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The Real Reason Behind Benghazigate?
Townhall.com ^ | 10/25/2012 | Frank Gaffney

Posted on 10/25/2012 8:42:58 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

The evidence suggests that the Obama administration has not simply been engaging, legitimating, enriching and emboldening Islamists who have now taken over or are ascendant in much of the Middle East. Starting in March 2011, when American diplomat Christopher Stevens was designated the liaison to the "opposition" in Libya, the Obama administration has been arming them, including jihadists like Abdelhakim Belhadj, the leader of the al Qaeda franchise known as the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.

Once Qaddafi was overthrown, Chris Stevens was appointed as the ambassador to the new Libya run by Belhadj and his friends. Not surprisingly, one of the most important priorities for someone in that position would be to try to find and secure the immense amounts of armaments that had been cached by the dictator around the country and systematically looted during and after the revolution.

One of the places in Libya most awash with such weapons in the most dangerous of hands is Benghazi. It now appears that Amb. Stevens was there - on a particularly risky day, with no security to speak of and despite now-copiously-documented concerns about his own safety and that of his subordinates - for another priority mission: sending arms recovered from the former regime's stocks to the "opposition" in Syria. As in Libya, the insurgents are known to include al Qaeda and other shariah-supremacist groups, including none other than Abdelhakim Belhadj.

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KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghazigate; obama4alqaeda; obama4ansaralsharia; obama4aqap; obama4bokoharem; shadowwars; threatmatrix
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1 posted on 10/25/2012 8:42:58 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Bigger than Watergate.
Worse than Iran-Contra.
Dumber than Fast and Furious.
More short-sighted than Cash for Clunkers.

$100,000.00 went to Venice for Green cars.
No one went to Benghazi to help.


2 posted on 10/25/2012 8:50:10 AM PDT by Noamie
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To: RoosterRedux

Great post!! Been hearing about this liklihood for several weeks.

From the article:

In short, it seems President Obama has been engaged in gun-walking on a massive scale. The effect has been to equip America’s enemies to wage jihad not only against regimes it once claimed were our friends, but inevitably against us and our allies, as well. That would explain his administration’s desperate, and now-failing, bid to mislead the voters through the serial deflections of Benghazigate.


3 posted on 10/25/2012 8:51:26 AM PDT by Perseverando (Gun control? It's the OBOTS who are filling up prisons for violent crimes, not the Tea Party.)
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To: Perseverando
Obama's Arms-a-geddon!;-)

I sometimes wonder if Chris Stevens wasn't offed to keep him quiet about this gun running effort once his usefulness was over.

4 posted on 10/25/2012 8:56:51 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama: "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.")
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To: lonevoice

ping!


5 posted on 10/25/2012 9:01:16 AM PDT by Pride in the USA (With Romney - Ryan you get change back.)
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To: RoosterRedux; Grampa Dave; tubebender; ElkGroveDan; ScottinSacto; calif_reaganite; Carry_Okie; ...
Nobody, not even an American ambasador was assassinated, murdered or raped on U.S. soil in Watergate!!!
6 posted on 10/25/2012 9:05:06 AM PDT by SierraWasp ("The New Normal," is FAR from any normality!!!)
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To: RoosterRedux

There is a rancid stench of treason in the air...hanging over our nation.

An American Lament in 2012
http://www.jeffhead.com/lament.htm

You know, I watched an interview of the LTC who was the head of the DOD team in Benghazi who was asking for more security and who then had his own team pulled out a few weeks before the attack.

He was asked straight up that if the Ambassador knew how dangerous the situation in Benghazi was, why did he go there on 911? The answer that LTC gave was, I believe, very revealing...but in his own way. He said,

“Yes, he knew it was dangerous, but I believe that his commitment to ‘complete the mission’ took him there.”

The obvious question then is...what was the “mission?”

I now believe, just as this article represents, that they were negotiationg directly with Al Quida operatives to run guns to the rebels in Syria...to the Islamic Fundamental rebels, who themselves are Al Quida sympatthizers and that the whole thing went bad.

There is something like this...so deep and dark...that is driving this administrations actions. Something they will lie blatantly about...and brazingly...to try and keep it from coming to light.

Simple incompetence does not make sense here. It may answer some questons, but not nearly all.

We must Eradicate Sharia Law
http://www.jeffhead.com/eradicate.htm


7 posted on 10/25/2012 9:06:05 AM PDT by Jeff Head ( Freedom is not free, never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Perseverando

BAM!!!
We have been trying to convince people of this since his speech in Cairo. It was a dead giveaway as to his intentions, but most people are so misinformed about islam they did not understand his speech from islam’s point of view. He spoke to them in their own language disguised for westerners. It meant something completely different to the muslim brotherhood who were there at obama’s personal invitation.


8 posted on 10/25/2012 9:06:14 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills and none dare call it treason)
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To: RoosterRedux

If the “ammunition distribution” was managed by the two ex-SEALs, they might have been offed for the same reason as well...

But they were fools if they thought that nobody would ask questions about what really happened in Benghazi.

What I would really love is if somebody found and made public the video footage of the Egyptian ambassador saying on Arab TV that Obama had privately told him that he was and still is a Muslim who supports the Muslim agenda and that the Muslim world needed to be patient with him while he got Obamacare passed and then Obama would start on the Muslim agenda...

That would explain why we are taking the weaponry in Libya and giving it to the ISLAMIST opposition in Syria and not to the secular folks opposing Assad who just want freedom.


9 posted on 10/25/2012 9:07:35 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: thouworm; LucyT; maggief; penelopesire; onyx

Here you go...


10 posted on 10/25/2012 9:10:28 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills and none dare call it treason)
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To: RoosterRedux

And the day America falls to the muzzies, they will say, but but but we were their pals, we helped them defeat Israel, we had a muzzie black cool guy as president to show we supported them, we sent them money, sent them weapons, just did everything in our Congress to back them and send the Jews packing out of Israel. Why don’t they like us. Women, like the Hildabeast, will wonder why they have been told to put on the burka, get in the back, sit down and shut up. I heard on a program just today, that in England, when a muzzie divorces his wife, he does it in England under the Sharia law and not British law. The children automatically belong to him. WOMEN HAVE NO RIGHT!!! GET THAT LADIES, YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS. SO HURRY DOWN YOU FEMINAZI’S AND VOTE FOR THE MUZZIE, so you can get to the back of the line quicker than you think. That’s it women, vote for the Muslin. Then you get your own version of Sharia law here and YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS. NONE. PERIOD!!


11 posted on 10/25/2012 9:11:13 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (The Scriptures clearly tell us we are in the last days, the end times. Christ is the only answer!)
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To: Jeff Head
You will note that the story of Ambassador Stevens running weapons to Syria has been running for days now (including in the Washington Times), and even Fox News has yet to acknowledge it, this while complaining about news sources spiking the Benghazi coverup.

You are right: It's a stench, and it's bigger than Washington.

12 posted on 10/25/2012 9:17:38 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Islam offers us choices: convert or kill, submit or die.)
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To: RoosterRedux

If we were distributing weapons to these jihadists then why did they kill Stevens and the others? Simply because they wanted to eliminate the middle man?

If weapons distribution is what was going on then zero, etc. can’t be all that upset over the outcome - well other than the effect on his election and the minor matter of a few dead Americans.


13 posted on 10/25/2012 9:19:12 AM PDT by Aria ( 2008 wasn't an election - it was a coup d'etat.)
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To: RoosterRedux
What's next?


14 posted on 10/25/2012 9:20:40 AM PDT by McGruff (Obama lied. Heroes died.)
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To: RetiredArmy

You are so right! Yesterday on Hannity I heard two women, one whining about equal pay and she didn’t care that the WH doesn’t participate in equal pay and has a hostile work environment according to women who worked there. The other woman was upset about the birth control issue - didn’t want to pay the $9/month and when her complaints weren’t all that effective she then whined about Mitt saying that government doesn’t create jobs so how can Mitt say he’ll create 12m jobs?

I wondered if these were rat plants doing seminar calls. But either way - they’re focusing on the insignificant while keeping muslims from converting the USA is hugely significant to all of us.


15 posted on 10/25/2012 9:27:15 AM PDT by Aria ( 2008 wasn't an election - it was a coup d'etat.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Real reason?

There is an election. There’s always been an election. The regime is malfunctional and dysfunctional.
However, it must not be SEEN as malfunctional and dysfunctional, for that would be an image that would diminish the prospects for the ongoing, perpetual election cycle. This, however, is particularly CLOSE to the time of the actual election, and therefore not amenable to damage control normally handled by the lamestreams with careful massaging by the regime.
Hence the fairy tale about the mohammed video. Liars weave tangled webs. History’s lessons tell us that the coverups are always far worse than the malfunction itself. But lib politicians just can’t resist. They always believe that history only applies to the past, and only to the bad guys.


16 posted on 10/25/2012 9:27:53 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great; until it happens to YOU.)
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To: butterdezillion
But they were fools if they thought that nobody would ask questions about what really happened in Benghazi.

I think Obama figured that, if he wins re-election, he will simply intimidate anyone who might ask questions into keeping quiet...and if he loses, I'll bet it's not Hawaii he'll be moving to, but the ME.

BTW, I agree about the SEAL's. This all reeks of Obama's muslim empowerment (gun running) effort.

On the other issue (of Nile TV's interview with Egypt's Foreign Minister Gheit), the source of that story is Avi Lipkin's wife, who regularly monitored Arabic and Egyptian TV and radio for Israel.

While it would be nice to have a video of that, all that Obama promised Gheit has basically come about with the Arab Spring. Israel is isolated politically and her enemies have been armed to the hilt.

17 posted on 10/25/2012 9:28:40 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama: "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.")
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To: Aria
If we were distributing weapons to these jihadists then why did they kill Stevens and the others? Simply because they wanted to eliminate the middle man?

This was a cleaning operation. Obama was scrubbing the paper trail and getting rid of those who would talk if taken prisoner by the wrong people (like the Israelis).

18 posted on 10/25/2012 9:32:45 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama: "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.")
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To: Jeff Head
Wow! Totally agree with you on this... As soon as I heard about the latest emails, I told my husband “this is treason!” Now, with your commentary, it makes TOTAL sense... just wow.
19 posted on 10/25/2012 9:34:32 AM PDT by N8VTXNinWV (President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. ~ CE)
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To: RoosterRedux

Real reason?

There is an election. There’s always been an election. The regime is malfunctional and dysfunctional.
However, it must not be SEEN as malfunctional and dysfunctional, for that would be an image that would diminish the prospects for the ongoing, perpetual election cycle. This, however, is particularly CLOSE to the time of the actual election, and therefore not amenable to damage control normally handled by the lamestreams with careful massaging by the regime.
Hence the fairy tale about the mohammed video. Liars weave tangled webs. History’s lessons tell us that the coverups are always far worse than the malfunction itself. But lib politicians just can’t resist. They always believe that history only applies to the past, and only to the bad guys.


20 posted on 10/25/2012 9:37:36 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great; until it happens to YOU.)
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