Posted on 12/09/2012 7:59:32 PM PST by Whenifhow
Diplomatic sources told the Sunday Times that the U.S. "bought weapons from the stockpiles of Libya's former dictator Muammar Gaddafi."
The heavy arms include mortars, rocket propelled grenades, anti-tank missiles and the controversial anti-aircraft heat-seeking SA-7 missiles, which are integral to countering Bashar Al-Assad's bombing campaign.
The administration has said that the previously hidden CIA operation in Benghazi involved finding, repurchasing and destroying heavy weaponry looted from Libyan government arsenals, but in October we reported evidence indicating that U.S. agents — particularly murdered ambassador Chris Stevens — were at least aware of heavy weapons moving from Libya to jihadist Syrian rebels.
From the Times report:
President Barack Obama authorized clandestine CIA support earlier this year and both the US and Britain have had special forces and intelligence officers on the ground for some time. They have helped with logistics and communications, but until now have refused to arm the Free Syrian Army.
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The newest report comes days before the U.S. is expected to recognize the newest Syrian coalition (and its Islamic-dominated-command) as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people. The State Department has also indicated it will soon name the opposition's highly effective al-Nusra Front a "terrorist organization" for its ties to Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).
Both of these stipulations — recognition of a unified opposition and creation of distance from extremists — are required in order for the Obama administration to openly acknowledge supporting Syrian rebels with heavy weapons.
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It wasn’t about ‘letting’ them be murdered. Obama couldn’t send in an armed rescue team without alerting too many people to keep the mission quiet.
Everything was under control and could be explained until someone leaked that the CIA guys were denied help. That got too many questions asked to keep it quiet.
It wasn’t about ‘letting’ them be murdered. Obama couldn’t send in an armed rescue team without alerting too many people to keep the mission quiet.
Everything was under control and could be explained until someone leaked that the CIA guys were denied help. That got too many questions asked to keep it quiet.
A quick glance into the Rocklobster's Redneck Guide to Islamic Spelling reveals the proper American spelling to be:
Basher Asshead.
Domo for the Ping.
Plenty enough here to bring down the regime.
Of course, like everything else negative that’s related to “Obama,” it will be swept under the rug, ignored and gotten away with. Anything else would of be raaacist, dontcha know.
Libyan militia associated with Syrian Rebels launches mustard gas mortar rounds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ajiilAgSicw
In other words, they let them be killed in order to keep the questionable arms transactions secret. “Everything was under control,” and Stevens and his defenders were dead, “until someone leaked” that they let them be killed in order to keep the questionable arms transactions secret.
I’m sorry, but you have just reinforced my conjecture that something else is involved here. Obama is an idiot, but not when it comes to politics. He must have weighed the possible fall-out, and decided that the arms transaction + X was too important to be revealed, and that it was better politically to take the hit for Stevens than to reveal the X factor. The arms transaction alone does not suffice.
That anti Allah video is still causing problems!? (sarcasm now off)
Isn’t amazing how the mediots who attack republicans for doing something clandestine, turn their backs on their Oreo in the outhouse?
I think he was supplying/steering captured Libyan arms directly to Al Queda rebels.
That still doesn’t complete the equation, as far as I’m concerned. I bet they’re still hiding something. Dead Stevens = Arms to Syrian rebels (MB or AQ affiliates) + X. X = ?
Step back and look at the big picture.
Election is up in the air. Obama has embarked on a deliberate policy to arm terrorists who have killed Americans by the thousands.
You think they wanted that to be made public 4 weeks before the election?
So instead he has the might of the US armed forces stand idly by while they literally beat a US ambassador to death, along with several good men who died protecting him and a US consulate. Whom the US is giving arms to and why can be spun, fudged, he can say “I didn’t know!” just like he did with Wright. But dead ambassadors don’t fade away. The question, why didn’t he scramble a sortie from a carrier, can only be evaded for so long. Was he counting on right-wingers not caring just because Stevens happened to be a poofta?
No, he was counting on the media covering and lying for him. He also knew that his disciples did not have the intelligence to know or care what was happening. Their only care is that their messiah continue to povide them with "freebies".
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