New York Times “A Deadly Mix in Benghazi”: The Attempted Coverup that Inadvertently Convicts Obama!

• New York Times “A Deadly Mix in Benghazi”: The Attempted Coverup that Inadvertently Convicts Obama! 
  by http://larouchepac.com/ 
  The article written by David Kirkpatrick and published in the New York Times on Dec. 28, 2013, entitled “A Deadly Mix in Benghazi,” has been widely denounced as a coverup in behalf of the Obama Administration. And indeed the article is a coverup on several grounds:
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  1) The article falsely claims that there was no evidence that al-Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role in the assault;
  2) The article also falsely claims, as initially stated by Susan Rice and other administration officials, that the attack on the mission and CIA annex was “fueled in large part by anger at an American-made video denigrating Islam.” In this context the article fails to mention the video posted by the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al Zawahiri, just prior to Benghazi, in which he calls for revenge against the U.S. for the drone killing of Abu Yahah al Libi in Pakistan and that fact that his older brother, Abdal Wahhab Mohammad Qaid, is a leading member of the LIFG in Libya;
  3) The article fails to address the issue of the gunrunning from Benghazi to Syria involving the February 17th Brigade sanctioned by Obama; and
  4) The article fails to address the reported funding of the Benghazi attack by Saudi Arabia.
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  That having been said, the article ironically confirms what has long been documented by LaRouchePAC and the EIR, that the people who attacked the U.S. mission and CIA annex in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, were the militias with which Obama allied in his illegal war to overthrow the government of Qaddafi. As Kirkpatrick writes: the U.S. “ultimately lost its ambassador in an attack that involved both avowed opponents of the West and fighters belonging to militias that the Americans had taken for allies.”
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  What he fails to say is that the core of the forces with which Obama allied was the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) led by Abdelhakim Belhadj. The leaders of the LIFG fought with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. They moved to Sudan with Osama bin Laden. The LIFG also officially merged with al-Qaeda on November 3, 2007.
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  By not identifying the LIFG’s affiliation with al-Qaeda, Kirkpatrick lies that “Benghazi was not infiltrated by al-Qaeda.”
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  Thus, the distinction between local militias with which Obama allied in Libya and core al-Qaeda which was allegedly not involved, is a lie, actually perpetrated by al-Qaeda for the purpose of disguising its presence.
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  The article focuses on Abu Khattala, as the alleged ringleader of the attack on the mission and claims that he had “no known affiliations with terrorist groups.” At the same time it says “he was firmly embedded in the network of Benghazi militias.”
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  The article claims that he was the assassin of Gen. Abdal Fatah Yunis on July 28, 2011, the head of the military wing of the Transitional National Council, but one of Yunis’ deputies claimed at the time that the assassins were with the February 17th Brigade. The assassination of Yunis cleared the way for Belhadj to emerge as the commander of the Tripoli Military Council. In that position he was responsible for the security for all foreign embassies.
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  As documented by LaRouchePAC and EIR, the February 17th Brigade, which was hired to protect the U.S. mission was founded by the emir of the LIFG Belhadj, who was also Ambassador Chris Stevens’ liaison to the opposition. All of the variously named militias in Benghazi operate under the umbrella of the LIFG.
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