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Thursday, April 24, 2014

US 'switched sides in the War on Terror' says Benghazi Commission



What the Fuck . . . Again!


The Citizens Commission on Benghazi, a self-selected group of former top military officers, CIA insiders and think-tankers, declared Tuesday in Washington that a seven-month review of the deadly 2012 terrorist attack has determined that it could have been prevented – if the U.S. hadn't been helping to arm al-Qaeda militias throughout Libya a year earlier.
 
'The United States switched sides in the war on terror with what we did in Libya, knowingly facilitating the provision of weapons to known al-Qaeda militias and figures,' Clare Lopez, a member of the commission and a former CIA officer, told MailOnline.
 
She blamed the Obama administration for failing to stop half of a $1 billion United Arab Emirates arms shipment from reaching al-Qaeda-linked militants reports the UK Daily Mail.
 
'Remember, these weapons that came into Benghazi were permitted to enter by our armed forces who were blockading the approaches from air and sea,' Lopez claimed. 'They were permitted to come in. ... [They] knew these weapons were coming in, and that was allowed..
 
 
Hillary Clinton on Gaddafi: We came, we saw, he died
 
 
 
 
The Citizens Committee on Benghazi released its interim
findings on April 22, 2014 in Washington. Pictured are (L-R)
Clare Lopez, Admiral (Ret.) Chuck Kubic, Admiral (Ret.) James
'Ace' Lyons, former CIA officer Wayne Simmons and civil
rights attorney John Clarke.
 
'The intelligence community was part of that, the Department of State was part of that, and certainly that means that the top leadership of the United States, our national security leadership, and potentially Congress – if they were briefed on this – also knew about this.'
 
The weapons were intended for Gaddafi but allowed by the U.S. to flow to his Islamist opposition.
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'The White House and senior Congressional members,' the group wrote in an interim report released Tuesday, 'deliberately and knowingly pursued a policy that provided material support to terrorist organizations in order to topple a ruler [Muammar Gaddafi] who had been working closely with the West actively to suppress al-Qaeda.'
 
'Some look at it as treason,' said Wayne Simmons, a former CIA officer who participated in the commission's research.
 
Retired Rear Admiral Chuck Kubic, another commission member, told reporters Tuesday that those weapons are now 'all in Syria.'

'Gaddafi wasn't a good guy, but he was being marginalized,' Kubic recalled.
'Gaddafi actually offered to abdicate' shortly after the beginning of a 2011 rebellion.

'But the U.S. ignored his calls for a truce,' the commission wrote, ultimately backing the horse that would later help kill a U.S. ambassador.
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Kubic said that the effort at truce talks fell apart when the White House declined to let the Pentagon pursue it seriously.
 
'We had a leader who had won the Nobel Peace Prize,' Kubic said, 'but who was unwilling to give peace a chance for 72 hours.'
 
 

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