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JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
Fri Oct 19, 2012, 09:57 PM Oct 2012

Libya Attack Investigation: No Evidence of Planning or Al Qaeda Involvement

WASHINGTON — The assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi last month appears to have been an opportunistic attack rather than a long-planned operation, and intelligence agencies have found no evidence that it was ordered by Al Qaeda, according to U.S. officials and witnesses interviewed in Libya.

The circumstances of the Sept. 11 attack have become a matter of heated political debate, with President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney clashing in their debate Tuesday about when Obama termed the assault an act of terrorism. But the emerging picture painted by intelligence officials and witnesses differs from the assertions of both sides.

Republicans have zeroed in on possible Al Qaeda ties to the Sept. 11 attack that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, and have criticized the Obama administration for not saying early on that it was an act of terrorism. But after five weeks of investigation, U.S. intelligence agencies say they have found no evidence of Al Qaeda participation.

The attack was “carried out following a minimum amount of planning,” said a U.S. intelligence official, who, like others, spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a matter still under investigation. “The attackers exhibited a high degree of disorganization. Some joined the attack in progress, some did not have weapons and others just seemed interested in looting.”

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Looks like the RW will have to find a new fake outrage:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-libya-attack-20121020,0,95514.story

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Libya Attack Investigation: No Evidence of Planning or Al Qaeda Involvement (Original Post) JaneyVee Oct 2012 OP
Well that's an extraordinary twist. cthulu2016 Oct 2012 #1
Usually, the smoke hasn't completely cleared before Al Qaeda pdx_prog Oct 2012 #2
K&R A-Schwarzenegger Oct 2012 #3
Dear Mr Romney, CoffeeCat Oct 2012 #4
+100. nm nc4bo Oct 2012 #5
WOW Signofthetime Oct 2012 #6
Wasn't Libya's government that first said there was ties to Al Qaeda in the attack? former-republican Oct 2012 #7
So tragic for Republicans, who desperately wanted it to be another Al Qaeda attack aint_no_life_nowhere Oct 2012 #8
bump....this is big JuveDem Oct 2012 #9
. cthulu2016 Oct 2012 #10
Y'all know how the right is going to spin this news justiceischeap Oct 2012 #11
That's the likely result. n/t ronnie624 Oct 2012 #12

pdx_prog

(3,393 posts)
2. Usually, the smoke hasn't completely cleared before Al Qaeda
Fri Oct 19, 2012, 10:02 PM
Oct 2012

announces proudly to the world that they carried out an attack.

CoffeeCat

(24,411 posts)
4. Dear Mr Romney,
Fri Oct 19, 2012, 10:08 PM
Oct 2012

Dear Mr Romney--Please find the nearest paper shredder and insert your hand into it. Then place your hand in a vat of lemon juice. Because that is what Monday night's debate is going to feel like. All ninety minutes of torture, showcasing President Obama's foreign policy successes, while the commander in chief blows your conspiracies and rush to judgements into the next galaxy and makes you look like an impulsive clown from the foreign-policy land of FAIL!

It's going to hurt. It's going to be bad. I'd being a first aid kit, a defibrillator and a morphine drip.

Xoxoxo,
Concerned Citizen

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
8. So tragic for Republicans, who desperately wanted it to be another Al Qaeda attack
Sat Oct 20, 2012, 12:15 AM
Oct 2012

Darrell Issa must be in mourning. So sad that their wish for an Al Qaeda attack didn't come true.

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
11. Y'all know how the right is going to spin this news
Sat Oct 20, 2012, 11:38 AM
Oct 2012

The liberal media and the intelligence community are lying to get President Obama reelected. And so many on the right will believe that lie.

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