Embassy attacks premeditated, 50 arrested, Libyan president says
Libya’s President Mohamed Magariaf said the investigation “leaves us with no doubt” embassy attack was planned.
Libya arrested about 50 people – many of them foreigners – in connection with the deadly attack at the US consulate that left the American ambassador and three of his staff members dead, CBS News reported today.
Appearing today on “Face the Nation,” Libya’s President Mohamed Magariaf said the investigation “leaves us with no doubt” the attack was not spontaneous.
“It was planned, definitely, it was planned by foreigners, by people who entered the country a few months ago, and they were planning this criminal act since their arrival,” Magariaf told CBS.
On Tuesday, an armed mob stormed the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya and killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three staffers.
Many blame a low budget, independent film called “The Innocence of Muslim” – which depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a reviled figure – for triggering the protests.
Yet, Magariaf cast doubt on that theory and said the militants who fired on the consulate with rocket-propelled grenades entered Libya “from different directions” months ago.
UN Ambassador Susan Rice countered that declaration, however, and said the US has no evidence that proves the attack was calculated.
Ambassador Susan Rice needs to first apologize to Magariaf for doubting his LYBIAN INVESTIGATION that was right and then tell the Congress who told her to go out and promote the lies she told. Victoria Nuland might have emailed her concerns and got the truth scrubbed but I doubt she told the Ambassador to go on 5 Sunday morning talk shows pushing the OBAMA'S WHITE HOUSE LYING TALKING POINTS. The Congress need to find who sent her out and who gave the Stand Down Command and I'm betting it is one of two people if not both Obama and Hillary.
The Dems want to claim the Republicans are making the issue "political" but is that not what the Dems did when they LIED to protect the results of the 2012 election for Obama and protected Hillary's reputation so she could run in 2016? All I see the Republicans doing is trying to get to the truth so the families can have some closure, something both Hillary and Obama promised but BLEW IT to protect themselves. To the Dems it is all about protecting Hillary and forget that people died because of hers and Obama's INCOMPETENCE.