Thu Oct 25, 2012 at 09:08 AM PDT.
Benghazi Blowback Confirmed: US Intel Confirms Attack Linked to Pipeline of Libyan Jihadis to Syria
Since the attack in Benghazi, tensions have grown between U.S. intelligence and elements of the Syrian opposition, as have concerns expressed that foreign fighters, many of them from Libya, may pose a long-term danger to the United States.
Concerns are rising due to the presence in Syria of increasing numbers of Libyans and Jihadis armed with heavy weapons, including shoulder-launched SAM missiles, known as MANPADs, looted from the vast arms stockpiles of the deposed Gadhaffi regime.
Shipments of these have been observed being moved into Syria in recent months, and recently seen being distributed elsewhere across the region.
During the seven weeks since the September attack that took the life of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya,
it has become evident that Eastern Libya has become a base for al Qaeda militants who have seized a growing military and political role in western-supported regime change operations in Syria.
In addition, concerns are rising that Libyan MANPADs are a prize that al-Qaeda seeks, and the US appears to have lost control over thousands of these missiles.
Of the estimated 20,000 once held by the Libyan armed forces, only about a quarter have been accounted for or destroyed, despite efforts of the U.S. and several countries to buy back or seize them after the revolution...............
Another backstory that has emerged is that Gadhaffi’s ouster late last year was the key role of the late Ambassador Chris Stevens took in personally leading the regime change operation in Libya.
Details emerged how the
Ambassador arrived aboard a freighter in April last year, and how he promptly set up shop in Benghazi coordinating opposition Libyan groups.
Since his death, we have also begun to hear about the reports he wrote in 2008 detailing the central role of Libyan militants from Benghazi in al-Qaeda operations against US forces in Iraq, particularly Jihadists from Eastern Libya who made up a disproportionately large percentage of suicide bombers in Iraq.
Ironically, members of these same groups now appear to have been involved in his killing.
CNN confirmed yesterday that US intelligence has for the first time publicly acknowledged that some of his assailants belonged to the same al-Qaeda groups.
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/...
CNN confirmed yesterday that US intelligence has for the first time publicly acknowledged that some of the attackers belonged to the same al-Qaeda groups that the US fought in Iraq, now a growing part of the Syrian opposition
American intelligence operatives also assisted State Department contractors and Libyan officials in tracking shoulder-fired missiles taken from the former arsenals of the former Libyan Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/...inked-to-Pipeline-of-Libyan-Jihadis-to-Syria#
It goes on and on...this from the Daily Kos - not some goofy RW rag site.
At MINIMUM, Hillary was complaint on cooperating with the CIA - I'd prolly say she was complicit in not providing enough security -
again being compliant with the CIA .
Libya is Obama's ultimate responsibility - of course the LAP DOG press we have will not tell you so.
BAC and myself went thru this on another board, during the Libyan war - we're both fairly convinced the US's deposing of Qaddafi ensured that Libya became a
"terrorist state"
Just look at how Abu Anas al-Llibi was living openly in Tripoli - when we seized him about a month agao he was coming home from morning prayers.
How can a wanted terrorist live openly in Libya? Because the gov't -especially the NTC that toppled Qaddafi was an AQ based affiliation..