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Al Zawahri Ordered Al Qaeda to Murder US Ambassador Stevens

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The US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three staff members at the US consulate in Benghazi were deliberately murdered Tuesday night Sept 11 just after memorial ceremonies were held in America for the victims of the 9/11 outrage. debkafile's counter-terror sources report exclusively that far from being a spontaneous raid by angry Islamists, it was a professionally executed terrorist operation by a professional Al Qaeda assassination team, whose 20 members acted under the orders of their leader Ayman al Zawahri after special training. They were all Libyans, freed last year from prisons where they were serving sentences for terrorism passed during the late Muammar Qaddafi's rule.

In a video tape released a few hours before the attack, Zawahri called on the faithful to take revenge on the United States for liquidating one of the organization's top operatives, Libyan-born Abu Yahya al-Libi in June by a US drone in northwestern Pakistan.

Its release was the "go" signal for the hit team to attack the US diplomats in Benghazi.



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Interesting.
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Interesting indeed.

Guess who probably just moved up to numero uno on the list?
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centermass wrote:Interesting indeed.

Guess who probably just moved up to numero uno on the list?
I thought he was already #1, but now it's personal.
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TC204 wrote:Revenge is a dish best served cold.
How hot is the shrapnel generated by a 155 HE? I'd satisfied with that.

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Every day the time we live now looks more and more like Carter's presidency. For those old enough to remember, this is that same sense of anger and frustration we had when Iran took over the embassy.

We are still paying for doing nothing on that one.
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TC204 wrote:
rangertough wrote:
TC204 wrote:Revenge is a dish best served cold.
How hot is the shrapnel generated by a 155 HE? I'd satisfied with that.

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That works too! Although I was thinking about a Gerber Mk IV
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Looking now like "the film" was produced by one or two Egyptians who claimed to be Jews/Israelis. This may be a "false flag" operation the conspiracists can actually sink their teeth into. The actress from the film was interviewed by CNN yesterday and stated that the producer of the film was definitely Egyptian. Now he's nowhere to be found. Obviously this was a Muslim Brotherhood/al-Qaeda operation from the get-go, the intent of which was to ignite murder, riot, and insurrection. It worked.
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Here is a theory...

The two "Marine embassy guards" who were killed, were not Marines and were not guards. In the words of one of them, posted on line, they were there looking for weapons that needed to be cleaned up after the war there. So, these two former SEALs, who are working for the government, but not the state department (think northern Virginia) are trying to collect up weapons... not AK47s, but things that we gave them that can do some real harm, such as STINGER missiles.

Anyway, they find the rebels who have them, but the rebels don't want to talk with the SEALs, they want to talk with the man who made the deal in the first place. In comes the "ambassador". Now the "ambassador" is pretty interesting. He is not really an ambassador who has a country... sure he is considered the ambassador of Libya, but he is also the guy who travels to hot spots around the world, arriving in the dark in odd methods, like the hold of a tanker ship. He also had an interesting time in the region when he was in the mountains "teaching kids how to read" for months. Sounds like the typical resume of any ambassador I ever worked with.

So the "ambassador", who is not in Libya, is flown in from Europe in the middle of the night to link up with the SEALs and then talk to the rebels. He doesn't go in an armored car, with a security detail, like every other ambassador on earth, but goes in an unmarked small SUV.

Something goes wrong. Rebel leader decides to kill the ambassador, but he has to make it look like it is something else. He calls up his buddy, Zawahiri, and tells him to create diversions at several embassies, and blame it on the usual suspects of some anti-Islam movie or cartoon. Just google something and pick it.

The ambassador and his CIA / SEAL are taken to a safe house, which the media is calling a consulate. The "consulate" is actually a rental house located in one of the worst Al Qaeda dominated cities in the region. While they are there one of the SEALs posts a message on a gamer web site that they don't think they will survive the night, and the police in the area are taking pictures of their safe house and plotting an attack. The SEAL doesn't send a message to the State Department or White House, because he doesn't work for them, he sends it to a gaming site (which have also been used to pass messages from groups that want to remain secret).

So the attack happens. This is a coordinated attack using RPGs, machineguns, and mortars. The mortars hit with "laser like precision" and pound the walkway in front of the safe house, keeping all inside. This is not some random mob that is angry about a movie that only had 30,000 hits prior to September 11. The fight goes on for several hours until all are killed or captured. When the ambassador is taken one of the rebels states "we got him".

The ambassador, and maybe others, are tortured for nine hours to learn what else he knows.

The White House needs to do damage control so they claim it is a random act of violence, sort of like when they declared the Fort Hood shooting was just a "workplace shooting" and not a terrorist attack. They need to cover up the fact that US weapons were used to kill the "ambassador" ... similiar to the cover up that US weapons were used to kill Border Patrol agents.

But wait, there's more...

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has said they wanted Omar Abdel Rahman, freed. This is the blind sheik who is currently serving a life sentence in the US for trying to blow up the World Trade Center when Clinton was president. To get him released they have to create some violent attack that will embarrass the US government.

By they way, reports were out yesterday that the Obama administration will release Omar Rahman before the year is out, but after the election... whether Obama is re-elected or not.

I swear, if I didn't know any better, I think Tom Clancy was writing this.
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My thoughts today went towards the screen move. Why not use this Muslim uprising to hide the next Al Qaeda attack. Which means it shouldn’t be long. Just a thought.
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Chiron wrote:My thoughts today went towards the screen move. Why not use this Muslim uprising to hide the next Al Qaeda attack. Which means it shouldn’t be long. Just a thought.
Who says it is not already in progress?
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