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How US Ambassador Chris Stevens May Have Been Linked To Jihadist Rebels In Syria
Business Insider ^ | Oct 19, 2012 | Michael Kelly

Posted on 10/19/2012 6:37:14 AM PDT by KeyLargo

How US Ambassador Chris Stevens May Have Been Linked To Jihadist Rebels In Syria

Michael Kelley | 46 minutes ago

US Weapons Are Going To Hard-Line Jihadists Fighting To Topple The Syrian Regime

The details of the September 11 attack that killed four Americans at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi are still murky and there's certainly more to be known.

Former CIA officer Clare Lopez argues that the key issue is "the relationship of the U.S. government, Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya with Al Qaeda."

That relationship, Lopez argues, could be connected to the rise of Islamic brigades in Syria, who recently created a "Front to Liberate Syria" to wage jihad against the Syrian regime and turn the country into an Islamic state.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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To: MissMagnolia
"I will repeat my "dream scenario" that I posted on another thread a week or so ago .... Seal Team 6 perp walking Obama and The Mooch out of the White House .... "
61 posted on 10/19/2012 9:40:37 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Texas Eagle

Who benefits?

When a political event doesn’t make sense it should be examined from a different direction.

Benghazzi might be a question of pay back.

Syria is no slouch in the information gathering business and likely have their own assets capable of pulling off an attack like Benghazzi.

Say Syria heard about US arming the people trying to oust Assad and know Stevens is a principle figure in the scheme.

How sweet for Syria that 9/11 exists. They can dress up their force in civilian clothes expecting them to be eventually identified as AlQuada.

All the sweeeter for Syria, launching Operation Payback on 9/11 reinforced the connection to America’s nightmare.

According to accounts, the attack was well done. On the scale of a military operation. Maybe even more military than officially recognized.

Just giving the caffeine free rein.


62 posted on 10/19/2012 9:45:38 AM PDT by MurrietaMadman
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To: rdcbn

“In the aftermath of the Embassy attack there has been a move to turn Stevens into some sort of Sainted Martyr.

In reality, he was an Arabist and an Milddle East Nativist who internalized much of the mind set of the Radical Arab world. He was a supporter of the PLO and maintained close connections dn ties to Middle East radical groups.”

CHRIS STEVENS’ MURDER A SMOKESCREEN FOR JOINT NATO-CIA EXERCISES IN BENGHAZI?

http://libya360.wordpress.com/2012/09/25/nato-cia-al-qaeda-and-the-alleged-murder-of-us-diplomatic-staff-in-benghazi/


63 posted on 10/19/2012 9:56:04 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: kevslisababy

Generally, aren’t the MB and AQ kind of nomatic.
They take over areas throughout the entire ME...?


64 posted on 10/19/2012 9:56:23 AM PDT by Leep (Forward! to serfdom)
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To: livius
Stevens was certainly a useful idiot and an islamophile

Since he died in the service of his nation, do you have any evidence to back up your claims? Stevens, after all, was homosexual and would know Islam does not looks kindly upon his people.

65 posted on 10/19/2012 10:10:02 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Osama's dead... and so is our ambassador - Coulter.)
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To: KeyLargo
Am I the only person that has always felt that Fast & Furious possibly involves distributing weapons to be used by jihadists or other radicals and is not a 2nd Amendment set-up only? Aren't we also missing some larger, more advanced weaponry? Couldn't a plan to effectively disarm Americans been better orchestrated within the U.S.? Why were they distributed across the border?
66 posted on 10/19/2012 10:10:22 AM PDT by taraytarah
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To: KeyLargo

My antennae tell me that a U.S. strike in Libya is imminent. Let’s see if I’m a seer. ;>).


67 posted on 10/19/2012 10:11:43 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The first priority is get Obama out of the White House.)
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To: crosslink

Such a scheme is WAY out of the state dept’s purview or even capability. What most of that bunch knows about weapons would fit in Hillary’s pill box. And would be a good way to get a double dealing ambassador killed. Ya think?


68 posted on 10/19/2012 10:35:06 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: rdcbn

Further, check Steven’s bio-—in the past two decades he’s done duty in nearly every Casbah in the Middle East. His story reads like a single guy who got way too chummy with the natives-——what could go wrong?


69 posted on 10/19/2012 10:41:13 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: newzjunkey

He had a long track record of positive writings about Islam ever since college, supported Islamic causes and organizations such as the PLO, and was in fact a Muslim convert (to Sufism). While Sufism is considered a mystical/syncretist form of Islam and is frowned upon by mainstream Muslims and probably wouldn’t have earned him many friends, it is very strict about homosexuality (this was even affirmed to me by a gay friend who had been a Sufi but left because of that). So if he had been a practicing homosexual before that, he certainly wasn’t one after he became a Sufi.

This wasn’t a personal attack on him, or at any rate not for anything about him personally. It was an attack against the United States, and probably was also focused on some activity he was involved in.

I think the latter, in fact, is quite likely; the question is simply which one of the players needed to take him out.


70 posted on 10/19/2012 10:43:56 AM PDT by livius
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To: MissMagnolia
I will repeat my "dream scenario" that I posted on another thread a week or so ago .... Seal Team 6 perp walking Obama and The Mooch out of the White House .... and doing the same for Biden out of the USNO residence.

I might even be able to improve on that "dream scenario" a bit:

Depending on what she knew and did, Hillary might get perp walked too.

71 posted on 10/19/2012 10:51:37 AM PDT by GCC Catholic
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To: Paladin2
"It’s all about Zer0’s Islamic Faith."

I truly believe you are very close to the mark!

72 posted on 10/19/2012 11:22:50 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: KeyLargo

Has the Imposter given us an October Surprise?


73 posted on 10/19/2012 11:26:35 AM PDT by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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To: MurrietaMadman

Your theory is the only one that makes sense. Other than snuffing him out to keep it quiet, why would terrorists bite the hand that feeds them? In that case, Obama and Hillary probably wet themselves.


74 posted on 10/19/2012 11:28:17 AM PDT by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: KeyLargo

The Obama administration was running guns to Al-Queda in Syria. Hence the cover-up because Obama didn’t want anyone to know that he was in bed with Al-Queda so he blamed it all on a spontaneous protest. Now it all makes sense.


75 posted on 10/19/2012 11:40:11 AM PDT by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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To: GCC Catholic
Depending on what she knew and did, Hillary might get perp walked too.


76 posted on 10/19/2012 11:53:17 AM PDT by MissMagnolia (Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. (M.Thatcher))
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To: golfisnr1

I think it may be Fawn Hall (IIRC) of Iran-Contra documents-in-her-underwear fame.


77 posted on 10/19/2012 11:53:57 AM PDT by rfp1234
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To: generally

Now that is clarity to the issue and it makes sense.


78 posted on 10/19/2012 12:13:51 PM PDT by Maryhere ("HE comes to rule the earth")
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To: generally

Yes and the mother of Sean Smith, also killed along with Amb Stevens, said, she believed the 4 men died because they knew too much.

and btw, where has Ms. smith been? She was doing great in contributing info to break this story.


79 posted on 10/19/2012 12:27:25 PM PDT by uncitizen (Obama is a traitor!)
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To: rfp1234

Scotty, is that you?


80 posted on 10/19/2012 12:40:12 PM PDT by Paladin2
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