Some of those religious freaks go nuts after a one-dimensional
cartoon is shown depicting their Prophet. Many of these are unstable, uneducated fanatics.
I don't know why people find it so amazing it could be both -- the video
and some of the factions in that crowd that preplanned it.
Things can happen concurrently when angry fucked up groups assemble.
To the devout, hearing word their Prophet was depicted as a pig fucker and in the most demeaning way possible certainly will only add to the rage...
This, my post from
October of 2012 ::::
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There were people there in Benghazi who claimed the video was why they were angry. That was from initial eye-witness accounts. Now we read
the Al-Sharia group was gathering restless Muslims from nearby neighborhoods to chant against the film.
"The neighbors all described the militants setting up checkpoints around the compound at about 8 p.m. The State Department’s timeline says the attack itself began at around 9:40 p.m.
Khaled al-Haddar, a lawyer who passed by the scene as he headed to his nearby home, said he saw the fighters gathering a few youths from among passers-by and urged them to chant against the film."
Libyan witnesses recount organized Benghazi attack - Washington Times
(the conservative Moonie Times, no less)
To repeat:
There were people there in Benghazi who claimed the video was why they were angry - join that up with the Ansar al-Sharia (who first claimed, then denied responsibility) crowd - who no doubt were mightily pissed and ready to do us harm to begin with,
and add the gasoline of that video to their whacked out religious sensibilities, and you get KA-BOOM!
As I said, it's not like the "reasons" can't happen concurrently, and the Intel was, as officials tell us, still fluid.
But still there are folks who are absolutely convinced...the video had
nothing - nothing! to do with it.
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...and it most certainly played a part in what was happening globally that week, with some 54 countries / locales showing up at our embassies and in the streets to protest...that video, and what "these protests" in that email refers to.
Only someone extremely myopic could not see that.