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GAFFNEY: The real reason behind Benghazigate Was Obama gun-walking arms to jihadists?
The Washington Times ^ | October 22, 2012 | Frank Gaffney

Posted on 10/23/2012 8:06:32 AM PDT by penelopesire

President Obama’s once seemingly unstoppable march toward re-election hit what he might call “bumps in the road” in Benghazi, Libya, late on Sept. 11, 2012. It might be more accurate to describe the effect of the well-planned and -executed, military-style attack on a diplomatic facility there as the political equivalent of a devastating improvised explosive device on the myth of the unassailability of the Obama record as commander in chief. Thanks to intrepid investigative reporting — notably by Bret Baier and Catherine Herridge at Fox News, Aaron Klein at WND.com and Clare Lopez at RadicalIslam.org — and information developed by congressional investigators, the mystery is beginning to unravel with regard to what happened that night and the reason for the subsequent, clumsy official cover-up now known as Benghazigate. The evidence suggests that the Obama administration has not simply been engaging, legitimating, enriching and emboldening Islamists who have taken over or are ascendant in much of the Middle East. Starting in March 2011, when American diplomat J. Christopher Stevens was designated the liaison to the “opposition” in Libya, the Obama administration has been arming them, including jihadists like Abdelhakim Belhadj, leader of the al Qaeda franchise known as the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghazigate; chrisstevens; obamacoverup; shadowwars; syria; threatmatrix; turkey
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To: bitt

It sure is looking like the administration is going to have a hard time wiggling out of this mess at this point. To much rather incriminating information is coming out.


81 posted on 10/24/2012 12:12:54 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned.)
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To: thecodont; Candor7
.......(Could there be a connection? Backdoor jhadist weapon supply into America....Benghazi jhadist weapon supply?)

I believe you are correct.

It sure feels like something BIGGER than Benghazi alone is taking place. Putting 2 and 2 together, the backdoor jihadist aka Fast & Furious gun supply, and the arms stored in Benghazi are connected in some very sinister way.

Reason to that O' is so adamant about laxity at the borders, can't check ID's, etc.... Easier for the jihadist and missiles to cross the border. We are in big trouble America. It is just something I feel, and I Pray this blows up before the election.

FOR PETE'S SAKE CONGRESS, DO YOUR JOB, otherwise we may have yet another 4 years of this present COWARD IN CHIEF.

I agree with whoever said Romney played it perfect in the last debate, he knows the Coward in Chief is in deep doodoo, let him HANG HIMSELF, and that can't come quick enough for me, literally.

HEY 47%ers, WOMEN, Moderates, Independents: Do you not care whether you live or die, do you not care about your children who may serve under this Coward in Chief? Is it nothing to you that 4 Brave Americans were TORTURED and MURDERED in the service of America to give you the freedom to be so DUMB and STUPID enough to elect President COWARD IN CHIEF again. If not, the blood is also on your heads, don't expect any of us to help you.

By the way: did you know there was another murder in KENYA? If Coward in Chief does not care enough to send needed protection and HELP when he got the SOS call on Sept 11th, how much do you think he REALLY cares about you and your children? hmmmmmmmmmm?? WAKE UP

You idiots gave us 8 years of LYING/Cheating Bill Clinton, who was also a COWARD IN CHIEF, please don't do this again.

I'm tired, I am so tired of fighting. How do you make these people understand it is not just for us we are and have been fighting, it is for them as well. We pray they will have a country left to be uncivil in, they want it destroyed. I'm just plain sick and tired of Idiocracy.

82 posted on 10/24/2012 12:20:06 PM PDT by annieokie (O)
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To: penelopesire

“What a shame that this country has sunk so low in electing this kind of man....”
You are 100% right on this. And may I add that the fact he could be re-elected reflects on the continuing and terrifying descent of our nation.


83 posted on 10/24/2012 12:36:24 PM PDT by Bravada (Wherever I Stand, I Stand With Israel!)
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To: Candor7

I am hopeful that unforseen circumstances might see the weapons used by their recipients against islamic sects not following the salafist path a la mohammad...and what we might see is the destruction of islam as it does what it has always done historically, fight tribe against tribe until they run out of victims and booty.
Then there’ll be a quiet time for a few centuries while the fanatics in the Middle East dig wells and cultivate date palms for their survival. And rely on their starving camels for transport...because the Ikwan plans to lead the muslims right back to the seventh century.


84 posted on 10/24/2012 1:54:07 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Jane Long
Are you watching Beck?

If we are to become a free people once again, our President, aka Bloody Barack must be held accountable.

85 posted on 10/24/2012 2:40:15 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Exterminate rats.)
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To: Jacquerie
Yes! Diana West was great. She and Glenn slammed 0's Benghazigate "investigator" Thomas Pickering. Pickering is bad news.

Glenn also looked into the camera and said we're being told, cold callous lies by our pResident.

86 posted on 10/24/2012 3:05:39 PM PDT by Jane Long (Soli Deo Gloria!)
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To: Candor7
THEY CAN'T SAY THEY DIDN'T KNOW - THIS REPORT FROM ONE YEAR AGO:

Al Qaeda Plants Its Flag in Libya

It was here at the courthouse in Benghazi where the first spark of the Libyan revolution ignited. It’s the symbolic seat of the revolution; post-Gaddafi Libya’s equivalent of Egypt’s Tahrir Square. And it was here, in the tumultuous months of civil war, that the ragtag rebel forces established their provisional government and primitive, yet effective, media centre from which to tell foreign journalists about their “fight for freedom.”

But according to multiple eyewitnesses – myself included – one can now see both the Libyan rebel flag and the flag of al Qaeda fluttering atop Benghazi’s courthouse.

SOURCE

87 posted on 10/24/2012 5:19:23 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Ernest.
88 posted on 10/24/2012 7:01:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: penelopesire

Why might Obama want to arm Jihadists? Because it would make for a huge October Surprise in his favor if Assad could be toppled just before the election.....never mind that 90 days later we figure out that the Islamist nutjobs took over.

Indeed THIS COULD STILL HAPPEN, though the clock is running out on it occurring before November 6th..


89 posted on 10/24/2012 9:24:57 PM PDT by cookcounty ("When I speak, I say what I mean and I mean what I say!" ---Joe Biden, 10/11/2012)
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