I just caught the end of a segment on CNN. The network is reporting that its Middle East sources say that the attack on the US consulate in Libya was pre-planned for the 9-11 anniversary and had nothing to do with the film which is being blamed for inciting the attack.
If true, the attack was very likely a Muslim Brotherhood operation intended to humiliated the United States on the 11th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. The attack, which left the US ambassador to Libya and three others dead, would also more clearly come under the definition of an act of war.
Developing…more to come.
Update: More.
U.S. sources told CNN on Wednesday that the Benghazi attack was planned in advance, and the attackers used the protest outside the consulate as a diversion. The sources could not say whether the attackers instigated the protest or merely took advantage of it, and they say they don’t believe Stevens was specifically targeted.
A senior U.S. official familiar with the details of the attack said a grenade set the building ablaze, leaving the Americans facing both a fire inside and attackers outside. Stevens and the others who died were separated from the rest of the staff while trying to escape to the roof of the building and succumbed to smoke inhalation, the senior official said.
The official said there were several “valiant but unsuccessful” attempts to get back into the building and rescue them.
Meanwhile, a London think tank with strong ties to Libya speculated Wednesday that Stevens was actually the victim of a targeted al Qaeda revenge attack. The assault “came to avenge the death of Abu Yaya al-Libi, al Qaeda’s second in command killed a few months ago,” the think tank Quilliam said Wednesday.
It was “the work of roughly 20 militants, prepared for a military assault,” the think tank said, noting that rocket-propelled grenade launchers do not normally appear at peaceful protests, and that there were no other protests against the film elsewhere in Libya.
The planned attack came in two waves, one which prompted U.S. officials to leave the consulate for a secure location. The second wave was directed at the place of retreat, Quilliam said, citing unnamed sources on the ground in Benghazi and abroad.
Update: Ray Ibrahim reported here at the Tatler on Monday that jihadists were threatening to attack the embassy in Cairo and burn it to the ground.
– to a safe location of which the killers were informed.
act of war ..are you sh!tting me !!
muslims and islam has been at war since Mo raped his neighbourhood children
Welcome back, Carter.
Ambassador Steven’s assassination in Benghazi, Libya on 9-11, 2012 was only the second ambassador in modern times to have had a similiar fate as
Adolph “Spike” Dubs (August 4, 1920 – February 14, 1979)who was the United States Ambassador to Afghanistan from May 13, 1978, until his death in 1979. He was killed in an exchange of fire after a botched kidnapping attempt.
Ambassador Dubbs was assasinated because of a series of Foreign Policy mistakes committed by then President Jimmy Carter…culminating in the loss of Marines and troops in hapless mistakes with helicopters and other military miscalculations in Foreign Policy in the Middle East, deliberately planned by the Carter Administration. Now, these same errors are repeated by Mr. Obama’s administration. And Our US House of Representatives has its Democratic Socialists of America (CPC) with Mr. Grijalva leading the way and Nancy Pelosi giving fodder to this cabal of commies.
Sad, in the intervening years, with far left revolutionaries in US Administrative positions,both in the 70′s and now 2012, history has again repeated itself. What does it take for far left marxist/Islamist/sodomites to learn about history’s lessons and how fragile American Freedom, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness hang in the balance and are now, hanging by a thread?
Leaderless, heartless US Presidents have always led America and Americans down a primrose path to an abyss (marxism/leninism are lost social causes)…dark with despair(just like the former Soviet Union), shackled with debt and social woes.
Vote American Freedom, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness this coming November 6. A weak America will put our Nation at risk and our grandchildren in peril’s way. God Bless America. Amen.
If the attacks were pre-planned it would explain the approach Obama, Axelrod and company took during the day. There were no mentions of 9/11 just campaigning with the point that this was a normal day. If they had acknowledged 9/11 they would’ve had to act instead of sitting back and thinking about their golf games when the attack hit. They were lowering expectation and they obviously didn’t care about the embassies.
You could almost argue that now Obama is better set for the debates. He gets to argue that we are overreacting and not have to defend himself against the fact that he did nothing.
– Batchelor posted the U.S. Embassy in Cairo press release on his site. Appears to be official speak, given the disclaimer at the bottom regarding links to externals. Practically an invite to incite: What victims say before being assaulted, “We don’t want any trouble…”
Where is Octavia Nasser when we need her! We need a jihadists to help us understand the many ways Muslim Rage(tm) is our own damn fault.
“Was U.S. Ambassador Lynched?”:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/was-u-s-ambassador-lynched.html
– something Zimmerman telegram-like about the Cairo press release: “Wait for it; pretext provided; now move against all embassies and consulates; begin with students followed by heavily-armed gangs, just as in 1979 Iran.”