Abu Yahya al-Libi
This morning bright and early the blogger b. at Moon of Alabama broke an explosive counter narrative to the attack in Libya which killed American Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
b. speculated the attack was carried out to avenge the killing of Abu Yahya al-Libi a high ranking al Qaeda operative who was targetted in a drone strike in June. The video confirmation of al-Libi’s death preceded the attack.
The real reason, though unmentioned yet in the media, was likely this:
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has released a video coinciding with the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, confirming for the first time the death of his deputy, US monitors said.
The 42-minute video is Zawahiri’s first release in three months, and confirms that Abu Yahya al-Libi was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan’s Waziristan tribal area on June 4, according to SITE and IntelCenter.
Yesterday’s confirmation of Abu Yahya al-Libi’s death seems to be a much better explanation for yesterday’s raising of al-Qaeda’s flag in front of the U.S. embassy in Cairo and the deadly attack on the consulate in Bengahzi. The AQ people in the area certainly had an urge and a plan to avenge al-Libi (the Libyan). That this happened on the anniversary of 9/11 is, as the Zahwahiri tape demonstrates, NOT a coincidence! These people used the movie story only to raise additional rabble to cover for them…..
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The U.S. went to Afghanistan to fight Al-Qaeda. There it also captured and tortured one Abu Yahya al-Libi before he fled from Bagram. The U.S. was also working with Gaddhafi in Libya to keep Jihadis like al-Libi down. But in 2011 the U.S. suddenly changed course and Chris Stevens and others worked in lockstep with al-Libi and Salafi forces in Libya to overthrow Gaddhafi. Now, as these forces are out of control, the powers the U.S. unleashed in Libya are coming back to haunt it. Those lovable rebels that heroically dragged Gaddhafis body through the streets of Libya’s are now “thugs” for doing the same to the U.S. ambassador. This is obviously a self inflicted wound.
As ambassador Chas W. Freeman explained in a speech last week:
The so-called “global war on terror” or “militant Islam,” as so many now openly describe it, has become an endless run in a military squirrel cage that is generating no light but a lot of future anti-American terrorism. It turns out that all that is required to be hated is to do hateful things. Ironically, as we “search abroad for monsters to destroy,” we are creating them – transforming our foreign detractors into terrorists, multiplying their numbers, intensifying their militancy, and fortifying their hatred of us. The sons and brothers of those we have slain know where we are. They do not forget. No quarter is given in wars of religion. We are generating the very menace that entered our imaginations on 9/11.
The killing of the U.S. ambassador in Libya will make further U.S. support for the insurgency in Syria, which is also supported by Al Qaeda and by Libyan Salafist fighters, more unlikely.
Hours later CNN reported Attack may have been al Qaeda revenge plot, and has now doubled down more assuredly: Pro-al Qaeda group seen behind deadly Benghazi attack:
(CNN) — A pro-al Qaeda group responsible for a previous armed assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is the chief suspect in Tuesday’s attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya, sources tracking militant Islamist groups in eastern Libya say.
They also note that the attack immediately followed a call from al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri for revenge for the death in June of a senior Libyan member of the terror group Abu Yahya al-Libi.
There’s lots more data and links at b’s report, I recommend.
B as been out in front of the news before, breaking both the IAEA Nanodiamonds report as well as his prescient analysis of how Iran acquired a stealth drone, way out in front of the main stream media as two examples within the last year.
I’m always weary whenever someone uses the name “al-Qaeda.” A bomb goes off? Blame al-Qaeda. A massacre by Salafis in Iraq? Blame al-Qaeda. The temperature is hot? Blame al-Qaeda. I believe government officials worldwide have an incentive to blame “al-Qaeda” because it makes American taxpayers support more “aid” for those governments. That’s because, for Americans, al-Qaeda means “September 11.” Also notice there are different types of “al-Qaeda” mentioned in the news media. There are “pro-Al-Qaeda” groups (as this article says), al-Qaeda “affiliates”, al-Qaeda “inspired” groups and al-Qaeda “off-shoots.” LOL. We are all being played like a cheap banjo by governments and even local terrorists who use the word “al-Qaeda” but have no designs to be international terrorists.
You can bet your bottom dollar that the Israel lobby will do its best to link Iran to this attack, despite the fact that Iran considers Sunni fanatics to be deadly enemies.
Funny how the focus conveniently turns from an Israeli, Jewish funded (allegedly, then denied by goldblob) piece of anti Muslim bigotry and hate, into an Islamist planned terrorist attack. (with analysis from B who has some understanding of drone detection , moon over redstone arsenal alabama ).
It seems likely that the ambassador and his cohort were killed by a small killer team that lit up his car as it exited, by whose orders, and how they knew he would leave, is unknown. Perhaps the fire forced his removal and this was a known SOP. The killer team has probably already left Libya for debriefing elswehere. Next news cycle will indicate Iranian sponsorship. check with B.
But Chris Stevens was not your usual cable pushing diplomat, he arrived in Libya on a greek cargo ship under darkness, led the rebels for the US as its envoy, and then supervised the victory as the rebels murdered the son of the Libya leader, having previously served in Jerusalem and Iraq. He was then a combatant in the Libyan civil war, a military target, not the angelic peace corps activist mourned, and if not a little Eichman, then perhaps a little Menachem Begin.
He who lives by the sword shall often die by it… or, by ,an american provided, RPG.
The MSM have been slow off the mark, but they are coming around to the same view of these events. The NY Times now has this:
While the protesters in Cairo appeared to be genuinely outraged over the anti-Islam video, the attackers in Benghazi were armed with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. Officials said it was possible that an organized group had either been waiting for an opportunity to exploit like the protests over the video or perhaps even generated the protests as a cover for their attack.
Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a former FBI agent, agreed. “Clearly the event in Libya was a planned, targeted attack and I believe they selected the date probably for a reason,” he said. “As an old investigator, I can tell you, you can’t have that many coincidences on the same day. I don’t believe it.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/world/middleeast/us-envoy-to-libya-is-reported-killed.html?_r=1&hp
sheesh.
Below is an interview of Eric Margolis.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lewrockwell-show/2012/09/11/308-romneys-neocons/