Reading the various reports on yesterday’s (or does yesterday’s date mean anything anymore?) savage murder of Americans including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, it is not at all clear to me that this was a spontaneous attack motivated by an obscure anti-Muslim video. Some analysts think the attack was a well-planned terrorist strike, with the video (and of course the First Amendment) being used after the fact as an “excuse.”
TRIPOLI, Libya — US officials are increasingly suspicious that the murder Tuesday of the US ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other American officials was not the result of a protest against an anti-Islam film, but instead was a coordinated terror strike timed for the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
A senior administration official told Fox News they are exhaustively investigating every angle of the attack in Benghazi, and an earlier assault on the US Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, but there are early signs the Benghazi assault may have been planned. The official cautioned, though, that the administration has not jumped to any conclusions about what happened, saying it would be “premature” to do so.
But current and former US lawmakers, and others, claimed Wednesday that the attack looked like a coordinated strike.
“Absolutely, I have no doubt about it. It was a coordinated, military-style, commando-type raid,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers told Fox News. Based on his own briefings, Rogers said “military movements” were involved.
“This was a well- planned, well-targeted event. No doubt about it,” Rogers said.
Earlier reports said the Americans were killed when a mob of protesters and gunmen overwhelmed the US Consulate in Benghazi, setting fire to it in outrage over a film that ridicules Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
Whatever the reasons and whoever was behind it, the attack does not strike me as the work of a mob retaliating over a video.
Like the attack on the U.S.S. Cole, this was a military style attack on the United States, and it deserves a military response, not a lame apology for our First Amendment.
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7 responses to “On yesterday’s attack”
Why do we put up with this crap??
As another commenter at Ace of Spades HQ said, we need to start delivering Egypt’s $1 Billion in foreign aid… from 50,000 feet.
Something that I read: The ‘movie’ in question has been out for a while, for a few months at least. In English. It was only recently that it was translated to Arabic, within the last 10 days or so
Question: Who translated it to Arabic? And who distributed it? Was it through normal channels? Stupid. Doesn’t make it wrong, just stupid, like trying to slap a bear a few times.
If it was translated by another group with links to terrorism, then that would be just another Reichstag Fire, similar to the imam that snuck in offensive photos and claimed them to be part of the mohammed cartoons.
P.S.: said imam took other photos (like the man-pig from some French festival) and claimed they were meant to be Mohammed. Since he was claiming them to be, that meant HE thought they meant to be Mohammed, even if just to be a lie. Shouldn’t he be struck at the neck for blasphemy?
Is someone going to blame Mel Brooks?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjn1Y9YcIQM&feature=relmfu
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/anti_muslim_filmmaker_identified_JWFDIjaO8AoI4ddmZDNInO
“or does yesterday’s date mean anything anymore?”
Umm. Yes. It does – but the MSM “oh gee whiz all the tragedy” BS has made the rest of us go on quietly raising flags and silently raging at the idea that an Act of War is being called a “tragedy.” It wasn’t a tragedy. It was an act of war. For those who insist that it was a crime, it was murder 1. Premeditated, planned, all that stuff. Either way, APOLOGIZING for offending the enemy is not the way to go.
We should recruit everyone everywhere and insult, laugh at, mock, satirize and criticize them till they understand that we will not be silenced.
Judaism learned to live with others Christianity learned to live with others. Islam CAN learn – but only if they are not pandered to by idiots on the other side. The minute you kowtow, you are a dhimmi. The State Dept. might be composed of Dhimmis (and I feel very sorry for them) but America is not.
oh yes, and I know it was 3 days ago – but I was responding to your post of 2 days ago…
Thank you Kathy!
And is someone going to blame Salvador Dali?
http://classicalvalues.com/2006/02/fear_becomes_un/
Or Frida Kahlo?
http://classicalvalues.com/2008/05/post_780/
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