Oh yes, Republicons are SO trustworthy -- NOT. From the murder's mouth! Why it is important to elect Democrats; yet another reason as if we needed any more! Please forward this to the immediate world!
Benghazi Suspect Said He Was Moved To Take Revenge For American-Made Video
Benghazi attack suspect
Ahmed Abu Khattala, who was captured by U.S. forces on Sunday, told
people the move against the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya was
intended as revenge for an American-made online video that was seen as
an attack to Islam, according to the New York Times.
The New York Times reported Tuesday:
What
he did in the period just before the attack has remained unclear. But
Mr. Abu Khattala told other Libyans in private conversations during the
night of the attack that he was moved to attack the diplomatic mission
to take revenge for an insult to Islam in an American-made online video.
An
earlier demonstration venting anger over the video outside the American
Embassy in Cairo had culminated in a breach of its walls, and it
dominated Arab news coverage. Mr. Abu Khattala told both fellow Islamist
fighters and others that the attack in Benghazi was retaliation for the
same insulting video, according to people who heard him.
In an
interview days after the attack, he pointedly declined to say whether he
believed an offense such as the anti-Islamic video might indeed warrant
the destruction of the diplomatic mission or the killing of the
ambassador. “From a religious point of view, it is hard to say whether
it is good or bad,” he said.
The day after the September attack, the New York Times' David Kirkpatrick reported
fighters involved in the effort were moved "by anger over a 14-minute,
American-made video that depicted the Prophet Muhammad, Islam’s founder,
as a villainous, homosexual and child-molesting buffoon." The Times did
have a reporter -- not Kirkpatrick -- on the ground that night.
The publication stood by that reporting in October 2012 and again in December 2013, and were subsequently attacked by conservatives.
White House emails
made public in April 2014 supported reports that the Obama
administration wanted Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations,
to “underscore these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a
broader failure of policy.” In September 2012, Rice said the attack was not premeditated.
What
he did in the period just before the attack has remained unclear. But
Mr. Abu Khattala told other Libyans in private conversations during the
night of the attack that he was moved to attack the diplomatic mission
to take revenge for an insult to Islam in an American-made online video.
An
earlier demonstration venting anger over the video outside the American
Embassy in Cairo had culminated in a breach of its walls, and it
dominated Arab news coverage. Mr. Abu Khattala told both fellow Islamist
fighters and others that the attack in Benghazi was retaliation for the
same insulting video, according to people who heard him.
In an
interview days after the attack, he pointedly declined to say whether he
believed an offense such as the anti-Islamic video might indeed warrant
the destruction of the diplomatic mission or the killing of the
ambassador. “From a religious point of view, it is hard to say whether
it is good or bad,” he said.
