Libya claims US was warned THREE DAYS in advance of consulate attacks

September 17th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Libyan military official claims he met with U.S. diplomats to tell them about the deteriorating security situation
President Mohamed el-Megarif says the attacks were NOT sparked by anti-Islamic video, but by Al Qaeda-connected foreigners
But UN ambassador Susan Rice insists assault was ‘spontaneous’
Diplomat Chris Stevens died alongside three others on Tuesday night

By
Snejana Farberov and Hugo Gye

PUBLISHED:

11:00 EST, 16 September 2012

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UPDATED:

05:25 EST, 17 September 2012

A Libyan security officer has claimed that he warned American diplomats about the possibility of violent unrest three days before the attack on the U.S. consulate which left the ambassador dead along with three others.

The country’s president also says that the deadly raid in Benghazi was ‘pre-planned’ by Al Qaeda and other ‘foreigners’.

However, the U.S. has hit back at that suggestion, with a top diplomat insisting the attack was ‘a spontaneous – not a premeditated – response’ to violence elsewhere.

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Rage: Sunni Muslims in Pakistan burn the U.S. flag and an effigy of President Obama at a rally in Karachi

Threatening gesture: A mock U.S. flag set on fire by a group of about 50 angry Islamists, who were shouting anti-U.S. slogans and protesting against a film ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad, near the U.S. embassy in Ankara, Turkey

Brimming anger: Afghan demonstrators prepare to torch a U.S. flag during protest in Herat

Jamal Mabrouk, of the February 17th Brigade, told CNN
that he and a battalion commander sat down with U.S. envoys to discuss
the economy and security in the country, which has been going through a
turbulent transition since the fall of Moammar Gaddafi last year.

According to Mabrouk, they told the
diplomats that the precarious security situation was not beneficial for
international business.

‘The situation is frightening, it scares us,’ Mabrouk said they told the U.S. officials. He would not say how they responded.

Mabrouk added that it was not the
first time he has alerted foreigners to safety concerns in the face of
the growing presence of armed jihadist groups in the Benghazi area.

Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif,
meanwhile, has said he believes the attackers are connected to Al Qaeda
and used the protests at the consulate as a cover to attack on the
anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

In an interview with NPR,
Megarif said foreigners have been infiltrating his country over the
past few months, which has been undergoing major changes since the
uprising against the late dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi.

‘We firmly believe that this was a
precalculated, preplanned attack that was carried out specifically to
attack the U.S. Consulate,’ Megarif told NPR.

Tensions flare: Pakistani Shiite Muslim
protesters throw stones toward the police as they attempt to reach the
US consulate during a rally against an anti-Islam movie in Karachi

Emotions run high: Thousands of protesters shout
slogans during a march in Lahore, Pakistan, against an anti-Islam film
made in the U.S.

Call for action: Protesters in Lahore are
demanding that the Pakistan government immediately end diplomatic
relations with all Western countries and recall its envoys to protest
the film

On CBS’ Face the Nation,
Megarif said that ‘a few’ of those who joined in the attack were
foreigners, who had entered Libya ‘from different directions, some of
them definitely from Mali and Algeria.’

‘The others are affiliates and maybe sympathizers,’ he added.

But Susan Rice, America’s ambassador
to the United Nations, told ABC’s This Week she believed the assault was
the result of ad-hoc protests and had not been planned in advance.

‘Our current best assessment, based
on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this
began as, it was a spontaneous – not a premeditated – response to what
had transpired in Cairo,’ she said.

Ms Rice added that protests in Egypt against an American-made anti-Muslim video provided the catalyst for the violence in Libya.

‘We believe that folks in Benghazi, a
small number of people came to… the consulate to replicate the sort
of challenge that was posed in Cairo,’ she said.

‘And then as that unfolded, it seems
to have been hijacked by some individual clusters of extremists who came
with heavier weapons… And it then evolved from there.’

The disagreement between the U.S. and
Libya over the origins of the brutal raid could add to the tensions
between the West and the Muslim world in the wake of the ongoing
protests around the globe.

Denial: Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the UN, insisted that the attack was entirely spontaneous

Libyan President Mohammed el-Megarif said he believes Al Qaeda is behind the attack on the U.S. embassy that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens

U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other embassy employees were killed after a barrage of small arms, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars tore into the consulate buildings in Benghazi on Tuesday, the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

The room where the body of the ambassador was found was protected by a large door with steel bars; the windows had steel bars, CNN reported.

Stevens’ body was later recovered after looters broke into the room. It appears his security detail left him in the room while they clashed with the attackers.

The State Department has not released
details about how Stevens died, although numerous media reports have
said the ambassador was taken from the consulate to the Benghazi medical
center by locals.

Aftermath: A Libyan military guard standing in front of one of the U.S. Consulate’s burnt out buildings during the visit of President Mohammed el-Megarifto the U.S. Consulate, in Benghazi

Seething masses: People shout and hold slogans in front of the U.S. embassy during a protest in Cairo September 11, 2012

Terrible prelude: A vehicle set on fire during the violent assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Tuesday

He arrived at the hospital, according to the reports, unresponsive and covered in soot from the fire. A doctor was unable to revive him and declared him dead, the reports said.

It has been reported that the assault on the American embassy that ended in the death of the envoy and thee other officials began simultaneously from three directions.

Slain: U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed by protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam’s Prophet Muhammad

According to an embassy guard, heavy machine guns and rocket -propelled grenades were used by masked men who then threatened to kill him ‘protecting the infidels.’

The February 17th Brigade — a militia formed in the first days of the uprising against Gaddafi which has since become affiliated with Libya’s military – was closely involved in the rescue of the American staff trapped after the attack Tuesday night.

After the consulate was sacked, several Americans escaped to a safe-house in another part of Benghazi, but that location too came under attack.

Mabrouk said he received a call from an official in Tripoli who said he had been called by a ‘terrified’ American hiding at the safe house.

Mabrouk said the Brigade asked the Americans if they required assistance, but were told that while the situation was precarious, it was under control.

A few hours later, Mabrouk said he received another call from Tripoli about the arrival of a U.S. team at Benghazi airport that needed transport into the city.

He met the seven heavily armed Americans dressed in civilian clothing and conducted them to the safe house with an armed escort.

Upon the arrival of the newcomers in the city, they came under intense fire before their assailants fled.

Mabrouk’s statements come just days
after the U.S. State Department has angrily denied claims that it had
intelligence warning its consulate in Libya would be attacked 48 hours
in advance.

Earlier
this week, a spokesman has dismissed claims that the attacks were the
result of a ‘continuing security breach’ and diplomats should have been
warned before the attacks as ‘completely wrong.’

Bloody sacking: Glass, debris and overturned furniture are strewn inside a room in the gutted U.S. consulate in Benghazi after the attack that killed four Americans

Devastation: People inspect the damage at the U.S. consulate, one day after armed men stormed the place during a protest

New claims: A member of a Libyan security force said he had met with American diplomats three days before the deadly assault to warn them about the deteriorating situation in the country

The official told Politico: ‘This is absolutely wrong. We are not aware of any actionable intelligence indicating that an attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi was planned or imminent.’

The violent assault on the consulate in Benghazi started out as a demonstration against the film Innocence of Muslims, which reportedly was made in California by a filmmaker whose identity was not known at the time.

The Mail on Sunday has since exclusively revealed that Nakoiula Basseley Nakoula, an Egyptian-born Coptic Christian, has been named by the FBI as the director of the controversial film which ridicules the Prophet Mohammed.

The release of the film online set
off a firestorm in the Middle East, with Muslims throughout the region
taking to the streets and staging violent protests against the U.S.

On
Sunday, demonstrators in Afghanistan torched a U.S. flag and were heard
shouting slogans denouncing America during a protest in the city of
Herat.

A similar scene was
captured in Turkey, where a group of about 50 protesters set a mock
American flag on fire near the U.S. embassy in Ankara.

Incitement: Al Qaida has urged Muslims around the world to step up their protests and kill more diplomats in Islamic countries

One
protester read out a statement denouncing the U.S., praising protests
that erupted in Libya, Cairo and Tunisia and calling on Turks to also
rise up against insults to the Prophet Mohammed.

Protests
against the anti-Muslim film also continued in cities across Pakistan
on Sunday. The Frontier Post reported that rallies were staged the
cities of Kotli and Lahore.

Meanwhile, in Karachi, police were forced to use tear gas and aerial firing to disperse a protest rally by the Islamist party Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen outside the U.S. consulate.

The U.S. has ordered diplomats’ families and non-essential staff to leave its embassies in Sudan and Tunisia following revelations by the Libyan government that Al Qaeda might have been responsible for the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

In a statement, the terrorist network has urged Muslims around the world to step up their protests and kill more diplomats in Islamic countries.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta predicted that
the turmoil raging across the Muslim world is likely to continue into
the days ahead, but said the violence appears to
be leveling off.

VIDEO: Obama Clinton speak as bodies are returned to the US…

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First Obama lies to America. Now Obama lies to the world. It’s getting stale. The community organizer is not up to the job. Just let hiim go.

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JVR
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SATX USA,
17/9/2012 14:21

Of course they ignored the warning, US administration needed more actions against their citizens so they’ve got an excuse to launch more military action in the Middle East. Unfortunately the UK government will give them our full backing and waste more British lives and murder innocent people in the invaded country.

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QuietDave
,

Torquay, United Kingdom,
17/9/2012 14:12

Pretty much serves america right. shouldnt have bombed gaddafi out of power in favour of a bunch of terrorists.

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jason
,

newport,
17/9/2012 14:08

Remember that famous quote from FDR… “Speak softly and carry a big stick” Obama = FAIL

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thunderbolt71
,

Belfast,
17/9/2012 13:58

You know how Obama is lying??? His lips are moving!!!!

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speegle
,

there,
17/9/2012 13:05

Maybe America didn’t do anything about this, so the situation worsens and then gives them an excuse to go to war. And it leads to an ambassador being killed. Now they have the green light.

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Pablo74514
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London,
17/9/2012 13:04

Obama should be held accountable for Chris Stevens death! The so called peaceful Muslins are burning down the world and killing Americans because of Obama¿s capitulations! Where is his backbone? Why are we not taking drastic measures to protect our people? He and his administration would rather blame a movie and the movie maker for all of these attacks! Tell these Muslims that¿s how it works in a free society! He should be defending the right to make this movie and be condemning the reaction to it! He should make it clear that those individuals and governments involved in the killing of and harming of our people will pay a high price for their actions! But no, he sends government agents to bring in the movie maker to again bow to these radical Muslims! Please vote this guy and regime out in November!

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David
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Cartersville GA USA,
17/9/2012 12:55

Obama/Clinton are telling us its “the move” that is in reality a video clip on Youtube that no one has seen. I don’t even care to look it up. Might as well blame Sasquatch, any old story will do. Bottom line: Obama’s policies have been a failure from day one. Arab Spring, free everything, be careful what you wish for…now the world is aflame.

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Otterpop
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Los Angeles,
17/9/2012 12:36

I bet we were warned three days in advance however, Obama was too busy trying to get re-elected.

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Larry Peck
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Miami Florida,
17/9/2012 12:30

This President refuses to acknowledge the war on terror is not over. He truly believes his oratory skills alone will change these people. When the government determined the Fort Hood shooter was a violent work place incident instead of a terrorist act, the writing was on the wall. Killing 13 people while yelling Allah Akbar is not your typical work place violence. The truth is he can not admit the first terrorist attack since 9/11 happened on his watch less than 2 months before the election. The main street media need to do their job and stop covering for him.

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VintageChick
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Baltimore,
17/9/2012 12:19

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