THE BENGHAZI COVERUP STENCH KEEPS GETTING STRONGER

 

The administration and Congressional leadership counted on news editors and voters both getting fatigued with the Benghazi story before any real political damage was done. The revelation that the U.S. government facilitated the transfer of $500 million worth of weapons to al-Qaeda-linked militants is truly terrible; the deaths of many people including four Americans connected with it should require accountability of those responsible in Washington and Libya. The weapons that entered Libya originated in the UAE and came through our armed forces blockading the land and sea approaches to Libya. We know now that John McCain and other members of Congress urged the President to allow Qatar’s plan for arming the Libyan rebels in an attempt to oust the Qaddafi regime. Our government sought to leave no paperwork trail leading back to itself as it encouraged Qatar and the UAE’s arming of the al-Qaeda affiliated rebels. Giving arms to a terrorist group or supporting them in any way is expressly prohibited by 18 U.S. Code 2339A and 18 U.S. Code 2339B. The Federal Arms Export Control Act also makes it illegal for the government to provide arms to any country determined by the Secretary of State to have “repeatedly provided support for acts of terrorism.” State department reports from 2007 and 2008 clearly state, some bearing Christopher Stevens signature, that members of these militia’s were intent on the destruction of America and any group supported by our country such as the Qaddafi regime. Is it any wonder why the administration and congressmen didn’t want a paper trail leading back to them in view of the illegality of their actions? A June 2010 report compiled by the Combat Terrorism Center at West point as well as other State Department reports finds that the largest number of foreign fighters confronting our forces in Iraq came from Libya and specifically named the LIFG. The same LIFG our administration was funneling weapons to in Benghazi! The State Department hired the “February 17^th Martyr’s Brigade to defend our diplomatic mission in Benghazi even as they proudly displayed the al-Qaeda flag on their Facebook page. Leaving the defense of the diplomatic mission in such hands calls into question the motives of those in charge of our State Department. A sad reality is that the whole Libyan war and the deaths of our people could have been avoided. Muammar Gaddafi had offered to abdicate peacefully and turn over power which would have avoided the bloodshed. For some reason Gaddafi’s offer was rejected by our government and it is high time we learn exactly what the reason was.

In June after the Benghazi attack foreign press sources surfaced an al-Qaeda website posting by Dhu-al-Bajadin, a known al-Qaeda weapons expert, saying the Benghazi attack plan was based on an abduction and exchange of high level prisoners. The same month three independent translations of the Arabic being spoken in videos shot at the time of the attack include the sentence “Don’t shoot, don’t shoot, Dr. Morsi sent us.” The Arabic dialect being spoken was Egyptian and not indigenous to Libya. Remember Morsi said during his campaign for the office of Egyptian President that he would have the blind sheik home by year end. On June 26^th several Arabic websites quoted an intelligence report, first printed in a Kuwaiti paper, which stated that interrogation of prisoners arrested at the time of the Benghazi attack pointed to Morsi and several Egyptian and Saudi businessmen as the financiers of the attack.

The next important evidence about the attack surfaced in a report by the Turkish news agency Anatolia. The text of the report included testimony of Saad Al-Shater, son of the detained Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat Al-Shater. The younger Al-Shater insists that his father is in position of documents so incriminating to the President that if revealed it would land Mr. Obama in prison. The evidence strongly suggests that the death of ambassador Stevens was the result of a kidnapping gone wrong for the purpose of trading Stevens for the blind sheik.

The refusal of numerous requests for additional security by Stevens leading up to the attack coupled with the stand down of rescue forces also suggests that Stevens kidnapping and eventual exchange for the blind sheik, Omar Abdel-Rahman, might have been what the white house wanted and hoped to use for political gain. Retired admiral James Lyons says that U.S. claims that it lacked the resources to mount a counterattack in time to save lives is false. “I’m going to tell you that that is not true,” he said “We had a 130 man unit of forces at Sigonella (AFB in Italy). They were ready to go.”

We will not know the truth about the Benghazi cover-up until the administration leaves office. Too many powerful people in D.C. stand to lose if the facts come out. To answer Mrs. Clinton as to what difference at this point it makes, honor and justice for those needlessly killed in service of their country in Libya does not have a statute of limitations. At best Hillary was tragically incompetent to hold the office of Secretary of State and at worst she is criminally complicit in the kidnapping and murder of Ambassador Stevens, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods.