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Pakistan-based al Qaeda is secretly setting up sleeper cells and a clandestine network of jihadists to destabilize and take over Libya while hiding under a new cover name to prevent exposure and attacks, according to an internal Pentagon report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Al Qaeda has established a core network in Libya, but it remains clandestine and refrains from using the al Qaeda name, according to the report produced jointly by the Library of Congress and the Combating Terrorism Technical Support Offices Irregular Warfare Support Program, a unit under the assistant defense secretary for special operations.
The 54-page unclassified report describes al Qaedawhich President Barack Obama recently declared to be in declineas seeking to create an al Qaeda clandestine network in Libya that could be activated in the future to destabilize the government and/or to offer logistical support to al Qaedas activities in North Africa and the Sahelthe Sahara desert region stretching across northern Africa.
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Military officer reveals State Department had ignored requests to increase security and opted to decrease support instead
CBS News) One of the men who was in charge of security for U.S. diplomats in Libya says he feared for their safety long before the attack last month on the consulate in Benghazi. Four Americans were killed in the attacks on the Libyan consulate, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.
The concerned military security officer and Army green beret, Lt. Colonel Andrew Wood, will tell his story to Congress on Wednesday.
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Ex-U.S. security team leader in Libya: "We needed more, not less" security staff
Wood first set foot in Libya last February to lead an elite, 16-man counterterrorism team. From the moment he arrived, he says he saw chaos.
"Shooting instances occurred, many instances involved the local security guard force that we were training," he told CBS News. "Constantly, there were battles going on between militias, criminal activity and that became increasing danger as time went on as well."
