U.S. Officials Knew Libya Attacks Were Work of Al Qaeda Affiliates within 24 hours

[Pepper]

The Daily Beast/ Fox News Fox Newsroom:

 

U.S. Officials Knew Libya Attacks Were Work of Al Qaeda Affiliates

 

by Eli Lake Sep 26, 2012 4:45 AM EDT

 

Sources say intelligence agencies knew within a day that al Qaeda affiliates were behind the attacks in Benghazi, Libya—they even knew where one of the attackers lived.

 

Eli

Lake reports.

 

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Within 24 hours of the 9-11 anniversary attack on the United States consulate in Benghazi, U.S. intelligence agencies had strong indications al Qaeda–affiliated operatives were behind the attack, and had even pinpointed the location of one of those attackers. Three separate U.S. intelligence officials who spoke to The Daily Beast said the early information was enough to show that the attack was planned and the work of al Qaeda affiliates operating in Eastern Libya.

 

 

Eli Lake is the senior national-security correspondent for Newsweek and the Daily Beast. He previously covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times. Lake has also been a contributing editor at The New Republic since 2008 and covered diplomacy, intelligence, and the military for the late New York Sun. He has lived in Cairo and traveled to war zones in Sudan, Iraq, and Gaza. He is one of the few journalists to report from all three members of President Bush’s axis of evil: Iraq, Iran, and North Korea.

[Pepper]

Update on FBI investigation that Obama promised would take place to take those guilty of the death of four Americans

 

Brett Baier on Fox Newsroom this morning at 10 am: "Within the past 16 days there has not been a single FBI agent within the city limits of Bengazi"

 

(yet) despite promises from Obama that they would be there to investigate.

 

 

Network Morning Shows Completely Skip Report That Obama WH Knew Libya Attack Was Terrorism

 

(This is surprising )^sarcasm

[Pepper]

Obama: [deaths of Ambassador Stephens and the three other Americans] are just bumps in the road

 

48 seconds in

 

 

 

One of @pookie18's Toons here

[Draggingtree]

[Pepper]

@Draggingtree

That's one stupid mofo

[Draggingtree]

@Draggingtree

That's one stupid mofo

so you saw what I saw in him

[Pepper]

@Draggingtree

 

He describes himself as middle class, more like no class. He could get a shave and a hair cut and he'd still be a dung beetle.