Benghazi: Obama knew within 24 hours that it was jihad

It is ever clearer that the Obama Administration knew it was a jihad attack and lied in a vain attempt to cover up the abject failure of their support for the Islamic supremacist "Arab Spring." As previously reported at Jihad Watch: "Benghazi attack: CIA reported 'within 24 hours' Islamist militants to blame," by Peter Foster in the Telegraph, October 19 (thanks to Twostellas):

Barack Obama was under renewed pressure over his handling of the fatal attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi last night, after CIA sources said they had reported "within 24 hours" that the assault was carried out by Islamist militants.

The claims raised fresh questions about when exactly Mr Obama learned that the storming of the consulate was a terrorist event, as senior Republicans continued to accuse him of misleading the public over the attacks in order to protect his record on neutralising al-Qaeda.

As the US general election enters its final weeks, the Benghazi incident has become an increasingly charged political issue ahead of Monday's last presidential debate, which will focus exclusively on foreign policy.

Mr Obama defended his record on Benghazi during an appearance on the acerbic current affairs comedy programme, The Daily Show, pledging to get to the bottom of what happened and hold those responsible.

However his pledge to track down those responsible for killing Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans was contrasted by a report from Benghazi that one of the alleged ring leaders in the attacks was openly mocking both the Libyan and US governments.

Ahmed Abu Khattala, who has been linked to the militia group Ansar al-Shariah gave a two-hour interview to the New York Times at a luxury hotel, in which sipped a strawberry frappé while boasting no one had questioned him over the attacks and that he had no plans to go into hiding.

Mr Obama was also asked why Susan Rice, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, was still linking the attacks to an offensive video a week after the attacks, when other officials have subsequently testified that it was already then clear to intelligence agencies that attack was terrorist in nature.

"The truth is that information comes in, folks put it out throughout the process, people say it is still incomplete," Mr Obama told the show's host Jon Stewart.

"What I was always clear about was we are going to do an investigation and figure out what happened."

He later added: "Every piece of information that we got as we got it we laid it out for the American people, and the picture eventually gets fully filled in and we know how to prevent it in the future."....

You'll never prevent it as long as you keep lying about its root cause.

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In a luxury hotel, sipping a strawberry frappé -- the new natural habitat of Islamic supremacists under caliph Obama's "Arab Spring". Sure beats caves and village tents out in the desert or up in the hills.

Meanwhile, in Libya today:

"Libyan army begins assault of Bani Walid"


http://rt.com/news/libya-gaddafi-chemical-weapons-nato-816/


It's random workplace violence. It happens in embassies and consulates all the time. There's no pattern to it, it's just as likely to occur in Scotland or Switzerland as anywhere else.

For Obama and his ilk (Rice, Carney, et al.) to have admitted up front that the attack on Benghazi was a planned Islamic terrorist action, as opposed to a "spontaneous demonstration" to a film critical of Mo, would have contradicted the entire Obama outreach policy to the Islamic world, to wit, that Islam is a good religion which deserves respect and that only a few extremist Muslims are out there who have been dealt effectively with by Obama's policies, that Bush's approach to dealing with Islamic terror was misguided, and that a new and wonderful era has opened up with Islamic nations because of the enlightened approach of Obama----and other nonsense along these lines.

And so Obama and his ilk lied in order to preserve the myth that Obama's outreach to the Islamic world has worked. Well, it hasn't. A more clueless President (unless even worse the guy is complicit, something I don't personally believe but I know many people do) in all of American history, even Franlin Pierce and James Buchanan, could not be found, never mind Obama's utter cluelessness respecting how a healthy capitalistic economy really works, i.e., the guy effectively wants to turn America into a giant Greece-----this is how extraordinarily ignorant on economic matters he really is.

Time for Islam to be read the riot act. And time for Obama to be a one-termer.

Let's hope he's out of office before he "saves" us from yet another bloodbath!

Just 'Biden' my time 'til there is Nobama.

How can this NOT be treason?!

obama is such a liar; coupled by his four failed years as a president, a person would have to be willfully ignorant and blind to vote for him again. Yeah it's disconcerting knowing that there are people ready to take us down that failed road a second time. Oh, and telling the truth is always better ...makes it easier to keep the stories straight.

"Mr Obama defended his record on Benghazi during an appearance on the acerbic current affairs comedy programme, The Daily Show, pledging to get to the bottom of what happened and hold those responsible."

I would suggest to Mr. Obama that he looks in the mirror first. That would save a lot of tax payer's money in getting to the bottom of it.

And when asked on ABC’s "The View" whether it was a terrorist attack, obama refused to say ...

this is reprehensible and reveals more lies.

When it comes to icebergs, there is more below the water line than is visible on the surface. When those who lie are found to be lying, there is usually more to the real story than those hearing the lies even suspect. Lies were told about the terrorism, but since the guys over there were asking for nearly a year for extra security and being ignored or even told "no" we can all expect to hear of things that will seem incredibly wrong actions by those who take vows to "protect and serve" when being sworn into office.

And what I just posted makes an old saying come to mind that seems to reveal the meaning behind it: "The Devil is in the details."
Don't know whom to credit for the original, but "devil" in this case to me seems to need an upper case C.

Ooops! Should have written upper case D.

"The truth is that information comes in, folks put it out throughout the process, people say it is still incomplete," Mr Obama told the show's host Jon Stewart.

If this were Pres. Bush, Jon Stewart and Steve Colbert would have followed up the interview (or not even given him the benefit of an interview to speak his side) by raking him over the coals mercilessly lambasting him with scathingly partisan agit-prop demagoguery thinly disguised as "wit".

Obama is now backpedaling on going after those who murdered our diplomatic staff. Anyone surprised?

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