Was the Benghazi attack planned/carried out by the Muslim Brotherhood?

[blobfish]

This might have already been discussed here, but I haven't seen it.

Do you think it's possible that the Muslim Brotherhood originally meant to kidnap Ambassador Stevens, perhaps to use as a bargaining chip for the release of the Blind Sheik? Maybe they were forced to kill Stephens when the ex-Navy Seals began engaging. Apparently, an early Arabic-language news program indicated that Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was involved in some way.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

beats me...

 

[hobbit.]

it could be possible. but then again..

 

[blobfish]

The chickens are coming home to roost. This may turn out to be the biggest coverup in nearly forty years.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Bob Woodward is starting to look like an old lady. Maybe he can make some deep throat magic happen all on his own and get to the bottom of it.

 

[blobfish]

Bob Woodward is starting to look like an old lady. Maybe he can make some deep throat magic happen all on his own and get to the bottom of it.

Possibly. I think we might see a whistleblower eventually.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Possibly. I think we might see a whistleblower eventually.

Future President Hillary is trying to get out from under it fast-like.

 

[blobfish]

Future President Hillary is trying to get out from under it fast-like.

She's going to resign before long, I think. She needs to distance herself in advance of her 2016 bid for office.

 

[KingOrfeo]

This might have already been discussed here, but I haven't seen it.

It has been on Al-Jazeera.

And that, of course, raises the question of who did it? The initial reports of the violence in Benghazi suggested that those responsible were members of "Ansar al-Sharia", one of the many extremist Salafi groups that have emerged in Eastern Libya since the revolution, as part of an older tradition of extremism dating back to the 1990s. It has been accused, most recently by Mahmoud Jibril, the leader of Libya’s major political coalition, of being responsible for several recent assassinations in Benghazi.

Yet, the deputy Libyan interior minister also claimed that the attack had been carried out by pro-Gaddafi elements. The claim is not as surprising as it may sound, for there have been a series of attacks and assassinations by such groups in Tripoli in recent weeks, often masquerading as Islamist incidents. And, in any case, only a few days ago, Abdullah Senussi, Colonel Gaddafi’s former security head, was extradited, surprisingly, to Libya, a betrayal they might well want to avenge.

What is clear is that, whoever did attack the consulate came well-prepared, with rocket-propelled grenades and sufficient small arms to outfight and outgun the consulate's guards, both Libyans and Americans. Indeed two American marines were amongst the dead, together with the ambassador and a consulate information officer. Nor were the numbers involved in the actual attack so large; estimates range between 20 and 50 men who were quite separate from other, peaceful protesters who were certainly there because of their anger about the offending film.

Nor, indeed, is this the first time that such an incident has provoked such demonstrations. On February 17, 2006, 14 people were killed by Libyan security forces outside the Italian consulate after an Italian member-of-parliament had provocatively worn, on a TV channel watched in Libya, a tee-shirt bearing one of the 2005 Danish cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, which had caused a storm of protest throughout the Middle East.

The author appears to be trying to cover all bases, so I would infer that nobody (but you) is theorizing it was an MB job.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Possibly. I think we might see a whistleblower eventually.

"Blow my whistle, Deep Throat!"

 

[blobfish]

It has been on Al-Jazeera.



The author appears to be trying to cover all bases, so I would infer that nobody (but you) is theorizing it was an MB job.

Maybe not MB, but I definitely think that the Blind Sheik was somehow involved in all of this.