BLUF: The profile of extremist groups in Libya
is, well, LIBYA! Even CBS reports that Ansar al-Sharia, an offshoot of al
Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attack. Based on the long and inglorious
history of islamist, liberation fronts, and other anti-legitimate -government groups
have received training, arms, pay, and a place to hide in Libya, it is no shock
that the entire country crawls with groups of terrorists. Literally, this place
is an open sewer of terrorist scum and villainy.
What else do we need to know about the Islamic
groups in Libya? We know that the nation has not been receiving overtly
authorized funding from the US government. All assets that the US could reach
had been frozen. We know that the administration left those men to die. We know
the administration tried to minimize casualties in the attacker’s ranks by
ordering the US Governmental security officers to lay down their guns. We know
that the February 17th Brigade had the job of providing security at
the US Embassy in Benghazi. We also know that the February 17th
Brigade has a history with al Qaeda. They have even openly flown the al Qaeda
black flag of jihad. We also know that classified information has been
compromised. What many readers may not know is that classified information is
classified to protect the sources. Some of the sources may be electronic while
others may be from people. In any cases, as we saw when Carter revealed that
information to Iran, those sources are removed. Being removed in the Middle
East means that the person providing that information, having done so at grave
personal risk, now watches all the women in his family get raped, tortured, and
murdered. Then, the source watches the men in his family get the same thing. Finally,
after being tortured and raped himself, he is also killed.
Some
of the missing papers from the consulate are said to list names of Libyans who
are working with Americans, putting them potentially at risk from extremist
groups, while some of the other documents are said to relate to oil contracts
(1)
Considering that there was also oil
contracts information enclosed, it might have included projections of how many
refineries are set to close in the US (currently we have 145, and the number is
dropping) and who may have been in consideration to get the refining business. It
may also have had information regarding who was to get agreements to drill in
the US territories. This kind of insider information would be highly valuable
to the right people who want to see the US lose more of our own wealth and
power.
Let’s also consider the fact that insider
attacks are common against the US in the Middle East. Afghanistan, almost daily
attacks by terrorists working inside the security apparatchik
But other indications that the White House’s early
narrative was faulty are also beginning to emerge. One current U.S.
intelligence officer working on the investigation into the incident told The
Daily Beast that the attackers had staked out and monitored the U.S. consulate
in Benghazi before the attack, a move that suggests pre-planning (2).
For further Reading and Reference
Libya Shield Brigade -
About that Libya
Shield Brigade which 1) fought under the black flag of al Qaeda during the February
17 Revolution, and 2) escorted the eight US Marines who arrived from
Tripoli to aid the Benghazi consulate under attack on the night of 9/11/12.
Two Libya Shield Brigade leaders
met with US diplomat(s) on September 9, according to a US
embassy cable drafted by David C. McFarland, signed by Christopher Stevens and
dispatched on September 11. (It was posted online by the House Oversight
Committee.) This cable was first discussed in the Daily Beast on October 8 in a
story recounting the fact that generic militia leaders had threatened to pull
security from US interests in Benghazi, but it contains some interesting
details not previously noted.
Just after
the death of Kaddafi Libya Shield commander Wisam bin Hamid declared that “The
Islamic shariah is a red line, we will not cede one rule of it, and Islam is
the only law-giver and not [merely] the foundation [of the law].” So, by all
means, Obama and Hillary left them in charge of security for our Embassy.
Here is the cable's Item 4 in toto:
Militia commanders discuss Muslim
Brotherhood, Jibril, their political aspirations, the economy, and security:
In a September 9 meeting, local area militia commanders Wissam bin Ahmed
(Commander, Libya Shield 1) and Muhammad al-Gharabi (Commander, Rafa'
al-Sahti Brigade, Libya Shield 2) discussed the very fluid relationships and
blurry lines they say define membership in Benghazi-based brigades under
the February 17, Libya Shield, and SSC umbrellas. They themselves were members
of multiple brigades, they said. They debated -- hotly and without resolution
-- about which brigades supported or opposed specific causes. They claimed to
exercise "control" over Libyan Armed Forces Chief of Staff Yusef Mangoush
who "depends" on them to secure eastern Libya. In times of crisis,
Magoush has no other choice than to turn to their brigades for help, they said,
as he did recently with unrest in Kufra. As part of this arrangement, Mangoush
often provides the brigades direct stocks of weapons and
ammunition, they said.Al-Gharabi and bin-Ahmed support the Libyan Muslim
Brotherhood's Justice and Construction Party backed candidate Minister of
Electricity Awad Al Barasi for Prime Minister and they said that. if
elected, Al Barasi would appoint Fawzi Bukatif, Commander of the February 17
Brigade, as Minister of Defense. Bukatif's appointment would open the MOD and
other security ministries and offices to plum-appointments for his most favored
brigade commanders -- giving February 17 and Libya Shield tacit control of the
armed forces. They criticized the USG for "supporting" National
Forces Alliance (NFA) leader and Prime Mininster Candidate Mahmoud Jibril. If
Jibril wom, they said, they would not continue to guarantee security in
Benghazi, a crtical function they asserted they were currently providing.Growing
problem with security would discourage foreign investment and
led [sic] to persistent stagnation in eastern Libya, but the US could play a
role by "pressuring" American business to invest in Benghazi.
We know from John Rosenthal's
original
story that Libya Shield fought under black flag of al Qaeda. Its leader
Wissam bin Ahmed -- I've seen Libya Shield's commander spelled "bin
Hamid";seems to be the same guy UPDATE: An authoritative source
confirms that Libya Shield commander "bin Hamid" and "bin
Ahmed" are one and the same -- it bears repeating, is a supporter of rule
by sharia.
Rosenthal writes:
Moreover, according to
Arabic-language Islamist websites, already in October 2011 – just days after
the killing of Moammar al-Gadhafi –
Arabic sources report that bin Hamid
commanded the rebel forces that besieged Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte and ultimately
captured and killed him. Per a glowingbiography of bin Hamid
that appeared on the jihadist forum al-Fetn.com, he is a veteran of jihad in
both Iraq and Afghanistan.
The jihadist inclinations of bin
Hamid and his Libya Shield forces are not unknown to the U.S. government.
Indeed, a
recent studyprepared by the research division of the Library of Congress
links the Libya Shield Brigade to al-Qaida and even cites speculation that bin
Hamid may be the leader of the al-Qaida network in Libya.
This man is not only meeting with
American diplomats, he is providing security for them and threatening to
withdraw security at the same time. Ansar al Sharia (Supporters of Sharia) may
have spearheaded the 9/11 assault on the consulate, but bin Hamid's philosophy
earns him at least honorary membership. A sharia supporter, a Muslim
Brotherhood supporter, seemingly a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan -- on the
OTHER side, it must be stressed -- and,according to US government research,
possibly a leader of the AQ network in Libya, bin Hamid is quite a piece of
work.
Why, oh why, is guarding American
interests? Why was he even meeting with American diplomats? What were we doing
in Benghazi? This is the result of the poisonous policy of "Arab
Spring." Uncle Sam joined the jihad, and it exploded is his face.
It should be noted that
news accounts make clear that the second-wave-attack on the secret annex
did not occur until after Libya Shield, escorting the 8 Marines, arrived on the
scene.
Diana West is the author of The
Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down
Western Civilization. Her arttcle archive and
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US Relied on
Muslim Brotherhood for Benghazi Consulate Security
September 21, 2012 By Daniel
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The more
we learn about what happened in Benghazi, the clearer things become.
Two U.S. intelligence officials told
The Daily Beast that the intelligence community is currently analyzing an
intercept between a Libyan politician whose sympathies are with al Qaeda and
the Libyan militia known as the February 17 Brigade—which had been charged with
providing local security to the consulate. In the intercept, the Libyan
politician apparently asks an officer in the brigade to have his men stand down
for a pending attack—another piece of evidence implying the violence was
planned in advance.
The Martyrs
of the Feb. 17 Revolution Brigade is Islamistand linked with the
Muslim Brotherhood. It was repeatedly accused
of engaging in atrocities during and after the Libyan Civil War.
Many more-secular politicians in Libya
are suspicious of Mr. Bukatef and his brigade because of their own Islamist
reputation. He has been a member of Libya’s branch of the Muslim Brotherhood,
and one of his group’s commanders reporting to him is Ismail al-Salabi, who
leads a group of Islamist fighters and is the brother of Libya’s most prominent
Islamist thinker, Ali al-Salabi.
The State Department puts its faith
in the Islamists… and the Islamists repaid
them the way they always do.
US security officers and the Libyan
authorities did not call for help from any formal military or police force —
there is none to speak of — but turned to the leader of another autonomous
militia with its own Islamist ties.
‘‘We had to coordinate everything,’’
said that militia leader, Fawzi Bukatef, recalling a phone call about the
attack that he received from the mission’s security team.
I’m sure there was a whole lot of
coordinating going on.
