Libya Attack Was Planned, Protest Was Diversion

[MNBrewer]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/09/12/libya_embassy_attack_was_planned_u_s_sources_tell_cnn_.html

"The sources could not say whether the attackers instigated the protest or merely took advantage of it, and they say they don't believe [Ambassador Chris] Stevens was specifically targeted."

[Curtland1015]

1. I'm sure in a way, the IDEA of attacking the embassy has been around...

...since the embassy was built.

A riot happened, and they used it. That makes sense certainly.

I'm just worried people will extrapolate this out in to something crazy like our government planned it or Karl Rove did it.

[SlimJimmy]

4. The *embassy* was not built. It was a leased building. The actual embassy is being built

at another site.

[Junkdrawer]

2. DemocracyNow's report from the field:

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NIZAR SARIELDIN: Well, the security void is unclear, and no one can really accuse who did this or moved these groups to make this protest. Yesterday, we heard about this attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. We went over there and found this building burned. And like, beard people were outside, looks like radical groups with weapons, and they were like planning to attack the consulate. We didn’t know for what reason, until we found out that a channel, an Egyptian channel, religious Egyptian channel, were accusing Americans that we need to move to protect our Prophet Muhammad and stop this video that had been posted two months ago. And you just—we don’t know why this thing’s been provoked right now. And nobody knows about this movie. I don’t know why and who and for whose interest is to attack the embassy in Benghazi.

NERMEEN SHAIKH: Nizar Sarieldin, do you know if there were any links between the attacks on the embassy in Cairo, whether it was a coordinated attack, the attack in Cairo and then the one in Benghazi on the U.S. consulate?

NIZAR SARIELDIN: Well, these groups are moved by clerics outside the country. They have no control of them. They take their orders from outside the country, so they are Salafis with the radical Salafist group, and they are moved by certain clerics. And they are on channels, on satellite, so everybody watched them. When they got this—get this order, they go out and do what they asked for. So, what they moved them, actually, a channel, a program and a channel called Al Nas, People, and it’s a religious Sunni TV.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=post&forum=1002&pid=1327982

[nolabear]

3. This is very, very inmportant. Things are not always as they seem.

We as DUers and citizens react without really knowing what is going on. That's troublesome sometimes but it's what a crowd of any kind, virtual or temporal, does. What is NOT all right is when leaders or prospective leaders of nations do the same thing. This is why you see President Obama and SoS Clinton simply telling the public what they can at the moment, not embellishing, and going back to work. Mitt Romney, in his attempt to foment disinformation and rage, is making the kinds of specualtive statements that we have the right and comfortable ability to make, for better or for worse, but he does not.

Tha man is dangerous.