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JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 07:43 PM Jun 2014

Benghazi suspect says he was motivated by the YouTube video

Ahmed abu Khattalah, the suspected ringleader of the attack in Benghazi who was just captured by U.S. forces,said he was motivated by the anti-Islam online video made in America.

In private conversations, Khattala told other Libyans during the night of the attack that he was moved to attack the diplomatic mission to take revenge for an insult to Islam in an American-made online video.

-snip-

Every right wing talking  point has been blown out of the water today. Watch how they spin this because it doesn’t fit their narrative. Darrell Issa is probably in a fetal position in the corner of his office, sucking his thumb right now.

link: http://freakoutnation.com/2014/06/17/benghazi-suspect-says-he-was-motivated-by-the-youtube-video/



 

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Benghazi suspect says he was motivated by the YouTube video (Original Post) JaneyVee Jun 2014 OP
they will claim the guy is a plant....natch! VanillaRhapsody Jun 2014 #1
Are they going to demand Obama set him free? tridim Jun 2014 #4
YUP! Its quite the dilemma for them... VanillaRhapsody Jun 2014 #5
The 9600 bps fax modems are squealing away with the new talking points IDemo Jun 2014 #12
great point.... email this to the white house! lol Takket Jun 2014 #23
I was thinking of little Darrell earlier. Poor thang. It's all gone so wrong!!!..n/t monmouth3 Jun 2014 #2
Just More Proof Of It All, Ma'am The Magistrate Jun 2014 #3
Boom goes the cave. Kingofalldems Jun 2014 #6
K&R.. why isn't this Huge news? That's what I thought would Cha Jun 2014 #7
Look that video was produced by ReTHUGs malaise Jun 2014 #8
It Would Not surprise Me If Solid Evidence Surfaced Of That, Ma'am The Magistrate Jun 2014 #17
I said it from them malaise Jun 2014 #18
Truth will out - here's an interesting read malaise Jun 2014 #34
You're definitely on to something here... Cali_Democrat Jun 2014 #19
They were comparing him with Carter leading up to this malaise Jun 2014 #21
You mean the State Dept was right? nadinbrzezinski Jun 2014 #9
You know they're gonna say it's a conspiracy by Obama and Clinton, the guy was paid to say it. Shrike47 Jun 2014 #10
this is exactly what Obama and Rice said..... chillfactor Jun 2014 #11
Nada surprises me from the mouths of the GOPers Iliyah Jun 2014 #13
Some dumbass in my thread about this on the Discussionist... MrScorpio Jun 2014 #14
Ohhhhh, Noooooooo!!!!!!! Grassy Knoll Jun 2014 #15
Issa has no one to refute this either.... Historic NY Jun 2014 #16
Republicans will say he was tortured... Purrfessor Jun 2014 #20
They should be happy then... Historic NY Jun 2014 #37
We need a Susan Rice victory lap! n/t yallerdawg Jun 2014 #22
one problem... Takket Jun 2014 #24
CIA. Check up on their "intel" n/t SleeplessinSoCal Jun 2014 #30
Somebody needs to put a 24-hour watch on Issa Jack Rabbit Jun 2014 #25
I want to know exactly what American group funded the b-movie, who sub-titled it and who Sunlei Jun 2014 #26
I don't know whether to laugh or cry Johonny Jun 2014 #27
Quick, let's go to Fox and see if they are reporting on this. Beacool Jun 2014 #28
CIA changed from "spontaneous video reaction" to "planned attack" SleeplessinSoCal Jun 2014 #29
Apparently The Times reported this back in 2012 Chathamization Jun 2014 #31
Major egg on conservatives' faces agentS Jun 2014 #32
And do you know who PROMOTED the video? agentS Jun 2014 #33
Right-wing conservative assholes from America seem to truly ignite the fears and frothing stillwaiting Jun 2014 #35
The spin Takket Jun 2014 #36

tridim

(45,358 posts)
4. Are they going to demand Obama set him free?
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 07:49 PM
Jun 2014

Because if he's a plant, he's innocent.

Gawd it must suck to be a republican.

IDemo

(16,926 posts)
12. The 9600 bps fax modems are squealing away with the new talking points
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 09:09 PM
Jun 2014

UnBenghazi! Bergdahli! Argle bargle!

The Magistrate

(95,241 posts)
3. Just More Proof Of It All, Ma'am
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 07:47 PM
Jun 2014

I fully expect to see the thing denounced as a sham, with this guy selected to 'take one for the team' to make the chief terrorist, the Kenyan usurper in our White House, look good, just as the righteous forces of White Christian America were closing in for the revolution...

Cha

(296,821 posts)
7. K&R.. why isn't this Huge news? That's what I thought would
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 07:55 PM
Jun 2014

have motivated them.

We know one thing.. Darrel issa is pissed. and sucking hard.

malaise

(268,693 posts)
8. Look that video was produced by ReTHUGs
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 08:10 PM
Jun 2014

Last edited Tue Jun 17, 2014, 10:14 PM - Edit history (1)

The plan was to 'Carterize' Obama before the elections just like 1980 Iran.
They also wanted to erase the real 9/11 and replace it with the Libyan one.

Turn on Chris Hayes - Former Ambassador Joe Wilson is discussing this,

malaise

(268,693 posts)
18. I said it from them
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 09:54 PM
Jun 2014

Nothing has changed my mind. Truth will out. When it backfired they changed the script.
The level of sabotage meted out to the Obama administration at home and abroad is frightening - I won't even mention the waste of taxpayers money for their phony hearings.

malaise

(268,693 posts)
21. They were comparing him with Carter leading up to this
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 10:11 PM
Jun 2014

and the video was linked to their goons
http://www.aljazeera.com/video/middleeast/2012/09/20129130543708779.html


Note the date of this -two days after Benghazi
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/13/1980_watch_its_obama_is_carter_day_for_right_wing_press/


At the Corner, Jack Fowler posts a truly horrible Photoshop of Obama and Carter’s faces merged. “An extra photoshop treat from Rich and Lucy, the super cool folks at TerrellAfterMath (which you should visit regularly!).” You really, really should visit at least once, if not regularly.
On a similar note, the Weekly Standard’s Daniel Halper posts a video “mashup” of Obama and Carter talking about foreign policy in order to prove that both Carter and Obama thought their opponents would be less good at foreign policy than them.
Commentary’s Charlie Siering makes the same point with words (plus the same video) in a Washington Examiner column: “Obama’s remarks, however, echo frequent criticisms made by President Jimmy Carter of Ronald Reagan, then his opponent for the presidency.”
American Thinker editor and publisher Thomas Lifson says “Obama is starting to look a lot like Jimmy Carter twisting in the wind as Iranians held hostages in Tehran in 1979.”
Back at the Corner, Victor Davis Hanson shows some restraint by not mentioning Carter’s name while calling it “1980 redux.” Peter Kirsanow follows up by making the point explicit, for the slower readers: “There are many similarities between Carter and Obama.”
And again at the Corner (they’re flooding the “Obama is Carter” zone!) Alexander Bernard, “managing director of an advisory and investment firm focused on the Middle East and Central Asia,” notes some “eerie parallels” between Obama and Carter.
The Weekly Standard’s Geoffrey Norman says now we have “Stagflation” again!
Then some Washington Times reporter called up some Republican operatives and asked them to compare Obama to Carter for a story about how Republicans are comparing Obama to Carter.

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JoeScum pushed that meme.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
13. Nada surprises me from the mouths of the GOPers
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 09:33 PM
Jun 2014

Every distorted lie, bullshit, fantasy, untruths, non-reality will be spouted by them thru their comrades at the corporate media. We already know what fake news will do, followed by cnn, nbc morning shows, abc, cbs and all the others. Hate radio non-stop anger, on and on and on. The religious right spewing capola.

What they did to Bowe B was un-called for. They are evil.

MrScorpio

(73,630 posts)
14. Some dumbass in my thread about this on the Discussionist...
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 09:33 PM
Jun 2014

Said that this is a distraction from Benghazi.

Crazy.

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
16. Issa has no one to refute this either....
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 09:48 PM
Jun 2014

they need to get this guy on the box yo confirm he is truthfull and then shove him right in front of Isaa's little committee.

Purrfessor

(1,188 posts)
20. Republicans will say he was tortured...
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 09:56 PM
Jun 2014

and information obtained through torture is unreliable and not to be believed.

Takket

(21,528 posts)
24. one problem...
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 10:19 PM
Jun 2014

hasn't the administration basically said, however, that their claiming the youtube video was the reason for the attack was a mistake?

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
25. Somebody needs to put a 24-hour watch on Issa
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 10:25 PM
Jun 2014

He might torch a congressional office building and steal a getaway car.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
26. I want to know exactly what American group funded the b-movie, who sub-titled it and who
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 10:31 PM
Jun 2014

youtube/sent it to the largest internet loud-mouth Imam, 2 days before the 9-11 date.

Chathamization

(1,638 posts)
31. Apparently The Times reported this back in 2012
Tue Jun 17, 2014, 11:31 PM
Jun 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/world/africa/suspect-in-benghazi-attack-scoffs-at-us.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

"Mr. Abu Khattala, 41, wearing a red fez and sandals, added his own spin. Contradicting the accounts of many witnesses and the most recent account of the Obama administration, he contended that the attack had grown out of a peaceful protest against a video made in the United States that mocked the Prophet Muhammad and Islam."

Found the link on a right-wing site that was saying how suspicious it was that The Times was reporting it now, but didn't mention it back in this 2012 article (where they...mentioned it).

agentS

(1,325 posts)
32. Major egg on conservatives' faces
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 12:46 AM
Jun 2014

It seems my hypothesis was slightly correct. I wrote earlier that the terrorists used the protests to provide cover for their attack that they had already planned for. Apparently, they decided to plan and attack within days of learning about the silly video.

I found this picture at Daily KOS

agentS

(1,325 posts)
33. And do you know who PROMOTED the video?
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 12:47 AM
Jun 2014


So, indirectly, the right wing (pronounced "Reich&quot IS RESPONSIBLE for the attacks on our embassy.

stillwaiting

(3,795 posts)
35. Right-wing conservative assholes from America seem to truly ignite the fears and frothing
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 07:58 AM
Jun 2014

of right-wing conservative assholes from the Middle East.

And vice versa.

If you got a group of left-wing/liberal people from the United States together with a group of left-wing/liberal people from the Middle East I feel quite good about the prospects of everyone getting along.

It almost seems like right-wing, conservative, fundamentalist ideology is the problem here. Everywhere.

Takket

(21,528 posts)
36. The spin
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 08:21 AM
Jun 2014

Well, we all knew spin was coming from the right, and here it news... I was watching the local Fox affiliate news this mornnig and they had on a Fox national guy to talk about the capture of the suspect. What do you think the focus of the discussion was on? will fox try to spin this? Yes they will!

The discussion focused on WHY it took so long to capture this guy. He said the raid took the White House months to plan and that the suspect was basically not hiding and was in an place where he could be caught easily (what place that was, i don't know). So there you go. That will now be the media's focus on this story. Everything else will be swept aside including the GOP witch-hunt and the narrative will now be that Obama could have captured this dangerous criminal at any time but instead chose to delay taking action, which of course endangers americans.

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