Looks like Obama was Incorrect about Benghazi

[TemplarKormac]

So in other word, State confirms the Obama report that Al Qaeda was not involved, thus conservatives say the exact opposite.

Conservatives, why don't you just apologize to the nation for your pathological lying about Benghazi? Come clean. You'll look less craven and dishonest that way, plus you won't burn in hell for eternity.

Excuse me?

In other words, you never read the article, or the State Department report. Move along, troll.

 

[novasteve]

The aids brigade quickly jumped on the Christie story

 

[tinydancer]

What's really super koo koo bye bye nutso on this attempt to spin Benghazi is Leon testified that they knew it was a terrorist attack.

This is on record. And these left wing loons are still trying to spin a fairy tale.

Panetta: President Obama was absent night of Benghazi attack and did not check in once during the night of the deadly terror assault

Panetta: President Obama was absent night of Benghazi attack and did not check in once during the night of the deadly terror assault | Mail Online

 

[TemplarKormac]

Contrary to a report by the NYT earlier this month, and repeated claims by the Obama Administration, the State Department is now acknowledging that terrorists were responsible for the deadly assault on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. The New York Times article claimed as the Obama Administration did, that the attack was spontaneous, as a result of an anti Islamic YouTube video. Two terrorists named in the State Department report released today were terrorists Sufian bin Qumu and Ahmed Abu Khattalah, further stating that bin Qumu had ties to Al-Qaeda.

The State Department on Friday for the first time blamed specific groups and militants for the 2012 Benghazi attack, designating them as terrorists -- a move that further undermines initial claims the attack was spontaneous.

The department announced that it was labeling Ansar al-Sharia in Benghazi and Ansar al-Sharia in Darnah as terror organizations, in part over their role in the Benghazi attack. It applied the same label to Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia, over a separate attack on Americans in Tunis.

The State Department also labeled as terrorists Sufian bin Qumu, head of the Darnah branch and a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, and Ahmed Abu Khattalah, head of the Benghazi branch.

Fox News previously reported that the two were suspected of playing a role in the attack. And despite State Department claims that Al Qaeda leadership was not involved and a recent news report echoing that assessment, Fox News has learned that bin Qumu has Al Qaeda ties.

According to his Guantanamo file, he has historic ties to the Al Qaeda network, including training at one point at "Usama bin Laden's Torkham camp."

The State Department, in its announcement Friday, specifically discussed allegations against the Ansar al-Sharia branches.

"Ansar al-Shari'a in Benghazi and Ansar al-Shari'a in Darnah have been involved in terrorist attacks against civilian targets, frequent assassinations, and attempted assassinations of security officials and political actors in eastern Libya, and the September 11, 2012 attacks against the U.S. Special Mission and Annex in Benghazi, Libya," the department said. "Members of both organizations continue to pose a threat to U.S. interests in Libya."

State Department names groups behind Benghazi strike | Fox News

No, it did not. No, it did not.

Fail.

And by the way:

Chapter 4

The Fuse Is Lit

From A Deadly Mix in Benghazi, by David D. Kirkpatrick of The New York Times

“Innocence of Muslims” purported to be an online trailer for a film about the mistreatment of Christians in contemporary Egypt. But it included bawdy historical flashbacks that derided the Prophet Muhammad. Someone dubbed it into Arabic around the beginning of September 2012, and a Cairo newspaper embellished the news by reporting that a Florida pastor infamous for burning the Quran was planning to debut the film on the 11th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

Then, on Sept. 8, a popular Islamist preacher lit the fuse by screening a clip of the video on the ultraconservative Egyptian satellite channel El Nas. American diplomats in Cairo raised the alarm in Washington about a growing backlash, including calls for a protest outside their embassy.

No one mentioned it to the American diplomats in Libya. But Islamists in Benghazi were watching. Egyptian satellite networks like El Nas and El Rahma were widely available in Benghazi. “It is Friday morning viewing,” popular on the day of prayer, said one young Benghazi Islamist who turned up at the compound during the attack, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

By Sept. 9, a popular eastern Libyan Facebook page had denounced the film. On the morning of Sept. 11, even some secular political activists were posting calls online for a protest that Friday, three days away.

Hussein Abu Hamida, the acting chief of Benghazi’s informal police force, saw the growing furor and feared new violence against Western interests. He conferred with Abdul Salam Bargathi of the Preventive Security Brigade, an Islamist militia with a grandiose name, each recalled separately, and they increased security outside a United Nations office. But they said nothing to the Americans.

Reports of the video were just beginning to spread on Sept. 9 when Mr. McFarland, then the officer normally in charge of politics and economics at the United States Embassy in Tripoli, had his meeting with the Benghazi militia leaders. Among them were some of the same men who had greeted Mr. Stevens when he arrived in Benghazi at the start of the revolt, including Mr. Gharabi, 39, a heavyset former Abu Salim inmate who ran a local sandwich truck before becoming the leader of the Rafallah al-Sehati. Another was Wissam bin Hamid, also 39, a slim and slightly hunched mechanic known for his skill with American cars who by then had become the leader of Libya Shield, considered one of the strongest militias in Libya.

In an interview, Mr. Gharabi said that he had known about the building rage in Egypt over the video, but that, “We did not know if it was going to reach us here.”

Mr. McFarland seemed most concerned about the big militia leaders. “'How do the revolutionaries feel about having relationships with Western countries? What is your opinion about the United States?'” the Americans asked, according to Mr. Gharabi. It was “an interrogation,” he said.

“We told them that we hoped that the countries which helped us during the war would now help us in development,” he said. “And America was at the top of the pyramid.”

But Mr. Gharabi and two other Libyan militia leaders present said separately that they tried to warn Mr. McFarland. “We told them, ‘Weapons are everywhere, in every home, and there is no real control,' ” Mr. Bin Hamid of Libya Shield said.

Mr. McFarland struggled to make sense of their contradictory signals. “The message was, ‘Don’t come here because there is no security, but come right away because we need you,' ” Mr. McFarland later told colleagues.

The militia leaders seemed unable to get their stories straight, his colleagues said, and the vague warnings amounted to a reminder of what the diplomats already knew: Post-revolutionary Benghazi was a dangerous place.

A Deadly Mix in Benghazi - New York Times

 

[LoneLaugher]

LL seriously, do you have anything productive to say here? Your behavior is indicative of abject denial.

Denial of what?

You misrepresented the facts. As you often do.

 

[TemplarKormac]

LL seriously, do you have anything productive to say here? Your behavior is indicative of abject denial.

Denial of what?

You misrepresented the facts. As you often do.

HA! Then you obviously don't know what the facts are, now do you? Have a seat.

 

[tinydancer]

So in other word, State confirms the Obama report that Al Qaeda was not involved, thus conservatives say the exact opposite.

Conservatives, why don't you just apologize to the nation for your pathological lying about Benghazi? Come clean. You'll look less craven and dishonest that way, plus you won't burn in hell for eternity.

Oh bite me. A report out the State Department clears Obama?

Were the opening words........

Once upon a time?

 

[kaz]

Contrary to a report by the NYT earlier this month, and repeated claims by the Obama Administration, the State Department is now acknowledging that terrorists were responsible for the deadly assault on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.

One could criticize the administration for not getting this until so long after everyone else knew it, but it's better than their normal standard of not getting it at all I suppose.

 

[Ernie S.]

So in other word, State confirms the Obama report that Al Qaeda was not involved, thus conservatives say the exact opposite.

Conservatives, why don't you just apologize to the nation for your pathological lying about Benghazi? Come clean. You'll look less craven and dishonest that way, plus you won't burn in hell for eternity.

Trouble reading this part?

Two terrorists named in the State Department report released today were terrorists Sufian bin Qumu and Ahmed Abu Khattalah, further stating that bin Qumu had ties to Al-Qaeda.

 

[tinydancer]

Now let me get this right. It's a video I haven't seen.

But you drone kill AQ#2 oh who just happens to be Libyan. AQ #1 calls for vengeance. Some idiot at the State Department thinks it's a swell idea to hire Libyan militias to protect embassies. For "optics"

Oh you have to be so kidding me that it was some weird video that killed the Ambassador.

yeah yeah thats the ticket