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Whistleblower Attorney: Benghazi Attack Was About 400 SAM Missiles Stolen by Some ‘Very Ugly People’
Washington Free Beacon ^ | August 13, 2013 1:10 pm
Former U.S. Attorney Joe DiGenova shed new light on the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack Monday on WMAL.
DiGenova, legal representative for Benghazi whistleblower Mark Thompson, revealed new information from intelligence officials with knowledge of the incident indicates the assault on the U.S. mission concerned 400 surface-to-air missiles intended for Syrian rebels that were stolen by some “very ugly people.”
The intelligence community fears the stolen missiles could be used to shoot down an airliner or blow up an embassy, DiGenova said:
JOE DIGENOVA: We had troops ready to deploy in Croatia to go [to Benghazi] that night of Sept. 11, 2012 to rescue Americans. We have learned that one of the reasons the administration is so deeply concerned — we have been told there were 400 surface-to-air missiles stolen, and that they are on or about in the hands of many people, and that the biggest fear in the U.S. intelligence community is that one of these missiles will be used to shoot down an airliner.
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This is why we shut down the 19 embassies recently. They were afriad that there was going to be a missile attack on one of the embassies. Remember, you can take a shoulder held missile and shoot it into an embassy, not just into the sky.
DiGenova went on to allege political concerns about the possibility of future terrorist acts involving the stolen weaponry were the reason the Obama administration initially blamed the attack on an anti-Islam video.
President Obama, DiGenova said, is attempting to “cover his fanny” by publicizing indictments against the Benghazi suspects to give the illusion “he’s doing something when in fact he’s done nothing”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3054244/posts
Drudge has the link about 400 SAM missiles stolen:
US Nuclear Reactors Vulnerable to Terrorist Threat – Report
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3055350/posts
Article: (Russian publication?)
http://en.rian.ru/world/20130816/182794379/US-Nuclear-Reactors-Vulnerable-to-Terrorist-Threat—Report.html
Report:
http://blogs.utexas.edu/nppp/files/2013/08/NPPP-working-paper-1-2013-Aug-15.pdf
WASHINGTON, August 15 (RIA Novosti) – Security measures at US commercial and research nuclear facilities do not provide adequate protection against potential terrorist threats, a report by researchers at the University of Texas says.
The report, prepared under a contract for the Pentagon by the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project (NPPP) and released on Thursday, provides a comparative analysis of threat assessment at nuclear facilities in the United States used by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Department of Energy (DOE), and the Department of Defense (DOD).
Titled “Protecting U.S. Nuclear Facilities from Terrorist Attack: Re-assessing the Current ‘Design Basis Threat’ Approach”, the report finds that none of the 104 commercial nuclear power reactors and three civilian research reactors is protected against a maximum credible terrorist threat on a scale of September 11, 2001 tragedy.
The study singles out eight nuclear power reactors located on the US seaside as they are not required to protect against seaborne attacks.
The three civilian research reactors that are fueled with bomb-grade uranium, including the one located at the National Institute of Standards and Technology only two dozen miles from the White House, are prime targets of terrorist theft as they are not as well protected as similar military facilities, the report says.
In addition, no protection from high-powered sniper rifles and rocket-propelled grenades is required at any plants due to financial restraints.
The report illustrates on examples of successful terrorist attacks in the past decade that terrorists “rely on conventional, fairly low technology tools, although in creative ways to maximize their symbolic and lethal effect.”
The authors of the report argue that the risk assessment approach should be “the same for all U.S. nuclear facilities – whether public or private – that pose catastrophic risks, whether from theft of nuclear weapons or fissile materials, or from radiological sabotage of a nuclear power reactor.”
They also urge the US government to provide additional security support to private companies operating civilian nuclear reactors.
The full text of the report is available in PDF format at: http://blogs.utexas.edu/nppp/files/2013/08/NPPP-working-paper-1-2013-Aug-15.pdf