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Al Qaeda, ex-Gitmo detainee behind consulate attack, intelligence sources say
FOX ^ | 9/19/2012

Posted on 09/19/2012 3:54:28 PM PDT by tobyhill

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.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: detainee; guantanamo; holder; libya
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1 posted on 09/19/2012 3:54:31 PM PDT by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

But... but... we had to release him from the inhumane conditions of Gitmo. /S


2 posted on 09/19/2012 3:55:57 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine
but, but, Obama supported him taking over Libya.
3 posted on 09/19/2012 3:57:16 PM PDT by tobyhill (Obamacare, the final nail in the US coffin.)
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To: tobyhill

and but, but... if we release the blind sheik to Egypt, where they’ll promise to keep him in detention, they’ll like us a lot more...

No ifs, ands, or buts: Obama is either a feckless fool, or a person who has certain priorities. Maybe he’s an atheist, but his priorities place Islam and Marxism above American interests, and those of any minority above those of the public as a whole.


4 posted on 09/19/2012 4:20:32 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: tobyhill

It’s almost like Obama accidentally assassinated his own ambassador.


5 posted on 09/19/2012 4:20:52 PM PDT by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

but, but, but maybe Obama should’ve gotten Congressional approval to help the bad guys oust the terrible guy with a bunch of worse guys.


6 posted on 09/19/2012 4:22:21 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: Pearls Before Swine
But... but... we had to release him from the inhumane conditions of Gitmo. /S

Lest we forget the whole time Bush was POTUS he was fighting dimocrat lawsuits for detaining prisoners in GITMO because they weren't captured soldiers.

This is Bush's fault just as much as it was Bill Clinton who changed welfare to workfare and balanced the budget in the 90's.

7 posted on 09/19/2012 4:28:30 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Crucial

Stevens was allegedly gay.. Obama is, well.. Put two and two together. Someone had stories to tell, so..


8 posted on 09/19/2012 4:28:52 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: tobyhill

and that is why this white house has told the media to report that it was all over a video on you tube.

The media lies because the white house tells them to lie and he sheep and idiots of this country have no clue it was all because of obama and his failed forign policy and an ex gitmo turd and a place where obama wanted to close.


9 posted on 09/19/2012 4:30:35 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters

And to think that this b*stard had settled down to a quiet, peaceful life in the suburbs until he saw that darn youtube video two weeks ago and suddenly became psychotic.


10 posted on 09/19/2012 4:32:13 PM PDT by lonevoice (Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
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To: tobyhill

The fact that this guy was released from Git-Mo in 2007 (aka Bush did it) you are going to get a lot media spin on this.


11 posted on 09/19/2012 4:37:05 PM PDT by timlot
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Bush did it because the government was sued by Eric Holder’s lawfirm, and was forced to transfer this guy - to a stable country whose dictator had been intimidated by us.

Obama and the “Al-Qaida Spring” changed all that, and that’s what led to his release.


12 posted on 09/19/2012 4:41:13 PM PDT by livius
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To: livius
Bush did it because the government was sued by Eric Holder’s lawfirm, and was forced to transfer this guy

If that's the story (Bush was forced to do it), all fingers can point to Holder.

I don't see a downside.

13 posted on 09/19/2012 4:43:53 PM PDT by what's up
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To: timlot
The fact that this guy was released from Git-Mo in 2007 (aka Bush did it)

Yes, but was Bush forced to do it because Holder's law firm won a case as I've been reading?

If so, I don't see how Bush will be blamed.

Rather, we can double up on flakking Holder.

14 posted on 09/19/2012 4:45:32 PM PDT by what's up
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To: tobyhill

No, Susan Rice said it was the movie.


15 posted on 09/19/2012 4:47:03 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: tobyhill

Okey dokey. How’s the release of the blind dude coming?


16 posted on 09/19/2012 4:47:04 PM PDT by bgill
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To: tobyhill

“significant”

More weasel words from these traitors.

Tell the victims loved ones that it wasn’t “significant”.

I am so stinking sick of the lies.


17 posted on 09/19/2012 5:09:29 PM PDT by Gator113 (I would have voted for NEWT, now it's Ryan and the other guy.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: tobyhill

When did Libya release this terrorist from their prisons?

Was that an Arab Spring event?

If so, the blood of Stevens is on Obama.


18 posted on 09/19/2012 5:09:35 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: what's up

“If that’s the story (Bush was forced to do it), all fingers can point to Holder.
I don’t see a downside.”

The downside is that too many Americans can’t keep more than a sound bite in their brain.

That’s why we have a President Obama.


19 posted on 09/19/2012 5:16:49 PM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Nope Qaddafi let him out of prison the very next the very next year.


20 posted on 09/19/2012 5:17:29 PM PDT by timlot
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