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Soleimani helped plan Benghazi jihad massacre of American diplomats UPDATE: 2016 commission found he didn’t

Jan 3, 2020 10:30 am By Robert Spencer

UPDATE: Accuracy In Media’s Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi found that he was not involved. We can hope that soon the Islamic Republic will fall and that its archives will be opened, so that this can be definitively established one way or the other.

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Another reason why Leftists are howling with rage and grief today.

“The shadowy Iranian spy chief who helped plan Benghazi,” by Kenneth R. Timmerman, New York Post, June 20, 2014:

As a radical Islamic army marches across Iraq, America is making a deal with the devil. Qassem Suleymani, the head of Iran’s secretive Quds Force, is allied with us in Baghdad — but he’s plotted to kill Americans elsewhere.

As Kenneth R. Timmerman reveals in his new book, “Dark Forces,” Suleymani was even the shadowy figure behind the killing of Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi, Libya.

He’s the Wizard of Oz of Iranian terror, the most dreaded and most effective terrorist alive.

He is Qassem Suleymani, the head of the Quds Force, an organization that acts as a combination CIA and Green Berets for Iran, and a man who has orchestrated a campaign of chaos against the United States around the world.

Today, the Obama Administration has allied itself with Suleymani to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

In this case, Iran’s goals — a Shi’ite-friendly government in Iraq — coincides with America’s hope that the country doesn’t fall apart.

But don’t be fooled: It’s only a partnership of convenience, and one that won’t last.

“Iran wants chaos. They want to generate anti-American anger, radicalize the rebels, and maintain a climate of war,” a former Iranian intelligence chief for Western Europe told me. “They are very serious about this. They want to damage the reputation of the United States as a freedom-loving country in the eyes of the Arabs.”

Suleymani has orchestrated attacks in everywhere from Lebanon to Thailand. The US Department of Justice accuses him of trying to hire a Mexican drug cartel to blow up the Saudi Ambassador to the United States while he was in Washington, DC.

My sources, meanwhile, say Suleymani was involved in an even more direct attack on the US — the killing of Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi, Libya….

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  1. Kesselman says

    Jan 3, 2020 at 1:09 pm

    The supreme leader, Khamenei threatens the U.S. and Israel with severe retaliation after the assassination. Well, Iran isn’t in a position to choose time and action. They’ll try anyway. But it makes no difference, we are at war with Moslems, anyway.—The objective is not to exterminate Moslems, but rather to destroy their Islamic ideology. In much the same way the world could live in peace with the Germans once we destroyed Nazism.

    • Libertyphobic says

      Jan 3, 2020 at 5:00 pm

      There it is!—-thanks Kman–

      • James Whitney says

        Jan 4, 2020 at 1:33 pm

        Well said!

    • James Lincoln says

      Jan 3, 2020 at 6:03 pm

      Kesselman says’

      “The objective is not to exterminate Moslems, but rather to destroy their Islamic ideology.”

      If the Islamic ideology is completely destroyed, current muslims will become ex-muslims.

      • James Whitney says

        Jan 4, 2020 at 1:46 pm

        Maybe so. Although from a practical standpoint Nazism has been destroyed, it still, on occasion, rears its ugly head. Perhaps the same will happen if Islamic ideology is destroyed.

  2. Tom says

    Jan 3, 2020 at 11:54 pm

    How do we know soleimani was involved in Benghazi. The house commission said that there was no evidence.

    • marc says

      Jan 4, 2020 at 12:36 am

      read the update that was added a few hours before your comment

  3. s says

    Jan 4, 2020 at 10:31 am

    Ambassador Stevens is dead in that photo. It was a lie that he was alive and taken to a hospital… look at his blackened skin and soiled pants… there was great evil done to him.

  4. Kepha says

    Jan 4, 2020 at 12:34 pm

    This article should be a warning that a lot of the people who tell us that they are in the know–whether jornos or government officials–are in fact as much in the dark as the rest of us. My own guess on the Benghazi killing is that it was part of the general Muslim Brotherhood-spawned unrest that was then sweeping the Sunnite Arab world, and a very good reason to keep the Syrian rebels at arm’s length.

  5. Tom M says

    Jan 5, 2020 at 3:49 am

    what is the evidence that Soleimani was connected to Benghazi?

  6. ent says

    Jan 7, 2020 at 11:43 am

    I see nothing in the AIM report exonerating Soleimani of involvement in Benghazi. Iran is barely mentioned. He is mentioned not at all.

  7. Tom McD says

    Jan 7, 2020 at 2:30 pm

    It’s not true that the 2016 commission found Soleimani was not involved in the Benghazi attack. The 2016 commission found that there was no evidence that he was involved. That is a different think.

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