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Attack on Libya Consulate May Have Been Planned, Say Officials
Arutz Sheva ^ | 9/13/2012, 1:15 AM | Elad Benari

Posted on 09/13/2012 3:40:32 PM PDT by justlittleoleme

U.S. sources told CNN on Wednesday they do not believe the attacks that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya, were in reaction to the online release of a film mocking Islam.

“It was not an innocent mob,” one senior official told the news network, adding, “The video or 9/11 made a handy excuse and could be fortuitous from their perspective, but this was a clearly planned military-type attack.”

**SNIP**

CNN also reported that a London think tank with strong ties to Libya speculated Wednesday that Stevens was the victim of a targeted al Qaeda attack “to avenge the death of Abu Yaya al-Libi, al Qaeda's second in command killed a few months ago.”

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The "protesters" who attacked the embassy, he added, were more heavily armed than the Libyan security personnel who were assigned to protect the U.S. Consulate.

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: attack; muslims
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1 posted on 09/13/2012 3:40:37 PM PDT by justlittleoleme
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To: justlittleoleme

“May”?

Please


2 posted on 09/13/2012 3:41:10 PM PDT by bestintxas (Somewhere in Kenya, a Village is missing its Idiot, thankfully.)
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To: justlittleoleme

Gee, ya think?

You gotta get up pretty early in the morning to pull one past old Barry, by gum.


3 posted on 09/13/2012 3:42:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: justlittleoleme

No- it was just workplace violence aka Ft.Hood, Libya


4 posted on 09/13/2012 3:44:59 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Semper Fi. Who knew??)
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To: justlittleoleme

and the sun MAY rise in the east


5 posted on 09/13/2012 3:45:47 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: justlittleoleme

D U H


6 posted on 09/13/2012 3:47:31 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: justlittleoleme
Attack on Libya Consulate May Have Been Planned, Say Officials

Of course it was planned. These stone-age thugs don't have the brains to think for themselves.
What we should plan for is a couple of heavily armed Marine companies to arrive at the embasies by helicopter and turn them lose to defend our property.

7 posted on 09/13/2012 3:50:45 PM PDT by GoldenPup (Comrade "O" has got to GO!!)
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To: justlittleoleme

Really? No Shiite Sherlock.


8 posted on 09/13/2012 3:51:09 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: justlittleoleme

PLANNED? A grassroots protest movement?

It was a professionally executed terrorist operation by a professional Al Qaeda assassination team, whose 20 members acted under the orders of their leader Ayman al Zawahri after special training. They were all Libyans, freed last year from prisons where they were serving sentences for terrorism.
The operation is rated by terror experts as the most ambitious outrage al Qaeda has pulled off in the last decade. According to our sources, the gunmen split into two groups of 10 each and struck in two stages:
1. They first fired rockets at the consulate building on the assumption that the ambassador’s bodyguards would grab him, race him out of the building and drive him to a safe place under the protection of the US secret service;
2. The second group was able to identify the getaway vehicle and the ambassador’s armed escort and lay in wait to ambush them. The gunmen then closed in and killed the ambassador and his bodyguards at point blank range.

http://debka.com/article/22353/Al-Zawahri-personally-ordered-Al-Qaeda-to-murder-US-Ambassador-Stevens


9 posted on 09/13/2012 3:53:19 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)
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To: justlittleoleme

No way.

They would never plan such a bad thing.


10 posted on 09/13/2012 3:55:22 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Republican pizza man who only votes for democrats - what's his Freeper name?)
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To: bestintxas
“May”?

In Journalese, "may" is 1 degree stronger than "some say."

-PJ

11 posted on 09/13/2012 3:56:31 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( It doesn't I naturally when you're not natural born.)
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To: GoldenPup
What we should plan for is a couple of heavily armed Marine companies to arrive at the embasies by helicopter and turn them lose to defend our property.

I sure hope THESE Marines get to take real AMMO.

REPORTS: No Live Ammo for Marines

12 posted on 09/13/2012 3:57:39 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 ( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)
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To: justlittleoleme
Shazzam!
13 posted on 09/13/2012 3:59:26 PM PDT by tumblindice
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To: justlittleoleme

—“It was not an innocent mob,” one senior official told the news network—

So, if it had been unplanned and spontaneous, then it would have been an “innocent” mob that murdered the Americans...?


14 posted on 09/13/2012 4:06:54 PM PDT by running_dog_lackey
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To: Vendome

I know this is already known. The narrative that the media and our government is presenting is not this. This needs as much sunlight as it can get. They are distorting what has happened here on purpose.


15 posted on 09/13/2012 4:07:24 PM PDT by justlittleoleme
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16 posted on 09/13/2012 4:11:21 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: justlittleoleme

Planned by the DNC.


17 posted on 09/13/2012 4:13:32 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Republican pizza man who only votes for democrats - what's his Freeper name?)
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To: justlittleoleme

Ya think?


18 posted on 09/13/2012 4:17:36 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: justlittleoleme
“It was not an innocent mob,” one senior official told the news network, adding, “The video or 9/11 made a handy excuse and could be fortuitous from their perspective, but this was a clearly planned military-type attack.”

No kidding. On the anniversary of 9/11 and right before the Jewish High Holidays begin.

19 posted on 09/13/2012 4:31:34 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: justlittleoleme

Our President had to go to a fundraiser. My Dad taught me that actions speak louder than words. Obama can say whatever he wants. The fact is that four Americans were killed, including a United States Ambassador, and the most important thing for him was raising money for his campaign. What a hero.


20 posted on 09/13/2012 4:46:02 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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