Benghazi attack pre-planned: Libyan President
Yes, in order to bring such heavy firepower one has to plan ahead. I am sure with time, we'll learn more "Interesting" facts about this sad incident.
Shalom!
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Subject: [mukto-mona] Ambassador Susan Rice: Libya Attack Not Premeditated
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Re: [mukto-mona] Ambassador Susan Rice: Libya Attack Not Premeditated
Libyan government seems to agree with Sen. McCain. They have said..
http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/benghazi-attack-pre-planned-libyan-president_800042.html
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I know many of you will not like this comment - but Susan Rice's comments on the issue speak the liberal mindset. Susan Rice's response is the same as the Hillary's stand, both are still blaming the "film" for the death of our Diplomat, when it was clearly an al-Qaeda ambush. If the doctor makes a wrong diagnosis, the ailment will kill the patient. To think that suddenly US is loved in that part of the world, so there is no need for extra security for our diplomat in the eve of 9/11 anniversary, shows the inaptness of our state department leadership.
Jiten Roy
I think Susan Rice's days are numbered!
This contradicts everyone including Sen. McCain, who said : "Who brings rocket-propelled grenades to a demonstration?"
-SD
"U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi was not premeditated, directly contradicting top Libyan officials who say the attack was planned in advance.
"Our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous - not a premeditated - response to what had transpired in Cairo," Rice told me this morning on "This Week."
"In Cairo, as you know, a few hours earlier, there was a violent protest that was undertaken in reaction to this very offensive video that was disseminated," Rice said, referring to protests in Egypt Tuesday over a film that depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud. Protesters in Cairo breached the walls of the U.S. American Embassy, tearing apart an American flag.
"We believe that folks in Benghazi, a small number of people came to the embassy to - or to the consulate, rather, to replicate the sort of challenge that was posed in Cairo," Rice said. "And then as that unfolded, it seems to have been hijacked, let us say, by some individual clusters of extremists who came with heavier weapons… And it then evolved from there."
Ambassador Christopher Stevens, along with three other Americans, were killed in Libya following the assault on the American consulate in Benghazi, on the 11 th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Rice said the FBI is examining the attack, saying their investigation "will tell us with certainty what transpired."
Rice's account directly contradicts that of Libyan President Mohamed Magariaf, who said this weekend that the attack was premeditated by individuals from outside Libya.
"It was planned, definitely, it was planned by foreigners, by people who entered the country a few months ago, and they were planning this criminal act since their arrival," told CBS News.
Rice said there were no Marines present to protect the consulate in Libya, saying the U.S. presence is Libya is "relatively new" since the revolution that overthrew former dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
"There are not Marines in every facility. That depends on the circumstances. That depends on the requirements," Rice said. "Our presence in Tripoli, as in Benghazi, is relatively new, as you will recall. We've been back post-revolution only for a matter of months."
But Rice said there was a "substantial security presence" at the consulate in Benghazi, noting that two of the four Americans killed there were providing security.
"We certainly are aware that Libya is a place where there have been increasingly some violent incidents," Rice said. "The security personnel that the State Department thought were required were in place… It obviously didn't prove sufficient to the - the nature of the attack and sufficient in that - in that moment."
"But the president has been very clear. The protection of American personnel and facilities is and will remain our top priority," Rice added. "That's why we've reinforced our presence in Tripoli and elsewhere."
"All great truths begin as blasphemies." GBS
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