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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
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)pdx_prog
(3,393 posts)announces proudly to the world that they carried out an attack.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)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
Signofthetime
(6 posts)This is HUGE!!! news Why are you guys not Bumping this???
This sets up the debate on Monday
former-republican
(2,163 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Darrell Issa must be in mourning. So sad that their wish for an Al Qaeda attack didn't come true.
JuveDem
(69 posts)cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)The liberal media and the intelligence community are lying to get President Obama reelected. And so many on the right will believe that lie.