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Disturbing, Developing: Obama Caught Arming Al Qaeda,Reason For Libya Cover-Up
Oct 24, 2012 84 Comments Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Washington Times, piece by Frank
Gaffney, Reagans’ assistant Secretary of State: President Obama’s once
seemingly unstoppable march toward re-election hit what he might call “bumps in
the road” in Benghazi, Libya, late on Sept. 11, 2012. It might be more accurate
to describe the effect of the well-planned and -executed, military-style attack
on a diplomatic facility there as the political equivalent of a devastating
improvised explosive device on the myth of the unassailability of the Obama
record as commander in chief.
Thanks to intrepid investigative reporting — notably by
Bret Baier and Catherine Herridge at Fox News, Aaron Klein at WND.com and Clare
Lopez at RadicalIslam.org — and information developed by congressional
investigators, the mystery is beginning to unravel with regard to what happened
that night and the reason for the subsequent, clumsy official cover-up now
known as Benghazigate.
The evidence suggests that the Obama administration has
not simply been engaging, legitimating, enriching and emboldening Islamists who
have taken over or are ascendant in much of the Middle East. Starting in March
2011, when American diplomat J. Christopher Stevens was designated the liaison
to the “opposition” in Libya, the Obama administration has been arming them,
including jihadists like Abdelhakim Belhadj, leader of the al Qaeda franchise
known as the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.
Once Moammar Gadhafi was overthrown, Stevens was
appointed ambassador to the new Libya run by Mr. Belhadj and his friends. Not
surprisingly, one of the most important priorities for someone in that position
would be to try to find and secure the immense amount of armaments that had
been cached by the dictator around the country and systematically looted during
and after the revolution.
One of the places in Libya most awash with such weapons
in the most dangerous of hands is Benghazi. It now appears that Stevens was
there — on a particularly risky day, with no security to speak of and despite
now copiously documented concerns about his own safety and that of his
subordinates — for another priority mission: sending arms recovered from the
former regime’s stocks to the “opposition” in Syria. As in Libya, the
insurgents are known to include al Qaeda and other Shariah-supremacist groups,
including none other than Abdelhakim Belhadj.
Fox News has chronicled how the Al Entisar, a
Libyan-flagged vessel carrying 400 tons of cargo, docked on Sept. 6 in the
Turkish port of Iskenderun. It reportedly supplied both humanitarian assistance
and arms — including deadly SA-7 man-portable surface-to-air missiles —
apparently destined for Islamists, again including al Qaeda elements, in Syria.
What cries out for further investigation — and debate in
the remaining days of this presidential election — is whether this shipment was
part of a larger covert Obama effort to transfer weapons to our enemies that
could make the Iran-Contra scandal, to say nothing of Operation Fast and
Furious, pale by comparison.
Investigative journalist Aaron Klein has reported that
the “consulate in Benghazi” actually was no such thing. He observes that
although administration officials have done nothing to correct that
oft-repeated characterization of the facility where the murderous attack on
Stevens and his colleagues was launched, they call it a “mission.” What Mr.
Klein describes as a “shabby, nondescript building” that lacked any “major public
security presence” was, according to an unnamed Middle Eastern security
official, “routinely used by Stevens and others to coordinate with the Turkish,
Saudi and Qatari governments on supporting the insurgencies in the Middle East,
most prominently the rebels opposing Assad’s regime in Syria.”
We know that Stevens‘ last official act was to hold such
a meeting with an unidentified “Turkish diplomat.” Presumably, the conversation
involved additional arms shipments to al Qaeda and its allies in Syria. It also
may have involved getting more jihadi fighters there. After all, Mr. Klein
reported last month that, according to sources in Egyptian security, our
ambassador was playing a “central role in recruiting jihadists to fight Bashar
al-Assad’s regime in Syria.”
It gets worse. Last week, Center for Security Policy
senior fellow and former career CIA officer Clare Lopez observed that there
were two large warehouse-type buildings associated with the so-called
“consulate” whose purpose has yet to be disclosed. As their contents were
raided in the course of the attack, we may never know for sure whether they
housed — and were known by the local jihadis to house — arms, perhaps
administered by the two former Navy SEALs killed along with Stevens.
What we do know is that the New York Times — one of the
most slavishly pro-Obama publications in the country — reported in an Oct. 14
article, “Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to
supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar Assad are going to
hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that
the West wants to bolster.”
In short, it seems President Obama has been engaged in
gun-walking on a massive scale. The effect has been to equip America’s enemies
to wage jihad not only against regimes it once claimed were our friends, but
inevitably against us and our allies as well. That would explain his
administration’s desperate and now failing bid to mislead the voters through
the serial deflections of Benghazigate.
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RICK ROSE
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