Counter-Terror Official Says Libya Was Terrorism

[XngZeRubicon]

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/2...ot-pre-planned


A senior counterterrorism official in the Administration testified to the Senate today that "last week’s attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was definitely a terrorist attack." Matt Olsen also testified that the "current intelligence U.S. investigators have gathered does not suggest the attack was pre-planned to coincide with the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States."

Except the press is just getting additional information within the past 30 minutes from that same testimony that indicates one of the attackers may have been a member of Al Qaeda, an AQ member who had once been held at Gitmo, and an AQ member who had ties to the financiers of the attack on the US on 9/11//2011.

So I'm trying to figure out how this counterterrorism official can think last week's attack had nothing to do with the anniversary of 9/11?

Correction about source of info about potential AQ individual: Fox says that info is coming from "intel sources." Just not sure what those sources are yet.

[tonyz]

Ahhh, a "man caused disaster" - any truth to the rumor that Suzanne Barr, chief of staff for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was part of the investigation team recently sent to Libya and was overheard to ask..."is that an RPG in your pocket or are you happy to see me?"

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz26xdmoPX2

[MtnGoat]

Because this administration has been so lost that MSM well never report on it. Between infighting, people hired just because their friends or went to school, etc. Their all lost..wait I think they are really stuck on a island.

Why do you think MSM it's pushing this Mitt fund raiser video. It's already been posted.. But it's a fact.

[XngZeRubicon]

I finally got the name of this alleged AQ participant in the attack (according to CNN and Fox) - Sufman Ben Qumu.

[tonyz]

Agree. This administration has trouble finding its own ass with both hands. The fact that this occurred on 9/11 was merely coincidence. Riiiight.

Roll on November.

[MR2]

Originally Posted by MtnGoat

Their all lost..wait I think they are really stuck on a island.

Well I really hope that one actually does flip over...

[XngZeRubicon]

Originally Posted by tonyz

Agree. This administration has trouble finding its own ass with both hands. The fact that this occurred on 9/11 was merely coincidence. Riiiight.

Roll on November.

I can't believe anyone - even liberals - in the Administration, in the MSM, or even just private citizens can say with a straight face that it doesn't look like it had anything to do with 9/11. Dig a little and you'll find an agenda I guess. Surely they're not that stupid. But then again.....

[tonyz]

Originally Posted by XngZeRubicon

I finally got the name of this alleged AQ participant in the attack (according to CNN and Fox) - Sufman Ben Qumu.

Brits have allegedly published DOD file on this guy.

UK Telegraph
April 27, 2011

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wiki...-000557DP.html

[XngZeRubicon]

I remember the outcry after 9/11/2011 from the public and the press about "how could the intel community have not seen that coming?"

All anyone has to do is take a look on the internet, look at all the social media, look at the conventional press outlets -- and just look at the number of people failing to give the scenario any credence that it was a planned attack in Libya. Not that we know for sure yet, but the number of people who won't even consider it. And this is after the benefit of knowing about September 2011 and the subsequent terrorist attempts.

I guess some don't have an intuitive bone in their bodies. Speaking of intuition, Anderson Cooper says a reliable intel source has told him that Ambassador Stevens reportedly said he felt he was on an AQ hit list and the threat was steadily increasing.

If true, a lot is still not adding up.

[tonyz]

It has to be some hateful YouTube vid that caused the murders in Libya - at least that was the dominant narrative spewing from the administration and a bunch of supporters. For the administration to suggest otherwise - would support a measure of culpability on this administration's part. These folks don't seem to accept culpability very well.

What a crock. I'm reminded of the phrase..."a willing suspension of disbelief."

[XngZeRubicon]

Tonyz, I think your sig line is apropo right about now....

[Old Dog New Trick]

Hey OP what happened on 9/11/2011?

I'm sure must have wanted to say 9/11/2001.

[Dozer523]

Originally Posted by Old Dog New Trick

I'm sure must have wanted to say 9/11/2001.

AND anyone who'd read a Tom Clancy novel shoulda seen that one comin' too.

[Stargazer]

http://www.politico.com/politico44/2...74.html?hp=l21

The Obama administration is airing ads on Pakistani television condemning the anti-Islamic film "The Innocence of Muslims," a State Department spokeswoman confirmed Thursday.

"As you know, after the video came out, there was concern in lots of bodies politic, including Pakistan, as to whether this represented the views of the U.S. Government. So in order to ensure we reached the largest number of Pakistanis – some 90 million, as I understand it in this case with these spots – it was the judgment that this was the best way to do it," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters.

I don't agree with these type of measures, well intended or not. I don't see evidence where it has been effective. Perhaps individuals here, know otherwise.

[XngZeRubicon]

Originally Posted by Old Dog New Trick

Hey OP what happened on 9/11/2011?

I'm sure must have wanted to say 9/11/2001.

Good catch, ODNT. Thanks for correcting it.