Attack on Benghazi apparently WAS in retaliation for the video

[kpete]

To Libyans who witnessed the assault and know the attackers, there is little doubt what occurred: a well-known group of local Islamist militants struck without any warning or protest, and they did it in retaliation for the video. That is what the fighters said at the time, speaking emotionally of their anger at the video without mentioning Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden or the terrorist strikes of 11 years earlier. And it is an explanation that tracks with their history as a local militant group determined to protect Libya from Western influence.

“It was the Ansar al-Shariah people,” said Mohamed Bishari, a 20-year-old neighbor who watched the assault and described the brigade he saw leading the attack. “There was no protest or anything of that sort.”

You can read the article.

Let me emphasize again the last two sentences of the first quoted paragraph: That is what the fighters said at the time, speaking emotionally of their anger at the video without mentioning Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden or the terrorist strikes of 11 years earlier. And it is an explanation that tracks with their history as a local militant group determined to protect Libya from Western influence.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/world/africa/election-year-stakes-overshadow-nuances-of-benghazi-investigation.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=1&
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/16/1145284/-attack-on-Benghazi-apparently-WAS-in-retaliation-for-the-video

[patrice]

1. Maybe I've oversimplified this but: If it was freelance terrorism, why didn't they focus on/succeed

in Egypt?

[GeorgeGist]

2. Psyops are written ...

Romney was primed.