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Libya: We gave US three-day warning of Benghazi attack
« on: May 28, 2013, 02:15:47 am »
Does anyone remember reading this???


http://theflyingcameldotorg.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/u-s-had-three-day-warning-of-libya-attack/September 18, 2012   by Skip Patel


Libya: We gave US three-day warning of Benghazi attack

Ms Rice denied the Benghazi attack was pre-planned

Kim Sengupta
Tuesday, 18 September 2012

American diplomats were warned of possible violent unrest in Benghazi three days before the killings of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three members of his team, Libyan security officials say.

The claim came as the country’s interim President, Mohammed el-Megarif, said his government had information that the attack on the US consulate had been planned by an Islamist group with links to al-Qa’ida and with foreigners taking part.

However, the American ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, insisted that the killings had resulted from a demonstration against a film about the Prophet Mohamed, replicating protests in Cairo, which had been “hijacked” and got out of control.

The Independent has reported diplomatic sources who said that the threat of an attack against US interests in the region was known to the US administration 48 hours before it took place. The alert was issued by the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, but not made public. A State Department spokesman maintained: “We are not aware of any actionable intelligence indicating that an attack on the US Mission in Benghazi was planned or imminent.”

But President Megarif told the American station National Public Radio: “We firmly believe that this was a pre-calculated, pre-planned attack that was carried out specifically to attack the US Consulate. A few of those who joined in were foreigners who had entered Libya from different directions, some of them definitely from Mali and Algeria.”

A senior official of the biggest militia in Benghazi, the February 17th Brigade, told CNN that he had warned US diplomats of a rapidly deteriorating security situation in Benghazi three days before the attack. “The situation is frightening, it scares us,” he said he had stressed during the meeting. Mr Stevens had been back in Libya for only a short time before US security officials decided it would be safe to make the journey to Benghazi during the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The British consulate in the city was shut after an ambush of a convoy carrying Dominic Asquith, the UK ambassador, in which his bodyguard were injured. The UN and International Committee of the Red Cross offices had been bombed and there had been a spate of political assassinations.

However, Ms Rice denied the Benghazi attack was pre-planned. She said: “Our current best assessment… is that… it was a spontaneous – not a premeditated – response to what had transpired in Cairo. “A small number of people came to the consulate. It seems to have been hijacked by some individual clusters of extremists who came with heavier weapons… And it then evolved from there.” Mr Stevens was separated from his protection team during the attack. He was found, it is thought unconscious, by locals who took him to hospital where, doctors said, he died from smoke inhalation.

The Americans who escaped from the consulate made their way to a “safe house” at a supposedly secret location. That, too, came under mortar fire. Captain Fathi al-Obeidi, who had taken an eight-strong American rescue team which had arrived from Tripoli to the safe house, said “I don’t know how they found the place to carry out the attack. It was planned, the accuracy with which the mortars hit us was too good for any ordinary revolutionaries.” On Sunday, the head of Libya’s national congress said about 50 people had been arrested in connection with the attack on the US consulate, though the interior ministry put the figure far lower.
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Re: Libya: We gave US three-day warning of Benghazi attack
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2013, 02:22:50 am »
Would not... check that... does not surprise me.
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Re: Libya: We gave US three-day warning of Benghazi attack
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2013, 02:26:56 am »
This doesn't surprise me with this admin.....is this why Stevens kept asking for more security in the days prior to the attack?
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Re: Libya: We gave US three-day warning of Benghazi attack
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2013, 02:34:17 am »
This meshes with the theory/rumor that the regime was staging a "mock" kidnapping of Amb Stevens, who would then be "exchanged" for the Blind Sheik--currently housed, I checked on the fed prison site for the name Omar Rahman, and sho nuff he is there at the fed's "white collar" facility in Butner, NC.  Waiting to be exchanged I suppose.  So, if the regime were planning this, the warnings from Libyan officials would be ignored....I guess...

Curious, the sheik is NOT in a high security facility.  How can that be?

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Re: Libya: We gave US three-day warning of Benghazi attack
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2013, 02:46:46 am »
This meshes with the theory/rumor that the regime was staging a "mock" kidnapping of Amb Stevens, who would then be "exchanged" for the Blind Sheik--currently housed, I checked on the fed prison site for the name Omar Rahman, and sho nuff he is there at the fed's "white collar" facility in Butner, NC.  Waiting to be exchanged I suppose.  So, if the regime were planning this, the warnings from Libyan officials would be ignored....I guess...

Curious, the sheik is NOT in a high security facility.  How can that be?

In the Butner Federal Medical Center no less... the guy has a cushy incarceration, it seems.
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« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2013, 02:59:01 am »
Why is all this information coming out now?

Are we puppets being played?  Because for all these to hit the 'Messiah' at once....you gotta wonder.

Because it can't be the CIA or the FBI.  And certainly not the DOJ.  They're all headed by Obama's people, aren't they?

Or, has a rogue group in the aforementioned leaked...and that's what has them snooping and eavesdropping, etc..

{{{scratching my head}}}

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« Reply #6 on: May 28, 2013, 03:01:24 am »
Why is all this information coming out now?

Are we puppets being played?  Because for all these to hit the 'Messiah' at once....you gotta wonder.

Because it can't be the CIA or the FBI.  And certainly not the DOJ.  They're all headed by Obama's people, aren't they?

Or, has a rogue group in the aforementioned leaked...and that's what has them snooping and eavesdropping, etc..

{{{scratching my head}}}

This was dated September 18th, DC..... there is just so much info that seeps through at one time when the poop is hitting the proverbial fan...  and remember we were leading up to an election and people were absorbed with it as well.
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Re: Libya: We gave US three-day warning of Benghazi attack
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2013, 03:07:52 am »
This was dated September 18th, DC..... there is just so much info that seeps through at one time when the poop is hitting the proverbial fan...  and remember we were leading up to an election and people were absorbed with it as well.

IOW, if the press ignore it...nobody finds out.  The Fifth Column.

So...if they're letting it 'seep', they just want to keep us in a constant state of controlled rage right now.

Once again.... :shrug:
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