The Benghazi Mess (Literally, As Well As Figuratively)

Stephen Fidler, writing in the Wall Street Journal, has provided an extensive update on the situation in Benghazi that focuses on the unsecured documents that remain scattered around the consulate. Because the situation is still regarded as too dangerous, the FBI has not been allowed to go in. However, others have, including CNN, and a great deal is already known about what “goodies” are accessible among the U.S. documents. Fidler says, giving an example,

“At least one document found amid the clutter indicates that Americans at the mission were discussing the possibility of an attack in early September, just two days before the assault took place. The document is a memorandum dated Sept. 9 from the U.S. mission’s security office to the 17th February Martyrs Brigade, the Libyan-government-sanctioned militia that was guarding the compound, making plans for a ‘quick reaction force,’ or QRF, that would provide security.

“’In the event of an attack on the U.S. Mission,’ the document states, ‘QRF will request additional support from the 17th February Martyrs Brigade.’”

This is interesting, of course, because the 17th February Martyrs Brigade is related in some way to the Muslim Brotherhood. The MB having security responsibility for our consulate? I ask you!

“The itinerary of Stevens’s trip to Benghazi includes a near-full accounting of his planned movements during what was supposed to be a visit that lasted from Sept. 10 until Sept. 15. It includes names and phone numbers of Libyans who were scheduled to meet with him. Some of those Libyans have not made their contact with Stevens public and could be at risk if it were publicly known.

“The meetings include briefings with U.S. officials, a private dinner with influential local leaders, and meetings with militia heads, businesspeople, civil society activists and educators. The highlight of the visit was the opening of the American Space, a center intended to serve as a hub for U.S. culture and education.”

Emadeddin Abdel-Ghafour (picture above)

Egypt’s Salafist Nour Party racked by internecine squabbles

Country’s largest Salafist party faces unprecedented rifts over ongoing party elections and recent changes in party’s top echelons

Sherif Tarek, Tuesday 25 Sep 2012

Ongoing disputes within the Nour Party – over both leadership issues and ideology – appear far from settled, leaving the future of Egypt’s largest Salafist party hanging in the balance.

The disagreements, which have recently burst into public view, have led to rifts within the party, the unity of which is now being harshly tested for the first time since its establishment in the wake of last year’s revolution.

The division became apparent when Nour Party Chairman Emadeddin Abdel-Ghafour decided to postpone internal party elections until after Egypt’s yet-to-be-scheduled parliamentary polls. The decision came after the party reportedly received a large number of complaints from its provincial branches regarding the first round of party elections.

However, the Supreme Committee, the party’s highest authority after its General Assembly, challenged the decision by ordering polling to continue on schedule.

“It is the Supreme Committee that decides on the fate of the internal elections, not the party president,” party spokesman Nader Bakar told Ahram Online.

Other leading party members also challenged Abdel-Ghafour’s decision to postpone elections, including Nour Party Secretary-General Galal Morra, who stressed that, according to party regulations, the party president was not entitled to make such a decision.

Speaking to Ahram Online on condition of anonymity, one high-ranking Nour Party member said: “It’s fair to say that between 75 and 80 per cent of the party’s members have come out against Abdel-Ghafour’s decision.”

Meanwhile, the party’s central elections committee has already upheld results of the first round of party polls, conducted earlier this month in 19 governorates. Second-round polling is slated to begin on 28 September in the Cairo, Giza, Qalyoubia, Dakahlia, Gharbia, Sharkia, Matrouh, Port Said and North Sinai governorates.

Abdel-Ghafour, for his part, along with his supporters who collectively call themselves the ‘Reformist Front,’ have reportedly filed a lawsuit aimed at halting the elections for hundreds of administrative posts within the party, including that of secretary-general.

Changes at the top

Appearing to add insult to injury is the reported commissioning of cleric Saied Abdel-Azim to be in charge of proselytising issues within the party, a leading post previously filled by prominent preacher Yasser Borhamy, considered the Nour Party’s godfather.

The move was reportedly made based on the recommendation of the Salafist Calling’s Trustees Council, consisting of the six founders of Egypt’s Salafist Calling who originally launched the Nour Party.

Since replacing Borhamy, Abdel-Azim has unsuccessfully sought to contain party divisions. According to media reports, Borhamy is reluctant to give up his post, thus hindering his successor’s attempts to end the rift and leading to speculation that further division is inevitable.

The high-ranking Nour Party member, for his part, refused to comment on the replacement of Borhamy, but explained the Salafist Calling’s general vision.

“They want those in top management positions to be qualified enough for their respective posts,” he said. “It used to depend on the individual’s popularity rather than on his respective qualifications.”

Without elaborating further, he added: “We can say that up to 80 per cent of the party’s members favour this vision; the disagreement is only over the timing of the application of this vision and not the vision itself.”

Borhamy and Abdel-Azim, both of whom are professional surgeons, began their preaching activities in the 1970s. They both contributed to the establishment of the Salafist Calling in Egypt and are both members of the Salafist Calling’s six-man Trustees Council.

The Salafist Nour Party was founded shortly after last year’s Tahrir Square uprising that led to the ouster of president Hosni Mubarak, whose regime had persecuted Islamist activists for decades.

The party rose to prominence in last winter’s parliamentary elections, when it secured the second largest number of seats in the People’s Assembly – the lower house of Egypt’s parliament – after the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/53736/Egypt/Politics-/Egypts-Salafist-Nour-Party-racked-by-internecine-s.aspx

Not much difference between any of them mentioned in the article. They’re all Salafists. One of them got the trailer movie video and dubbed the words. Which one was it...

How did it get around the Islamic World?

The following pieces explain how this movie got traction. The Salifist Mullah Khaled Abdullah, government state security, was the first to carry the story to a Salifist TV Channel per the source below, there was no date noted but it was obviously before the day of the protests. Then Wesam Abdel Warith president of another Salifi channel called for a demonstration along with yet another extremist Salafi sheikh, Abu Yahia, followed by Nader Bakker - Salafist al Nour party, who partners with the Muslim Brotherhood, carried the message to al Jazeera. All of them appear to be linked, whether by their extreme Salafic belief system, the Muslim Brotherhood government or both. Basically, the Koran (and hadith) is/are their Constitution. They’re of the belief that the whole world belongs to their Allah, they want to clean it up and bring us back to the days of mohammed, hence the killing of Christians and Church arson, destruction of Sufi Mosques and the graves of their saints, along with regular Sunni Mosques.

Sources:

“Why was the first one to air the video publicly on any TV channel was rude Khaled Abdullah on Salafist TV channel Al Nas ?? Khaled Abdullah is said to be from the state security men in Islamist realm in Egypt since 1990s by the way. I do not understand already why Abdullah would air such offensive crappy film for his Ultra-Conservative viewers and to spread the film in this way!?? I did not want to post clips from that crappy short film but I have to post this clip to prove that Abdullah was the first to speak about it in Egypt publicly on TV.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2933368/posts

“And why do organisers sometimes lie, as when Nader Bakkar - who speaks for Egypt’s Salafi Nour Party, a partner with President Mohammed Morsi’s party - told Al Jazeera Mubasher that the film had been broadcast on US channels?”. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2932402/posts

“Wesam Abdel Warith, the president of a popular Salafi TV station, al-Hekma, responded by calling for a demonstration at the US Embassy. He was joined by another Salafi sheikh, Abu Yahia, who in 2011 was a key instigator for escalation of an alleged Coptic female convert to Islam who was kidnapped by the church. This incident led ultimately to the attack and burning of churches in Imbaba, Cairo, in May of the same year.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2933368/posts

This was their message: “Word of a film originating in the United States that depicts the Prophet Muhammad having sexual intercourse and questioning his role as a prophet spread like wildfire across the streets of Egypt.” and something about Terry Jones having a mock jury trial for mohammed. They remember him from the koran burning.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2933368/posts

Nader Bakkar, spokesperson for Al Nour, (the person who told al Jazeera we were showing the stupid movie here 24/7) was just kicked out of the party by Emad Abdel Ghaffour - see previous post. They’re all liars, pigs and thieves, each one capable of dubbing the trailer movie...which one... My guess is Gaffour, he just got a big promotion, advisor to President Morsi!

I got to thinking and decided to check it out and Sunlight Project popped up:
http://acdemocracy.org/economic-warfare-institute.cfm

I checked Sunlight out a while back...they’re funded by Soros- Open Society, Carnegie, Ford...I specifically did a write up on a couple of the board members...particulary co-founder and leftist activist Ellen Miller:
http://mediachecker.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/25/

ACD - About Us

ACD is a New York-based 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, which monitors and exposes the enemies of freedom and their modus operandi, and explores pragmatic ways to counteract their methods.

ACD is headed by Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, a noted terror finance and economic warfare scholar and an advocate of free speech rights.

Our Board of Directors includes experienced military, intelligence and business professionals: former Director of CIA R. James Woolsey; former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle; former U.S. Attorney General, Michael B. Mukasey; Dr. Nicholas Rostow, National Defense University; Leonard P. Shaykin, a Managing Partner of LambdaStar Infrastructure Partners; and David W. Hamon of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Our advisory board includes: Dr. John Abeles; Jean-Charles Brisard; Lieutenant General Thomas McInterney, USAF (ret.); Dmitry Radyshevsky; Major General Paul E. Vallely (ret.); and Dr. Gal Luft.....
http://acdemocracy.org/about-us.cfm
Directors - bigshot names:
http://acdemocracy.org/board-of-directors.cfm
The team isn’t exactly small change either going by their bios:
http://acdemocracy.org/our-team.cfm

The author of the article:

Associate Director of the Economic Warfare Institute

Kenneth D.M. Jensen, Associate Director of the EWI, is a foreign relations professional based in Washington, D.C. His specialties include Russia and East Europe, as well as the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia.

His interest in economic warfare spans the better part of his career. He has funded (as a grantmaker) or assisted in funding seminal works on narco-terrorism and money laundering, as well as on Middle East politics and Islamic terrorism. Dr. Jensen manages the EWI Blog and produces the daily EWI Digest, available by email.

Dr. Jensen is the author or editor of fourteen books on foreign and public policy, including The Origins of the Cold War: The Novikov, Kennan, and Roberts ‘Long Telegrams’ of 1946. He served as Director of Grant Programs for the Institute for Educational Affairs in New York, under the direction of former Treasury Secretary Bill Simon and Irving Kristol. There, Dr. Jensen managed programs in public policy, foreign policy, jurisprudence, and the media. Later, he was a founding staff member of the United States Institute of Peace and directed its grants and research programs during his eight-year tenure. He is recently retired from the American Committees on Foreign Relations, where he served as executive director for 15 years.

Dr. Jensen is an alumnus of the University of Colorado, the University of Wisconsin, and Moscow State University (USSR). A veteran of a dozen years of college teaching in History, Political Science, and political philosophy (most lately at Kenyon College), he occasionally teaches American Foreign Policy in the Age of Terrorism at National Defense University.

Dr. Jensen is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Advisory Board of Global Financial Integrity.
Contact: kjensen@acdemocracy.org
http://acdemocracy.org/our-team.cfm

Kenneth Jensen is also on the advisory board of Global Financial Integrity. I recognized another name on the board, John G. Heimann, it says he’s a member of the board of American Ditchley Foundation but he’s Chairman. The reason I’m familiar is because Thomas Pickering, Hillarys selection to head the investigative team, on the Libyan murders, is also on the board. Check out the headquarters of the ENglish Ditchley Foundation - astounding. John WHitehead is also on this board:
http://www.gfintegrity.org/content/view/15/136/

Global Financial Integrity is a program of the Center for International Policy...
http://www.ciponline.org/about-us/board

Funding: Open Society, Rockefeller, Ford, Tide, UN, United States Institute of Peace...
http://www.ciponline.org/about-us/budget

United States Institue of Peace...funds leftist Center for International Policy...
http://www.usip.org/about-us/board-directors
COngressional Relations:
http://www.usip.org/about-us/congressional-relations
And yet another tax-paying branch...”engaging the next generation of peacebuilders”...
http://www.buildingpeace.org/

One could go on...the author Kenneth Jensen appears to be a big fish. in what seems like a small frying pan. Many of them are CFR people. There are literally hundreds of these nonprofits with big honchos on the boards...methinks some are dummy sites perhaps to confuse...not neccessarily with these sites.

Bottomline - why would he use Stephen Fidlers name?

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