American embassy warned of attacks but did nothing

[tyroneweaver]

Revealed: inside story of US envoy's assassination - World Politics - World - The Independent

According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and "lockdown", under which movement is severely restricted.

hmmm. I'll follow dem protocol and wait a day before passing judgement

 

[Trajan]

if true, this is going to be hard to explain. I mean look, it was 9-11 anyway, if there is a day to be extra careful thats it.....

more form the leak which is worrying...

American officials believe the attack was planned, but Chris Stevens had been back in the country only a short while and the details of his visit to Benghazi, where he and his staff died, were meant to be confidential.

The US administration is now facing a crisis in Libya. Sensitive documents have gone missing from the consulate in Benghazi and the supposedly secret location of the "safe house" in the city, where the staff had retreated, came under sustained mortar attack. Other such refuges across the country are no longer deemed "safe".

Some of the missing papers from the consulate are said to list names of Libyans who are working with Americans, putting them potentially at risk from extremist groups, while some of the other documents are said to relate to oil contracts.

more at your link.

 

[depotoo]

yeah , I read this in the jpost as well today.
Jerusalem Post - Breaking News
Egypt intelligence warns of attacks on Israel, US embassies

 

[Trajan]

yeah , I read this in the jpost as well today.
Jerusalem Post - Breaking News
Egypt intelligence warns of attacks on Israel, US embassies

Interesting, thx for the link.

 

[edthecynic]

Revealed: inside story of US envoy's assassination - World Politics - World - The Independent

According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and "lockdown", under which movement is severely restricted.

hmmm. I'll follow dem protocol and wait a day before passing judgement

As always, the Right is on both sides of every issue.

Feds were clueless about 9/11 anniversary attack | WashingtonExaminer.com

Five days before Muslim militants killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans on Tuesday, Sept.11, the State Department's security team told diplomats around the world that there was "no credible information" of any attack planned to coincide with the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on America, the clearest sign federal officials were clueless about this week's assaults on embassies in Libya, Egypt and Yemen.

 

[Trajan]

We'll see ....it is what it is.

 

[waltky]

Libya arrests four suspects in deadly U.S. consulate attack...

Libya arrests 4 over deadly Benghazi attack: official
13 Sept.`12 - Libyan authorities have made four arrests in the investigation into the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in which the U.S. ambassador and three embassy staff were killed, the deputy interior minister said on Thursday.

"Four men are in custody and we are interrogating them because they are suspected of helping instigate the events at the U.S. consulate," Wanis Sharif told Reuters. He gave no more details. U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans died after the gunmen attacked the U.S. consulate and a safe house refuge in the eastern city of Benghazi on Tuesday night.

The attackers were part of a mob blaming America for a film they said insulted the Prophet Mohammad. Demonstrators attacked the U.S. embassies in Yemen and Egypt on Thursday in protests against the film, and American warships were moved closer to Libya.

President Barack Obama has vowed to bring to justice those responsible for the Benghazi attack, which U.S. officials said may have been planned in advance. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington had nothing to do with the video, which she called "disgusting and reprehensible".

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US police protect suspected anti-Islam filmmaker
AFP, Thursday 13 Sep 2012 - The man suspected of producing a crude film lampooning the Prophet Mohammed has been placed under police protection after protests erupted around the world, a force spokesman said Thursday.

Journalists gathered outside the home of a 55-year-old Coptic Christian, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, in the city's southern suburbs, after reports he had directed the movie that triggered protests in the Muslim world. There was no sign at the house of Nakoula, who is thought to have uploaded a trailer for the movie to the YouTube video-sharing site under the pseudonym "Sam Bacile," but police said he had asked for protections. "We did receive the call and we did respond. We're providing public safety and we will continue to do so," said Steve Whitman, a spokesman for the county sheriff in Cerritos, 24 miles (40 kilometers) south of Los Angeles.

Little is known about Nakoula, who was sentenced to 21 months in prison in 2010 for bank fraud. His family refused to speak to reporters at his home. If he is the figure who has been posing as Sam Bacile, then he told two US media outlets that he was Israeli-American and Jewish, but an associate has now confirmed to AFP that he is a Christian American and not Israeli. A 14-minute package of excerpts from the movie he is thought to have produced -- "Innocence of the Muslims" -- was uploaded onto the Internet in July. In it, an actor playing Mohammed is portrayed as a drunken and predatory bisexual.

The film is marked by amateur acting, laughable fake beards and shoddy production values was apparently shot in English, but a version of the trailer was dubbed into Egyptian Arabic and caused great offense in the Arab world. Egyptian Islamist television networks broadcast the clip, triggering a riot in which a mob stormed the grounds of the American embassy and tore down the US flag. Similar unrest erupted in Yemen on Thursday.

An attack on the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday, the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, was at first thought to be linked to the protests, but investigators now suspect an extremist plot. Actors who appeared in the film have come forward to denounce "Bacile", alleging they were misled about the content and that references to Islam and the Prophet Mohammed were dubbed over their voices in post production.

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