{"id":15918,"date":"2012-09-21T16:36:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T20:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15918"},"modified":"2012-09-21T16:36:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T20:36:52","slug":"more-facts-indicate-libya-consulate-attacks-were-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15918\/more-facts-indicate-libya-consulate-attacks-were-planned\/","title":{"rendered":"More Facts Indicate Libya Consulate Attacks Were Planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his column this week <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/45-foreign-policy\/1580-delusion-and-denial-in-the-middle-east- \" target=\"_blank\">Troy<\/a> noted the \u201csuspicious sign of premeditation\u201d when the American consulate in Libya was invaded by rioters on the 11<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Troy also pointed out other facts undercutting the Obama Administration\u2019s claim that the attacks were a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Islamic YouTube video, such as the use of rocket-propelled grenades, knowledge of a safe house, and the release of an al Qaeda video demanding revenge for an assassinated deputy.<\/p>\n<p>Now, even more evidence is forcing the Obama Administration to backtrack its version of the story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/09\/21\/obama-s-shaky-libya-narrative.html\" target=\"_blank\">Eli Lake<\/a> of The Daily Beast is reporting that U.S. intelligence officials have confirmed that some of the participants had staked out the location prior to attacking.\u00a0 What\u2019s more, an intercepted communiqu\u00e9 \u201cbetween a Libyan politician whose sympathies are with al Qaeda and the Libyan militia known at the February 17 Brigade \u2013 which had been charged with providing local security to the consulate,\u201d reveals that the politician asked a brigade commander to \u201cstand down for a pending attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The growing body of facts make hash out of the Obama Administration\u2019s initial characterization that the assault was simply and only caused by watching a stupid and little known video.\u00a0 Instead, it seems far more plausible that the weak foreign policy stances of the Obama Administration emboldened the attackers to strike.\u00a0 The White House&#8217;s reflexive crouch only adds to the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his column this week Troy noted the \u201csuspicious sign of premeditation\u201d when the American consulate in Libya was invaded by rioters on the 11th anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks. Troy also pointed out other facts undercutting the Obama Administration\u2019s claim that the attacks were a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Islamic YouTube video, such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,3827,2436,1125,682],"class_list":["post-15918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-consulate","tag-libya","tag-middle-east","tag-terrorist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15918"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15926,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15918\/revisions\/15926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}