The 9/11 Attacks On Embassies Weren't About A Movie
Caroline Glick posts at CarolineGlick.com:
The attack in Libya was well planned and executed. It wasn't about a spontaneous protest against some ridiculous internet movie of Muhammad. The assailants came armed to the teeth, with among other things, RPG 7s. They knew that the US Ambassador was in Benghazi rather than Tripoli. They knew how to track his movements, and were able to strike against him after he and his colleagues left the consulate building and tried to flee in a car. As Israel Channel 2's Arab Affairs Correspondent Ehud Yaari noted this evening, you don't often see well trained terrorists participating in protests of movies.Then there is the attack in Cairo. They were led by Mohammad Zawahiri - Ayman Zawahiri's brother. According the Thomas Josclyn in the Weekly Standard, the US media has been idiotically presenting him as some sort of moderate despite the fact that in an interview with Al Jazeerah he said said, "We in al Qaeda..."
Egypt's US supported Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi recently released Zawahiri from Egyptian prison. The same Barack Obama who has no time in his schedule to meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu next week in New York, is scheduled to meet Morsi.
The Egyptian government has not condemned the attack on the US Embassy in Cairo. But Morsi is demanding that the US government prosecute the film's creator.
You may be wondering how some movie no one's heard of has caused such a hullabaloo. Well, as it turns out, the film was screened on an Egyptian Salafist television channel. Obviously the Salafists -- many of whom, like Zawahiri were released from prison by Morsi, wanted to stir up anti-US violence on the eve of 9/11. So if the film is responsible for the violence, a finger needs to be pointed to its chief distributor -- Al Qaida's Egyptian friends and members.
At this hour, live video from the Egyptian Embassy here.
(But remember this.)
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at September 12, 2012 11:15 PM
We need to pull our embassies and consulates and money out of any country that lets this crap happen.
The money from the Camp David Accords -- gone. The military or naval backing for you -- gone.
Let them die on their own.
Jim P. at September 13, 2012 6:03 AM
Pointing fingers at the news channel for the violence is like telling them to shut down. News channels live on sensationalism and shock...that is what gives them their money. And that is something done by all news channels across the world and not just this egyptian news channel. Ultimately, nobody can blame a news channel for carrying a news which might result in riots as long as the channel did not fabricate the news
Redrajesh at September 13, 2012 10:39 AM
Next this woman will blame american news channels for causing the LA riots by telecasting the beating of Rodney King. Weird,man.
Redrajesh at September 13, 2012 10:40 AM
> News channels live on sensationalism
> and shock...that is what gives
> them their money.
In the case of Al-Jazeera, this is not true. They're not in it to sell commercials... Their interest is far more direct.
Crid [Cridcomment at Gmail] at September 13, 2012 10:50 AM
Jim, I was just thinking about Camp David, and the fact that with its recent moves, Egypt has more or less renounced it. Accordingly, Israel is now free to re-occupy the Sinai Peninsula, and this time it's theirs to keep. The big worry there is the Suez Canal, which Egypt will try to close the way they did back in the '70s. Europe will lose a large fraction of its oil supply if the Suez is closed.
Cousin Dave at September 13, 2012 11:32 AM
Be there or be square!
(Moonbounce for the kids!)
Crid [Cridcomment at Gmail] at September 13, 2012 1:50 PM
Pants down, bitches!
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at September 13, 2012 6:45 PM
OOOOOooooohhhhhhhh...
Well now....
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at September 13, 2012 7:12 PM
America 'was warned of embassy attack but did nothing':
The Obama Administration had a 48 hour fucking window to just say to every Marine embassy command on the planet "We want the Marines in the embassies to double staff, with the back staff armed with assault weapons." The Marine commanders are a lot smarter and have done it more times than you can count.
They wouldn't have had to reveal why or how it was done.
If anyone says this is the same as the 9/11 threat, I want them to show me what document says that the coordinated hijackings were going to occur on 9/11.
Jim P. at September 13, 2012 8:04 PM
Leave a comment