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Report: Terrorist Behind Ambassador Murder 'Ally of Sorts' to Obama Admin
Breitbart's Big Peace ^ | September 19, 2012 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 09/20/2012 12:49:38 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Tonight, Bret Baier of Fox News reported that intelligence sources believe that the mastermind of the al Qaeda attack on our Libyan consulate is one Sufyan Ben Qumu. Qumu was a tank driver in the Libyan army; he was a drug addict and spent time in prison. From there, he fled to Egypt, then went to Afghanistan and joined up with Osama Bin Laden. He later joined the Taliban, and was captured in Pakistan, then turned over to the United States. Qumu was released from Guantanamo Bay in 2007 to the Qaddafi-led Libyan government, on the condition that Libya and the US could reach a “satisfactory agreement … that allows access to detainee and/or access to exploited intelligence.” In 2008, as the Qaddafi government made nice with the Libyan rebels, Qumu was released.

That’s where the story gets even more interesting. The Obama administration promptly labeled Qumu an “ally of sorts,” according to the New York Times – that despite the fact that as of 2005, he was known as a “medium to high risk … likely to pose a threat to the US, its interests and allies.” What made him an ally? According to the Times, that status change was due to the Obama administration’s “remarkable turnabout resulting from shifting American policies rather than any obvious change in Mr. Qumu.” As a leader of the Libyan rebels...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; arabspring; christopherstevens; embassy; globaljihad; islam; jihad; libya; mediawingofthednc; obama; obama4murderers; obama4terrorists; obamavsamerica; obamavsfreedom; partisanmediashills; qumu; waronterror; wot
And he's supposedly leading in the polls?
1 posted on 09/20/2012 12:49:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
0bama’s Chickens Have Come Home to Roost!
2 posted on 09/20/2012 12:54:32 AM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!)
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If Qumu is Obama’s “ally of sorts” its certainly true that O is Qumu’s ally. O and the Sorosians helped overthrow the Egyptian government and turn it over to the Muslim Brotherhood, and in Libya doing so meant backing Al Qaeda rebels like Qumu.

The ambassador probably didn’t see his end coming, since he had helped to put the rebels into power. He probably thought he had a pass.

But no. Al Qaeda and the Brotherhood have their own agenda, and while Obama sympathizes with AQ and MB’s agenda they do not sympathize with ours. Obama has caused the US to switch sides in the “war on terror” and no one in the press seems to have noticed. And all it bought us was a trashed consulate and a dead ambassador. Its hard to feel for a guy who gets bit by the snake he was playing with, but he represented us and the snake bit him as an attack on us. And will do it again at the first opportunity.


3 posted on 09/20/2012 1:11:53 AM PDT by marron
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Or possibly it is more sinister than that.


5 posted on 09/20/2012 1:41:48 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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CORRECTING the dates and reposting:


ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS.com - ARUTZ SHEVA: "LIBYAN SECURITY OFFICIAL QUITS OVER ATTACK ON U.S. CONSULATE" by Elad Benari (September 20, 2012, 7:13 am) (Read More…)

LONG WAR JOURNAL.org: "EX-GITMO DETAINEE REPORTEDLY TIED TO CONSULATE ATTACK" by Thomas Joscelyn (September 20, 2012) (Read More…)

LONG WAR JOURNAL.org - Threat Matrix - blog: "BENGHAZI CONSULATE ASSAULT WAS A 'TERRORIST ATTACK'" by Bill Roggio (September 19, 2012) (Read More…)

BREITBART.com: "REPORT: TERRORIST BEHIND AMBASSADOR MURDER 'ALLY OF SORTS' TO OBAMA ADMIN" by Ben Shapiro (September 19, 2012) (Read More…)

FOX NEWS.com: "AL QAEDA, EX-GITMO DETAINEE INVOLVED IN CONSULATE ATTACK, INTELLIGENCE SOURCES SAY" ((SNIPPET: "Sufyan Ben Qumu is thought to have been involved and even may have led the attack, Fox News' intelligence sources said.") (September 19, 2012) (Read More…)
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org: "EX-GITMO DETAINEE TRAINING LIBYAN REBELS IN DERNA" by Thomas Joscelyn (April 2, 2011) (Read More…)

NYTIMES.com - NEW YORK TIMES - The Guantanamo Files: Darnah, Libya - "LIBYAN, ONCE A DETAINEE, IS NOW A U.S. ALLY OF SORTS" by Rod Nordland and Scott Shane (April 24, 2011) (Read More…)

LONG WAR JOURNAL.org: "LIBYA FREES EX-GITMO DETAINEE" by Thomas Joscelyn (September 2, 2010)

Projects.NYTIMES.com - Documents: "Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda Bin Qumu" (Read More…)

Link (Read More…)

6 posted on 09/20/2012 1:49:16 AM PDT by Cindy
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7 posted on 09/20/2012 2:22:19 AM PDT by Bon mots (When seconds count, the police are just minutes away...)
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To: 9YearLurker

Sinister but not surprising. There are strong suggestions that Obama has already had other targets assassinated to conceal damaging information Bout his background. It would not be surprising that he would try to create a crisis that would make him look like a hero when comes riding in to save the day. Not so sure that’s what happened there but that is a very interesting coincidence indeed.


8 posted on 09/20/2012 3:22:06 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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Sinister but not surprising. There are strong suggestions that Obama has already had other targets assassinated to conceal damaging information about his background. It would not be surprising that he would try to create a crisis that would make him look like a hero when he comes riding in to save the day. Not so sure that’s what happened there but that is a very interesting coincidence indeed.


9 posted on 09/20/2012 3:23:23 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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I agree. I don’t know what was going on here, but not much would surprise me.


10 posted on 09/20/2012 3:31:44 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another “Mission Accomplished”
From the Hasan Czar Dept of the Obama Caliphate:


Obama and Holder WORKED HARD to release this murderer
of Americans.

Is there any role of the DOJ and the Obama
White House other than treason against the American people?

Aparently not.


11 posted on 09/20/2012 4:54:50 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These dates put his release during the Bush administration. Or am I missing something?

(Please check my posting history before you flame me. I am not defending Zippy or bashing Bush. I am just asking for some clarification here. Honesty is important. There is plenty to tar and feather Zippy with already.)


12 posted on 09/20/2012 4:56:17 AM PDT by generally (Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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If this guy is an “ally of sorts” then KSM has the potential to win a major lawsuit for being waterboarded, obtain an obama pardon, be given a mansion in Bermuda,
shave, lose weight, start a sharia hedge fund, become a major democrat bundler, and be appointed future ambassador to Pokky-stawn

Can’t wait for a second term! So many surprises await


13 posted on 09/20/2012 5:25:53 AM PDT by silverleaf
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2007 was Bush second term when his never-explained emotional collpase into being a democrat tool was quite noticeable. He was definitely Pelosi-whipped

Remember the dhimmicrats’ drive to shut down GITMO? Pelosi and Reid might as well have been running the country


14 posted on 09/20/2012 5:29:53 AM PDT by silverleaf
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Read it again. Yes, it was that Bush administration that made a deal with Libya, sometimes known as “rendition” to return him there, but as an asset to be mined for more intelligence. It's the Obama administration that has allied itself with a former Guantanamo captive. Two completely different things.
15 posted on 09/20/2012 8:17:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Bush had an agreement with Libya which was tossed when Qaddafi got into trouble with the Islamic revolution.


16 posted on 09/20/2012 10:39:30 AM PDT by Deb (If you wanna laugh everyday, follow Deepak Chopra on Twitter)
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ADDING to post no. 6:


THE BLAZE.com: "CNN ADMITS FINDING SLAIN AMBASSADOR'S PERSONAL JOURNAL IN LIBYA…AND USING IT FOR 'TIPS'" (September 22, 2012) (Read More…)

Link (Read More…)

17 posted on 09/23/2012 3:32:46 AM PDT by Cindy
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