I’ve been watching with growing incredulity in the last 24 hours how people are blaming this Libya attack on some cheap movie made by someone unknown. Do people really believe that that this was all a coincidence on the anniversary of 9/11?
Come on…
This wasn’t the fault of some nutcase making a home movie. This was a coordinated attack on the anniversary of 9/11 by our enemy.
Plain and simple.
Although initial reports described the events as a demonstration that had spiraled out of control, there are indications that the attack may have been planned, most likely by Islamic radicals who have been gaining ground in Libya.
Stevens had gone to the consulate in still-restive Benghazi to oversee its evacuation after the demonstration had started. The building was then stormed by gunmen, who succeeded in setting it on fire.
The ambassador was well-liked by many Libyans, particularly the pro-democracy rebels on whose behalf he passionately argued during the conflict last year that brought down dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
An almost-simultaneous demonstration was held outside the US Embassy in Cairo, though events did not turn violent there. Both protests were sparked by a 14-minute trailer of the hour-long movie Innocence of Muslims, which was posted on YouTube and openly ridicules the prophet Muhammad – whom religious Muslims believe should not be portrayed at all.
The shortened version of the video is being promoted and circulated by Morris Sadek, an Egyptian-born Coptic Christian in the Washington area who has expressed extreme anti- Islamist views.
There are several indications, however, that there was a concerted effort to rile up emotions based on the crude video in the days before the attack, and that the demonstration may have been a pretext for a more serious assault.
The fact that it happened on September 11, coinciding with the 11th anniversary of al-Qaida’s attacks on the US, fueled speculation that it was a planned attack, rather than spontaneous violence.
If this had happened any other day I could entertain the explanation that these Muslim idiots got their widdle feelings hurt over a video but for this to happen on 9/11 over any other day explains everything to me.
And they know the weakest United States President in our history will do nothing. Maybe he will shoot a few drone missiles but no one, least of all members of al-Qaeda, are afraid of that. Hell, they have taken over Libya and Egypt while this President was shooting his missiles. What are they supposed to fear?
A man who explains away the fact that these Muslim animals paraded around our dead Ambassador as good samaritans dragging a dead body to the hospital?
Wow….just wow.
The action and inaction of this President over the last four years have made me so ashamed…I don’t think I have never been so ashamed of a President in my lifetime. (I was too young to comprehend the cowardice of Jimmy Carter so you have to give me a pass on that one).
I had missed that sad bit of information along the way.
@Greg: Greg, you are right for a change. I have told you time and time again that the liberals believe any means to achieve the end. Obama knew there was going to be an incident 48 hours prior to the attack. If you watched TV today, you saw how presidential Obama looked hovering over the 4 coffins. I almost believed he gave a damn, but then I looked at what was happening. This was only one more attempt for Obama to look like the leader he should be but isn’t. You finally, you are right. Obama left an opening for a crisis. The crisis happened. He expected his “never let a crisis go to waste” to give him a bump in the pols. It is too bad that 4 people had to die to provide the means for Obama to look like a president in the end!
@Greg: I was mistaken the contracts will call for 7000 + and upwards of 15,000 support/ logistics.7000 mercenaries represents as a private army and the majority of contracted operators are most certainly not locals. Locals while commonly hired at much lower pay are less than a third of the State Dept. mercenary force. AKE Ltd,Armour Group, Dyncorp, Erinys, Global Strategies and all of Blackwater/Xe’s shell companies are built around ex-military personnel. That would be for a reason and the collapse of security at Benghazi illustrates that reason. Why were Stevens and others burning sensitive materials when they should have been making an effort to extricate themselves?Why were materials of that nature being kept in an”interim facility” if it could not be secured to prevent their loss? Why with the resources and manpower available wasn’t action taken to either extract the staff and material or reinforce their defense? You work so very hard at being the onsite apologist for the Obama regime. Is it a paid position? What is Axelrod paying for stooging these days?
@brian winkler: Per the State Dept. you are correct. Around the fifth question she was asked about security. She clearly states that there was a robust AMERICAN security force. The Libyans were responsible for the outside perimeter and the AMERICAN security force inside the compound.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2012/09/197729.htm
@brian winkler, #153:
A sense of duty, I imagine. They put that duty ahead of their personal safety.
Preventing sensitive materials from being lost, btw, is the primary duty of Marine detachments assigned to an embassy. Other things are secondary to that. Their own lives, for example.
@brian winkler: #147
No matter what term a person calls Obama, anyone with an open mind should be able to figure out that Obama’s intentions for the USA are not good ones. I’m not sure what the appropriate term to call him is, but we know that he is our own Bower-In-Chief. I loved the picture of Obama bowing to the Burge King.
@Greg: #155
I know nothing aobut the inner workings of an embasy, but I am guessing that the ONLY responsibility of the Marines is the SAFETY of the people in the embasy. The staff would be in charge of the information. The Marines would be protecting the staff while THEY destroyed information.
The media had a pre-planned storm of blame on Romney for his ”jumping the gun,” on his statement that agreed 100% with the statement Obama finally hectored into.
But the media has NOT said one thing about itself for its own JUMPING the GUN when it FALSELY blamed a Jew for the poorly made Mohammad video.
Turned out the Media jumped the gun.
Turned out it was NOT a Jew who created that video.
Where are the self-recriminations?
((Crickets))
The media did not blame a Jew for “Innocence of Muslims”, Nan G. They were just reporting the lie that Bacile told them – that he was an Israeli Jew – and apparently didn’t find it important enough to verify his story prior to print. But I will say that the first stories I saw about Bacile included his claim he was an Israel Jew, but also reported that Israeli spokesmen stated that not to be true. So I saw the caveats included in the same articles with his claim. It was further media digging that has exposed not only that lie, but a vast fabric of lies.
Smorg There was never a Marine Detail in Benghazi.
Randy Are you suggeting the Potus allowed these killings to occur in order to promote his re-election?
The incessant bashing of Obama and suggesting he “has blood on his hands” may play to the shark like choir here at F.A but will not help Romney.
As Tom points out the demographics favor Obama. I’ve suggested the politically motivated Q.E. 3 o.k’d by Bernanke also boosts BHO. It also saves Ben’s job.
With under 2 months to go both sides are pulling out all stops. Obama now favored. Hang on
@Richard Wheeler:
“Q.E. 3 o.k’d by Bernanke also boosts BHO.”
Really, so you think Americans are going to be impressed that one rating agency has already lowered our credit rate from AA to AA-, while Moody’s and others say that the future doesn’t look good for the U.S. credit rating is going to give Obama a boost?
Bernanke threw every card he has into the game this time. He’s out of cards. There is nothing left to play with and as inflation continues to increase, and unemployment remains in the 8% range, throwing money at morgage backed securities ($40 Billion per month) is just going to hasten our falling off that financial cliff.
If the same guy who said that if he had not brought down the deficit in four years he would be a one-term president, and he’s been so good at his job, why hasn’t he brought down the unemployment rate, boosted the GDP and put stability into the mortgage backed security market?
I guess these days you have to be totally delusional to be a Democrat.
Retire 05 Q.E. 3 was a political move engineered by 2 gentlemen looking to save their jobs. Short term it should push markets to ALL TIME HIGHS— 401ks up–lending up—R.E. up albeit agonizingly slow.
You think the incumbant won’t play these cards? Better start planning for 2016. Rubio/Rice
@Richard Wheeler:
I understand that the action was purely political. But while there may be a small bump (a month of increased DJIA ) the fact remains that the government is going to be buying mortgage backed securities and that is not good. The government, in spite of the record of the GSEs, is going to plundge the nation into deeper debt for homes that people probably should loose. It will not take long for the market to figure out that QE3 is not the panacea we are being told it is. What it is is Bernanke’s last ditch attempt to spur the economy.
The market is already flooded with foreclosed homes. They should be selling like hot cakes, but when you don’t have a job, you can’t pay for a house no matter how cheap. And the BLS unemployment average of 8.1% is only acheived by dropping people from the work force.
@Richard Wheeler: The ends justifies the means. Looks like you’re into the Alinsky philosophy as well.
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