Sunday, December 29, 2013

Having Obama's back in the Middle East; How the New York Times tried to airbrush al Qaeda out of Benghazi

PowerLine blog  "Yesterday, in discussing the New York Times’ claim that, as far as it can tell, neither al Qaeda nor any other international terrorist group had a role in the Benghazi attack, I wrote:
The Times chooses to focus on a militia leader named Ahmed Abu Khattala, whom it characterizes as “an erratic extremist” and very much his own man. But I believe that other leaders connected to the attack have been tied to al Qaeda or its affiliates. I will try to document this in a future post.
"For documentation, I turn (as I expected) to the invaluable Tom Joscelyn:
[The Times] piece totals more than 7,000 words and yet [it] fingers only one suspect out of the dozens who took part in the attack. Another suspect, an ex-Guantanamo detainee, is briefly mentioned, but only then to dismiss the notion of his involvement.
Left out of the Times’s account are the many leads tying the attackers to al Qaeda’s international network.
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Rep. Darrell Issa Smacks Down New York Times Report Claiming Benghazi Attack Was A Result Of A YouTube Video
“ 'Al Qaeda is not decimated,” Issa replied. “And it was a group there, that was involved, that was linked to al Qaeda.” Have a look at the video

The mullahs’ message for Obama  ... "Second, the Iranians have Obama’s number and they mean to advertise it. They are sending a message. They see him as a pathetic weakling whom they can push around without consequence. Obama and Kerry are smart enough to know they are being humiliated, but they don’t care. They are more than willing to endure humiliation in the service of what they deem to be a higher cause."

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