3 Al-Qaeda Terrorists Wanted For American Murders At Benghazi

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AUTHOR Bookworm

May 3, 2013 8:55am PST

On September 11, 2012, our consulate in Benghazi, Libya came under attack. At the end of the day, there were four dead: Ambassador Christopher Stevens; Sean Smith, a Foreign Service Information Management officer; Glen Doherty, a former SEAL and CIA agent; and Tyrone S. Woods, also a former SEAL and CIA agent. The last two died the SEAL way: fighting until the last drop of blood in their bodies had drained away, an act of extraordinary courage that undoubtedly saved others at the consulate from dying. Back in Washington, the administration watched, but did nothing.
In the immediate aftermath of this attack, President Obama said the word “terror” only once. Speaking on the White House lawn immediately after news of the attack had broken, he said “no acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation….” Given the entire tone of the speech, this seemed to be a generic reference to any attacks against the United States, rather than a specific reference to al Qaeda or other known terrorist organizations. In any event, after that, the administration struck the word “terror” from its vocabulary.

By the time the dust settled, the administration had decided upon the official story: Benghazi was a movie review run amok. Apparently some random street guys in Benghazi were so outraged by a short, unknown, unreleased video about Mohamed, made by an unknown filmmaker (who even now languishes in an American prison), that they couldn’t help themselves – they just had to attack the consulate and kill people.
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, relying “on the information provided to me by the intelligence community,” made the round of news shows assuring all and sundry that the attacks flowed directly from protests about this obscure anti-Muslim video. It was all so simple:

There’s no question, as we’ve seen in the past with things like ‘The Satanic Verses,’ with the cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad, there have been such things that have sparked outrage and anger and this has been the proximate cause of what we’ve seen.

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What happened in Benghazi was in fact initially a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in Cairo, almost a copycat of the demonstrations against our facility in Cairo, prompted by the video.

People who were not in denial and who were not trying to protect an administration that had assured Americans that al Qaeda-style terrorism was a thing of the past suspected differently. This state of affairs (spin on one side, doubt on the other) might have continued indefinitely were it not for two things: (a) Congressional Republicans began to push hard for hearings, and announced that the long missing survivors would finally appear in public to testify; and (b) Fox News’ aired an interview with a whistle-blower who revealed that American intelligence has long known who did the attack and could have taken the attackers into custody or otherwise acted against them.

With these two spurs, the floodgates have opened. First, the FBI finally released photos of three suspects. Second, CNN now reports that those who doubted the administration and media narrative about a film review run riot have been proven right. According to an unnamed senior U.S. law enforcement official, “three or four members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula [AQAP]” were a part of the attack.
The men’s appearance there was no coincidence. Another source told CNN that Western intelligence believes the men were in Benghazi specifically to carry out the attack. CNN sums up what this means:

If the AQAP members were dispatched to Benghazi, it would be further evidence of a new level of co-operation among jihadist groups throughout the Middle East and North Africa, counterterrorism analysts say.

Nor is AQAP a little breakaway fringe group that was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. Again, according to CNN,

AQAP is regarded as one of the most active and dangerous of al Qaeda franchises. It has tried to launch several attacks on the U.S. homeland. On Christmas Day 2009, a Nigerian recruited by the group attempted to blow up a plane flying into Detroit but failed because his device malfunctioned. The following October the group attempted to blow up planes heading to the United States with printer bombs disguised as air cargo. The packages were intercepted after a tip from Saudi intelligence. And in April 2012, a British informant working for Saudi counterterrorism thwarted a new plot by the group to bomb a U.S-bound airliner.

In all likelihood, the attack was planned well in advance:

On September 10 — at least 18 hours before the attack — al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a video timed for the anniversary of 9/11, called for attacks on Americans in Libya to avenge the death of al-Libi.

If you ever get the feeling your government is lying to you, you’re probably right. The Obama administration has lied from the very first minute about the Benghazi attack. It looks, though, as if the day of reckoning has finally arrived.