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Posted on 06/26/2013 7:36:55 AM PDT by MestaMachine
History Repeats Itself
In 1998, the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya was attacked by a truck laden with explosives. Minutes later, the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, was hit with another massive truck bomb. The dual attacks would kill 224 people, including 12 Americans. The coordinated attack would put terror mastermind Osama Bin Laden’s name on the map.
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The Accountability Review Board for the 1998 bombings points out that Ambassador Bushnell had repeatedly requested increased security measures, specifically stand-off capability for potential terrorist bombings. The requests were denied, explained in a letter from Under Secretary Cohen, because the Nairobi facility was only designated as a medium security threat post for political violence and terrorism.
Threat designation is an important distinction that would leave 2012 Libyan Diplomats scratching their heads with regards to their own lack of security support from Washington. Why were their requests for security falling on deaf ears when their posts’ threat designations put both Tripoli and Benghazi in the top 10 most dangerous posts in the world?
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Conclusion
As we have always maintained, the true reason for the Benghazi attack was because of these targeted killings. There was one assassination in particular, probably in the first week of September, in which a CIA asset was killed. Imagine the perspective of a Libyan militia – they felt that they were helping out the Americans by talking to the CIA. Then the U.S. military has their guy killed. In response, they launch an assault on the State Department compound which was successful far beyond their hopes because of grossly inadequate security. Emboldened by their success, they rally and bring the fight to the CIA compound, kill two more Americans and critically wound two more agents (one CIA, and one State)
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(Excerpt) Read more at sofrep.com ...
I have been trying to tell you this had NOTHING to do with a planned kidnapping. It had EVERYTHING to do with premeditated murder.
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When bill clinton left Africs, he left with suitcases full of cash. Quid pro quo for two American embassies.
Many thanks for the heads up!
This is an interesting note of what went on.
Good read here:
OPINION
June 18, 2013, 6:44 p.m. ET
Benghazi’s Legacy of Broken Trust
When serving in harm’s way, diplomats, spies and soldiers need to know that their government has their back.
By
KEVIN G. NORTON
In 2009, I was a member of a small team of advisers to the Afghan police in Paktia province in the mountains near the southeastern Afghan border. One hot afternoon in early June, we received a desperate call for help from another American unit that was under a sustained attack. We drove out to their position as fast as we could, only to find several casualties and chaos. The Taliban cut off the attack soon after we arrived.
After we evacuated the casualties, the officer in charge of the unit told me that he could not find his interpreter. I led a small group of soldiers down into a wide field to look for the interpreter. We knew the danger: At any moment the Taliban could have resumed the attack and caught us in a very exposed position. We searched for more than 10 minutes before we found his lifeless body. It had been thrown from a vehicle that was hit by an improvised explosive device. We took another few minutes to locate his severed leg.
Why would we take such a risk to find an interpreter? Because he was a part of our team. He had taken on faith that we would do what we could to protect him and never leave him behind. Had we not done so, what message would it have sent to our other interpreters and partners? It would have been extremely difficult to ask others to take risks on our behalf or look out for us. ,,
Mr. Norton is a national security consultant and former U.S. Army infantry officer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324412604578519380213548390.html
That account has proven to be a hoax. It was a chain email.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign slogan for 2016 “What difference at this point does it matter?”
This makes me sick, sick, sick. Has the name of the assassinated CIA asset been revealed?
obama was more than willing to see the murders of 41 Americans in Benghazi. There are some very smart people acting VERY STUPIDLY. NO ONE will even tiptoe near the truth.
I'm not doubting you, but how do we know this?
I'm not doubting you, but how do we know this?
My search did not bring up any information on a hoax. Do you have a reference?
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Waitin’ for my ya ya
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Thank you and the organization that is publishing this first-hand account. You are performing a true patriotic service. I pray that your work may also bring a measure of peace to the family of Ambassador Chris Stephens, whose work deserves our country’s thanks.
There WAS a female whistleblower. You won’t find any evidence of it now. I have it on an old computer that I would need to swap hard drives to get to right now which would exacerbate my already dangerous health condition. That computer and two more with enough info to sink a battleship are in hiding.
It’s time to march on Washington en mass and tell them all they are fired! We definitely need new leadership. We need to fire the present top brass in the military, as well, as they are all socialist collaborators now. They’ve gotten rid of any true patriots and moved all the socialists to the top. State has needed a work-over since Wilson, and I’d dare say there are less than a handful of “good” men and women there.
EPA, IRS, Education Dept., HHS, DHS, and MANY more just need to be disbanded. All these agencies would work a LOT more efficiently in the states proper, as local solutions are more effective than national. We are TOO diverse to have a one-size-fits-all agency of ANY kind! All federal agencies remaining would need to be brought back under the scrutiny of Congress, even if it means they work more slowly. We have rampant corruption because there is no oversight. Having been a federal worker, I know that MUCH fraud, waste and abuse exists within the system. It is only getting worse.
Check it out. There is only one source for this...an unknown person who sent an email for which there has been no verifiable source but claiming to be a cousin of one man killed in Benghazi, to a blog, which did not, or could not, verify its authenticity.
Thousands of these emails have gone around, but not one single verification has ever been found.
http://buellreview.com/cynthia-lee-meyers-what-really-
happened-in-benghazi/
I found no hint of a hoax.
Why did Hillary DRAW DOWN security yet KEEP STEVENS THERE ON THE MOST DANGEROUS DAY OF THE YEAR?
Why have NONE of the 37 evacuees talked since the attack?
Why was the FBI delayed before going into the crime scenes?
On the night of the attack, why didn't team 0bama want ANYONE from the annex going over to the consulate (stand down order)?
Gray bar hotel (Secret CIA prison, of the kind 0bama bashed Pres. Bush over)!
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