http://www.infowars.com/dead-us-ambassador-documented-creation-of-benghazi-terror-emirate/
( Ambassador Stevens - The Man Who Knew Too Much ? )
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http://rt.com/news/libya-attack-al-qaeda-873/
( more spin as Intelligence just trying to throw anything out there to muddy the waters ! )
http://www.libyaherald.com/?p=16456
( Ambassador Stevens - The Man Who Knew Too Much ? )
Dead US Ambassador Documented Creation of Benghazi Terror Emirate
Tony Cartalucci
Infowars.com
Oct 21, 2012
Infowars.com
Oct 21, 2012
“I have met with these brave fighters, and they are not Al-Qaeda. To the contrary: They are Libyan patriots who want to liberate their nation. We should help them do it.” -
October 20, 2012 – The Washington Times, in an article titled, “Ambassador Stevens warned of Islamic extremism before Benghazi attack,” reported:
Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, in a diplomatic cable from Libya last June, cited the apparent rise of “Islamic extremism” and the spotting of “the Al Qaeda flag” over buildings outside the city of Benghazi, where he and three other Americans were ultimately killed in an attack on Sept. 11.
The Washington Times would quote Stevens as writing:
“A number of local contacts agreed, noting that Islamic extremism appears to be on the rise in eastern Libya and that the Al Qaeda flag has been spotted several times flying over government buildings and training facilities” in a small Libyan city about 100 miles east of Benghazi.”
While all of this is depicted by the Western media as a recent revelation made only after the death of Ambassador Stevens, journalists around the world had documented and warned of the dangers of arming “pro-democracy protesters” who were clearly militant extremists, actively carrying out terrorism for at least three decades in the Cyrenaica (eastern Libya) region. These warning came just as NATO bombs began to fall on Libya in 2011, and were reiterated many times before the bombing concluded.
Video: March, 2011, shortly after NATO began bombing Libya, journalists the world over were warning that the so-called “pro-democracy” protesters the West was purportedly protecting were in fact notorious extremist groups with a 30 year history of terrorism in Libya and abroad. Dr. Webster Tarpley provided documented evidence collected from the US Army’s own West Point study, indicating the the epicenter of the so-called “revolution,” was in fact the global epicenter of Al Qaeda recruitment. It would be in this epicenter that John McCain would give his speech, and where Ambassador Stevens would later be killed.
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Geopolitical analyst Dr. Webster Tarpley, in March of 2011, published a report titled, “The CIA’s Libya Rebels: The Same Terrorists who Killed US, NATO Troops in Iraq,” where a 2007 West Point study implicated Libya’s Cyrenaica region as the global epicenter for Al Qaeda recruitment. The most prominent militant group in the region was the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), listed by the US State Department, United Nations, and the UK Home Office (page 5, .pdf) as an international terrorist organization.
The United Nations, in addition to labeling LIFG as a terrorist organization, designated it as being in association with Al Qaeda, a designation that was made in 2001, a decade before NATO’s military intervention.
While the Western press and State Department officials attempt to claim the extremists operating in Benghazi are merely “affiliated” with Al Qaeda, this is an understatement. LIFG is Al Qaeda, and has been officially since 2007. The West Point report titled, “Al-Qa’ida’s Foreign Fighters in Iraq” stated:
The apparent surge in Libyan recruits traveling to Iraq may be linked the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group’s (LIFG) increasingly cooperative relationship with al‐Qa’ida, which culminated in the LIFG officially joining al‐Qa’ida on November 3, 2007. (page 9, .pdf)
To this day, LIFG leaders are alleged to occupy the highest echelons of Al Qaeda, with the recently deceased Abu Yahya al-Libi (the Libyan) having played a role in both terror outfits. With West Point’s 2007 report and the UN’s 2001 official designation, it is clear that NATO’s decision to arm these groups was an act of unprecedented, blatant state sponsorship of terrorism. That the UN mandated NATO’s intervention, undermines entirely the “primacy of international law.”
Warning Signs Were Covered Up, Not Ignored.
While the Western press glossed over stories covering the hoisting of Al Qaeda flags described by Ambassador Stevens in his cables, the development was covered across the alternative media, including in, “John McCain: Founding Father of the Terrorist Emirate of Benghazi,” where the full implications and genesis of these prevailing extremists forces were examined in detail. Alternative analysis was quickly dismissed as “conspiracy theories,” even as Ambassador Stevens was sending his cables to Washington conveying exactly the same information.
The West did not “ignore” these warnings. It covered them up intentionally through a concerted campaign of deceit, cognitive infiltration, and ridicule. The intelligence services of Washington and London had been supplying weapons and aid to the terrorists of Benghazi for 30 years, fought along side them in Afghanistan against the Soviets in the 1980′s, armed and unleashed them in Kosovo in the 1990′s, and willfully bolstered their numbers, armament, and operational capacity in 2011 in order to overthrow the Libyan government.
The terror emirate of Benghazi that consumed Ambassador Stevens is a monster of the West’s own willful, premeditated creation – the West fully cognizant of the implications – and a monster the West is currently still arming, funding, and supporting, this time along the Turkish-Syrian border.
US, NATO, and “International Community” to Willfully Repeat “Mistake” in Syria.
Indeed, the very terrorists that have turned Benghazi into a terror emirate, with Al Qaeda flags waving freely over government buildings, and responsible for the death of a US Ambassador, are being sent to the Turkish-Syrian border where NATO member Turkey is harboring them while the US arms them with Saudi and Qatari purchased weapons.
In November 2011, the Telegraph in their article, “Leading Libyan Islamist met Free Syrian Army opposition group,” would report:
Abdulhakim Belhadj, head of the Tripoli Military Council and the former leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, “met with Free Syrian Army leaders in Istanbul and on the border with Turkey,” said a military official working with Mr Belhadj. “Mustafa Abdul Jalil (the interim Libyan president) sent him there.”Another Telegraph article, “Libya’s new rulers offer weapons to Syrian rebels,” would admitSyrian rebels held secret talks with Libya’s new authorities on Friday, aiming to secure weapons and money for their insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, The Daily Telegraph has learned.At the meeting, which was held in Istanbul and included Turkish officials, the Syrians requested “assistance” from the Libyan representatives and were offered arms, and potentially volunteers.“There is something being planned to send weapons and even Libyan fighters to Syria,” said a Libyan source, speaking on condition of anonymity. “There is a military intervention on the way. Within a few weeks you will see.”Later that month, some 600 Libyan terrorists would be reported to have entered Syria to begin combat operations and more recently, CNN, whose Ivan Watson accompanied terrorists over the Turkish-Syrian border and into Aleppo, revealed that indeed foreign fighters were amongst the militants, particularly Libyans. It was admitted that:Meanwhile, residents of the village where the Syrian Falcons were headquartered said there were fighters of several North African nationalities also serving with the brigade’s ranks.A volunteer Libyan fighter has also told CNN he intends to travel from Turkey to Syria within days to add a “platoon” of Libyan fighters to armed movement.On Wednesday, CNN’s crew met a Libyan fighter who had crossed into Syria from Turkey with four other Libyans. The fighter wore full camouflage and was carrying a Kalashnikov rifle. He said more Libyan fighters were on the way.The foreign fighters, some of them are clearly drawn because they see this as … a jihad. So this is a magnet for jihadists who see this as a fight for Sunni Muslims.CNN’s reports provide bookends to 2011′s admissions that large numbers of Libyan terrorists flush with NATO cash and weapons had headed to Syria, with notorious terrorist LIFG commandersmaking the arrangements.In essence, Syria has been under invasion for nearly a year by Libyan terrorists – the very same terrorists who have overrun Benghazi and killed a US ambassador, fully facilitated by NATO. In addition to these terrorists, Turkey and the United States are also arming and funding Muslim Brotherhood militants as well as fighters from US State Department-listed Ansar al-Islam.To explain this to the public, the Western press is claiming that the weapons are inadvertently ending up in the hands of extremists, despite the CIA operating along the border allegedly steering weapons into the hands of “more secular” militants.In June of 2012, the New York Times in an article titled, “C.I.A. Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition,” claimed:A small number of C.I.A. officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials and Arab intelligence officers.The weapons, including automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, ammunition and some antitank weapons, are being funneled mostly across the Turkish border by way of a shadowy network of intermediaries including Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood and paid for by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the officials said.The C.I.A. officers have been in southern Turkey for several weeks, in part to help keep weapons out of the hands of fighters allied with Al Qaeda or other terrorist groups, one senior American official said.Then, apparently right under the nose of the CIA and NATO, the New York Times reported on October 14, 2012 in their article, “Rebel Arms Flow Is Said to Benefit Jihadists in Syria,” that:Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster, according to American officials and Middle Eastern diplomats.Clearly, there are only two explanations. The CIA is inept and should be held accountable for its profound and repeated failures, or the same verified lies told by the West in regards to Libya are being repeated in Syria.Either way, the West, though its demonstrable actions, has forfeited its self-proclaimed authority to intervene beyond its borders, based on “international law” it willfully, openly, and repeatedly violates, selectively enforces, and otherwise manipulates to achieve its extraterritorial ambitions – and must be excluded entirely from any solution implemented to resolve the violence unfolding in Syria.
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http://rt.com/news/libya-attack-al-qaeda-873/
( more spin as Intelligence just trying to throw anything out there to muddy the waters ! )
New evidence suggests Libya attack not linked to al-Qaeda
Published: 20 October, 2012, 23:41
A protester reacts as the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protest by an armed group said to have been protesting a film being produced in the United States September 11, 2012 (Reuters / Esam Al-Fetori)
Damage inside the burnt US consulate building in Benghazi on September 13, 2012 (AFP Photo / Gianluigi Guercia)
Burnt building at the US consulate compound in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on September 13, 2012 (AFP Photo / Gianluigi Guercia)http://www.libyaherald.com/?p=16456
Moussa Ibrahim reportedly captured trying to escape Bani Walid
Moussa Ibrahim in hospital in Misrata (courtesy of Ziad Libya)
Tripoli, 20 October:
The Qaddafi regime’s media spokesman, Moussa Ibrahim, has been reported as captured in Bani Walid and is now being held at Mitiga airbase in Tripoli after a brief check-up in t in hospital in Misrata. He was flown to Tripoli from Misrata this afternoon.
Around 30 other Qaddafi figures are also said to have been caught in the past 24 hours in and around the town, both as a result of fighting there and when the national army entered it early today.
The names of several have been mentioned, including those of General Abdurrahman Al-Sid, Muftah Kaayiba, the Secretary of the General People’s Congress, and Ramadan Bashir.
At least one other top Qaddafi figure, Colonel Milad Al-Faqhi, was also reported to have been captured shortly after midday while escaping the besieged town in a four-wheel vehicle. Qaddafi’s military spokesman and the man accused of being responsible for the siege and assault on Zawia last year, Faqhi is said to have been taken to Mtiga airbase in Tripoli.
He was reported killed in May last year when a NATO strike hit an intelligence headquarters in Tripoli.
Al-Faqhi last year
Car horns in the capital were being hooted during the afternoon as news spread of the captures However, there was no official confirmation of any names.
“We know that Moussa Ibrahim was in Bani Walid,” said one Western ambassador in Tripoli today. “We also know that as many as 30 Qaddafi supporters have been captured in the town”, he added but did not know their identities.
According to official reports, the capture of numerous former regime officials and commanders followed the national army’ entry into Bani Walid from the east side at sunrise this morning. Sources said that it was being helped in its house-to-house searches by local residents. However, the Libya Herald’s George Grant was in Sufageen Valley to the east of Bani Walid this morning and saw no sign of any military activity.
There is also a degree of scepticism in Tripoli that such a large number of former regime figures could so conveniently be captured on the first anniversary of Qaddafi’s death.
However, it is claimed that the fighting in Bani Walid today has been intense. Earlier this afternoon, it was reported that up to that point 10 Misratan men had been wounded during the day.
The whereabouts of Moussa Ibrahim, whose constant aggressive denial of reality last year made him only marginally less hated than Qaddafi and his family, has been a mystery ever since the regime finally fell. There were reports of him being in Bani Walid, in Algeria, in Egypt and even in Germany: his wife is German.
There are also persistent reports that Khamis Qaddafi is or until a couple of days ago was in Bani Walid. One report today has Ibrahim in hospital in Misrata “confirming” that the dictator’s youngest son was in Bani Walid. Anther rumour is that he was lifted out of the town by helicopter some days ago.
Like Faqhi, Khamis was supposed to have been killed last year. However, lack of evidence has fuelled the rumour mill that he was still alive. What has been reported today, however, is that various military equipment belonging to Qaddafi supporters was seized in Bani Walid this morning including large numbers of weapons, a T92 tank and an air defence system belonging to Qaddafi’s 32nd Brigade, better known as the Khamis Brigade.
Many families have been leaving the town over the past 24 hours. According to soldiers manning the checkpoint on the road to Sirte, as many as 150 families left last night. This morning they reported just four or five.
Among those today was a small boy whom the soldiers say would not stop crying. People tried to comfort him to no avail. Eventually he did stop and was then asked why he had been crying. “They shot my father in front of me”, was his reply according to one of the soliders. The story, if true, would seem to back up reports that Bani Walid forces have been trying to prevent ordinary civilians from leaving in the hope of using them as hostages and human shields.
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http://www.libyaherald.com/?p=16505
Khamis Qaddafi captured in Bani Walid, dies on way to Misrata
By Michel Cousins.
Tripoli, 20 October:
Khamis Qaddafi was discovered and arrested in Bani Walid today but died while being taken to Misrata. Confirmation of his arrest and subsequent death was announced on TV this evening, Saturday, by the General National Congress spokesman Omar Humaidan.
According to Humaidan, Khamis was wounded when he and army forces were involved in a shoot out in Bani Walid. He was captured by Misratan forces and taken to Misrata but died en route.
Up until today it had been generally believed that Khamis, Qaddafi’s youngest son (and in the views of many, his most brutal), had been killed on 29 August last year during a NATO airstrike. However, this was never confirmed, resulting in continuing rumors that he was still alive and somewhere in Libya. He was reported to have been seen in Bani Walid and in Tarhouna.
Shortly after his supposed death, pro-Qaddafi media announced that he was dead. But this is now seen as deliberate disinformation, a practice the regime cultivated. In 1986 it was announced that Qaddafi’s adopted daughter Hana was killed in the US airstrike on Bab Al-Azizya but she was subsequently seen many times in Libya. Likewise, Qaddafi’s son Seif Al-Arab was reported killed in a NATO raid on Bab Al-Azizya last year, but this was widely viewed as untrue.
Khamis’ death occurs exactly a year after that of his father, the dictator who was captured, then killed, in Sirte.
Given the mystery and conspiracy theories that have arisen about Qaddafi’s death, the fact that, like him, Khamis was captured by Misratan forces and then died will certainly trigger a mass of allegations about his demise.
Few in Libya were worried about that last night.
Even before the news was confirmed, Tripoli broke out into spontaneous party mood as rumors of his capture then death spread.
On the streets there was a rising cacophony of car horns blasting away as the news spread, with almost every other vehicle flashing indicator lights. Guns were fired into the air in celebration. By mid evening, traffic in many parts of the city had ground to a halt as more and more people took to their vehicles to drive round celebrating. Fireworks burst over Fashloom, centre of so much opposition to the regime last year, and the main road into it was closed. In Gargaresh, young men could be seen dancing in the streets between the oncoming traffic. In Dahra, at one point, a massive roar from a nearby but unseen crowd sounded as if the winning goal in a football match had just been scored.
As for the many checkpoints set up during the day in case pro-Qaddafi elements tried to mount an attack to mark the anniversary, they became celebration points, with the soldiers manning them dancing, shouting takbeers (“Allahu Akbar”), giving victory signs and merrily waving the traffic on.
Not since Saif Al-Islam’s capture last year, has the city been in such carnival mood.
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http://www.libyaherald.com/?p=16452
Breaking News: Water to be returned to Tripoli within 48 hours: Awad Barasi
By Sami Zaptia.
Tripoli, 20 October:
Awad Barasi, the Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy, announced on his Facebook page that “thanks to the grace of Allah and the efforts of the electricity warriors the electricity supply has been reconnected to the Great Man-Made River project in the Hasauna Mountains area” – located some 500 kilometers south of Tripoli.
Barasi went on to reassure that “efforts are underway to reactivate the well pumps by the Great Man-Made River Management and Implementation Authority (GMRA)’” and that water should be back within 48 hours.
This post by Barasi contradicts what GMRA had said in an official statement on Thursday.
In that statement GMRA had stated that even if the electric power were reconnected to the pumps immediately, the length and size of the water pipes running from the south to the water reservoirs near Sidi Sayah, and the size of the water reservoirs, would mean that it would take a minimum of five days before water returned to Tripoli.
The loss of electric supply to the water wells in the Hasauna Mountains area was as a result of damage caused to the power lines near the Bani Walid area.
The Libya Herald has been unable to get any further clarification from official authorities today, Saturday, on account of it being a public holiday.
However, members of the public have been saying they are increasingly worried by the idea that they will spend the Eid al-Adha (feast of sacrifice) holidays, beginning on Friday 26th October, without water.
Meanwhile, Tripoli Local Council has pointed out that the Public Water Company has issued an emergency number (021-3608870) for anyone who needs water to be supplied by the company.
The Public Water Company has on its part reminded the general public to use water with care and consideration until normal water supplies are restored to the city of Tripoli.
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http://www.libyaherald.com/?p=16435
TV station denies being pressured into suppressing corruption video
Tripoli, 19 October:
Libya’s state-owned Wataniya TV has denied accusations that it suppressed a video film containing details of massive state embezzlement. The denial follows protests outside the Libyan Broadcasting Office on Tripoli’s Shara Al-Shatt on Thursday evening.
The video purportedly contains information about the channeling of over $90 billion of public funds during the Qaddafi years, and since, to bank accounts in Switzerland, the UK, Qatar and the UAE. It is said to include names of bankers involved in the transactions. It was reportedly going to be aired by the channel. However, this did not happen.
The demonstrators, estimated to number around 100 by local residents, called on the Attorney General to open a prompt and thorough investigation to discover who had prevented the screening of the video.
They also claimed that a number of individuals and groups had not only diverted Libyan public funds but had since tried to use them to undermine the revolution. They demanded the authorities not only find and retrieve the embezzled money but also look at the role of the media in obscuring what they said were the facts. They said the media were denying the public access to information of concern.
The figure of $90 billion is enormous but not when compared to $150 billion estimated to have been stolen by the Qaddafi family over the years.
In its statement issued Thursday night in response to the protest, Libya Al-Wataniya claimed it “had no hand” in preventing the video from being screened, and that it would be broadcast “without any censorship” on both the channel’s TV and radio stations.
It said it would always seek the truth and communicate it to the public, and that it would continue calling for freedom whatever the cost.
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