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The Other 9/11: Libyan Guards Recount What Happened in Benghazi
Time World ^ | October 21, 2012 | By Steven Sotloff / Benghazi

Posted on 10/24/2012 8:58:53 PM PDT by Fred Nerks

More than a month after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, U.S. officials have yet to talk to many of the Libyan guards on duty at the American mission on that fatal evening. Fearful of reprisal from the still unknown perpetrators of the attack, the guards have gone into hiding; and their vivid recollections are giving way to a sense of abandonment by the American government, which offered them no protection from the attackers the guards believe want them dead. TIME’s Steven Sotloff has talked to the guards for their account of what happened on the night of Sept. 11, 2012 and the early hours of the day after. Five of the guards were employees of the British security company Blue Mountain, and three others were members of the Islamist-leaning February 17th militia who were tasked with providing diplomatic security for foreign missions. To protect them from possible retribution, their names have been changed. What is clear is that, as others have reported, there was no protest, simply a sudden siege of the compound; U.S. security forces–including U.S. Marines who arrived at an American safe house outside the consulate grounds–were overwhelmed and stymied; and that the looters apparently came upon the body of a still-breathing Ambassador Chris Stevens.

At around 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 11, 2012, the four guards at the compound entrance—Nasser, Ubayd, Abdullah and Anwar–were casually eating sandwiches and talking about a recent soccer game, trying to pass the time on another monotonous night of watch duty. This one seemed no different from the others before: days and nights staring at the high walls that obscured the luxury villas in the posh Benghazi neighborhood where the American mission was located. But on this night, the silence of the secluded streets was dramatically shattered.

Read more: http://world.time.com/2012/10/21/the-other-911-libyan-guards-recount-what-happened-in-benghazi/#ixzz2AHM3kx4K

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Gadhafi Loyalists Still Battling New Western-backed Rulers in Libya
New American ^ | Monday, 22 October 2012 09:31 | Alex Newman

Posted on Thursday, 25 October 2012 12:22:15 PM by robowombat


Maybe her thighness and the muzzie in the white hut can persuade NATO to come back and wipe out the 70 thousand Libyans who don’t want to live under sharia law?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2949748/posts

Will Bani Walid be turned into rubble regardless of who wins the US election? Is the West determined to hand the entire region to warlords and tribes who will not only destroy the infrastructure but each other in the process? Is the ‘arab spring’ actually a weapon against islam?

The salafist ‘straight path’ and the implementation of sharia they are so delighted about...appears to be leading to impoverishment and death, as they follow in the steps of mohammad straight back to the seventh century...killing and looting as they go.


21 posted on 10/25/2012 1:04:25 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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- I just watched a former CIA man speak to Neil Cavuto on Fox News Channel about Obama, Paneta, Hillary, etc. -

- “BAD” and “SILLY” people who just watched for hours (in “real time”) as Ambassador Stevens and three others were tortured and died and - and King Obama & his Court did nothing to help them or to rescue them -

.

Can you imagine General George Patton saying this to General Eisenhower when US Airbourne soldiers were encircled by the Germans and freezing:

“Golly Ike!

If I take our tankers to save them we might lose some of my men!

Let’s just wait and HOPE things improve and maybe even CHANGE for the better!

Anyone want another of my beers while we eat this delicious tender Kobi beef?”

.


22 posted on 10/25/2012 2:16:40 PM PDT by devolve ( ---- ---- ---- -CHEESEBURGER_CHEESEBURGER_CHEESEBURGER- ---- ---- ---- ---- John Belusi ---- ----)
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To: Fred Nerks

At least under Colonel “green book”, Libya was somewhat stabilized. Now lets see how many Libyans of “little faith”, feel about him being gone. The Salafist sure are having a field day in the whole region at this point.


23 posted on 10/25/2012 2:24:07 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned.)
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To: Marine_Uncle

24 posted on 10/25/2012 2:56:52 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks

Holy smokem’s Fred. I’m two minutes away from eating dinner. :)


25 posted on 10/25/2012 3:01:23 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned.)
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To: Marine_Uncle

So the message has to be, he should have been more careful who he shook hands with, they ‘rehabilitated’ him only to stab him in the back and bomb the country into rubble.

Sorry to spoil your appetite.


26 posted on 10/25/2012 3:10:11 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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“US Allies With Al Qaeda In Libya”

Did. Not. See. This. Coming.

By: streiff (Diary) | March 27th, 2011

http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2011/03/27/us-allies-with-al-qaeda-in-libya/

Related: http://www.infowars.com/u-s-government-backs-libyan-al-qaeda-while-hyping-terror-attacks-inside-u-s/


27 posted on 10/25/2012 3:32:49 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Fred Nerks

Saturday, March 26, 2011
“US Troops join Al Qaeda, Rebels in Libya”

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/03/us-troops-join-al-qaeda-rebels-in-libya.html


28 posted on 10/25/2012 3:34:39 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Fred Nerks
"Sorry to spoil your appetite."
Burp. I seemed to have recovered nicely Fred. Even threw in some apple pie for desert.
Yeah. As far as I'm concerned Obama and Hillary shoved a knife in the Colonel's back and ribs at the same time. The guy was doing rather nicely on the whole for those past few years. We had dictators in Libya and Egypt that keep some form of order. Now it is all gone.
Sharia law and it's henchmen shall rule the lands. Now, we got Obama transferring weapons in many forms to the al Qaeda forces to take out yet another dictator in Syria.
And tens of millions of US voters are totally ignorant as how this is all going down.
29 posted on 10/25/2012 3:50:20 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned.)
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To: Marine_Uncle
...And tens of millions of US voters are totally ignorant as how this is all going down.

And here's why:

Media Ignores Obama's Libya Scandal Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | October 25, 2012 | Rush Limbaugh Posted on Friday, 26 October 2012 9:18:05 AM by Kaslin


30 posted on 10/25/2012 4:17:27 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks

Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler must be sooooo jealous at how well the modern American Pravda machine has developed over the years.:)


31 posted on 10/25/2012 4:31:46 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned.)
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To: Marine_Uncle

bump


32 posted on 10/25/2012 6:53:19 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush
Glad to see you approve of that message. :)
Have a great upcoming day.
33 posted on 10/25/2012 7:54:39 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned.)
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To: Fred Nerks

Hi FN:

Doing some research on Benghazi. Virtually no info or interviews from eyewitnesses, but I remembered your thread.

I found these to add to the thread:

http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/riorg-exclusive-did-turkey-play-role-benghazi-attack

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/27/libyan-witnesses-recount-organized-benghazi-attack/print/

I knew I had read somewhere a ehile back that it was highly unlikely that The Turk official could have left Steven’s compound without soon discovering that something was amiss. Now that we have Hick’s testimony, we can be almost certain that the Turk official never called Stevens to warn him of what he saw.

hmm...


34 posted on 05/19/2013 3:53:46 PM PDT by thouworm (Steyn: They let [Stevens] die, and then told lies over his coffin.They did that to one of their own.)
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To: thouworm

thanks for the reminder.


35 posted on 05/19/2013 4:06:22 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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