“It’s looking like obama is actually going to try and pull off a hit. Suddenly, this guy is in all the news out of literally nowhere.....Don’t like the smell of this one bit..”
Agree. obama needs to do something to get the heat off the Benghazi subject (just as soon as get some results back from the focus groups).
In keeping with my birds/stone theory, another reason for this particular man may be to take attention away from the February 17th Brigade, MB, and even Al Qaeda, if they can. They need to distance Benghazi attack from the radicals/terrorists the Adm has been most closely aligned with.
Working theory is that this was not, or was *just* not Ansar Al-Sharia.
“On diplomatic paper the moderate February 17 Martyrs Brigade and the extremist Ansar Al-Sharia had nothing in common. In reality, the differences between the two militias were mostly cosmetic and the ***Martyrs Brigade had been contacted ahead of time by an Al Qaeda politician and asked to stand down*** while the attack took place.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2946561/posts
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Khattalah
WSJ thread on this:
Militant Suspected in Attack in Libya Remains At Large (Ahmed Abu Khattalah)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2946340/posts
Another thread just posted today:
Libyan authorities name Islamic group leader in Benghazi embassy attack
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2946626/posts
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From your post #807:
Al-Sharq Al-Awsat is an Arab newspaper published in London, and it’s found a Libyan guard who survived that night, named ‘Ali. (Translation by MEMRI.org; formatting in original.)
... Ali was part of a Special Protection Unit, which comprises members of the February 17 Brigade, a Libyan militia comprising radical Islamists which was established following the Libyan revolution.
Back in March 2012, the U.S. Consulate had hired members of the Special Protection Unit to guard its compound.
‘Ali and others in his team describe ... the embassy’s poor cooperation when, following the June 2012 attack on the embassy, (when a bomb exploded outside the Benghazi consulate) they requested upgrades to their weapons and improvement of the security tools at their disposal.
‘Ali said that during the attack, after the embassy was stormed by some 50 men, ... his team’s calls for backup, in Arabic and English, went unanswered by both the Americans inside the embassy and by the February 17 Brigade headquarters less than two miles away.
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Reported today:
US Relied on Firm Using Unarmed Guards for Diplomatic Security in Libya (Used flashlights, batons)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2946666/posts
Security practices at the diplomatic compound, where Blue Mountain guards patrolled with flashlights and batons instead of guns, have come under U.S. government scrutiny in the wake of the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
Federal contract data shows that the Benghazi security contract, worth up to $783,284, was listed as a “miscellaneous” award, not as part of the large master State Department contract that covers protection for overseas embassies. ....
The State Department contract for “local guard” services in Benghazi took effect in March 2012. Several of Blue Mountain’s Libyan employees told Reuters that they had no prior security training or experience...
The unarmed guards were told to sound the alarm over the radio and then run for cover if there was an attack, a Libyan who acted as a supervisor for the Blue Mountain local guard team at the mission said during an interview with Reuters.