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AL-Qaeda said the deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya was in revenge for the killing of the network’s number two Sheikh Abu Yahya al-Libi, SITE Intelligence Group reported.
“The killing of Sheikh Abu Yahya only increased the enthusiasm and determination of the sons of (Libyan independence hero) Omar al-Mokhtar to take revenge upon those who attack our Prophet,” said al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula said in a statement, quoted by the US-based monitoring group.
Yep sounds like a book burning to me...............
"Fox News has obtained a three-page intelligence report showing that two days before the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, a statement incited "sons of Egypt" to pressure America to release the so-called blind sheikh "even if it requires burning the embassy down with everyone in it."
The web statement, apparently posted on Sept. 9, was in reference to the embassy in Egypt. It preceded a throng of demonstrators breaching the U.S. Embassy wall in Cairo, supposedly in protest over an anti-Islam film. Obama administration officials claim that attackers in Libya then took their cue from Cairo and seized the opportunity to attack the consulate in Benghazi.
Though the administration's version of events is still evolving, the three-page Department of Homeland Security intelligence report further highlights potential threats that were being picked up before last week's attack.
The DHS report, released on Sept. 11, said an "unidentified user" on an Arabic-language forum posted the statement "inciting Egyptians to target the U.S. Embassy, indicating the U.S. Embassy shouldn't remain in Egypt" until Omar Abdel-Rahman, also known as the blind sheikh, is released. Abdel-Rahman, who played a role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and other attacks, is serving a life sentence in U.S. prison.
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And, from your own link, it is clear that there are no talks or consideration of releasing the "Blind Sheikh" to anyone.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland denied the report.
"Let me say as clearly as I can there is no plan to release the blind sheikh, there is no plan. To my knowledge we have not been approached about it recently by any senior Egyptians," she said Wednesday.
You just don't get it, do you? This "movie" was aired over and over and over many times on TV in the Middle East on Saturday before the attacks on Tuesday. A popular TV host in Egypt put this "movie" trailer on TV and advertised it to the Middle East repeatedly the weekend before the attacks. What makes you think many of the protestors had not see it? You think people in the Middle East don't watch TV?
Provide a link proving they had "evidence of something happening 3 days prior." You've posted this same thing many times and I have yet to see your link to back up that claim.
The Libyan attack was made on a consular office, NOT the embassy. Your "facts" are a bit fuzzy.
Btw, HOW MANY Democrat friends? A number please. Your vague "my Democrat friends" is meaningless.
"According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and "lockdown", under which movement is severely restricted." [1]
Well, now I know why you didn't want to put up a link. The source was Fox News who cited unnamed "intelligence sources." So we have a story from a right-wing news site, claiming to have gotten this information from UNNAMED "intelligence sources."
"According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and "lockdown", under which movement is severely restricted." [1]
Where is this quote from? Who were the senior diplomatic sources?
McCain should keep his mouth shut. If he were president, we'd still be fighting in Iraq.
Ah yes shut your mouth if you don't agree with Obama.
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