{"id":32234,"date":"2012-10-03T12:24:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T16:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32234"},"modified":"2012-10-03T12:24:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T16:24:33","slug":"pentagon-suspected-al-qaeda-links-in-benghazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32234","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon suspected al-Qaeda links in Benghazi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rowan Scarborough writes in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/oct\/2\/pentagon-eyed-al-qaeda-early-as-libyan-attacker-on\/\">Washington Times<\/a> that military intelligence folks at the Pentagon were spreading the word there that it was al-Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Sharia which had staged the September 11th attack on the Benghazi consulate, despite White House assertion to the contrary.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A source familiar with intelligence reporting told The Washington Times that the Libyan militant group Ansar al-Sharia was singled out as the likely principal planner and executor of the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans on Sept. 11.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Special Operations Command quickly dispatched its troops to the region, but not into Libya directly, to stand by in case Ansar al-Sharia launched more attacks on Americans or took hostages.<\/p>\n<p>The early assessment that Ansar al-Sharia likely carried out the attack is at odds with the Obama administration\u2019s repeated claims in the days after the bloodshed that the raid was a spontaneous protest against a video clip of a U.S.-produced movie that disparages Islam\u2019s Prophet Muhammad.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s good that someone in the Pentagon pays attention to their own intelligence and ignores the White House BS political yapping about videos and the shortage of ice cream cones in Libya being the reason for the deaths of four Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rowan Scarborough writes in the Washington Times that military intelligence folks at the Pentagon were spreading &hellip; <a title=\"Pentagon suspected al-Qaeda links in Benghazi\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32234\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pentagon suspected al-Qaeda links in Benghazi<\/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":[198,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32234","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=32234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}