Rowan Scarborough writes in the Washington Times 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.
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.
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.
The early assessment that Ansar al-Sharia likely carried out the attack is at odds with the Obama administration’s 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’s Prophet Muhammad.
It’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.
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This was in the news on the net at lunchtim:
http://pheedo.msnbc.msn.com/click.phdo?i=4bbb5a6b79c7e819839b3d1fba071426
I’m flabbergasted that this news story was leaked to the press unofficially, but also quite disturbed that there seems (to me, at least) to be something that does not ring true about this information.
Ex-PH2, What is the headline? For some reason I can’t get your link to work. What I found on MSNBC.com is about the explosions in Aleppo.
To clarify, I know Aleppo is in Syria. I only brought that up because it is the only story from that region I could find.
The headline is as follows:
US special forces setting up strike teams in N. Africa
Maybe if you copy that and put it in the search block, it will work. I don’t know why the link didn’t work. Sorry about that.
Target…(finger roll tap on side of face)….Libya….Target….What could possible be the target…? Dunno, but let’s have some guys ready on the sideline if we’re right. Dammit….What could possibly be the target….Libya… Target….
Thanks. It probably has something to do with me being on a DoD computer. I googled the headline and was able to find the story.
Here’s another one, about Homeland Security’s inept work:
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2012/10/is-us-homeland-securitys-fusion.html
That link leads to several other stories on warnewsupdates’ page for this article.
Nice to see my tax dollars at work, eh?
Okay…We’re not supposed to trust the Pentagon though. At least that is what is floated by the anti-war crews.
Oh, who cares what they think! Geez, I distinctly remember the photo in Life magazine of that silly frazzy-haired, bleary-eyed girl sticking daisies in a NG guy’s rifle barrel at some anti-war demonstration.
Peace isn’t free. Neither is freedom.
As Franklin put it: “Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.”