"The protests in both countries were sparked by outrage over a film ridiculing Muhammad produced by an American in California and being promoted by an extreme anti-Muslim Egyptian Christian campaigner in the United States. Excerpts from the film dubbed into Arabic were posted on YouTube."
First of all, the film never made, the trailer is some other movie dubbed over, and this whole thing was a cover story for controlled opposition protests and false flag attack.
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Romney causes stir with remarks on attacks
Calif. man confirms role in making of anti-Muslim film
Attacks highlight urgency of US diplomacy in Arab world
Romney’s comments raise doubts about his foreign-policy savvy
Whose worried now?
It’s the Syrians who will pay for murders of Americans in Libya
And they kind of are months later.
Murders in Libya point to need for wise leaders in US
New details in Libya as protests against US widen
Foreign affairs suddenly at issue in presidential race
Agenda-pushing act given the vast coverage and impact.
Winchester native among Libya attack victims
Massachusetts General Hospital doctor was in Benghazi at time of attack
Anti-American violence expands
"One person was killed and dozens were injured in the Lebanese city of Tripoli on Friday, as soldiers opened fire on hundreds of people demonstrating against the video, attacking a KFC, a Hardee’s, and a Krispy Kreme doughnut shop, news agencies reported."
"Few details on funds for anti-Islam movie; Christian group, salesman played role in its making" by Michael R. Blood | Associated Press, September 16, 2012
DUARTE, Calif. — The clumsily produced movie, which looks like a spoof, alternately portrays Mohammed as a fraud, a womanizer, and a child molester. Despite its poor production value, the film would have cost at least tens of thousands of dollars to make because of the equipment used and the professional actors and stage hands who were hired.
It's like most of what you find in the AmeriKan newspapers and if you scroll down this blog.
A film permit issued by Film LA could have cost under $1,000, although details are not known because the document has been sealed at the request of law enforcement officials.
The shared belief that radical Islam threatens the world brought together an ex-convict, an insurance salesman, and a Christian charity in production of a crudely crafted film that ridicules Muslims and the prophet Mohammed and has incited violent protests across the Middle East.
Media for Christ, a nonprofit that raised more than $1 million last year ‘‘to glow Jesus’ light’’ to the world, was listed as the production company for the film. Steve Klein, a California insurance salesman and Vietnam War veteran who has spent years protesting at mosques and espousing hatred of radical Muslims, acted as the film’s promoter.
A nonprofit, huh?
And Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, who authorities said has used multiple names and was convicted of bank fraud, said he managed logistics for the film. Federal authorities have identified Nakoula as the key figure behind the film....
This so stinks of an intelligence operation.
A federal law enforcement official said authorities had connected Nakoula to a man using the pseudonym of Sam Bacile who claimed earlier to be writer and director of the film.
Much about the film remains a mystery, notably who financed it....
Not to me. Bunch of CIA cover names and channels.
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Related:
US filmmaker investigated over probation
That'll keep him from talking!
Thus our pre$ence will be required.
Bigotry, both fringe and state-sanctioned
Tell me about it. I have a newspaper that promotes agenda-pushing lies.
"Crowds in Yemen chanted against the
continued US military presence such as drone strikes. Elsewhere — from Nigeria to Australia — hard-line clerics and parties
have mobilized demonstrations in both expressions of anger and messages
to rivals. In Iran, protesters were given premade placards denouncing
the United States in a clear sign of a state-organized demonstration."
If that ain't the agenda-pushing pos pot hollering kettle!
Btw, Yemen is a good example of a deep covert action. One could say that the stale dictator Saleh wasn't meant to be removed since the Yemeni people seem to be uncontrollable. But that's the way global managers operate. They dump the stale guy to show a change while installing their new man. Eventually guys like Mubarak and Saleh become a liability. Think about it. The U.S. is now in geopolitically strategic Yemen and conducts drone missile strikes there. Who benefited? The brave Yemeni people?
Another ancillary benefit is allowing Muslims, I'm sorry, Islamics to come to power and then sabotage them to prove elections, etc, don't work there. You need to think outside the box on these things people. My paper has proven it is nothing but a propaganda organ and cover story for agenda-pushing deceptions and outright lies.
Enough protesting on my part.
If that ain't the agenda-pushing pos pot hollering kettle!
Btw, Yemen is a good example of a deep covert action. One could say that the stale dictator Saleh wasn't meant to be removed since the Yemeni people seem to be uncontrollable. But that's the way global managers operate. They dump the stale guy to show a change while installing their new man. Eventually guys like Mubarak and Saleh become a liability. Think about it. The U.S. is now in geopolitically strategic Yemen and conducts drone missile strikes there. Who benefited? The brave Yemeni people?
Another ancillary benefit is allowing Muslims, I'm sorry, Islamics to come to power and then sabotage them to prove elections, etc, don't work there. You need to think outside the box on these things people. My paper has proven it is nothing but a propaganda organ and cover story for agenda-pushing deceptions and outright lies.
Enough protesting on my part.
Witnesses recount effort to save diplomat in Libya
500,000 rally in Beirut against anti-Muslim video
U.S. diplomats did what?
"US diplomats in Beirut burning classified material; Taking security precaution amid violent protests" by Matthew Lee | Associated Press, September 18, 2012
WASHINGTON — Diplomats at the US Embassy in Beirut have started to destroy classified material as a security precaution amid anti-American protests in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa.
What they did in Iran in 1979 was shred documents pertaining to Brzezinski's and others introduction of fundamentalist Muslims (like bin Laden, and initiated through Iran at the time due to the alliance with the Shah) into Afghanistan, which would eventually lead to 9/11 (or so the conventional myth holds).
Unfortunately, those pesky Iranian kids painstakingly put them all back together again and that is how I know this.
A State Department status report said the Beirut embassy had
‘‘reviewed its emergency procedures and is beginning to destroy
classified holdings.’’ It also said that local Lebanese employees were
sent home early due to protests by the militant Shi’ite group Hezbollah
over an anti-Muslim film produced in the United States.
In Washington, a State Department official said Monday that there was
no imminent threat to the heavily fortified Beirut embassy, which is
about an hour away from where the nearest demonstration is planned.
Since last Tuesday, protesters have breached the walls or compounds of several US diplomatic missions, including in Cairo, Tunis, and the consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where the ambassador and three other Americans were killed.
After Tuesday’s violent protests, the State Department ordered all US embassies and consulates around the world to review their security postures. As a result, a number of missions decided to destroy classified material, the official said. It was not immediately clear which other missions besides the one in Beirut had done that.
The official stressed it was normal under circumstances such as those of last week for embassies to reduce the amount of classified material that they hold. Classified documents are also routinely culled as part of normal embassy operations.
Smells more like a crime to me. What a lame-ass excuse for a cover story on that one.
The White House said President Obama called officials at US diplomatic facilities in North Africa and the Middle East over the weekend to reassure them that their security is a top priority for the US government.
Obama called officials working in Sudan, Tunisia, Libya, and Yemen following violent protests that broke out in response to the anti-Islam film....
That's not what it was, but why bother a good cover story narrative?
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Related:
"Sensitive documents left behind at American mission in Libya" by Michael Birnbaum | Washington Post, October 04, 2012
BENGHAZI, Libya — More than three weeks after attacks in this city killed the US ambassador and three other Americans, sensitive documents remained only loosely secured in the wreckage of the US mission here Wednesday, offering visitors easy access to delicate information about American operations in Libya.
They weren't culled and destroyed?
Documents detailing weapons collection efforts, emergency evacuation protocols, the full internal itinerary of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens’s trip, and personnel records of Libyans who were contracted to secure the mission were among the items scattered across the floors of the looted compound when a Washington Post reporter and a translator visited Wednesday.
The discovery further complicates efforts by the Obama administration to respond to what has rapidly become a major foreign policy issue just weeks before the election.
All but forgotten now. More s*** show fooleys for you 'murkn people like the inequality debate.
Republicans have accused Obama of having left US diplomatic compounds in Muslim-majority nations insufficiently protected on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and have questioned the security preparations in the leadup to assaults on embassies in Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, and Sudan. Capitol Hill critics have also pressed for an explanation for the slow pace of the inquiry that has followed the attack in Benghazi.
Many documents may already have disappeared....
None of the documents were marked classified, but this is not the first time that sensitive documents have been found by journalists in the charred wreckage of the compound. CNN discovered a copy of the ambassador’s journal last month and broadcast details from it, drawing an angry response from the State Department. Unlike the journal, all of the documents seen by The Post were official.
At least one document found in the clutter indicates that Americans at the mission were discussing the possibility of an attack in early September, just two days before the assault took place. The document is a memorandum dated Sept. 9....
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Also see:
Militants seek to harness Muslim rage at film
Hundreds in Winchester mourn a ‘hometown hero’
New French cartoons inflame prophet film tensions
Partisan messages now easier than ever to spread with film, video
Yeah, it's not limited to agenda-pushing newspapers anymore.
US goes to airwaves to denounce movie
Bid to take down anti-Muslim clip rejected
YouTube, which is owned by Google, has refused requests to remove the film
Some affectionately call it JooTube.
"19 die in Pakistan protests over video" by Declan Walsh | New York Times, September 22, 2012
ISLAMABAD — Violent crowds furious over an anti-Islamic video made in the United States convulsed Pakistan’s largest cities on Friday, leaving up to 19 people dead and more than 160 hurt in a day of government-sanctioned protests.
There's that ma$$ media pot hollering again.
It was the worst single day of deadly violence in a Muslim country over the video, ‘‘Innocence of Muslims,’’ since the protests began nearly two weeks ago in Egypt and later spread to two dozen countries. Protesters have ignored the US government’s denunciation of the video....
Kind of easy to when they and their agents are the ones that put it out.
Less-violent protests occurred in other Muslim countries but were exacerbated by the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in a French satirical weekly.
What's with the agenda-pushing provocations?
In Bangladesh, several thousand Islamist activists took to the streets of the capital, Dhaka, waving banners and burning a symbolic coffin for President Obama that was draped with the US flag. ‘‘Death to the United States and death to French,’’ they chanted.
Local television networks reported that a mobs ransacked and burned an Anglican church in Mardan in northwestern Pakistan. A statement by the bishop of Peshawar, the Rev. Humphrey Peters, said that newly installed computers were stolen before the church was set on fire. There were no reports of killings or injuries to the Christians.
In Tunisia, the government invoked emergency powers to outlaw all demonstrations; US diplomatic posts in India, Indonesia, and elsewhere closed for the day.
France closed embassies and other institutions in 20 countries while, in Paris, some Muslim leaders urged their followers to heed a government ban on weekend demonstrations....
In Pakistan, the streets erupted beginning in early morning in Peshawar, where protesters burned two movie theaters. Two people, including the television employee, Muhammad Amir, were killed.
Amir’s employer broadcast graphic images of hospital staff giving him emergency treatment shortly before he died, which other Pakistani journalists condemned as insensitive and irresponsible.
Some protesters tried to reach the city’s heavily guarded US consulate, which has a strong CIA component. By evening, hospital officials said at least five people were dead and more than 50 injured.
After Friday prayers more severe violence erupted in Islamabad, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan, and Karachi, where normally bustling streets were instead filled with clouds of tear gas and the sound of gunfire.
Protesters in Karachi burned effigies, stoned a KFC, and engaged in armed clashes with the police that left 14 people dead and more than 80 wounded by evening.
Maybe they didn't like the chicken.
Peaceful protests had been approved by Pakistan’s government, which declared Friday a national holiday, the ‘‘Day of Love for the Prophet Mohammed,’’ as part of an effort to either control, or politically capitalize on, rage against the inflammatory video, which depicts Mohammed, the founder of Islam, as a sexually perverted buffoon....
Obama's nonprofit PAC!
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Related: Pakistan disowns bounty on anti-Islam filmmaker
"Bangladesh police, protesters clash at rally against US film" Associated Press, September 23, 2012
500,000 rally in Beirut against anti-Muslim video
U.S. diplomats did what?
"US diplomats in Beirut burning classified material; Taking security precaution amid violent protests" by Matthew Lee | Associated Press, September 18, 2012
WASHINGTON — Diplomats at the US Embassy in Beirut have started to destroy classified material as a security precaution amid anti-American protests in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa.
What they did in Iran in 1979 was shred documents pertaining to Brzezinski's and others introduction of fundamentalist Muslims (like bin Laden, and initiated through Iran at the time due to the alliance with the Shah) into Afghanistan, which would eventually lead to 9/11 (or so the conventional myth holds).
Unfortunately, those pesky Iranian kids painstakingly put them all back together again and that is how I know this.
Since last Tuesday, protesters have breached the walls or compounds of several US diplomatic missions, including in Cairo, Tunis, and the consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where the ambassador and three other Americans were killed.
After Tuesday’s violent protests, the State Department ordered all US embassies and consulates around the world to review their security postures. As a result, a number of missions decided to destroy classified material, the official said. It was not immediately clear which other missions besides the one in Beirut had done that.
The official stressed it was normal under circumstances such as those of last week for embassies to reduce the amount of classified material that they hold. Classified documents are also routinely culled as part of normal embassy operations.
The White House said President Obama called officials at US diplomatic facilities in North Africa and the Middle East over the weekend to reassure them that their security is a top priority for the US government.
Obama called officials working in Sudan, Tunisia, Libya, and Yemen following violent protests that broke out in response to the anti-Islam film....
That's not what it was, but why bother a good cover story narrative?
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Related:
"Sensitive documents left behind at American mission in Libya" by Michael Birnbaum | Washington Post, October 04, 2012
BENGHAZI, Libya — More than three weeks after attacks in this city killed the US ambassador and three other Americans, sensitive documents remained only loosely secured in the wreckage of the US mission here Wednesday, offering visitors easy access to delicate information about American operations in Libya.
They weren't culled and destroyed?
Documents detailing weapons collection efforts, emergency evacuation protocols, the full internal itinerary of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens’s trip, and personnel records of Libyans who were contracted to secure the mission were among the items scattered across the floors of the looted compound when a Washington Post reporter and a translator visited Wednesday.
The discovery further complicates efforts by the Obama administration to respond to what has rapidly become a major foreign policy issue just weeks before the election.
All but forgotten now. More s*** show fooleys for you 'murkn people like the inequality debate.
Republicans have accused Obama of having left US diplomatic compounds in Muslim-majority nations insufficiently protected on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and have questioned the security preparations in the leadup to assaults on embassies in Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, and Sudan. Capitol Hill critics have also pressed for an explanation for the slow pace of the inquiry that has followed the attack in Benghazi.
Many documents may already have disappeared....
None of the documents were marked classified, but this is not the first time that sensitive documents have been found by journalists in the charred wreckage of the compound. CNN discovered a copy of the ambassador’s journal last month and broadcast details from it, drawing an angry response from the State Department. Unlike the journal, all of the documents seen by The Post were official.
At least one document found in the clutter indicates that Americans at the mission were discussing the possibility of an attack in early September, just two days before the assault took place. The document is a memorandum dated Sept. 9....
--more--"
Also see:
Militants seek to harness Muslim rage at film
Hundreds in Winchester mourn a ‘hometown hero’
New French cartoons inflame prophet film tensions
Partisan messages now easier than ever to spread with film, video
Yeah, it's not limited to agenda-pushing newspapers anymore.
US goes to airwaves to denounce movie
Bid to take down anti-Muslim clip rejected
YouTube, which is owned by Google, has refused requests to remove the film
Some affectionately call it JooTube.
"19 die in Pakistan protests over video" by Declan Walsh | New York Times, September 22, 2012
ISLAMABAD — Violent crowds furious over an anti-Islamic video made in the United States convulsed Pakistan’s largest cities on Friday, leaving up to 19 people dead and more than 160 hurt in a day of government-sanctioned protests.
There's that ma$$ media pot hollering again.
It was the worst single day of deadly violence in a Muslim country over the video, ‘‘Innocence of Muslims,’’ since the protests began nearly two weeks ago in Egypt and later spread to two dozen countries. Protesters have ignored the US government’s denunciation of the video....
Kind of easy to when they and their agents are the ones that put it out.
Less-violent protests occurred in other Muslim countries but were exacerbated by the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in a French satirical weekly.
What's with the agenda-pushing provocations?
In Bangladesh, several thousand Islamist activists took to the streets of the capital, Dhaka, waving banners and burning a symbolic coffin for President Obama that was draped with the US flag. ‘‘Death to the United States and death to French,’’ they chanted.
Local television networks reported that a mobs ransacked and burned an Anglican church in Mardan in northwestern Pakistan. A statement by the bishop of Peshawar, the Rev. Humphrey Peters, said that newly installed computers were stolen before the church was set on fire. There were no reports of killings or injuries to the Christians.
In Tunisia, the government invoked emergency powers to outlaw all demonstrations; US diplomatic posts in India, Indonesia, and elsewhere closed for the day.
France closed embassies and other institutions in 20 countries while, in Paris, some Muslim leaders urged their followers to heed a government ban on weekend demonstrations....
In Pakistan, the streets erupted beginning in early morning in Peshawar, where protesters burned two movie theaters. Two people, including the television employee, Muhammad Amir, were killed.
Amir’s employer broadcast graphic images of hospital staff giving him emergency treatment shortly before he died, which other Pakistani journalists condemned as insensitive and irresponsible.
Some protesters tried to reach the city’s heavily guarded US consulate, which has a strong CIA component. By evening, hospital officials said at least five people were dead and more than 50 injured.
After Friday prayers more severe violence erupted in Islamabad, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan, and Karachi, where normally bustling streets were instead filled with clouds of tear gas and the sound of gunfire.
Protesters in Karachi burned effigies, stoned a KFC, and engaged in armed clashes with the police that left 14 people dead and more than 80 wounded by evening.
Maybe they didn't like the chicken.
Peaceful protests had been approved by Pakistan’s government, which declared Friday a national holiday, the ‘‘Day of Love for the Prophet Mohammed,’’ as part of an effort to either control, or politically capitalize on, rage against the inflammatory video, which depicts Mohammed, the founder of Islam, as a sexually perverted buffoon....
Obama's nonprofit PAC!
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Related: Pakistan disowns bounty on anti-Islam filmmaker
"Bangladesh police, protesters clash at rally against US film" Associated Press, September 23, 2012
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Scores of people were injured Saturday in clashes in Bangladesh’s capital between police and hundreds of demonstrators, as protests continued in the Muslim world against a film produced in the United States that denigrates Islam’s prophet Mohammed.
In Pakistan, where more than 20 people died Friday in clashes in cities across the country, a Cabinet minister offered a $100,000 reward for the death of the filmmaker.
The film has sparked violent protests across the Muslim world that resulted in the deaths of dozens, including the US ambassador to Libya.
In Bangladesh, police fired tear gas and used batons Saturday to disperse stone-throwing protesters from about a dozen Islamic groups. Protesters burned vehicles, including a police van, witnesses said.
The clash erupted when authorities tried to halt the demonstration, police said. Authorities have banned all protests near the city’s main Baitul Mokarram mosque since Friday, when more than 2,000 people marched and burned an effigy of President Obama.
The protesters announced a nationwide general strike on Sunday to protest the police action.
That's abetter way than violence.
In Pakistan, protests continued Saturday, with more than 1,500 people, including women and children, rallying in the capital. The crowd was peaceful but angry about the video ‘‘Innocence of Muslims.’’
Islamic women out in public protesting? Surely you jest!
The protesters — from the Minhaj-ul-Quran religious group — marched through Islamabad’s streets and then gathered near Parliament, chanting slogans against the filmmaker and demanding stern punishment for him.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the recent violent protests, but said Western nations need to prevent insults to Islam.
‘‘No one claims freedom of expression when they restrict racism. The same restrictions that are imposed on racism must be displayed against Islamophobia,’’ Erdogan said Saturday. “Islamophobia is as dangerous as racism and is something that must not be tolerated.’’
But it is only questioning the Holocaust™ that will land you in jail.
Thousands of people also protested Saturday in Kano, Nigeria. The crowd marched from a mosque to the palace of the emir of Kano, the region’s top Islamic spiritual leader.
About 200 students in Srinagar, in Indian-controlled Kashmir, chanted ‘‘Down with America’’ and ‘‘Long live Islam’’ in a peaceful protest. Some carried a placard that read, ‘‘There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his messenger.’’
Just noted it because I so rarely see a reference.
Meanwhile, a French court convicted a man for carrying a weapon at an illegal demonstration in front of the US Embassy protesting the same video.
The 24-year-old convert to Islam was sentenced to three months in prison. Saturday’s ruling came hours after police detained a man in the western city of La Rochelle suspected of threatening to decapitate the editor of a French satirical weekly that published lewd caricatures of the prophet Wednesday amid protests around the world against the amateurish film produced in California.
Oh, no, another patsy!
The swift action in both cases reflects concern in France, where Islam is the second biggest religion after Christianity, about potential fallout from the video and the caricatures. Planned protests Saturday were banned, and police increased security around the US Embassy, at the main Paris mosque, and at other sensitive sites.
A week ago, police detained 151 protesters who suddenly gathered at the US Embassy without authorization and eventually released all but the convicted man, Loic Guibet. Police found a retractable club bearing his fingerprints in a garbage can nearby. Guibet, who works for the French railway and is married, claimed he brought the weapons ‘‘preventatively’’ should a Zionist group blamed for violence in the past show up.
Related:
Six Zionist Companies Own 96% of the World's Media
Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed
Operation Mockingbird
Why Am I No Longer Reading the Newspaper?
Once you know where the agenda is going and the code they speak these things are easy to spot.
Guibet was allowed to go free after the sentencing and it is possible he will serve no time at all, which is not unusual in France for prison sentences of less than two years. A judge will decide whether he goes to jail, does community work, or wears an electronic bracelet.
Oui, he needs to be deployed on another mission.
Meanwhile, in La Rochelle, police detained a 43-year-old man after the prosecutor’s office opened an investigation over a threat, made in an Internet forum, against the editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo magazine, the Sipa news agency reported.
(Sigh)
Guibet was allowed to go free after the sentencing and it is possible he will serve no time at all, which is not unusual in France for prison sentences of less than two years. A judge will decide whether he goes to jail, does community work, or wears an electronic bracelet.
Oui, he needs to be deployed on another mission.
Meanwhile, in La Rochelle, police detained a 43-year-old man after the prosecutor’s office opened an investigation over a threat, made in an Internet forum, against the editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo magazine, the Sipa news agency reported.
(Sigh)
Wednesday’s publication of the cartoons by Charlie Hebdo magazine
raised fears that French interests worldwide could face violent protests
like the ones targeting the United States over the anti-Islam video
that mocked Mohammed. France ordered some 20 overseas missions closed on
Friday, the Muslim holy day.
And then they invaded Mali!
And then they invaded Mali!
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More:
Arab League calls for criminalization of blasphemy
Maker of inflammatory anti-Islam film arrested
Russia court outlaws anti-Islam film
How blasphemy divides the Arab world from the West
Top officials say US to seek out Libya attackers
Court mulls where Khadafy’s son should be tried
Two detained in attack on US consulate
Anti-Muslim ad unites diverse groups
Didn't see much about that at all in my newspaper. Hmmmmmm.
And WHO BENEFIT$ when you get to the BOTTOM of it all?
"Security of US diplomats complicated by a host of issues; More demands, limited resources stretch mission" by James Risen | New York Times, October 13, 2012
WASHINGTON — Lost amid the election-year wrangling over the militants’ attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is a complex back story involving growing regional resentment against heavily armed US private security contractors, increased demands on State Department resources, and mounting frustration among diplomats over escalating protections that they say make it more difficult to do their jobs.
The Benghazi attacks, which left the US ambassador and three other Americans dead, came at the end of a 10-year period in which the State Department — sending its employees into a lengthening list of war zones and volatile regions — had regularly ratcheted up security for its diplomats. The aggressive measures used by private contractors eventually led to shootings in Afghanistan and Iraq that provoked protests, including an episode involving guards from Blackwater, a US security company, that left at least 17 Iraqis dead in Baghdad’s Nisour Square.
Related: Operation Iraq: Blessed Blackwater
Also see: Occupation Iraq: Blackwater Contractor Gets Away With Murder
The ghosts of that episode clearly hung over Benghazi. This year, the new Libyan government expressly banned Blackwater-style armed contractors from flooding into the country. “The Libyans were not keen to have boots on the ground,’’ one senior State Department official said....
For the State Department, the security situation in Libya came down
in part to the question of whether it was a war zone or just another
African outpost. Even though the country was still volatile after the
bloody rebellion that ousted Moammar Khadafy, the State Department did
not include Libya on its list of dangerous postings that are high
priority for extra security resources.
Only the US embassies in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are exempted from awarding security contracts to the lowest bidder. Dangerous posts are allowed to consider ‘‘best value’’ contracting instead, according to a State Department inspector general’s report in February.
Hey, it's a time of austerity for all.
The large private security firms that have protected US diplomats in Iraq and Afghanistan sought State Department contracts in Libya, and at least one made a personal pitch to Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, who was killed in the militants’ attack in Benghazi on Sept. 11, according to a senior official at one firm.
But given the Libyan edict banning the contractors, the Obama administration was eager to reduce the US footprint there. After initially soliciting bids from major security companies for work in Libya, State Department officials never followed through.
“We went in to make a pitch, and nothing happened,’’ said the security firm official.
He said he believed the State Department could have found a way around the Libyan objections if it had wanted to.
Instead, the department relied on a small British firm to provide several unarmed Libyan guards for security at the mission in Benghazi. For the personal protection of the diplomats, the department largely depended on its Diplomatic Security Service.
The wrangling over protection is part of a larger debate that has been underway for years within the State Department over how to balance security with the need of US diplomats to move freely.
Many diplomats rankle at the constraints imposed on them by security officials, who demand that they travel around foreign capitals in heavily armored convoys that local civilians find insulting and that make it nearly impossible for the envoys to meet discreetly with foreign officials. Many US diplomats have also grown deeply frustrated by the constraints imposed on them by working in the new, highly secure embassies that have been constructed around the world over the past decade....
It's the co$t of the lies.
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Also see: Head of Islamist group is called leader of attack
He worked for "Al-CIA-Duh."
More:
Arab League calls for criminalization of blasphemy
Maker of inflammatory anti-Islam film arrested
Russia court outlaws anti-Islam film
How blasphemy divides the Arab world from the West
Top officials say US to seek out Libya attackers
Court mulls where Khadafy’s son should be tried
Two detained in attack on US consulate
Anti-Muslim ad unites diverse groups
Didn't see much about that at all in my newspaper. Hmmmmmm.
And WHO BENEFIT$ when you get to the BOTTOM of it all?
"Security of US diplomats complicated by a host of issues; More demands, limited resources stretch mission" by James Risen | New York Times, October 13, 2012
WASHINGTON — Lost amid the election-year wrangling over the militants’ attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is a complex back story involving growing regional resentment against heavily armed US private security contractors, increased demands on State Department resources, and mounting frustration among diplomats over escalating protections that they say make it more difficult to do their jobs.
The Benghazi attacks, which left the US ambassador and three other Americans dead, came at the end of a 10-year period in which the State Department — sending its employees into a lengthening list of war zones and volatile regions — had regularly ratcheted up security for its diplomats. The aggressive measures used by private contractors eventually led to shootings in Afghanistan and Iraq that provoked protests, including an episode involving guards from Blackwater, a US security company, that left at least 17 Iraqis dead in Baghdad’s Nisour Square.
Related: Operation Iraq: Blessed Blackwater
Also see: Occupation Iraq: Blackwater Contractor Gets Away With Murder
The ghosts of that episode clearly hung over Benghazi. This year, the new Libyan government expressly banned Blackwater-style armed contractors from flooding into the country. “The Libyans were not keen to have boots on the ground,’’ one senior State Department official said....
Only the US embassies in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are exempted from awarding security contracts to the lowest bidder. Dangerous posts are allowed to consider ‘‘best value’’ contracting instead, according to a State Department inspector general’s report in February.
Hey, it's a time of austerity for all.
The large private security firms that have protected US diplomats in Iraq and Afghanistan sought State Department contracts in Libya, and at least one made a personal pitch to Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, who was killed in the militants’ attack in Benghazi on Sept. 11, according to a senior official at one firm.
But given the Libyan edict banning the contractors, the Obama administration was eager to reduce the US footprint there. After initially soliciting bids from major security companies for work in Libya, State Department officials never followed through.
“We went in to make a pitch, and nothing happened,’’ said the security firm official.
He said he believed the State Department could have found a way around the Libyan objections if it had wanted to.
Instead, the department relied on a small British firm to provide several unarmed Libyan guards for security at the mission in Benghazi. For the personal protection of the diplomats, the department largely depended on its Diplomatic Security Service.
The wrangling over protection is part of a larger debate that has been underway for years within the State Department over how to balance security with the need of US diplomats to move freely.
Many diplomats rankle at the constraints imposed on them by security officials, who demand that they travel around foreign capitals in heavily armored convoys that local civilians find insulting and that make it nearly impossible for the envoys to meet discreetly with foreign officials. Many US diplomats have also grown deeply frustrated by the constraints imposed on them by working in the new, highly secure embassies that have been constructed around the world over the past decade....
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Also see: Head of Islamist group is called leader of attack
He worked for "Al-CIA-Duh."
