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To: ConservativeMan55

Even the lefty Seymour Hersh wrote about it. (Long, but interesting.)

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line


66 posted on 05/06/2014 2:11:16 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line "The Obama administration has never publicly admitted to its role in creating what the CIA calls a ‘rat line’, a back channel highway into Syria. The rat line, authorised in early 2012, was used to funnel weapons and ammunition from Libya via southern Turkey and across the Syrian border to the opposition. Many of those in Syria who ultimately received the weapons were jihadists, some of them affiliated with al-Qaida." In other words, our government was running guns to Al Qaeda, the very people who are fighting us, the very people who attacked us on 9/11. "In January, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the assault by a local militia in September 2012 on the American consulate and a nearby undercover CIA facility in Benghazi, which resulted in the death of the US ambassador, Christopher Stevens, and three others... A highly classified annex to the report, not made public, described a secret agreement reached in early 2012 between the Obama and Erdoğan administrations. It pertained to the rat line. By the terms of the agreement, funding came from Turkey, as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar; the CIA, with the support of MI6, was responsible for getting arms from Gaddafi’s arsenals into Syria. A number of front companies were set up in Libya, some under the cover of Australian entities. Retired American soldiers, who didn’t always know who was really employing them, were hired to manage procurement and shipping." According to Glenn Beck's Blaze TV (the show "On the Record"), this was known as "Operation Zero Footprint". Once again, Barack Hussein Obama shows his true colors -- and they are NOT red, white, and blue.
67 posted on 05/06/2014 2:17:22 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line

"The Obama administration has never publicly admitted to its role in creating what the CIA calls a ‘rat line’, a back channel highway into Syria. The rat line, authorised in early 2012, was used to funnel weapons and ammunition from Libya via southern Turkey and across the Syrian border to the opposition. Many of those in Syria who ultimately received the weapons were jihadists, some of them affiliated with al-Qaida."

In other words, our government was running guns to Al Qaeda, the very people who are fighting us, the very people who attacked us on 9/11.

"In January, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the assault by a local militia in September 2012 on the American consulate and a nearby undercover CIA facility in Benghazi, which resulted in the death of the US ambassador, Christopher Stevens, and three others... A highly classified annex to the report, not made public, described a secret agreement reached in early 2012 between the Obama and Erdoğan administrations. It pertained to the rat line. By the terms of the agreement, funding came from Turkey, as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar; the CIA, with the support of MI6, was responsible for getting arms from Gaddafi’s arsenals into Syria. A number of front companies were set up in Libya, some under the cover of Australian entities. Retired American soldiers, who didn’t always know who was really employing them, were hired to manage procurement and shipping."

According to Blaze TV (the show "On the Record"), this was known as "Operation Zero Footprint".

Once again, Barack Hussein Obama shows his true colors -- and they are NOT red, white, and blue.

69 posted on 05/06/2014 4:54:21 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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