Posted on 10/13/2012 8:07:38 AM PDT by Gritty
Reports from the beginning estimate as many as 125 attackers armed with AKs, RPGs, mortars and anti-aircraft guns. No one should have survived. It seems more like the attackers wanted to clear those compounds in order to search them.
US Intelligence Suffers Major Compromise in Libya ("catastrophic intelligence loss" US official)
Shamefully, either State,cia or the regime let this guy die and knowingly so over a period of months. He had to have know waaay too much.If Stevens knew about the Saudis providing arms to the rebels(he would have had to have known) through us,he could have been a time bomb for a regime in an election time frame which is all that matters to them.
Next to the paper "classified trash" bag.
“let this guy die” or set up the circumstances designed to take him out...So MURDER suspicions were beig directed to others...typical manipulation.
Advertising in Benghazi that's its ok for same sex couples to apply for a job is like pouring gas on a fire for terror types! Its not something you do unless you are encouraging a terror hit. Then it makes perfect sense.
Hard to tell,you can’t rule out anything right now.
It's the updated, modernt context of "the enemy is inside the wire."
That can be an awesome shorthand patriot's code. Or bumper sticker, or grafitti, or internet handle or whatever.
I read as manly as 200 attackers in the over 500 links I have covered in the past few weeks.I also heard/read the “annex” was a CIA headquarters.
Exactly, its what Axelrod et.all do best, manipulate every situation to their benefit or COA, either one.
US Libyan consulate attack: Timeline of events Sept. 14, 201210pm: Attackers open fire at the consulate, which has a main building and a smaller annex.
10.15pm: The assailants gain entry to the complex and the main building is engulfed in flames.
Many of those trapped inside escape but Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith and a regional security guard remain.
The security guard manages to escape and returns shortly afterwards with others to try to rescue Mr Stevens and Mr Smith.
They find Mr Smith dead and pulled him from the building, but no sign of Mr Stevens. They are driven from the building by thick black smoke, fire and gunfire.
10.45pm: Security staff try to retake the main building but come under heavy fire and retreat.
11.20pm: A second attempt to retake the main building is successful. Fighting moves to the annex.
Midnight: Fighting at the annex - reported to last about two hours - results in the deaths of two more Americans, later named by US authorities as former Navy Seals whose job was to protect the other staff.
1.15am: Mr Stevens arrives at a nearby hospital - it is not known who took him. A doctor there has told the BBC that he spent an hour trying to revive him, but that Mr Stevens died from smoke inhalation.
2.30am: Security forces regain control of the annex.
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2:30 AM Sept. 12th in Benghazi would have been 8:30 PM Sept. 11th EST in D.C. It was all over by then. But as Col. Hunt said; the Pres. has to be notified of a situation like this by law.
FWIW MSNBC has pulled their story of this timeline published on the same date. Bookmarking MSNBC stories often has that result.
Pat Caddell slams the media: They have become an “enemy of the people” (video 26:00)
I was looking for an earlier link to an article that discussed our limited presence and security measures in Libya (by agreement or contract?), and stumbled upon this. Though it has an obvious slant, it may present some clues.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201210121033.html
Libya: A Year Later, the War Is Far From Over
By Horace Campbell, 11 October 2012
All the major figures, big talkers, anyone who is on tv are all using this crap-line "lets don't ever let this happen again" its all bullshot.
we shall see tomorrow if all this is ignored on the Sunday shows. If its ignored They will have put it behind them unless we are able to keep it alive.
They are not zombie-robots, I’m afraid we have been fully infiltrated with muzzies. I bet they are the ones calling the shots.
Estimates between 125 - 200 attackers isn’t really a wild disparity given an attack in the dark of night that took place ranging over two locations and consisting of three waves. I don’t think it was news to the locals that the CIA was operating out of the “annex” but any doubt was removed in the House Oversight hearings.
Don’t forget......the BIG story, Valerie Plame was outed. It is laughable.
The United Nations and other international actors must now create a different plan for the restoration of peace and decent livelihoods to the people of Libya. October 23, 2012 will be exactly one year after the Chairperson of the National Transitional Council declared that the Liberation of Libya was complete. A few days later the Secretary General of NATO, General Anders Fogh Rasmussen declared the end of the NATO mission, declaring that the NATO mission to Libya had been 'one of the most successful in NATO history.' Despite this announcement of success there are daily reports of fighting all across Libya with the levels of insecurity unprecedented in the history of the country with over 1,700 militias roaming. After Col Gaddafi was executed on October 20, 2011, the disinformation agencies of empire worked hard to keep the news of the militias and the insecurity out of international news. However, the competition between the differing oil companies had ensnared numerous forces. So this warfare continued with the militias linked to western oil companies through private military contractors and relevant western agencies. Citizens of the United States learnt of the levels of insecurity of the people of Libya on September 11 when the Ambassador of the United States to Libya was killed in Benghazi, the city that was the base of the rebellion against Gaddafi. The death of Ambassador Stevens brought out facts of the US diplomatic/intelligence activities and its relationship to the militias. The differing accounts of the death entered into the presidential campaign as the Republican controlled Congress mounted hearings to get to the 'truth'. Prior to these Hearings reports had been coming out in drips and drabs about the US intelligence presence in Benghazi. When the US security personnel were evacuated after the fateful events of September 11, 2012, the Libyan Deputy Prime Minister Mustafa Abushagour told the Wall Street Journal: 'We were surprised by the numbers of Americans who were at the airport. We have no problem with intelligence sharing or gathering, but our sovereignty is also key.' Libyans were awoken to the extent of the integration between the large numbers of US intelligence and the competing militias in Benghazi. The testimony of the officials of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security at the Department of State before the US Congress only created more uncertainty in relation to the objectives of the United States in Libya. This Hearing before Congress failed to bring out the important role of the intelligence community in Libya in the coordination of the present war in Syria. In our commentary this week, we will note that the war in Libya is not over and that the United Nations and the BRICS societies will have to be more forthright in placing a different plan for the restoration of peace and decent livelihood for the peoples of Libya. Ultimately, the triggers of war that spun out of the NATO intervention in Libya are having a tragic effect on all of the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa. The African Union will have to once again intervene in Libya as the NATO countries descend into deeper economic depression and political repression at home and abroad. SELLING THE SO-CALLED TRANSITION After the execution of Gaddafi on October 20, 2011 and the capture of Saif al-Islam in November, the western media went into overdrive to present the idea that a new era of peace and reconstruction had arrived in Libya. Carefully managing the news coming out of Libya, Western citizens were assured that Libya was in a 'transition' phase. Step one in the planning of the masterminds of the intervention was declaration of victory after the destruction of Sirte and the displacement of hundreds of thousands. Step two involved the formation of an interim government which was supposed to have been completed by October 31, 2011 with Abdurrahim El-Keib succeeding Mahmoud Jibril. This phase of the transition was supposed to be guided through February 2012 when there was an appointment of an election commission with the adoption of electoral legislation. The farcical nature of this transition was soon made obvious when in March 2012, NTC officials in the east, centred on Benghazi, launched a campaign to re-establish autonomy for the region, further increasing tension with the central NTC in Tripoli. This push for autonomy in the oil rich region ensured that there was a flurry of activities as the executives of the oil companies and their private contractors fanned out in Benghazi to ensure that their own companies would emerge as strong forces after the redistribution of oil contracts. It was in the midst of the dangerous squabbling between oil executives and their contractors and militias when there was the constant announcement of plans for elections in Libya in June 2012. The elections for the General National Congress were held on July 7, 2012. International news organizations went overboard to highlight the success of the elections and the 'fact' that Islamists and Jihadists did not come out as winners. The transitional government handed power to the General National Congress. This Congress then elected Mohammed Magarief of the liberal National Front Party as its chairman, thereby making him interim head of state. These well-crafted versions of the 'transition' concealed the continued warfare that was going on all over Libya. There were approximately 1,700 militia groups running the country with each neighborhood dominated by a faction that went into the business of using weapons as a means of gaining access to resources. After the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, US citizens were alerted to the existence of what the State Department called 'security incidents.' But the 230 'security incidents' over the past year were the tip of the iceberg of the massive destabilization and killings that had occurred. Black skinned Libyans from Tawergha were expelled from their community and more than 30,000 displaced. Even the usual spokespersons for Western imperial missions had to speak out as Human Rights Watch joined in the condemnation of the rule of the militias. Human Rights Watch brought out a 'Report Rule of Law or Rule of Militias' bringing into sharper focus some of the outstanding questions of the role of these armed marauders all over Libya. In June one militia brigade briefly took over Tripoli international airport OIL AND MILITIAS Despite the 230 security situations in Libya, international oil companies were back in business so that by the end of September 2012, Libya was producing 90 per cent of its pre-NATO intervention output. In fact more oil was now being pumped out than in the month immediately prior to the start of the NATO war. Foreign companies had been trooping back into Libya with BP being the last to arrive in May. Even without the hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, the stability of the exportation of oil had driven foreign companies to focus on who would be in control of Benghazi, especially after the noisy declaration of autonomy by the militia/political leaders in February. US oil companies did not want to be left behind in this new insensate struggle, hence US diplomatic efforts were now directed at Benghazi. Christopher Stevens had been appointed ambassador of the United States to Libya in January 2012 and arrived in Tripoli in May. When the uprisings had started in February 2011 and the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy was going into Benghazi to mobilize support for French interests, Chris Stevens was one of the first US diplomatic personnel to be on the ground in Benghazi. He had served as a 'Special Representative' to the Libyan Transitional National Council from March 2011 to November 2011 during the NATO intervention. Prior to this period he had served as the Deputy Chief of Mission in Libya from 2007 to 2009. At that time, Stevens described Gaddafi as an 'engaging and charming interlocutor' as well as a 'strong partner in the war against terrorism.' Chris Stevens belonged to that section of the US Department of State that was very knowledgeable about the movements of militia members between Benghazi, Libya, and the current war against the Assad regime in Syria. Libyan Islamists from the Eastern region comprise the largest single component of the 'foreign fighters' who are playing an ever more dominant role in the war being waged in Syria with the aim of toppling the government of President Assad. According to some estimates, they comprise anywhere from 1,200 to 1,500 of approximately 3,500 fighters who have been infiltrated into Syria from as far away as Chechnya and Pakistan. DEATH OF AN AMBASSADOR Throughout North Africa, the fallout of the NATO war was being felt with the citizens of Libya bearing the brunt of the lawlessness that had been unleashed. Such lawlessness suited the short term interests of the capital equity forces of Wall Street, the oil executives and the Emirates. The proliferation of military weaponry from unsecured Libyan stockpiles -- including small arms, explosives and shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles (MANPADs) -- expanded the availability of weapons with the border regions suffering directly. The present destruction in Mali is directly related to these forms of plunder by Western interests. The NATO powers and Western nations remained smug because this instability temporarily postponed the questions of African integration. However, some sections of Africa were sufficiently angry for them to work for the removal of the Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union, Jean Ping. The purpose of Wednesday's hearing of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee was to examine security lapses that led to the killing in Benghazi last month of the US ambassador and three others. What this hearing confirmed was what many knew; that there was no real 'consulate' in Benghazi, but a vast intelligence and private contractors web for the CIA and the oil companies. It was the testament of Charlene Lamb before Congress that gave away the fact that the 'facility' in Benghazi where Christopher Stevens and three others lost their lives was not a diplomatic facility. The events surrounding the death of Ambassador Stevens exposed the USA in Libya at a number of levels. First, the role of Stevens exposed the hypocrisy of the so called 'war on terror'. Second, the evidence pointed to the integration between US intelligence and the militias. In the testimony before Congress, Charlene Lamb told US law makers that the intelligence compound depended on the militia in Benghazi known as the 17th February Brigade. Lamb, Deputy Assistant Secretary State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, told Congress on October 10 that in terms of armed security personnel, there were five Diplomatic Security agents on the compound on September11. 'There were also three members of the Libyan 17th February Brigade' - a reference to the Libyans hired to guard the American compound.
My Gawd... I feel like I’ve been reading a Ludlum or DeMille novel, and yet it’s all real. INSANITY. Absolutely incomprehensible insanity.
What will Issa’s next step be? Are more hearings to be televised? This MUST be followed thru on — it’s sounds like half of State AND the WH need to swing.
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