http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Banghazi Fri, 24 May 2013 06:21:00 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Banghazi Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:28:27 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1ab_1363389881 dfaugust Lawmakers demand access to survivors injured in Benghazi attack Six months after the Sept. 11 terror attack in Benghazi, Republican lawmakers are fuming that they haven't been granted access to the survivors - several of whom, Fox News has learned, are still recovering at Walter Reed military hospital. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told Fox News on Wednesday that he spoke to a "handful of people" when he visited Libya shortly after the attack but has struggled to gain access to the survivors ever since. "We want talk to the survivors -- they won't do that. And then the president has the gall to go on television and say 'oh, we're providing all the access'? Baloney. Bull-crap. That is not happening." Estimates of how many Americans were injured in the Libya assault vary. Reps. Frank Wolf, R-Va., and Jim Gerlach, R-Pa., claim sources have told them up to 30 were injured, and up to seven may still be at Walter Reed. "Several may have required amputations," they wrote in a letter to colleagues last week. A source close to the survivors, though, told Fox News that seven were injured - not 30 - and that at least three are still at Walter Reed. Another may be recovering in California. The source said one of the injured underwent a partial leg amputation. Another is suffering from smoke inhalation and possible brain injury . Fox News has been told that some of the survivors work in clandestine services and do not want their names made public, though they do wonder why nobody from key committees has called them in for closed hearings to testify on what transpired that night. Chaffetz claimed Wednesday that the administration "will not give us the names." He said one person who went to the hospital even had their "name changed" on hospital records so as not to be identified. The State Department has declined to say how many survivors were injured or hospitalized. Secretary of State John Kerry, in an interview with Fox News, revealed Tuesday that he has visited one of the survivors in Bethesda, Md. - the location of the Walter Reed military hospital. Kerry described the survivor as "remarkably courageous" and doing "very, very well." He also said he also talked to the unnamed survivor's wife. Asked when the public might hear from the survivors, Kerry said "I can't tell you - I don't know what the circumstances are of any requests to talk to them or not." Wolf and Gerlach wrote a letter to Kerry March 1 formally requesting access to the survivors and asking for details about their condition. They claim those injured may be a combination of State Department employees, CIA officials and security contractors. "Having served in Benghazi, the perspective of these individuals would provide valuable insight to a dark day in American history - a day which is still shrouded in much mystery," they wrote. Fox News' Jennifer Griffin, James Rosen and Catherine Herridge contributed to this report. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/06/lawmakers-demand-access-to-survivors-injured-in-benghazi-attack/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1ab_1363389881 dfaugust Lawmakers demand access to survivors injured in Benghazi attack Banghazi, Benghazi Survivors, propagandist left-wing media, obama, clinton Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:09:32 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=261_1363384626 dfaugust Benghazi Survivors 'Told to Be Quiet' by Obama Administration, Claims GOP Senator Jason Howerton The Obama administration has told the injured survivors of the Benghazi terror attack "to be quiet," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) alleges in an exclusive interview with Fox News. While Congress presses for more information surrounding the infamous Sept. 11, 2012 terror attack, Graham says the survivors feel as if they can't reach out and tell their stories. Critics of the White House's handling of Benghazi say survivors have been completely inaccessible to Congress and the media. When asked about Benghazi survivors, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters, "I'm sure that the White House is not preventing anyone from speaking." Graham told Fox News he isn't buying it. He said, "the bottom line is they feel that they can't come forth, they've been told to be quiet." "We cannot let this administration or any other administration get away with hiding from the American people and Congress, people who were there in real time to tell the story," the senator from South Carolina added.More from Fox News: Graham continued to voice concern about the inaccurate or incomplete accounts that came from the Obama administration in the days following the attack. He is among a handful of Republican lawmakers pressing for access to and more information about the survivors.A congressional source tells Fox News that Hill staffers investigating the attack believe about 37 personnel were in Benghazi on behalf of the State Department and CIA on Sept. 11. With the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others, about 33 people were evacuated. Of them, a State Department official confirmed there were three diplomatic security agents and one contractor who were injured in the assault - one seriously. A diplomatic security source told Fox News the State Department diplomatic security agent who was in the most serious condition suffered a severe head injury during the second wave of the attack at the annex. This agent was described as the likely State Department employee visited at Walter Reed Medical Center by Secretary of State John Kerry in January. An official with the State Department did not deny the account of the diplomatic security source and did not comment on the agent's injuries or whether the agent was visited by Kerry or Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state. Other GOP congressman, like Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), argue the Obama White House has offered "zero" documents on the survivors, much less provided names of the people attacked in Libya. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) on Friday said the Obama administration is "covering up something" in regards to the Benghazi attack, which left four Americans dead, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, State Department employee Sean Smith and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods. More information regarding this story,including the full interview with Sen. Graham, will air on Fox News' "Special Report With Bret Baier" Friday at 6 p.m. ET. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/15/benghazi-survivors-told-to-be-quiet-by-obama-administration-claims-gop-senator/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=261_1363384626 dfaugust Benghazi Survivors 'Told to Be Quiet' by Obama Administration, Claims GOP Senator Banghazi, Benghazi Survivors, propagandist left-wing media, obama, clinton Sun, 04 Mar 2012 08:36:59 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bf8_1330867116 LickyLicky Libyan authorities have apologised after video footage emerged showing graves of British servicemen being vandalised by armed men in Benghazi. According to reports, the militants liberated last year from Colonel Gaddafi with help from British forces, attacked more than 150 graves. A crucifix was also attacked at the British war grave cemetery in Benghazi. The Libyan graves belong to British serviceman killed during the Second World War in the north African area. Headstones at the Benghazi war cemetery were pulled down, with crucifixes destroyed by vandals. Some attackers, who were carrying guns and wearing combat fatigues, posted the footage on the web. The Foreign Office says it believes the attack was carried out by a group of Salafist jihadists, a hardline branch of Islam, because Muslim graves were also desecrated. Its spokesman said officials from the Embassy in Tripoli immediately visited the sites and raised the issue with the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Benghazi Chief of Police. The Ambassador also voiced concerns with the Deputy Foreign Minister, the Minister of Interior and the offices of The National Transitional Council (NTC) Chairman Abdul Jalil and Prime Minister al-Kib. Earlier it was believed that the attack, which is understood to have taken place last week, was in revenge for US soldiers accidentally burning copies of the Koran in Afghanistan . The NTChas issued an offical statement, apologising to all Christians and instructed police to make regular patrols to ensure no further attacks occur. Lybian Foreign Office Minister says "Libyan Authorities are shocked, These actions are the personal actions of specific individuals and do not reflect the views of the National Transitional Council and are nothing to do with the Islamic Faith. We are Muslims, we know that our God created us from the earth and we will go back to the earth, so all souls belong to God. Once again, we hope that the Christian community worldwide can accept our apology for what has happened", the statement read. Libya is the resting place for many Commonwealth soldiers who died during intense campaigns against Rommel's German forces, including the famous Rats of Tobruk. Although freed from authoritarian control with the aid of Nato last year, the country is still struggling to adapt to democracy. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bf8_1330867116 LickyLicky Update on British War Graves Desecration <span class="highlight">Banghazi</span>. war graves, desecration, benghazi, gadaffi, muslim,islam,abdul jalil, Lybian national transitional council, Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:30:14 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=586_1300804060 usounddodgy A Libyan protester shouts as copies of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's Well known to the United States policymakers in Obama White House and Clinton State Department along with the National Security Council but not widely known to American mainstream media, the U.S. West Point Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center document reveals that Libya sent more fighters to Iraq's Islamic militancy on a per-capita basis than any other Muslim country, including Saudi Arabia. Perhaps more alarmingly for Western policymakers, most of the fighters came from eastern Libya, the center of the current uprising against Muammar el-Qaddafi. The analysis of the Combating Terrorism Center of West Point was based on the records captured by coalition forces in October 2007 in a raid near Sinjar, along Iraq's Syrian border. The eastern Libyan city of Darnah sent more fighters to Iraq than any other single city or town, according to the West Point report. It noted that 52 militants came to Iraq from Darnah, a city of just 80,000 people (the second-largest source of fighters was Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which has a population of more than 4 million). Benghazi, the capital of Libya's provisional government declared by the anti-Qaddafi rebels, sent in 21 fighters, again a disproportionate number of the whole. If the 2007 captured records revealed the Eastern Libyan participation in the anti-coalition forces militancy in Iraq one could imagine the Banghazi-Darnah export of Islamists since then. "Libyans were more fired up to travel to Iraq to kill Americans than anyone else in the Arabic-speaking world," Andrew Exum, a counterinsurgency specialist and former Army Ranger noted in a blog posting recently. "This might explain why those rebels from Libya's eastern provinces are not too excited about U.S. military intervention. It might also give some pause to those in the United States so eager to arm Libya's rebels." Despite this data and information available to the United Stated government Secretary of State Hilary Clinton met late Monday 14 with a leader of the Libyan rebel movement in Paris privately and without a public statement. Mrs. Clinton met the opposition rebel leader Mahmoud Jibril at her hotel in Paris after attending a dinner with foreign ministers of the countries of the Group 8 who discussed ways to increase pressure on Colonel Qaddafi's Libyan regime. The West Point report said "Both Darnah and Benghazi have long been associated with Islamic militancy in Libya. A significant progress was made by the Libyan rebels when the French President Nicolas Sarkozy welcomed a pair of envoys from the Libyan National Council, the rebel leadership, early this month. France indicated that it would recognize the rebel proclaimed provisional government based in Benghazi. Britain also signaled that it may also recognize the rebel authority. Despite those developments the Obama administration seems to be vacillating having no firm Libyan policy since the rebellion. If the rebellion succeeds in toppling the Qaddafi regime it will have direct access to the tens of billions of dollars that Qaddafi is believed to have squirreled away in overseas accounts during his four-decade rule. The once-secret Iraqi "Sinjar documents" which is the basis of the West Point analytical document provide an additional reason for the Obama administration to take a cautious approach in its dealings with the rebels from both Darnah and Benghazi. The document noted that Islamist organizations in both cities led an earlier uprising against Qaddafi in the mid-1990s that was brutally put down by the Libyan dictator. Colonel Qaddafi renounced terrorism, paid billions of dollars to Lockerby-victim families, allowed the U.S. to remove nuclear facilities and established diplomatic relations with the United States. Qaddafi has continuously opposed the al-Qaeda operations in the Middle East and Northern Africa. The Asian Tribune provides here the data and information from an analytical document of the U.S. Defense Department. Al-Qaeda's Foreign Fighters in Iraq: A First Look at the Sinjar Records is the latest in a series of reports from the Combating Terrorism Center drawing on newly released information from captured al-Qaeda documents maintained in the Defense Department's Harmony Data Base. The introduction of the report says: (Quote) On December 4, 2007 Abu Umar al?Baghdadi, the reputed Emir of al-Qaeda's Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), claimed that his organization was almost purely Iraqi, containing only 200 foreign fighters.1 Twelve days later, on December 16, 2007, Ayman al?Zawahiri urged Sunnis in Iraq to unite behind the ISI. Both statements are part of al-Qaeda's ongoing struggle to appeal to Iraqis, many of whom resent the ISI's foreign leadership and its desire to impose strict Islamic law. In November 2007, the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point received nearly 700 records of foreign nationals that entered Iraq between August 2006 and August 2007. The data compiled and analyzed in this report is drawn from these personnel records, which was collected by al-Qaeda's Iraqi affiliates, first the Mujahidin Shura Council (MSC) and then the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI). The records contain varying levels of information on each fighter, but often include the fighter's country of origin, hometown, age, occupation, the name of the fighter's recruiter, and even the route the fighter took to Iraq. The records were captured by coalition forces in October 2007 in a raid near Sinjar, along Iraq's Syrian border. Anti-Libyan regime fighters prepare for battle in Ajdabiya in eastern Libya Although there is some ambiguity in the data, it is likely that all of the fighters listed in the Sinjar Records crossed into Iraq from Syria. (Un-Quote) The Asian Tribune presents here the salient data, information and observations of the Combating Terrorism Center of West Point maintained in the U.S. Defense Department's Harmony Data Base. The analysis gives an alarming picture of the political shade of the Libyan rebels of Benghazi and Darnah, the eastern stronghold of anti-Qaddafi movement. The observation in this Defense Department document is very revealing. (Begin Report): Initial Findings Country of Origin Saudi Arabia was by far the most common nationality of the fighters' in this sample; 41% (244) of the 595 records that included the fighter's nationality indicated they were of Saudi Arabian origin. Libya was the next most common country of origin, with 18.8% (112) of the fighters listing their nationality stating they hailed from Libya. Syria, Yemen, and Algeria were the next most common origin countries with 8.2% (49), 8.1% (48), and 7.2% (43), respectively. Moroccans accounted for 6.1% (36) of the records and Jordanians 1.9% (11). The obvious discrepancy between previous studies of Iraqi foreign fighters and the Sinjar Records is the percentage of Libyan fighters. (See Appendix 1 for a brief summary of previous foreign fighter studies.) No previous study has indicated that more than 4 percent of fighters were Libyan. Indeed, a June 2005 report by NBC quoted a U.S. government source indicating that Libya did not make a top ten list of origin nationalities for foreign fighters in Iraq.9 As late as July 15, 2007, the Los Angeles Times cited a U.S. Army source reporting that only 10 percent of all foreign fighters in Iraq hailed from North Africa.10 The Sinjar Records suggest that number is much higher. Almost 19 percent of the fighters in the Sinjar Records came from Libya alone. Furthermore, Libya contributed far more fighters per capita than any other nationality in the Sinjar Records, including Saudi Arabia. The previous reports may have collectively understated the Libyan contribution to the fight in Iraq, but the relative synchronization of earlier analyses suggests that the pattern of immigration to Iraq has simply shifted over time. In an admittedly small sample, 76.9% (30) of the 39 Libyans that listed their arrival date in Iraq entered the country between May and July 2007, which may indicate a spring "surge" of Libyan recruits to Iraq. If the numbers cited by the Los Angeles Times in July 2007 are any indication, even the U.S. Army may have underestimated the Libyan contingent in Iraq. The apparent surge in Libyan recruits traveling to Iraq may be linked the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group's (LIFG) increasingly cooperative relationship with al-Qaeda, which culminated in the LIFG officially joining al-Qaeda on November 3, 2007. City/Town of Origin Of 591 records that included the country of origin of the fighters, 440 also contained information on the home city/town the fighters hailed from. The most common cities that the fighters called home were Darnah, Libya and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with 52 and 51 fighters respectively. Darnah, with a population just over 80,000 compared to Riaydh's 4.3 million, has far and away the largest per capita number of fighters in the Sinjar records. The next most common hometowns? in real terms? listed in the Sinjar records were Mecca (43), Beghazi (21), and Casablanca (17). City/town of origin for Saudi Arabia, Libya, Morocco, Algeria, and Syria are broken out in greater detail below. Libyan Hometowns The vast majority of Libyan fighters that included their hometown in the Sinjar Records resided in the country's Northeast, particularly the coastal cities of Darnah 60.2% (53) and Benghazi 23.9% (21). Both Darnah and Benghazi have long been associated with Islamic militancy in Libya, in particular for an uprising by Islamist organizations in the mid?1990s. The Libyan government blamed the uprising on "infiltrators from the Sudan and Egypt" and one group-the Libyan Fighting Group (jama?ah al?libiyah al?muqatilah)-claimed to have Afghan veterans in its ranks.14 The Libyan uprisings became extraordinarily violent. Qaddafi used helicopter gunships in Benghazi, cut telephone, electricity, and water supplies to Darnah and famously claimed that the militants "deserve to die without trial, like dogs." Abu Layth al?Libi, LIFG's Emir, reinforced Benghazi and Darnah's importance to Libyan jihadis in his announcement that LIFG had joined al?Qa'ida, saying: 'It is with the grace of God that we were hoisting the banner of jihad against this apostate regime under the leadership of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, which sacrificed the elite of its sons and commanders in combating this regime whose blood was spilled on the mountains of Darnah, the streets of Benghazi, the outskirts of Tripoli, the desert of Sabha, and the sands of the beach.' Like other governments in the region, Libya appears concerned about the possibility of jihadi violence within its borders. In May 2007, the Libyan government arrested several Libyans on the grounds that they were planning a car bomb attack similar to an April attack in Algeria.17 And in July 2007, a group calling itself al-Qaeda in Eastern Libya announced a suicide attack in Darnah.18 Libya's leader Muammar Qaddafi has taken measures to mitigate the threat from such groups, and has reportedly released over 80 Muslim Brotherhood activists in the hope that they will moderate the views of more violent Islamist activists. If LIFG is funneling Libyans into Iraq, it may exacerbate rumored tensions between LIFG elements over whether or not to concentrate on militant activity within Libya's borders.20 Such debates are common among national jihadi movements shifting focus to global issues. This sort of debate disrupted both Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the Egyptian Islamic Group in the 1990s.21 Reports suggesting that LIFG's decision to join al-Qaeda was controversial may be exaggerated, but they probably reflect a contentious debate over LIFG's future.22 LIFG's support for al-Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate has probably increased its stature in al-Qaeda's leadership, but complicated its internal dynamics. Recent political developments in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the prevalence of Libyan fighters in Iraq, and evidence of a well?established smuggling route for Libyans through Egypt, suggests that Libyan factions (primarily the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group) are increasingly important in al-Qaeda. The Sinjar Records offer some evidence that Libyans began surging into Iraq in larger numbers beginning in May 2007. Most of the Libyan recruits came from cities in North?East Libya, an area long known for jihadi?linked militancy. Libyan fighters were much more likely than other nationalities to be listed as suicide bombers (85% for Libyans, 56% for all others). The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group's unification with al-Qaeda and its apparent decision to prioritize providing logistical support to the Islamic State of Iraq is likely controversial within the organization. It is likely that some LIFG factions still want to prioritize the fight against the Libyan regime, rather than the fight in Iraq. It may be possible to exacerbate schisms within LIFG, and between LIFG's leaders and al-Qaeda's traditional Egyptian and Saudi power?base. (End Report) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=586_1300804060 usounddodgy Libyan rebellion has radical Islamist fervor: Benghazi link to Islamic militancy:U.S. Military Document Reveals News