’t identify what project, but that’s one of the two that they’re upset about. So our embassy in Cairo puts out a statement condemning Americans who would utilize and use their First Amendment rights, their free speech rights to say something to make a movie, to apologize to Muslims in advance for it.
The second thing — get this. There are also people who believe that the Reverend Terry Jones is to blame for this, the preacher in Gainesville, Florida, who at one time threatened to burn the Koran and was talked out of it. There are actually people who believe that this happened yesterday because of an American preacher and whatever he says, thinks, or has alluded to perhaps doing involving Islam. Now, what does that mean? That means that we are to accept the notion that any criticism of this religion justifiably makes these people nuts, and they attack our embassy, and then they kill our ambassador, and it’s his fault. It’s not theirs. It’s not the militant Islamists’ fault. No, no, they’re sitting there minding their own business, 9/11, they don’t even remember what the significance of the date is. They hear about the movie. They hear about the preacher and they go nuts in our embassy. And we’re supposed to believe this?
This is your administration, folks. This is what they believe, and this is what embassy Cairo means when they say: “The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims.” That is a condemnation of Americans. Misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims, thereby justifying for all intents and purposes whatever actions Muslims with hurt feelings take after this. The fact of the matter is that this would have happened on 9/11 — I’m convinced this was gonna happen anyway, it doesn’t matter about the movie, it doesn’t matter about Terry Jones. I don’t think this was about the movie at all. I don’t think this was about Terry Jones at all, and I’m shocked that there are reasonable Americans who want to lay blame for this on Americans and thereby accept the notion that there are Americans abusing free speech rights and therefore Embassy Cairo is justified in this embarrassing statement that they put out.
So they put the statement out, and what’s that supposed to do? It’s supposed to mollify, and it’s supposed to mollify the militant Islamist and keep them at bay and say, “Look, it’s 9/11, and we understand.” Meanwhile, these people are outside our embassy shouting, “We’re all Osama’s, Obama. There are millions of Osama’s, Obama.” They weren’t talking about the guy making the movie, and they weren’t talking about Terry Jones. So that’s the first thing that happened, that statement goes up. Apologizing in advance for private US citizens exercising their free speech. Then the protests intensify into attacks on our embassy in Cairo and our consulate in Benghazi, in Libya.
Romney speaks up and calls the Cairo embassy response disgraceful. We then discover that there are murders that have taken place of Americans in Benghazi, including the ambassador. After that happens, the Obama administration disavows the Cairo embassy statement that I just read you. And after that, the Obama campaign sent one of their flacks out to shame Romney for politicizing what happened at the embassy in Libya, thereby getting the ball rolling on this whole idea that Romney ought to shut up. That Romney shouldn’t be talking about this. That Romney jumped the gun. That Romney used the death of Americans as a campaign aid and violated this... you’ve heard this before, this sacred “political ends at the water’s edge.”
Tell the Democrats that during the war in Iraq. Politics ends at the water’s edge? Except, see, that’s not what happened. Cairo puts out this statement that I just read to you, and once the media gets hold of that and starts reporting it, somebody has to speak up. It is outrageous. It’s disgraceful. It’s exactly what Romney said. So, to review: On 9/11, our embassy is attacked. A press release is issued before the attack apologizing for a private citizen exercising his free speech in our own country.
After the embassy is attacked, the State Department spokeswoman essentially endorsed the earlier release but they disavowed it first. They said it stands. Actually what happened was Embassy Cairo issues that statement; Washington disavows it. Embassy Cairo tweets: No, it still stands. )The operative part of our statement being about embarrassed over what Americans are doing to hurt the feelings of Muslims, that still stands.) Throughout all of yesterday and last night — throughout all of it — Obama has said nothing.
Throughout all of this, the president of the United States hasn’t said anything. Our Libyan consulate is hit. Four are murdered there, including our ambassador. Obama doesn’t say anything about it until about 11 o’clock Eastern time this morning. And the media is totally obsessed with what Romney’s doing, and how Romney is wrong and Romney jumped the gun. They say, “There’s only one president, and Romney isn’t it.” Folks, I remember the campaign of 1980.
I remember Ronald Reagan hitting Jimmy Carter, who was the sitting president, every day for his incompetence involving the Iranian hostage crisis! Politics stopping at the water’s edge, my foot! All that’s happening here is that the people on the left understand that we’re dealing... Isn’t it funny that nobody cares about foreign policy? Remember, that wasn’t a big deal in this campaign? And even if it is a big deal, Obama’s the clear, clear superior leader. It would just make more people vote for Obama.
“He’s just a whiz at foreign policy. He’s made the world love us!” Obama gave us this! Obama gave us the Arab Spring, which has turned into what happened yesterday. Obama praised it, sanctioned it. He even tried to claim that they came about because of him. The Arab Spring and the Brotherhood were using the same tactics he used in his ‘08 campaign. He, at one time, was trying to make it sound like there was solidarity between him and these “democratic freedom fighters,” the Muslim Brotherhood.
We’re dealing with Islamist supremacists, and they are the mainstream. They are not the fringe, these people that killed the ambassador yesterday. And, by the way, they were let in. You may not know this. You can’t get into an American embassy. There are Marines. There are local police. You can’t get over the wall, rip down the flag, and set it afire unless somebody lets you in. That’s a question I have: Who let them in?
They were on the grounds. I’ve got the news reports. They were on the grounds, over the wall of our embassy, for a significant period of time loitering around. They weren’t trying to get into the actual embassy, but they were on the grounds, the compound. How? They had to be let in, or it is perhaps that they just weren’t stopped. I don’t want to convey the impression that somebody opened a door for them. They went over the wall, but nobody stopped them.
They were able to get to the flag, rip it down, try to set it on fire, and raise the Al-Qaeda flag. That just doesn’t happen. Now, if you move over to Libya, when that happens, there is a procedure in place to transfer the ambassador and his high-level aides to a different location for his safety and security, which happened. CBS (no less than CBS) is reporting the following. Brace yourselves. “Libyan officials moved our ambassador to a secure location and then told the mob where they took him,” and that’s how the mob knew where he was.
That’s how the mob knew where to go to kill our ambassador, because the Libyan officials who moved him to the secure place (according to CBS), then told the mob where he was. Then to add insult to injury, we have to listen this morning — honest to God folks — to Mrs. Clinton and Obama praise the Libyans for trying to save our ambassador. These pictures that you’ve seen with the ambassador upside-down, half naked, being carried over somebody’s shoulder?
We’re told, “Yeah, our friends in Libya were taking him to the hospital.” They paraded our ambassador around! Taking him to the hospital? How stupid do they think we are? And, meanwhile, all of this is about Romney. They’re trying to do to Romney here exactly what they did when he went to Europe for the Olympics and then over to Poland. They tried to make that trip into one giant gaffe after gaffe after gaffe.
Their success with the lies about Romney’s disastrous trip has given them the courage to try it again with this latest lie. Not one of the protesters, not one of the rioters was shot. Only Americans end up being shot. How does that happen? Do you think this woulda happened on 9/11, 2002? Do you think this would have happened on 9/11, 2007? Do you think it woulda happened on 9/11, 2009? It was probably more likely then. Obama was only in office for barely a year.
But, folks, we’re in the middle here of a full-fledged disaster.
I’m not surprised that a failed administration would try to divert all of this to Romney and steer everybody to, “He shouldn’t be speaking. That’s not very nice. In a presidential campaign, politics ends at the water’s edge. Who does he think he is? He has no business speaking.” They’re worried because he looked presidential. He also took questions, which Obama didn’t. But Obama took questions which bugs them. Then, lo and behold, you go to Fox and you find the predictable people on our side saying, “Really he doesn’t know. He shouldn’t be speaking. You know, it’s just one president and one voice, and Romney isn’t it, and he shouldn’t have spoken.”
Have you people ever heard of Ronald Reagan?
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RUSH: Here’s the CBS story, so there is no doubt about this: “Military officials told CBS News an anti-terrorism team of U.S. Marines was being deployed to Libya to help secure US interests in the country following the attack. The State Department said, however, that no Americans were remaining at the facility in Benghazi. State officials would not confirm how many Americans were evacuated, or to where.
“Wanis al-Sharef, a Libyan Interior Ministry official in Benghazi, said the four Americans were killed when the angry mob, which gathered to protest a US-made film that ridicules Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, fired guns and burned down the US consulate in Benghazi. He said Stevens, 52, and other officials were moved to a second building, deemed safer, after the initial wave of protests at the consulate.
“According to al-Sharef, members of the Libyan security team seem to have indicated to the protesters the building to which the American officials had been relocated, and that building then came under attack.” So our friends in Libya followed procedure and removed our ambassador to the prearranged security location — the second building, away from where the primary attack was taking place — and then they told the mob where they took him.
The mob went and they killed him.
And today we had to listen to Mrs. Clinton (I’ve got the audio coming up) and the president of the United States praise the Libyans for trying to carry our ambassador to the hospital. I don’t know if you’ve seen any pictures of our ambassador being carried, but I’ve never seen somebody carried upside-down, over the shoulder, half naked to the hospital. It’s an amazing thing. Oh, and, meanwhile, folks, remember: It’s all about whether Romney jumped the gun today by even talking about it.
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My little rant posted on Rush Live thread today:
This has been a fast thread and a fast-moving FR today. People (Freepers and conservatives) are angry and fed up with the Obama lies and traitorous behavior...
AND the RINO wing of our government AND conservative media who refuse to name that which cannot be named-— that four letter word beginning with C and ending with P (hint: it doesn’t have an “a”).
Only a few choices: cowardly, comatose, complicit, bribed, or blackmailed. Our nation is in such peril, there is no longer any excuse to not name the unmentionable.
And, BTW, have communists/Marxists become so acceptable in the US, that their prominent place in our Federal gov’t is an open and permissible “secret,” even though few will still use the word(s)?
Is it acceptable that Obama plan Israel’s destruction in secret and give speeches that he has Israel’s “back,” while at the same time load our every governmental institution (or, at the very least, not rout out) with jihadist/sharia-loving MB’s committed to America and Israel’s destruction?
When will America get to vote on THAT explicit “fundamental change”? or will it continue to be imposed in stealth?
Plante & Levin, the only exceptions that I can think of. Thank God Plante started to get a wider audience-—and beyond the “local” Beltway. Not long before he will be targeted as the uncooperative, crazy media uncle living in the attic (like Beck). Too many people are starting to appreciate his on-air brilliance and stark uniqueness.
There is no guarantee that Romney’s campaign strategy (Obama’s a nice but incompetent guy) will work-— none whatsoever. And if Obama pulls something (just think of one of many potential horrors well within his repertoire), Romney will be defenseless and look naive (and “incompetent”). Meanwhile, whatever it is, Obama didn’t want to have to do it, but it was necessary to protect the country——”nice,” well-intentioned guy that he is.
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Confuse the public for 24-48 hours, recast the national “narrative,” and Obama & MSM make his bad press and traitorous agenda disappear-— wiped clean, a do-over, if you will...a perpetual do-over.
DNC, God and Jerusalem -— Obama fixed it.
Netanyahu betrayal (Bibi & I talked on the phone for a hour)
ME embassy/consulate attacks -— No mention in Obama’s speech about Egypt embassy attack.
Watch & see what happens next. National narrative being recast as I write.
Did you see this???
Al Zawahri personally ordered Al Qaeda to murder US Ambassador Stevens
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report September 12, 2012, 10:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three staff members at the US consulate in Benghazi were deliberately murdered Tuesday night Sept 11 just after memorial ceremonies were held in America for the victims of the 9/11 outrage. debkafile’s counter-terror sources report exclusively that far from being a spontaneous raid by angry Islamists, it was a professionally executed terrorist operation by a professional Al Qaeda assassination team, whose 20 members acted under the orders of their leader Ayman al Zawahri after special training. They were all Libyans, freed last year from prisons where they were serving sentences for terrorism passed during the late Muammar Qaddafi’s rule.
In a video tape released a few hours before the attack, Zawahri called on the faithful to take revenge on the United States for liquidating one of the organization’s top operatives, Libyan-born Abu Yahya al-Libi in June by a US drone in northwestern Pakistan.
Its release was the “go” signal for the hit team to attack the US diplomats in Benghazi.
To mask their mission, they stormed the consulate on the back of a violent protest by hundreds of Islamists against a film said to insult Prophet Muhammed produced by a Florida real estate agent called Sam Bacile, who has been described as of Israeli origin...............
In an exclusive @barackobama tells @jdbalart “I don’t think that we would consider (Egypt) an ally” #msnbc2012
— Anthony Terrell (@AnthonyNBCNews) September 13, 2012
Update: I don’t consider Egypt an ally, says Obama
Egypt to take legal action in US against Prophet film makers
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi asked the Egyptian embassy in Washington to take legal action in the United States against makers of a film attacking the Muslim Prophet Mohammad, the official state news agency said on Wednesday.
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Morsi's tepid response to embassy attack--- day 2 of Egypt embassy riots
Another protest turns violent outside U.S. Embassy in Cairo
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Protests Break Out In Sudan, Kuwait, Gaza And Morocco (Photos)
Protests Break Out In Sudan, Kuwait, Gaza And Morocco
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Obama Got His 3 a.m. Call. He Decided To Sleep Through It. |
Drudge highlights part of the story that the LA Times, of course, does not.
The president was updated throughout the evening, and notified late Tuesday that Stevens was unaccounted for. Obama learned Wednesday that Stevens was confirmed dead Wednesday morning, the official said.
Man needs his rest. He's in Vegas right now. You can't do Vegas right if you're short of sleep.
By the way, the media is all dutifully reporting the Obama line: That while he is jetting his ass off to Las Vegas, "it's not a day of politics as usual" (via Mark Knoller) and that his Political Fundraiser With The Stars In Sin City will "fit the tone of the last 24 hours" (via @paconner).
Obama Got His 3 a.m. Call. He Decided To Sleep Through It.
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DAY 2 - September 12, 2012 DRUDGE Headlines
9/11: AMERICANS KILLED IN LIBYA...
ATTACK 'COORDINATED'...
CIA SAW NO THREATS...
FOR FIVE HOURS, NO ONE KNEW WHERE AMBASSADOR WAS...
BODY NOT RECOVERED FOR 12 HOURS...
OBAMA WENT TO SLEEP NOT KNOWING WHAT WAS HAPPENING THERE...
**WARNING** **GRAPHIC PHOTO**...
Romney campaign links attacks to failed Middle East policies...
White House gave 'mixed signals'...
Marines Headed to Libya to Reinforce Security...
NEW CLASHES OUTSIDE US EMBASSY IN CAIRO
Day 3
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2930302/posts
Yemeni protesters storm US embassy in Sanaa
Reuters ^ | September 13 | Reuters Staff
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 5:05:22 AM by PghBaldy
They said the demonstrators smashed windows of the security offices outside the embassy before breaking through the main gate of the heavily fortified compound in eastern Sanaa. Security guards opened fire and there were reports of casualties on both sides but no details were immediately available.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2930305/posts
Anti-muslim pastor [Jones] gets attention, not credit for deadly Libya attack [story grows]
St. Petersburg - Tampa Bay Times ^ | September 13, 2012 | Ben Montgomery
Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012 5:30:56 AM by Cincinatus’ Wife
.....Citing sources in Benghazi,the think tank[Quilliam] said: “(W)e have reason to believe that the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi came to avenge the death of Abu Yaya al-Libi,al-Qaida’s second in command killed a few months ago.”
A day before the attack,the leader of al-Qaida,Ayman al-Zawahiri,urged Libyans to avenge the killing,...roughly 20 militants were present,prepared for military assault with rocket-propelled grenade launchers that do not typically appear at peaceful protests.
Nonetheless,much of the blame for the protests was aimed at the poorly-made film Innocence of Muslims, directed and produced by Sam Bacile,who told the Associated Press he was an Israeli-American real estate developer who raised $5 million from Jewish donors to make the movie.
But questions quickly surfaced about Bacile’s identity. The Atlantic reported Wednesday that one of the film’s consultants,Steve Klein,said Bacile is not Israeli,and most likely not Jewish, and that the name is a pseudonym.
“I don’t know that much about him,...I can tell you this for sure,the state of Israel is not involved, Terry Jones is not involved. . . . I would suspect this is a disinformation campaign.”
That seemed to square with the opinion of Emad Mekay,a lecturer at Stanford University and an investigative journalism fellow at[UC-Berkley],who just returned from a three-month trip to Egypt.
“The protests in Egypt were sparked by allegations made by U.S.-based extremist ChristianCoptic activists that they produced an inflammatory film that they were planning to release on 9/11,”he said in a released statement. “It is not clear why they took credit for the movie. The U.S.-based extremist Copts were repeatedly on Egyptian TV and newspapers owned by former Mubarak regime figures, outing their presence in the U.S. as one reason why they succeeded in producing the movie. They were being quoted extensively on their alleged movie launch which inflamed feelings.”........
Update: 4 Rioters Dead, 34 Wounded at US Embassy in Yemen
Yemeni police Thursday shot dead four protesters and wounded 34 others when they opened fire on a crowd attempting to storm the US embassy in Sana'a to protest a film mocking Islam, a security official said. The White House, meanwhile, said it was doing everything it could to protect its diplomats in Yemen, where witnesses reported that roads leading to embassy were closed down as the area was calm later in the evening.
"Four people were killed and 34 others were wounded in the clashes that lasted from morning until late in the evening" in the area around the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, the official said, adding that eight of them were "seriosuly injured." Rioters chanting “O Messenger of Allah, O Mohammed...” launched a second assault on the American compound following an attack rebuffed by security forces earlier in the day.
President Abdurabuh Mansour Hadi apologized to U.S. President Barack Obama and to the American people for the acts of “a mob” and ordered an investigation into the attack.
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US Identifies Anti-Muslim Filmmaker Blamed for Attacks
DRUDGE chose his own headline (same article): FEDERAL AUTHORITIES OUT ANTI-MUSLIM FILMMAKER...
Federal authorities have identified a Coptic Christian in southern California who is on probation after his conviction for financial crimes as the key figure behind the anti-Muslim film that ignited mob violence against U.S. embassies across the Mideast, a U.S. law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Thursday.
The official said authorities had concluded that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was behind “Innocence of Muslims,” a film that denigrated Islam and the prophet Muhammad and sparked protests earlier this week in Egypt, Libya and most recently in Yemen. It was not immediately clear whether Nakoula was the target of a criminal investigation or part of the broader investigation into the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Libya during a terrorist attack.
Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed Thursday that Justice Department officials were investigating the deaths, which occurred during an attack on the American mission in Benghazi.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation....
Exclusive: America 'was warned of embassy attack but did nothing'...
State Dept 'had credible information 48 hours before'...
Revealed: Inside story of ambassador's assassination...
Sensitive documents go missing...
Exposed: Names of Libyans who are working with Americans...
Was 'revenge for drone strike'...
'There were 400 attackers'...
OBAMA ADMINSITRATION DENIES...
PAPER: Egypt intelligence warned on Sept. 4 of possible attacks...
PAPER: U.S. WARNED OF EMBASSY ATTACK BUT DID NOTHING
Attacks on U.S. Embassies Were Not About a Movie
Here are a couple of facts:
On June 4 the White House confirmed that the US had killed Abu Yahya Al-Libi – OBL’s Libyan lieutenant who had moved into Al Qaeda’s #2 spot after Ayman Zahawiri after the Navy SEALs whacked OBL.
On Tuesday 9/11, a tape was released of Zawahiri announcing that Libi had been killed earlier this year by a US drone attack. The Zawahiri tape was made during Ramadan which ended in the middle of last month. Zawahiri called for his terrorist underlings to avenge Libi’s death and especially exhorted Libyans to take revenge.
The attack in Libya was well planned and executed. It wasn’t about a spontaneous protest against some ridiculous internet movie of Muhammad. The assailants came armed to the teeth, with among other things, RPG 7s. They knew that the US Ambassador was in Benghazi rather than Tripoli. They knew how to track his movements, and were able to strike against him after he and his colleagues left the consulate building and tried to flee in a car. As Israel Channel 2′s Arab Affairs Correspondent Ehud Yaari noted this evening, you don’t often see well trained terrorists participating in protests of movies.
Then there is the attack in Cairo. They were led by Mohammad Zawahiri – Ayman Zawahiri’s brother. According the Thomas Josclyn in the Weekly Standard, the US media has been idiotically presenting him as some sort of moderate despite the fact that in an interview with Al Jazeerah he said said, “We in al Qaeda…”
Egypt’s US supported Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi recently released Zawahiri from Egyptian prison. The same Barack Obama who has no time in his schedule to meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu next week in New York, is scheduled to meet Morsi.
The Egyptian government has not condemned the attack on the US Embassy in Cairo. But Morsi is demanding that the US government prosecute the film’s creator.
You may be wondering how some movie no one’s heard of has caused such a hullabaloo. Well, as it turns out, the film was screened on an Egyptian Salafist television channel. Obviously the Salafists — many of whom, like Zawahiri were released from prison by Morsi, wanted to stir up anti-US violence on the eve of 9/11. So if the film is responsible for the violence, a finger needs to be pointed to its chief distributor — Al Qaida’s Egyptian friends and members.
With these facts in hand, it is clear that the attempts to present these acts of war against the US as the consequence of some stupid nothing movie are obscene attempts to deflect the blame for these unwarranted attacks onto their victims and away from their perpetrators.
ping to post 688 re: your Debka post-— the picture is getting a little clearer.
Thank you for the info
New zawahiri vid today taking the American press to task for not being truthful about Christopher Stevens’ assassination. Says it was planned and was to avenge yahya al libi. This is just new, not the one from 9/11.
http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/zawahiri-flapping-his-wings-again/
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Halliburton loses radioactive drilling probe in Texas
By Brian Wingfield
Bloomberg News staff
Thursday, 09/13/2012 - 5:09pm
AUSTIN, Texas - Halliburton Co. is scouring a 130- mile swath of West Texas oil fields for a lost seven-inch cylinder with radioactive material used when drilling natural- gas wells by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Pickup trucks outfitted with detection gear retraced the route of a vehicle that carried the radioactive rod before it was reported missing on Sept. 11, the Houston-based company told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The trucks drove at 10 miles an hour between Pecos, where the device was previously used on a well, and Odessa without finding the unit, according to an NRC incident report Thursday.
“It’s not something that produces radiation in an extremely dangerous form,” Chris Van Deusen, a spokesman for the Texas Department of State Health Services, said in an interview. “But it’s best for people to stay back, 20 or 25 feet” if they find a cylinder marked “radioactive - do not handle,” he said.
http://www.standard.net/stories/2012/09/13/halliburton-loses-radioactive-drilling-probe-texas
Two comments from link:
- “Looks to me like a neutron source. The worst kind for external exposure.””
- “Neutron source?! Yikes, I thought it would be a gamma source. Bad news either way.””
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2934479/posts
Napolitano Says Cybersecurity Executive Order Almost Ready
thenewamerican.com ^ | 9/20/12 | Joe Wolverton, II
Posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 1:41:01 PM by ColdOne
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano revealed September 19 that an executive order granting the president sweeping power over the Internet is “close to completion.”
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The Muslims are not happy....
They’re not happy in Gaza.
They’re not happy in Egypt.
They’re not happy in Libya.
They’re not happy in Morocco.
They’re not happy in Iran.
They’re not happy in Iraq.
They’re not happy in Yemen.
They’re not happy in Afghanistan.
They’re not happy in Pakistan.
They’re not happy in Syria.
They’re not happy in Lebanon.
So, where are they happy?
They’re happy in Australia.
They’re happy in Canada.
They’re happy in England.
They’re happy in France.
They’re happy in Italy.
They’re happy in Germany.
They’re happy in Sweden.
They’re happy in the USA.
They’re happy in Norway.
They’re happy in Holland.
They’re happy in Denmark.
Basically, they’re happy in every country that is not Muslim and unhappy in every country that is!
And who do they blame?
Not Islam.
Not their leadership.
Not themselves.
THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES THEY ARE HAPPY IN!
AND THEN; They want to change those countries to be like....
THE COUNTRY THEY CAME FROM WHERE THEY WERE UNHAPPY!
Excuse me, but I can’t help wondering...
How damn dumb can you get?
7 posted on Friday, September 21, 2012 3:31:40 PM by Responsibility2nd
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2934561/posts?page=7#7
Over the past couple of weeks, most of the drive-by media's attention has been focused on events in Libya and the American responses to it.
For a quick recap --
Christopher Stevens, an American diplomat assigned to Libya, and some others in the consulate were violently attacked without warning and ended up dead...on 9/11.
Ignoring the significance of the date, the Obama administration acted curiously: denying any possible connection to terror, and stonewalling with a pre-programmed chorus of disgust over a low-budget film
[snip]
Over the past week or so, disturbing cracks began appearing in this story, such as the fact that one of those in the consulate was actually communicating with other people away from the scene when the attack began, and he said there was no riot; nothing, in fact, but the security guards taking pictures. (This made him alarmed enough that he wrote "if we are still alive tonight..." or similar).
If this were not enough, it came out that the facility was not guarded by US marines, but by local security: who were the ones casing the joint. And it came out that the policy of having no Marines, and having a "no loaded weapons" policy, came straight from the top, from Secretary of State Lady Macbeth.
Oh, and it also came out that the Libyan authorities had notified our government about the possibility of the place being attacked, several days before, only to be ignored. And there's that matter of Stevens having been brutalized and raped before being killed.
Oh, and it came out that one of the ringleaders of the attack was someone who had been imprisoned in Guantanamo -- I guess this puts paid to the idea (probably from some Ivy League educated homosexual from the State Department) that "treating the terrorists humanely would yield tremendous PR dividends for us.
(Come on, Democrats lie through their teeth all the time for petty advantage, or just to keep in practice -- such as Harry Reid (Cadaver-NV) lying about Mitt Romney's tax returns -- so why do Dems assume Third World terrorists wouldn't lie as well?
And yet the first reaction to the embassy attack from Lady Macbeth was one of naive surprise --"How could they *do* this to us? We *liberated* that town!" (So much for realpolitik.)
So the current thinking is that well, maybe the spin was designed to deflect attention from the abysmal failings of the Administration, in not guarding the facilities, not listening to warnings, and the like.
But there are a couple of other things.
First, notice that since the event, both the President and Secretary Lady Macbeth have gone onto massive apology tours:
not to the US public (you know, since it was our ambassador killed, the first one killed in 33 years), but to the Arab Street, including spending $70,000 for public service ads in Pakistan. And sending the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to lean on a Florida minister supportive of the films; and the midnight raid and "taking into custody" of the film-maker behind the clip. (What First Amendment?)
The response?
More riots, more violence, and stiffer demands for even more silencing of criticism of Islam: -- there is even talk that Obama will throw Christianity under the bus at an upcoming U.N. conference. ("For I will stand with the muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction" --Barack Obama) is chillingly misleading: nobody suspected he meant that the ugly winds would be a firestorm of hate directed at Christendom and the West by a nascent Caliphate. -- And this is only strengthened by the rumors that Obama is negotiating with Egypt to release the blind sheik who was behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombings, and also considering the release of 1/3 of the terrorists in Guantanamo...not to mention the recent abortive effort to remove Israel and God from the DNC Party Platform.)
More:
Cross-posting my post (#11 -- See also post 13) from the above thread:
Rather than focusing on terrorism as the sole method of group action, as is the case with Al-Qaeda, in perfect postmodern fashion the use of terror falls into a multiplicity of options available to progressively infiltrate, confront, and eventually establish Islamic domination over the West. The following tactics and techniques are among the many recommendations made in The Project:
In reading The Project, it should be kept in mind that it was drafted in 1982 when current tensions and terrorist activities in the Middle East were still very nascent. In many respects, The Project is extremely prescient for outlining the bulk of Islamist action, whether by “moderate” Islamist organizations or outright terror groups, over the past two decades.
One renowned international scholar of Islamist movements who also spoke with Besson, Reuven Paz, talked about The Project in its historical context:
The Project was part of the charter of the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood, which was official established on July 29, 1982. It reflects a vast plan which was revived in the 1960s, with the immigration of Brotherhood intellectuals, principally Syrian and Egyptians, into Europe.
As Paz notes, The Project was drafted by the Muslim Brotherhood as part of its rechartering process in 1982, a time that marks an upswing in its organizational expansion internationally, as well as a turning point in the alternating periods of repression and toleration by the Egyptian government. In 1952, the organization played a critical support role to the Free Officers Movement led by Gamal Abdul Nasser, which overthrew King Faruq, but quickly fell out of favor with the new revolutionary regime because of Nasser’s refusal to follow the Muslim Brotherhood’s call to institute an ideologically committed Islamic state. At various times since the July Revolution in 1952, the Brotherhood has regularly been banned and its leaders killed and imprisoned by Egyptian authorities.
Since it was rechartered in 1982, the Muslim Brotherhood has spread its network across the Middle East, Europe, and even America. At home in Egypt, parliamentary elections in 2005 saw the Muslim Brotherhood winning 20 percent of the available legislative seats, comprising the largest opposition party block. Its Palestinian affiliate, known to the world as HAMAS, recently gained control of the Palestinian Authority after elections secured for them 74 of 132 seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council. Its Syrian branch has historically been the largest organized group opposing the Assad regime, and the organization also has affiliates in Jordan, Sudan, and Iraq. In the US, the Muslim Brotherhood is primarily represented by the Muslim American Society (MAS).
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Excerpt from THE PROJECT:
The Muslim Brotherhood "Project" (Continued) By: Patrick Poole
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, May 11, 2006
[NOTE: The following English translation of The Project has been prepared by Scott Burgess and was first published in serial form by The Daily Ablution in December 2005 (Parts I, II, III, IV, V, Conclusion). It is copyrighted and reprinted here with his permission. It is based on the French text of The Project published in Sylvain Besson, La conquête de l'Occident: Le projet secret des Islamistes (Paris: Le Seuil, 2005), pp. 193-205.]
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent and Merciful
S/5/100 report
1/12/1982 [December 1, 1982]
Towards a worldwide strategy for Islamic policy
(Points of Departure, Elements, Procedures and Missions)
This report presents a global vision of a worldwide strategy for Islamic policy [or "political Islam"]. Local Islamic policies will be drawn up in the different regions in accordance with its guidelines. It acts, first of all, to define the points of departure of that policy, then to set up the components and the most important procedures linked to each point of departure; finally we suggest several missions, by way of example only, may Allah protect us.
The following are the principal points of departure of this policy:
Point of Departure 1: To know the terrain and adopt a scientific methodology for its planning and execution.
Point of Departure 2: To demonstrate proof of the serious nature of the work.
Point of Departure 3: To reconcile international engagement with flexibility at a local level.
Point of Departure 4: To reconcile political engagement and the necessity of avoiding isolation on one hand, with permanent education and institutional action on the other.
Point of Departure 5: To be used to establish an Islamic State; parallel, progressive efforts targeted at controlling the local centers of power through institutional action.
Point of Departure 6: To work with loyalty alongside Islamic groups and institutions in multiple areas to agree on common ground, in order to "cooperate on the points of agreement and set aside the points of disagreement".
Point of Departure 7: To accept the principle of temporary cooperation between Islamic movements and nationalist movements in the broad sphere and on common ground such as the struggle against colonialism, preaching and the Jewish state, without however having to form alliances. This will require, on the other hand, limited contacts between certain leaders, on a case by case basis, as long as these contacts do not violate the [shari’a] law. Nevertheless, one must not give them allegiance or take them into confidence, bearing in mind that the Islamic movement must be the origin of the initiatives and orientations taken.
Point of Departure 8: To master the art of the possible on a temporary basis without abusing the basic principles, bearing in mind that Allah's teachings always apply. One must order the suitable and forbid that which is not, always providing a documented opinion. But we should not look for confrontation with our adversaries, at the local or the global scale, which would be disproportionate and could lead to attacks against the dawa or its disciples.
Point of Departure 9: To construct a permanent force of the Islamic dawa and support movements engaged in jihad across the Muslim world, to varying degrees and insofar as possible.
Point of Departure 10: To use diverse and varied surveillance systems, in several places, to gather information and adopt a single effective warning system serving the worldwide Islamic movement. In fact, surveillance, policy decisions and effective communications complement each other.
Point of Departure 11: To adopt the Palestinian cause as part of a worldwide Islamic plan, with the policy plan and by means of jihad, since it acts as the keystone of the renaissance of the Arab world today.
Point of Departure 12: To know how to turn to self-criticism and permanent evaluation of worldwide Islamic policy and its objectives, of its content and its procedures, in order to improve it. This is a duty and a necessity according to the precepts of shari’a.
Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) Infiltration and Influence in America [2008 thread]
Muslim Brotherhood 'infiltrated' U.S. gov't
Frank Gaffney's 10-part series Muslim Brotherhood in America
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