{"id":32072,"date":"2012-09-20T08:47:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T12:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32072"},"modified":"2012-09-20T08:52:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T12:52:52","slug":"benghazi-attack-terrorist-attack-planned-by-gitmo-alum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32072","title":{"rendered":"Benghazi terrorist attack planned by Gitmo alum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/09\/19\/top-administration-official-says-strike-in-libya-was-terror-attack\/\">Fox News<\/a> is reporting that members of the Obama Administration is finally admitting that the attack on the consulate in Benghazi last week was actually a terrorist attack rather than a spontaneous reaction to some stupid video on YouTube. Fox also reports that a Guantanamo graduate who was released in 2007 to Libya on the condition that he would still be confined had a major part in the execution of the assault;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sufyan Ben Qumu is thought to have been involved and even may have led the attack, Fox News&#8217; intelligence sources said. Qumu, a Libyan, was released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2007 and transferred into Libyan custody on the condition he be kept in jail. He was released by the Qaddafi regime as part of its reconciliation effort with Islamists in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>His Guantanamo files also show he has ties to the financiers behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The declassified files also point to ties with the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a known Al Qaeda affiliate.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So that makes sense. Our own sense of fair play comes back and bites our ass. Of course, the ACLU will tell you that we made Sufyan Ben Qumu a terrorist by putting him in Guantanamo. Regardless of how he became a terrorist, he&#8217;s still a terrorist.<\/p>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2205825\/Sufyan-Ben-Qumu-Former-Gitmo-inmate-planned-al-Qaeda-attack-Libyan-consulate.html?ITO=1490\">Daily Mail<\/a> says the White House still maintains that the assault was not planned and was a spontaneous reaction to some YouTube video;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The White House maintains that there was no evidence the attack was preplanned by a terrorist group &#8212; rather, they say, it appears to have been a spontaneous mob of Islamic extremists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We are looking at indications that individuals involved in the attack may have had connections to Al Qaeda or Al Qaeda&#8217;s affiliates, in particular Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb,&#8217; Mr Olsen told the Senate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News is reporting that members of the Obama Administration is finally admitting that the attack &hellip; <a title=\"Benghazi terrorist attack planned by Gitmo alum\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32072\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Benghazi terrorist attack planned by Gitmo alum<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}