Clare Lopez on the Syria / Al Qaeda Connection to the Benghazi Coverup
Clare Lopez connects the dots. Excerpt:
During the 2011 Libyan revolt against Muammar Qaddafi, reckless U.S. policy flung American forces and money into the conflict on the side of the rebels, who were known at the time to include Al Qaeda elements. Previously the number two official at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Christopher Stevens was named as the official U.S. liaison to the Libyan opposition in March, 2011.
Stevens was tasked with helping to coordinate U.S. assistance to the rebels, whose top military commander, Abdelhakim Belhadj, was the leader of the Al Qaeda affiliate, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG). That means that Stevens was authorized by the U.S. Department of State and the Obama administration to aid and abet individuals and groups that were, at a minimum, allied ideologically with Al Qaeda, the jihadist terrorist organization that attacked the homeland on the first 9/11, the one that’s not supposed to exist anymore after the killing of its leader, Osama bin Laden, on May 2, 2011.
Although Belhadj reportedly now has moved on to Syria to help lead the fight against the Assad regime being waged by the Syrian Free Army (SFA), other Libyan fighters, who were formerly members of his LIFG and other Al Qaeda affiliates formed a new terror militia in Libya (and elsewhere) called Ansar al-Shariah (Supporters of Sharia/Islamic Law).
Here's the conclusion, but you should really read the whole thing.
“[F]alse information was either knowingly disseminated or was directed to be put out by senior policy officials for political reasons,” says Bill Gertz, citing intelligence officials. Some of those alleged “political reasons” may have had to do with ridiculous claims about the demise of Al Qaeda and the false promises of an “Arab Spring,” but others may be more deeply buried in an Al Qaeda-linked weapons supply line that was never supposed to become public.
There are a lot of points the ponder here, but the most amazing one is this: Obama is helping to arm Al Qaeda in the name of a ridiculous idea called "the Arab Spring". Here's Ms. Lopez with Glenn Beck:
Yeah, I've been thinking that there is more to the story. In matters of gov't (as well as in life and faith), if things don't make sense on the surface it is because there is a larger story that we can't see or wouldn't understand if we could see it.
ReplyDeleteAnd certainly things do not make sense on the surface. State, CIA, Defense, WH all pointing fingers at one another. President Me essentially saying that nobody wants to know what he himself heard and did at the time more than he does, but we have to wait for the investigation (nor is anyone asking the question anyway). Bill Clinton going through the motions campaigning for O after Hillary takes a bullet. Etc, etc.
Ms. Lopez's explanation is certainly plausible. I think also of the "Muslim Outreach" of the past four years; Donilon's statement that the Muslim Bros are "moderates"; negotiating with the Taliban, etc. Her premise is certainly consistent with all those.