New York Times: No Evidence Al Qaeda 'Had Any Role' In Benghazi Attack

[deminks]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nyt-no-evidence-al-qaeda-had-any-role-in-benghazi-attack

A months-long investigation by The New York Times "turned up no evidence that Al Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role" in the assaults last year on a U.S. diplomatic mission and a C.I.A. compound in Benghazi, Libya.

The attack on Sept. 11, 2012 resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.

The Times' investigation relied on "extensive" interviews with Libyans in Benghazi who had direct knowledge of the attack. The report concludes that the attack was led by local fighters who "had benefited directly from NATO’s extensive air power and logistics support during the uprising against Colonel Qaddafi." And -- contrary to claims made by Republicans -- the Times also reports that the incident "was fueled in large part by anger at an American-made video denigrating Islam."

link to NYT article:

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/benghazi/?emc=edit_na_20131228#/?chapt=0

[dballance]

1. Anyone have Issa's e-mail address?

We should fill his inbox with messages and links to the story.

[UTUSN]

2. R#2 & K for, this is what I sent to the local radio wingnuts

Once upon ONE YEAR AND THREE MONTHS, the FAKE, incessant CHEAP wingnut drumbeating of Benghazi-Benghazi-BENGHAZI can now be laid to rest --------YEAH, RIGHT! I saw this item early today and was busy with piddling things and thought it would give my WINGNUT PROPAGANDA HURLERS time to notify me excitedly with the good news!!!!!!!! Yeah, right. I’m sure their bully soapbox will be filled with the news every day for the coming YEAR AND THREE MONTHS to come, you know, to balance off that thing they did for the PAST YEAR AND THREE MONTHS, I’m just sure of it. Yaas, there will be bleatings of apologies to our shared Administration for the vile bile that was oh-so-WELL-INTENTIONED, you know, just from their noble mission to INFORM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

I’m just left wondering, how nobodies like me have an instinct about some things -- like how a war in Iraq is phony; like how a blasphemous video inflames fundamentalist Muslims, like how blond blue-eyed culturally tin-eared Americans are not suited for gathering intel among swarthy populations, how Shrub really was AWOL and paid for girlfriends’ abortions and had a daddy-complex – yet how all these POWERFUL and WELL CONNECTED and RESOURCES ENDOWED wingnut government officials and media yakkers just don’t seem to draw a bead on things. I know it just couldn’t be about WANTING TO BELIEVE other things or never believing what they say at all, it just COULDN’T be.

In other big news (& I mean this sincerely), the “Sherlock Holmes” canon has been adjudicated as being in the Public Domain.

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http://www.nytimes.com

[font size=5]A Deadly Mix in Benghazi[/font]

.... [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Months of investigation by The New York Times[/FONT], centered on extensive interviews with Libyans in Benghazi who had direct knowledge of the attack there and its context, turned up [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]no evidence that Al Qaeda[/FONT] or other international terrorist groups [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]had any role[/FONT] in the assault. The attack was led, instead, by fighters who had benefited directly from NATO’s extensive air power and logistics support during the uprising against Colonel Qaddafi. And contrary to claims by some members of Congress, it [font size=5] [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]was fueled in large part by anger at an American-made video denigrating Islam[/FONT].[/font]

A fuller accounting of the attacks suggests lessons for the United States that go well beyond Libya. It shows the risks of expecting American aid in a time of desperation to [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]buy durable loyalty[/FONT], and the difficulty of [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]discerning friends[/FONT] from allies of convenience in a culture shaped by decades of anti-Western sentiment. Both are challenges now hanging over the American involvement in Syria’s civil conflict.

The attack also suggests that, as the threats from local militants around the region have multiplied, an intensive [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]focus on combating Al Qaeda may distract from safeguarding American interests[/FONT]. ....

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[Kingofalldems]

3. NY Times a mouthpiece for the Democrat party!

Benghazi!!!!