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2016-10-12 Terror Networks
Chinook, Stinger 'arming switch', Marc Turi, and a Piotrowski theory
Moved to Opinion because it is a Facebook post.
[Mike Piotrowski-Facebook] Amb. Stevens was sent to Benghazi post haste in order to retrieve US made Stinger missiles supplied to Ansar al Sharia without Congressional oversight or permission. Hillary brokered the deal through Stevens and a private arms dealer named Marc Turi.

Then some of the shoulder fired missiles ended up in Afghanistan used against our own military. It was July 25th, 2012 when a Chinook helicopter was taken down by one of our own Stingers, but the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile and the Chinook didn't explode, but had to land anyway.
Gratuitous WSJ Jalalabad Stinger 'Arming Switch' story from 2011
An ordnance team recovered the serial number off the missile which led back to a cache of Stingers being kept in Qatar by the CIA. Obama and Hillary were now in full panic mode and Stevens was sent in to retrieve the rest of the Stingers. This was a "do-or-die" mission, which explains the stand down orders given to multiple commando teams.

It was the State Dept, not the CIA that supplied them to our sworn enemies, because Petraeus wouldn't supply these deadly weapons due to their potential use on commercial aircraft. Then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus after he refused to testify that he OK'd the BS talking points about a spontaneous uprising due to a Youtube video. Obama and Hillary committed treason...and THIS is what the investigation is all about, why she had a private server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and why Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was because of a Youtube video, even though everyone knew it was not.

Further...the Taliban knew that this administration aided and abetted the enemy without Congressional approval when Boehner created the Select Cmte, and the Taliban began pushing the Obama Administration for the release of 5 Taliban Generals. Bowe Bergdahl was just a pawn...everyone KNEW he was a traitor. So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised...and a woman that is a serial liar, perjured herself multiple times at the Hearing whom is running for POTUS. Only the Dems, with their hands out, palms up, will support her. Perhaps this is why no military aircraft was called in...because the administration knew our enemies had Stingers.
Most of this is old news/theory. The name Marc Turi caught my attention. He may possibly be someone to watch now that DoJ has dropped charges against him.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-10-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top
 File under: Ansar al-Sharia 

#1 FOX - Arms dealer Marc Turi says administration made him scapegoat on Libya operation to 'protect' Clinton

EXCLUSIVE: American arms dealer Marc Turi, in his first television interview since criminal charges against him were dropped, told Fox News that the Obama administration -- with the cooperation of Hillary Clinton’s State Department -- tried and failed to make him the scapegoat for a 2011 covert weapons program to arm Libyan rebels that spun out of control.

“I would say, 100 percent, I was victimized…to somehow discredit me, to throw me under the bus, to do whatever it took to protect their next presidential candidate,” he told Fox News chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge.

The 48-year-old Arizona resident has been at the epicenter of a failed federal investigation led by the Justice Department spanning five years and costing the government an estimated $10 million or more, Turi says.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-10-12 02:40||   2016-10-12 02:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Wikispooks link:

Turi admits to a criminal history. He told Fox Business that in the late 1980s, he stole a computer, his roommate's car, and wrote bad checks including one for $100,000 dollars. Through court records, Fox News verified he was arrested, convicted, and served time in an Arizona jail.

"In my youth, I made some very very bad mistakes...I was discharged from the United States Navy other under than honorable conditions...and I've been fighting ever since to get that honor back."

Marc Turi is quoted as stating: "I got involved in this business in the 1990s. I've been involved in all type of operations, regarding transportation, logistics, and liaising with those foreign governments."[2]
Posted by Besoeker 2016-10-12 03:19||   2016-10-12 03:19|| Front Page Top

#3 If the Wikispooks piece is accurate, Turi is NOT someone the Intelligence Community would have anything to do with. A Turi association with Foggy Bottom is very likely another matter. Other Turi connections have yet to be revealed.

Not sure who pulled Turi into the Benghazi operation, but I suspect a simple background check terminated his involvement. A follow-up DoJ indictment help keep a thumb on him. Turi may want to keep a close eye on his 6.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-10-12 03:30||   2016-10-12 03:30|| Front Page Top

#4 A great story though, Berserker.
Turi is also a good candidate(sic) to pull it off.
He's been around for a while and commerced in some low profile environments. Not a soft target.
Posted by Skidmark 2016-10-12 09:15||   2016-10-12 09:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Some interesting things turn up on Facebook, in between the kittens, kids, and virtue signalling.
Posted by trailing wife 2016-10-12 10:40||   2016-10-12 10:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Does anyone know how many Stingers the terrorists Got? I have heard between 300 and 500. Even 300 is enough to shut down air travel worldwide.
Posted by Dopey Phuger3886 2016-10-12 11:43||   2016-10-12 11:43|| Front Page Top

#7 If the Wikispooks piece is accurate, Turi is NOT someone the Intelligence Community would have anything to do with.

At least not for this purpose. State, however, might.

I'll disagree with the rest of the theory. Too many tangled and loose threads.
Posted by Pappy 2016-10-12 12:20||   2016-10-12 12:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Does anyone know how many Stingers the terrorists Got? I have heard between 300 and 500. Even 300 is enough to shut down air travel worldwide. Posted by: Dopey Phuger3886

From what I have read, somewhere's btwn a few and a buttload.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-10-12 12:38||   2016-10-12 12:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Seems to me like his criminal background makes him an excellent fall guy.
Posted by Raj 2016-10-12 13:38||   2016-10-12 13:38|| Front Page Top

#10 I had a high school gym teacher named Piotrowski. His claim to fame was (according to him) being the last guy cut on one of the Boston Celtics teams, I'm guessing sometime in the '70's.
Posted by Raj 2016-10-12 13:40||   2016-10-12 13:40|| Front Page Top

#11 Seems to me like his criminal background makes him an excellent fall guy.
Posted by Raj

Yes, other 'fall guys' include, but are not limited to: Nakoula Basseley Nakoula and Dr. Shakil Afridi.
Posted by Besoeker 2016-10-12 13:46||   2016-10-12 13:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Hope his life insurance is paid up - people who cross the Clintons seem to have things happen to them.
Posted by Herb Henbane5052 2016-10-12 16:30||   2016-10-12 16:30|| Front Page Top

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