Tuesday, October 02, 2012

“in London the Foreign Office took the decision to withdraw all its consular staff from Benghazi two months before the murders.”


Quote from the Telegraph UK
I note with alacrity that American media is failing to report this detail.
Imagine now, if you will, the volume of the outcry if George Bush was president.
This decision was based on an intelligence assessment made by MI6 that al-Qaeda was openly operating in the area following a failed assassination attempt on Sir Dominic Asquith, Britain’s ambassador to Libya, in June.
It is well known that British intelligence works closely with its counterpart in America, and if MI6 knew al-Qaeda was operating in the Benghazi region, then it is highly likely that the CIA did too.
Suddenly the Administration’s “it’s nothing to do with us, guv,” defence is starting to look rather thin, with potentially disastrous consequences for Mr Obama’s re-election prospects.

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