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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOK, this is getting f**king weird: "Pro-al Qaeda group seen behind deadly Benghazi attack"
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.
The group suspected to be behind the assault -- the Imprisoned Omar Abdul Rahman Brigades -- first surfaced in May, when it claimed responsibility for an attack on the International Red Cross office in Benghazi. The following month the group claimed responsibility for detonating an explosive device outside the U.S. Consulate, and later released a video of that attack.
Noman Benotman, once a leading member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and now based at the Quilliam Foundation in London told CNN, "An attack like this would likely have required preparation. This would not seem to be merely a protest which escalated."
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http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/12/world/africa/libya-attack-jihadists/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
Sam Bacile,maker of anti muslim film,may not be a real person:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021327615
Morris Sadek seems to be the most proximate cause of this crisis....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021325768
The Magistrate
(95,258 posts)Factions of this sort are hostile to both the Libyan government and the United States. A protest of the sort whipped up by circulation of this video would be an ideal occasion to press a planned action.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)Seems he sent the translation of the perfect agitprop video to just the right people....
The Magistrate
(95,258 posts)Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)"If you're helping these attacks, we're not going to turn a blind eye."?
The Magistrate
(95,258 posts)That is something right-wing extremists in Israel, including its current Prime Minister, need to understand.
hilltrot
(1 post)The people who killed the ambassador and other americans at the embassy had no good cause to do so. They were evil. We need to stop treating them like victims, soldiers, or mindless masses and start treating them like criminals.
Junkdrawer
(27,993 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)that was in the mob.
The Magistrate
(95,258 posts)Nobody gives stuff like that back, anywhere....
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)the average joe in the street protesting the movie but part of the clashes, whichever side.
The Magistrate
(95,258 posts)Crowds can be useful for that. One question, among others, is whether the faction that carried out the attck had a hand in whipping up the crowd, or simply noted it and decided 'today's the day, brothers...'.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)and who did what and why, is going to be scary and interesting.
Kindly Refrain
(423 posts)for groups in predominantly Muslim countries and doesn't really have any meaning. Like how they are always killing #2 al Qaeda leader. tell me, why have we never seen estimates on al Qaeda's numbers? Why are we spending trillions on Defense when "al Qaeda" at best has a few Ak-47s? al Qaeda is akin to something George Orwell would have written about, an Emmanuel Goldstein if you will.
renie408
(9,854 posts)for the attack.
ecstatic
(32,751 posts)Barack_America
(28,876 posts)It's pretty much how they work, how they've always gotten their money, etc.
Just another example of how they exploit muslims rather than defend Islam.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)that's even weaker than the usual "group with ties to al-Qaeda".