Mr. Speaker! We Need To Get Back To Benghazi

Clearly, if we are to understand what really happened in Benghazi, we will have to tap non-CIA/ State Department sources.


Perhaps the best available source is Fathi al-Obeidi, the head of the Libyan Special Forces militia unit tasked by the Libyan government with rescuing U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens along with any other Americans in peril. Al-Obeidi, according to Sky News Arabia, later met the American security forces from Tripoli at the Benghazi airport and transported them to the stranded Americans at the CIA annex, where the "second phase" of the attack occurred.


Al-Obeidi was on hand for the entire second attack and functioned as the only eyes and ears on the ground for both the American government and the Libyans. Al-Obeidi was there when the first American was shot. Al-Obeidi personally helped pull him behind cover.


Fathi al-Obeidi was also there when a second member of the American Security force was blown off the roof of the safe house, later noting his surprise at the accuracy of the attacker's weapons (attackers whom he described as more than one hundred highly trained militiamen).


Al-Obeidi also witnessed a third American receive a gunshot wound, a man who eventually ended up at Walter Reed Military Hospital. Al-Obeidi mentioned this third wounded American the day following the attack, but that knowledge didn't become "exclusive breaking news" in America until ten months later.


Al-Obeidi was the first to report how many people were in the safe house when the attack began. He was told to bring transport for ten individuals, and according to contemporary news accounts (translation required), he instead encountered thirty-seven trapped Americans. Within four hours of the conclusion of that day's events, Al-Obeidi spoke to the media, even commenting on social media as to the importance of his role. Unfortunately, he has been silent ever since.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/11/where_is_fathi_al-obeidi.html

Maybe because Vlad got one over on Obama, again...

Clearly, in the eyes of the Russians, the Benghazi gun-running represented an unacceptable intervention by the Americans in the Syrian civil war. Russian President Vladimir Putin had repeatedly warned Obama not to meddle in the Syrian conflict. It was widely discussed among the attendees of the G20 summit that Putin feared that the fall of the Assad regime would result in yet another unstable Islamist government, as had already resulted from the other "Arab Spring" revolts.


In fact, the case can be made that only the Russians would've had the intelligence capabilities to sniff out the specifics of the Benghazi operation with sufficient specificity to interdict the operation and seize the weapons in transit.


Ansar Al-Sharia has no such intelligence capability, nor do the Libyan militias in the area, or even Hezb'allah. However, the Iranian-backed militias could function as proxy forces in service of Russian aims.


Could the Turkish ambassador's September 11 visit to the Benghazi mission have been to warn Ambassador Stevens that the Russians were fully aware of his operation?


Ambassador Stevens met with several people during his time in Benghazi. It is possible that one of them was senior Lebanese security official Major General Wissam al-Hassan, who was absent from Lebanon at the time, with no official record of his whereabouts on and around September 11, 2012.


Al-Hassan, no friend of Syria or Hezb'allah, headed up the investigation into Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri's assassination that laid the blame at Bashar al-Assad's feet.


With Hezb'allah fighting on the side of Assad, his victory would certainly represent a threat to Lebanese stability, providing Syria with outsized influence in a nation whose leader they had already assassinated.


If Al-Hassan had discovered that the Russians were onto the Benghazi operation, recognition of the shift in power that would result would have been reason enough for him to add his own warning to that of the Turkish ambassador.


Little more than a month after Benghazi, Al-Hassan was assassinated in a bomb blast that was almost certainly detonated by Hezb'allah, at Syrian request. Perhaps this was his punishment for attempting to deny Hezb'allah and Assad their 400-missile prize.


As interesting as all this is, however, it doesn't explain why Obama abandoned American citizens to the ferocity of terrorist attackers when it has been shown that there were multiple assets that could've come to their aid.


Assume for a moment that the Benghazi raid was in fact, a Russian proxy operation. This circumstance alone would explain the reluctance of Obama, Panetta, and Hillary to engage the Russian-backed forces in defense of an illegal and compromised CIA operation. Under that scenario, it would appear that Obama made the decision to sacrifice the lives of as many as 37 Americans to avoid stoking conflict between the U.S. and Russia.


Perhaps the reluctance of the Obama administration to reveal any particulars regarding Benghazi stems from attempts not to hide their involvement in illegal weapons shipments, but rather to conceal yet another instance of Putin making Obama pay for incompetence and weakness on the world stage. Embarrassment is a powerful deterrent to disclosure, especially for a leader with more than a hint of narcissism.


Senator Lindsey Graham reported that the American public would finally hear from three survivors of the Benghazi attack who are slated to testify before Congress in a closed hearing. I wouldn't bet that Al-Obeidi will be among them.
 
I assume that that is addressed to me, even though you know, for a fact, that I have you on ignore.


How ignorant is that?
 
I assume that that is addressed to me, even though you know, for a fact, that I have you on ignore.


How ignorant is that?

I've said it before Cap'n Hypocrite, I don't post in response to your blather for YOU. You're too far gone for anything resembling sanity to permeate that ossified brain rattling around in your noggin. My posts are a counterbalance, a dose of reality to demolish your daily "American Thinker" spewnami.

I don't really give two fucks if YOU read what I post or not. I'm just here to be the metaphorical thorn in your side. :cool:

How ignorant is it that the "right" is still trying to find a way to smear the President with a terrorist attack? It smells like the desperation of the "Bush blew up the twin towers" crowd. Especially considering the number of terrorist attacks since 9/11 that went virtually unnoticed by those SO VERY INTERESTED in Benghazi.
 
I can get you a Hemi, if you behave.


Off to see this wizard about some sparkle-bitch or another . . . . :rolleyes:
 
This is beating a dead horse, Lets concentrate on our own country for once, besides that brit that said he was a witness has been proved to be a liar. it came out on CBS yesterday, CBS issued an apology for the mistake on 60 minutes.
 
From this

60 Minutes cared enough to expose the President's lies on Sunday. We understand why lame brains like you don't want to face the facts of the matter

to this

No one said CBS had it right

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How's the scandal going?

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Nobody would look to "60 Minutes" for honest reporting on Benghazi.

When it was known almost instantly to be a coordinated terrorist attack, Rice, Hillary, and Obama continued to claim it was catalyzed by a video.
 

This is like the thread busy body made about the invented Menendez hookers scandals. A right wing sympathy site tried to create a scandal and got completely embarrassed.

Kind of like busy body's life.
 
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