LIBYAN ATTACKS SAID TO BE 2-PART MILITANT ASSAULT

[DonViejo]

Source: AP

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — The attack that killed four Americans in Libya, including the U.S. ambassador, was an organized two-part operation by heavily armed militants that included a precisely timed raid on a supposedly secret safe house just as Libyan and U.S. security forces were arriving to rescue evacuated consulate staff, a senior Libyan security official said on Thursday.

Wanis el-Sharef, eastern Libya's deputy interior minister, said the attacks Tuesday night were suspected to have been timed to mark the 9/11 anniversary and that the militants used civilians protesting an anti-Islam film as cover for their action. Infiltrators within the security forces may have tipped off militants to the safe house location, he said.

He said an unspecified number of militants suspected of taking part in the attack have been arrested and that others were being closely monitored by police to see whether they are linked to a group. He refused to elaborate.

Ambassador Chris Stevens and another American were killed in the consulate during the initial violence, as plainclothes Libyan security were evacuating the consulate's staff to the safe house about a mile away, el-Sharef said. The second assault took place several hours later and targeted the safe house — a villa inside the grounds of the city's equestrian club — killing two Americans and wounding a number of Libyans and Americans.

El-Sharef, who was running the Interior Ministry's operations room commanding security forces in the city, gave The Associated Press an account of the night's chaotic events.

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[Jessy169]

1. That the attackers knew the safe house's location suggests a "spy" inside the security forces

An extremely well armed, organized and motivated militia shows up and launches two coordinated attacks, including on a supposedly secret safe house. Looks pre-meditated to me, definitely not spontaneous. Maybe they were planning to attack the consulate and the safe house anyway and were on high alert, then the video came out and they suddenly found themselves with a great excuse to do what they were going to do anyway. That possibility sounds too coincidental to me. I hope we learn the truth.

[patrice]

2. Possible infiltrators in the embassy security force . . .

[rayofreason]

3. Well planned...

...as I suspected. Ordinary demonstrators, even in Libya, don't carry RPGs around.

And why the hell was there no security? No Marines? In Libya of all places? With armed militias everywhere? Amazing.

And the administration didn't put our people on heightened alert on 9/11, even after they had just set a drone up the stove pipe of the AQ #2? Serious incompetence at work here.

[triplepoint]

4. Looks Like LIHOP in Libya

...just like 9/11 was LIHOP...Though I do believe it was also MIHOP. The spy (or spies) within the Libyan security detail at our embassy was hopefully captured alive and is singing like a canary...though I doubt it.

Definitions Note:

LIHOP: Let it Happen
MIHOP: Made It Happen

[bunnies]

6. Whom, exactly, are you accusing here?

[David__77]

5. Eh this was how the "Libyan Revolution" started. Demonstrators as a human shield.

The minority, the Islamist cadre used the mass mobilization as cover to conduct bombings, lootings, murders. Then when the state forces attack, it's an attack against "unarmed demonstrators." This is an old tactic, predating the Islamist expression.