Bret Baier @ Fox News:
Intelligence sources tell Fox News they are convinced the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was directly tied to Al Qaeda — with a former Guantanamo detainee involved.
That revelation comes on the same day a top Obama administration official called last week’s deadly assault a “terrorist attack” — the first time the attack has been described that way by the administration after claims it had been a “spontaneous” act.
“Yes, they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy,” Matt Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said during a Senate hearing Wednesday.
Olsen echoed administration colleagues in saying U.S. officials have no specific intelligence about “significant advanced planning or coordination” for the attack.
However, his statement goes beyond White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, saying the Sept. 11 attack on the consulate was spontaneous. He is the first top administration official to call the strike an act of terrorism.
Sufyan Ben Qumu is thought to have been involved and even may have led the attack, Fox News’ intelligence sources said. Qumu, a Libyan, was released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2007 and transferred into Libyan custody on the condition he be kept in jail. He was released by the Qaddafi regime as part of its reconciliation effort with Islamists in 2008.
His Guantanamo files also show he has ties to the financiers behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The declassified files also point to ties with the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a known Al Qaeda affiliate.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/19/top-administration-official-says-strike-in-libya-was-terror-attack/#ixzz271BgagXD
So what would you expect a soldier to do after Bush released him?
I said it once and I’ll say it again; On November 4, 2008, when the United States Electorate elected Obama to the Presidency, the US PUBLIC SURRENDERED TO AL QUEDA.
Let’s face it, the West is so corpulent, so vapid, so materialistic that they don’t have the stomach for a real knock-down drag out brawl.
Al Queda knows it, the Russians know it, the Chinese know it, the Iranians know it-basically everyone knows it.
They killed our Ambassador (surprise! NOT!) and still we do nothing about it.
We, the US, are primarily composed of labias.
@liberal1(objectivity):
Yes, Bush released him; to Gadafi. Now, which jail would you rather be in, an American jail or a Libyan jail under Gadafi?
But the very rebels Obama armed in Libya are the ones who demanded that Ben Qumu be released after Gadafi fell. And then, one of the former Navy Seals slaughtered at the American consulate in Libya was there because he was tasked with finding out where all the arms this current administration provided to the Libyan rebels had disappeared to.
This administration keeps backing Middle Eastern rebels without really knowing who they are. Just as now al Qaida has gained a foothood in the Syrian uprisings, watch Obama back them, calling them “freedom fighters.”
The man you voted for is totally inept and God willing, will be reserving a U-Haul truck after the first week of November.
YVAN
I was just in front of my newspaper starting to read that;
IRAN HAS been using civilian aircraft , to fly military personnel
and larges quantities of weapons across IRAQUI AIRSPACE TO SYRIA TO HELP
PRESIDENT BASHAR AL ASSAD IN HIS ATTEMP TO CRUSH AN 18 month uprising
against his government according to a WESTERN INTELLIGENCE REPORT
SENATOR KERRY THREATENED TO REVIEW USA AID TO BAGDAD IF IT DOESN’T STOP THE
OVERFLIGHTS
THE REPORT SAY SUCH TRANSFER are organized by the islamic revolutionary GUARD CORPS
THIS IS PART OF A MODUS OPERANDI THAT US OFFICIALS have only recently addressed publicly
following previous statements to the contrary
Seems there is a difference of opinion as to who is the mastermind or ringleader. Latest reports say the Libyan President is pointing fingers at Ahmed Boukhatala instead. Boukhatala is cool as a cucumber, and frothing at the bit for the Libyan officials to attempt an arrest, and continue on with the civil war.
So is this another rush to press by the media without fact checking?
Qumu was released to Libya… the same man who was captured in Pakistan thanks to Gaddafi intelligence, per his Gitmo dossier. But then, the Dem demand to close Gitmo, and stop holding all those innocents without charges, was all the rage back then. Seems ironic that only today will one such as @LibZero label him a “soldier”…. effectively and conveniently change their tune and promote him from innocent to “Soldier”… right.
A year after Qumu’s arrival in Libya, Gadaffi had “redemption” program agreements with the militants – a sort of early parole, so to speak – and Qumu was released. After the Libyan uprising started in April 2011, Gaddafi attempted to tell NATO and the US that bad guys, like former Gitmo resort denizens, were in the rebel ranks, but few wanted to shake up that meme of a quest for “democracy”… instead labeling Qumu as “an ally of sorts”.
Ya can’t make this stuff up….
Whether it’s Boukhatala or Qumu, we can be assured we will capture no more Qumu type enemies via Libyan intelligence in the future. As I pointed out a week ago, Mark Levin perfectly en-capsulized what American foreign policy is supposed to be about. I don’t care if Muslim nations have dictators, or can or cannot vote. T’isn’t my business. Our foreign policy is designed to advance what is best for American interests. If dictators like Gadaffi and Mubarak provided the US with intel on enemies, kept the peace with Israel, and held their own militant Islamists in check, that works best for the US.
Instead, this bozo of a CiC publicly sided with the wrong elements, and we are left with a new Libya in which the US will find no allies in counterterrorism… nor foreign leaders who will dare to contain, let alone arrest, their militants.
@MataHarley:
Holding “innocents” without charges was a grave evil. But execution of “innocents” by drone without charges or trial or even a warrant, that’s OK.
Obama Administration’s Drone Death Figures Don’t Add Up
MATA
HI, AND OBAMA TOLD GADDAFI TO RESIGN PROBABLY AT THAT TIME, AFTER WHEN GADDAFI
ASK GOLDEN SASH FOR HIS MONEY THAT HAD DISAPPEAR TOLD BY THE TEAM OF GOLDEN SASH,
WHICH HAD GADDAFI FURIOUS, WHICH MUST HAVE FREAKED OUT THE TEAM BECAUSE THEY LEFT AT ONCE, ACCORDING TO WHAT THE NEWS MENTIONED,
COULD THAT MONEY HAVE BEEN USE
FOR OBAMA ELECTION 2008?
BECAUSE I heard that GOLDEN SASH had provide a lots of money TO OBAMA FOR THE 2008 ELECTION,
THEY PROBABLY WHERE NOT EXPECTING GADDAFI TO DEMAND HIS TOTAL MULTIPLE BILLIONS
HE HAD LEFT TO THEM FOR MARKET PROFIT,
HE NEEDED IT FOR THE REVOLT GETTING STRONG. AT THE TIME, GEEZ NOW WE KNOW THAT OBAMA WAS INVOLVE WITH THE REVOLT, REMEMBER THE FRENCH PAPER WHERE SAYING IT,