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Obama official: Benghazi was a terrorist attack
The Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was in fact “a terrorist attack” and the U.S. government has indications that members of al Qaeda were directly involved, a top Obama administration official said Wednesday morning.
“I would say yes, they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy,” Matt Olsen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said Wednesday at a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, in response to questioning from Chairman Joe Lieberman (I-CT) about the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
As for who was responsible, Olsen said it appears there were attackers from a number of different militant groups that operate in and around Benghazi, and said there are already signs of al Qaeda involvement.
“We are looking at indications that individuals involved in the attack may have had connections to al Qaeda or al Qaeda’s affiliates; in particular, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb,” he said.
The U.S. government just isn’t sure yet whether the terrorist attack was pre-planned or whether it was an example of terrorists taking advantage of protests against an anti-Islam film, Olsen said.
“It appears that individuals who were certainly well-armed seized on the opportunity presented as the events unfolded that evening and into the morning hours of September 12th. We do know that a number of militants in the area, as I mentioned, are well-armed and maintain those arms. What we don’t have at this point is specific intelligence that there was a significant advanced planning or coordination for this attack,” he said.
F.D.R. in Hell
September 20th, 2012
“And those Egyptians carried the Ambassador to the hospital…”
There’s more spin in your boy’s White House than a tornado in Kansas.
All along I thought my Cabinet was filled with skillful liars. I BOW TO THE MASTERS.
Stirrin the B.S.
September 20th, 2012
There is a clear pattern of deception and ignorance with this administration when it comes to inserting themselves in a controversy or trying to control the narrative of one.
The Cambridge police acted stupidly. If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin. These attacks were incited by a “disrespectful” film.
If I were Mitt Romney, I would be shouting from the tallest buildingfor all to hear, that President Obama has a habit of shooting first and aiming later. This latest example is tailor made for a campaign ad.
hanoverfist
September 20th, 2012
“But Romney put his dog on the roof of his car!”
-The usual suspects
dba_ vagabond_ trader
September 20th, 2012
@Stirrin the B.S.:
The old baffle ‘em with bullsheet tactic.
Dr. Tar
September 20th, 2012
Always the last to learn would be quaint if it was about the First Lady and the President getting his weenie pulled in the Oval Office by an intern.
It is no way for the world to view the Administration of the Leader of the Free World (and Formerly the Most Powerful Man on Earth).
And yet what other conclusion can you come to except these bumbling, mumbling, stumbling idiots trusted with this nation are criminally incompetent and way behind the curve on world events.
Think Al Quada, Iran’s Mullahs, and other terrorist and foreign potentates are going to act cautiously now, after this White House collective Cluster Fuck?
Obama and the Democratic Administration are consistently undermining and weakening this nation. Are they doing it on purpose or not – Who Cares? They are doing it and endangering us all.
Billy Fuster
September 20th, 2012
Uh, ya’ think?
Stirrin the B.S.
September 20th, 2012
Hmmmm, was Libya picked by al qaeda as the site for this attack because Chris Stevens was gay?
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/did-obama-send-a-gay-ambassador-to-libya/
MADJACK
September 20th, 2012
Watch these two videos, sums up America’s future with Obowme at the helm. Bill Whittle barely contains his anger at Obowme.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYyug3Ac7HU
Ya sure
September 20th, 2012
@Stirrin, that’s all the more reason to reveal the Community Organizer in Chief for the fudgepacker that he is
muddjuice (Absolutist)
September 20th, 2012
“What we don’t have at this point is specific intelligence that there was a significant advanced planning or coordination for this attack,”
So? Who cares? It was a terrorist attack on America. Who cares if it was pre-planned?
Let me make sure I understand this: if the attack on the Twin Towers wasn’t pre-planned, we would acknowledge it was a terrorist attack but do NOTHING?
Wait. Not nothing. We would apologize.
I hate these people and their idiocy. They’re clueless or, worse, complicit. Either way, they have to go…..
norman einstein
September 20th, 2012
Oh, FFS! Thank you, Captain Obvious!
As John McStain said: “Most people don’t bring rocket-propelled grenades and heavy weapons to a “demonstration.”
Hotlanta Mike
September 20th, 2012
So why lie that an obscure video was a source of muslim outrage?
Because Obama and Hillary told us the War on Terror was over and by stopping torture and closing GITMO and by supporting the Arab Spring the islamic world would have newfound respect for us…oooooppss.