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Esam Omran Al-fetori / Reuters
An interior view of the U.S. consulate, which was attacked and set on fire by gunmen in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 12.
Intelligence indicates that militant or terrorist groups were attempting to combine forces in the month preceding the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday.
"There was a thread of intelligence that groups in that environment in eastern Libya were seeking to coalesce," Gen. Martin Dempsey said in a briefing to Pentagon reporters, adding that there was nothing specific in the intelligence that indicated an attack on the U.S. consulate was imminent.
Dempsey said the intelligence was widely shared with all U.S. departments and agencies.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta added that the assault "clearly was a terrorist attack." Panetta said the investigation to pinpoint which terrorist groups were involved is ongoing.
Panetta and Dempsey also reported that the joint U.S./Afghan patrols that had been suspended following a spike in "insider attacks" on American forces have been resumed, and that most U.S. and NATO forces have returned to normal operations alongside Afghan soldiers and police.
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Panetta said the "insider attacks" were intended to undermine the trust built between U.S. and Afghan security forces.
Gen. Dempsey added: "The Taliban tried to split us apart and it won't work."
In an NBC News exclusive, Libya's President Mohammed Magarief tells NBC's Ann Curry that no mastermind has been arrested in the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi but that he believes it was a pre-planned act of terrorism involving elements of al-Qaida.
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'...coalesce?'...
Hard to believe the ghostly spirits of the Rothschilds are still up to mischief.
Check out where George W. Bush's father and grandfather were born, and what their religion and family name was before they changed both.
Too much trouble? That's why we're in the mess we're in!
Rothschilds ? Whe did our government allow our ambassador to die because of now security? You also bring up Bush. I did not know he was in charge of security this month, you must have some great inside information the rest of the world does not have. The horrible death of Stevens and the three other men rest on the shoulders of the current administration.
Knowalittle.....Remember if all else fails you blame Bush
Domingo de la Torre
checked it out here it be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush
Keep on Keep'n on ... blame the Bush's for all the wrongs ... don't ever let up ... don't ever accept responsibility for 6 years of democratic failure. (remember the dems had control of both houses for the last two years of Bush's admin, there in lays "why we're in the mess we're in!"
The maker of that ridiculous piece of trash that supposedly sparked these murderous riots (a blatant lie) has been arrested for a probation violation.
As this sorry saga continues to unfold, it raises more questions than it does to provide answers.
The thing you are over looking is liberals are for free speech unless you are talking about Muslims. Free speech does not apply to anyone insulting Islam.
Second.......it is Bush's fault. LOL
No, Foodchain, Libs are the most tolorant people around. They have the most kind and inoffensive things to say about Bush, The Tea Party, Christians, and of course any people that don't agree with them. Just ask them and they will tell you that conservatives are close minded....
BTW do we hear anyone in the Media at large correcting themselves about this TERRORIST ATTACK being preplanned and had very little if anything to do with that silly video? The video was just an excuse for this failed administration to blame elsewhere - exactly what they do best - blame someone else....
Even this article doesn't say that the Obama Administration had it wrong and lied to us - they only agree to tell us the truth because they can't contain it anymore.
It is call official prevaricating. US is bringing home its Tripoli Embassy staff- NATO/Rasmussen is in talks with Libyan g'ment for bringing all terrorists/militias out of circulation. Read Focus.de (German news coalator including intel).The latest that a month before 9/11- wrong again- tell at last to the American people that on June 12,2012 there were terror related attacks on American consulates both in Cairo (Jama al-Islamaya-Mohamed al-Zawahiri and Blind Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman's son -AQ) Benghazi =Omar Abdul Rahman Brigades with AQIM -Libya's dep. Amb. to London-Jibril. The attacks on June 12,2012 happened 3 months before and most certainly Obama adm. trying to sell the YouTube trailer video (14 min)-surreptiously emerging on Egyptian State TV to be run days prior to 9/11 attacks on US Emb/Cairto and US Consulate/Benghazi with the assassinations of Amb.J.C.Stevens and 3 other Americans. Prevarication and cover-up by Obama adm. is reprehensible,illegal and immoral.
Where are all the major news reporting agencies on this travesty? 2012 Election vs. Truth. Not happening in the Land of the Free.
Most of the major news agencies will not say anything until they have too and will continue white-washing this until they are forced to cry uncle.
Remember the FCC (the head of was appointed by this administration) has a lot of control over the media moguls.
Whatever happened to the bill the FCC was sitting on that would allow the media moguls to own more media outlets (newspapers, radio stations, television stations, etc.) than now allowed by law?
We need a new slogan. Land of the Free? Fighting for our freedom? We are already free. There are no other countries taking over the US trying to force us to be better people. Well we do have more than enough muslims coming here. They will be our down-fall, Trogan horse
Where is the reporting on this travesty from the major news agencies? 2012 Election vs. Truth.
It seems as if we helped kill the guy that kept these so-called "terrorists" in check. Now what?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/human-rights-watch/us-torture-and-rendition_b_1861389.html
These countries have a strict dictator for a good reason. Savages can not be allowed to run wild. When a country still has tribes they still have a couple hundred years of evolution to go. Does anybody remember reading about the crusades and the evil inflicted on people in the name of Christianity. It was not all of them but enough to terrorize the people, just like today's Muslim extremest.
Christianity wiped out all the Indians. That was indeed a horrible thing. But it isn't taking place now in America. This is 2012 not 1012. These animals need to get a grip. They don't have a problem following the old ways and enforce their bu!!@!$%# on others like it was 1000 years ago. So why don't they put down their i-phones?They are the new evil.
It happened on 9/11 and anybody with half a brain knew right away it was a terrorist attack. This joke of an administration claims it was some stupid video. They were and still are misleading the American people. We need to vote them out before it is to late!!
Question: How do you know when Obama or Hillary Clinton are lying??
Answer: There lips are moving.
Within three weeks after some unidentified Libyans attacked US consulate and killed several diplomates, American propaganda machines have gradually intensified. Initially, the propaganda identified the perpetrators as Libyan rebels. Then they were Muslim extremists. Today, the American propaganda concluded the attackers are Terrorists. The classification has escalated for one and only one reason: Set the stage for an attack on Benghazi.
An attack on Benghazi will only galvanized Muslims of the Middle East that the Americans are the modern day Crusaders who are out to destroy the Muslim and the Islamic world. The American attack will only increase the easy with which Muslim jihadists recruit addition hordes of suicide bombers. The Libyan and Middle East response to an American war in Libya will not resemble those of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, or Vietnam for there will be no 'Peace with Honor' treaty or negotiation of the type conducted with the Talibans.
As the American war mongers and Military Industrial Complex prepare for an attack on Benghazi, they will doom America into a fifth war that American cannot hope to emerge victorious. Already, the four wars waged for over 11 years in Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan have sapped the financial strength of America and destroyed the precious lives of tens of thousands of American youths.
America will collapse as a result of waging continuous wars around the world.
Your wrong. The only thing they understand is strength. Obama has played nicey nice with them for 2 years.....were did that get us. I am convinced that the reason the brutal dictators in this region were controlling the fanatics was through fear. They hate us and that will not change. They hate the way they think we are immoral in large part to our acceptance of Homosexuality. There religous goal is world domination of all the infidels. We will never make them like us but we can make them fear us!
The mistake is trying to think we need to prove we are better than they are. We already are, just like with the Nazis in WWII. If we need to, we should just carpetbomb them like we did Germany and Japan. I say when they get out of hand, destroy their cities, their infrastructure, and ability to grow & import food. Then give them a choice between unconditional surrender or starvation.
Hey Obama! Let someone else have your job.You work for us and you're fired.
Thats desperate. In November "we the people" will get our country back from the insane asylum tea party
Who's the real enemy?
The lamstream media continues to ignore this story.
The evidence of a terroist attack was knoqn to the CIA and they even had identified a person of interest within 24 hours after the attasck. Yet, the lamestream media does not comment on these FACTS.
Why, to this date has Obama refused to specify that this was an alquida-led terrorist attack? Answer: becuse he has maintained for moths and underscored in the DNC convention that "Osoma is dead and GM is alive!" That, apparently has led to Obamas' conclusion that his foreign policy is a success. Just keep pushing buttons via drones and kill terrorists and personnaly kill Osama.
The recent violence in the Middle East includes 20 different countries. Yet Obama claims he is winning the war on 'insurgents' (not terrorists). In Obamas' mind there are no terrorists.
Next morning, after the Libian attacks, he skips his security briefing (he's attended less than half of these daily meetings during his tenure) and goes off to a fund-raiser. It took two weeks from the date of the attacks for Obama to publicaly agree that the attacks were pre-meditated!
Once thing is for sure, Obama looks like a fool for depending on drones to keep the taliban and other terrorests under control. What happened to ground assests interrogating our enemies? NO SUCH THING with Obamas' approach. We are not gathering intelligence by blowing the bad guys up!
Well, libs you can keep supporting this guy with the Middle East in flames, our personnel murdered and you can defend his response to all of this as a "bump in the road". You guy stated that if he can't turn the economy around, this would be a 'one-term proposition". Now he is confidentally stating that he "needs more time." I ask...for what? What's his plan to turn the deficit around? Take more taxes from the rich?
C'mon libs, let's hear your rebuttal to my posting.
You know, usually, I laugh at the Grammar Nazis when they strike. But, sir, when your intention is to appear vastly superior to the person whom you are attempting to discredit, and you then proceed to misspell a dozen different words during your tirade, you have sabotaged your own argument.
Try a little harder next time.
You want to know why I will never fear Muslim extremists (the term applied by other Muslims to members that get caught)? Because they are the most cowardly creatures on the planet. They always sneak up on their victims (who nine times out of ten are non-combatants) because they are afraid to walk up, look you in the eye, then kill you hand-to-hand like real men. Their convictions (and their bladders) are too weak.
Your religion will never reign supreme in America. Because we are brave, we will fight like men; God, or Allah, or whatever you choose to call Him, did not create cowardice. Do you see it in nature? Not even wild dogs sneak up on each other when it is time to fight.
Extremists are gang members; nothing more. One alone is nothing. Your God must be ashamed.
Why won't the American government take a good look at how they ended WW2 and do the same to end this one. Non of the troublemakers that caused WW2 are even thinking about making trouble. They have had enough. Apparently the current groups of troublemakers still need to learn the lesson firsthand- It worked the first time, only took to long because the enemy had time to entrench first, There is still time...
To clarify I'm talking about the widespread jihad/ extremest problem when I wrote "this one".
The difference between the Germans and Japaneses after WWll was political. While the Japanese were stubborn fighters and did not want to give up until their emperor surrendered, the terrorists that are involved in this attack on our consulate that killed Ambassador Stevens use religion as their banner to fight. Those that use religion are for more dangerous than those that use the dogma of politics. While it was the Japanese that did have kamikaze pilots that would commit suicide after they ran out of ammo, they did that as a last resort. Most of the pilots wanted to live and fight another day. The Germans fought hard but did not do suicide missions as a rule. These terrorists will strap a bomb to themselves and take whoever they can to the grave with them. The leaders of these groups use young people whose minds are filled with hate and rage. It is unlikely you will see a 50 year old suicide bomber. It is difficult to fight against this type of attack. The only thing these terrorists understand is force. You have to apply enough of it to make them stop. I do believe that if they see you as weak they are more likely to attack you. Killing the terrorist before he or she has had their chance to carry out their mission is a failure to them. This defeats their mission.
Ambassador Stevens Died! Obama,H. Clinton ,and Amb. Rice lied.
US Border Agent, Terry died, Obama,and Holder lied!