Benghazi Redux

“We go to Dover to see bodies, and we’re all in the hangar down there,” Charles Strange, father of slain SEAL Michael Strange, recalled. “And President Obama comes up to me and he says, ‘Mr. Strange’ — and he grabs me by the shoulders — ‘Michael changed the way America lives.’ I grabbed Mr. President by the shoulders and I said: ‘I don’t need to know about my son. I need to know what happened, Mr. President.'” 

Charles Strange says the president told him. “Mr. Strange, we’re going to look into this very, very, very deep.” Since then, Strange says, “I haven’t heard nothing.” 

• AG Eric Holder, Obama’s Chicago crony is tasked to investigate himself for potential wrongdoing. Other than “blame Bush”, that’s been the extent of the accountability that the Obama Administration has held itself to.

Who is responsible for the Benghazi Massacre? Because the deaths didn’t have to be.

• In April 2012, two former security guards for the consulate threw a homemade “fish bomb” IED over the consulate fence; the incident did not cause any casualties.
• Just 4 days later (still April 2012), a similar bomb was thrown at a four vehicle convoy carrying the United Nations Special Envoy to Libya, exploding just 12 feet from the UN envoy’s vehicle without injuring anyone.
• In May 2012 an Al-Qaida affiliate calling itself the Imprisoned Omar Abdul Rahman Brigades claimed responsibility for an attack on the Red Cross (ICRC) office in Benghazi. On August 6 the ICRC suspended operations in Benghazi. The head of the ICRC’s delegation in Libya said the aid group was “appalled” by the attack and “extremely concerned” about escalating violence in Libya.
• The Imprisoned Omar Abdul Rahman Brigades released a video of what it said was its detonation of an explosive device outside the gates of the U.S. consulate on June 5, which caused no casualties but damaged the consulate’s perimeter wall, described by one individual as “big enough for forty men to go through.” The Brigades claimed that the attack was in response to the killing of Abu Yahya al Libi, a Libyan al-Qaeda leader who had just died in an American drone attack, and was also timed to coincide with the imminent arrival of a U.S. diplomat. There were no injuries, but the group left behind leaflets promising more attacks against the U.S.
• Dominic Asquith, British ambassador to Libya survived an assassination attempt in Benghazi on June 10. Two British protection officers were injured in the attack when their convoy was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade 300 yards from their consulate office. The British Foreign Office withdrew all consular staff from Benghazi in late June.
• On June 18, 2012, the Tunisian consulate in Benghazi was stormed by individuals affiliated with Ansar Al-Sharia Libya, allegedly because of “attacks by Tunisian artists against Islam.”
• On the day of the attack:
• Al Qaida leader Ayman al-Zahwari declared that al Libi’s death still needed to be avenged.
• In Egypt 2000 Salafist activists protested at the US Embassy in Cairo, raising the al Qaeda flag over the wall of the US Embassy.
• Two consulate contract Arab security guards spotted a man in a Libyan police uniform taking pictures of the consulate with his cell phone from a nearby building that was under construction. The security guards briefly detained the man before releasing him. He drove away in a police car and a complaint was made to the Libyan police station. The late, Sean Smith noticed this surveillance, posting on the internet “assuming we don’t die tonight. We saw one of our ‘police’ that guard the compound taking pictures.”