Fast/Furious2--Libya>Turkey>Syria?

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May 24, 2013 4:00 AM
 
The Stingers of Benghazi 

 Public reports corroborate some, but not all, of a stunning accusation about Benghazi. 

By Jim Geraghty

http://nationalreview.com/article/349231/%5Btitle-raw%5D-jim-geraghty

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May 24, 2013 4:00 AM
 
The Stingers of Benghazi 

 Public reports corroborate some, but not all, of a stunning accusation about Benghazi. 

By Jim Geraghty

http://nationalreview.com/article/349231/%5Btitle-raw%5D-jim-geraghty

What has amazed me about this story?  'A buyback of stinger missiles.' and ' “Stinger” has turned into a catch-all term for any shoulder-mounted anti-aircraft missile'.  What exactly were they buying back and what were they doing with the stuff they bought back?  How much were they paying for the goods they took in?

In Milwaukee, the government finally ended a buyback program.  The program bought guns from people who were going to big box gun stores at more than the market price. 

How much were they paying?  What did they do with the returned missiles?  Did they buy back any?  How much did they expend at the same time?  I wonder if the US is paying for  a gun buyback program in Mexico?

from the link above - "The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but American officials later grew alarmed as evidence grew that Qatar was turning some of the weapons over to Islamic militants, according to United States officials and foreign diplomats. . . . "

Where did the funds come from to pay for all the arms shipped to Libyan rebels?  Who approved this?  What is the value of the arms given away for the past ten years?  Five years?  Where is the money coming from?

At a time when they are reportedly not taking care of veterans, where is the money coming from?

Maybe someone in the Middle East is bankrolling these shipments and no US taxpayer money/debt is involved?

just my humble opinions

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May 24, 2013 4:00 AM
 
The Stingers of Benghazi 

 Public reports corroborate some, but not all, of a stunning accusation about Benghazi. 

By Jim Geraghty

http://nationalreview.com/article/349231/%5Btitle-raw%5D-jim-geraghty

Also from the link "“We found that Libyan weapons are being sold in what is the world’s biggest black market for illegal gun smugglers, and Somali pirates are among those buying from sellers in Sierra Leone, Liberia and other countries,” said Judith van der Merwe, of the Algiers-based African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism."

Somali pirates?  The same folks that seize ships, kill passengers and crew?  One had is helping to arm them and the other hand is giving them $$$ so they don't have to be pirates....'it's so simple, give them money and they won't have to be pirates...'  Where did the money go?

This is so discouraging.  How much does this two handed approach cost in resources and lives?  Any sign the pirates are retiring?  I don't think so.

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Krauthammer Names 'the Biggest Scandal of All'

 
KRAUTHAMMER: And that's what the argument was about. But I think there's a bigger story here. And here's the one that will, in time, come out. The biggest scandal of all, the biggest question of all is, what was the president doing in those eight hours.

He had a routine meeting at 5:00 o'clock. He never after, during the eight hours when our guys have their lives in danger, for he never called the Secretary of Defense, he never called the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he never called the CIA director.

Who does he call? About five hours in, he calls his Secretary of State. And after the phone call, she releases a statement, essentially about the video and how we denounce any intolerance.
 


http://nation.foxnews.com/obamas-scandals/2013/05/29/krauthammer-names-biggest-scandal-all

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[Note: The above article should have been in quotes.]

Questions:

Why was Stevens in Benghazi, almost unprotected, on the anniversary of 9/11?

If meeting with Turkish representative so important, what was discussed?

Benghazi knew it was an attack; why were rescuers told to Stand Down?

What was the President doing for 8 hours while the attack was ongoing?

Who was running the asylum?

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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/06/the_scandal_dump_is_a_smokescreen.html#ixzz2VjxwYkv2

June 9, 2013
The Scandal Dump is a Smokescreen
Phillip Cowan

  For several months, the Benghazi scandal lay dormant, apparently forgiven and forgotten.  Then, inexplicably, it reared its ugly head when Congressmen Ron Johnson and Jason Chaffetz smelled Obama's blood in the water.

After feigning affliction with the flu, and then ostensibly tumbling down a carpeted stairwell resulting in an unconfirmed concussion, then-Secretary of State Clinton was finally forced to testify before Congress.  Clinton's desperate attempt to put the  Benghazi scandal to rest with her now-infamous impassioned declaration -- "What difference, at this point, does it make?" -- only fanned the flames of American outrage at the needless deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens, his aide Sean Smith, and two valiant Navy SEALS, Tyrone Woods and Glen Dougherty.

At this point, the focus of the investigation was confined to the failure of the Obama regime to adequately protect the American consulate in a hostile country and its subsequent attempt to cover up that ignominy.  Nobody, except us conspiracy theorists, was asking about the real reason for the coordinated terrorist attack.  Hint: it was not a video mocking Islam.  Here are the questions that should have been asked, but were not:

Why was American security systematically withdrawn and transferred to incompetent Libyan operatives several month before the attack?

What were the missions of Ambassador Chris Stevens, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Dougherty?

Why was the order to "stand down" given to ready and able military rescue forces?

The Obama regime frantically feared that these questions were forthcoming.  Desperate to change the subject, the nefarious regime serially released a spate of "gates" intended to inundate the  news media outlets in order to provide a smokescreen obscuring the lethal Benghazi questions.

The first feint was AP-gate: revealing the illegal DOJ inquisition of the world's largest newsgathering agency.  This titillated  the media and put Benghazi in the rearview mirror.  When that furor waned, along came Reporter-gate, proclaiming that Fox News journalist James Rosen had been the subject of a similar inquest.  Again the media feigned horror at the atrocity committed against one of their own.  Benghazi what?

On the heels of AP-gate comes IRS-gate, alleging egregious acts of power abuse by the most powerful government agency in America.  Never mind that the shocking, illegal targeting of politically incorrect enemies of incumbent administrations has been rampant within the IRS for decades.  The media cooperated as if those corruptions were breaking news.  Benghazi who?

Alas, as revulsion with  IRS-gate began to decline, another "gate" was needed to anesthetize the populace against Benghazi-gate.  Conveniently, the IRS debacle was extended by revealing their half-a-billion-dollar "seminar" parties, which have been going on for years but suddenly are splashed as breaking news.

Now the latest news flash is telephone-gate, swiftly followed by internet-gate.  Never mind that these practices have been going on since at least 2006 during the Bush administration.  Benghazi when?

Put on your tinfoil hats, folks.  I submit that this chain of coordinated releases of scandal after scandal is a ploy by the most corrupt regime in American history to divert national attention from the most damning political catastrophe Obama has ever faced: Benghazi-gate.  Was the stratagem a botched attempt to have Stevens kidnapped by al-Qaeda and then to offer the Blind Sheik in exchange for the ambassador?  Was the subterfuge a failed attempt to divert the massive Gaddafi weapons cache into the hands of al-Qaeda?  Don't get me started.

Whatever was going on in Benghazi, Libya before the nefarious 9-11-2012 attack is a dark secret, the revelation of which the Obama regime mortally fears.  That is why this coordinated serial release of humiliating scandals, reproachful as they may be, is far, far better than the truth about Benghazi -- at least for the Obama regime.


Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/06/the_scandal_dump_is_a_smokescreen.html#ixzz2W4XPNGrg

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Benghazi Survivor:

http://shoebat.com/2013/07/27/benghazi-survivor-injured-in-attack-coming-forward/

Benghazi Survivor David Ubben coming forward

By Shoebat Foundation on July 27, 2013 in Blog, General

His name is David Ubben. Like former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, Ubben went to the Special Mission Compound (SMC) to help save people. Also like Woods and Doherty, Ubben fought attackers from a rooftop back at the CIA Annex. Unlike his two brave colleagues, Ubben survived, though he was gravely wounded. To this day, he continues to recover at Walter Reed.

Moreover, Ubben, whose right leg was essentially shredded, has now come forward and told some of his story to Fox News.