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| Champ Sez Benghazi Attack Isolated Incident, Localized Threat |
| 2013-05-24 |
| [Breitbart] In his Thursday speech at the National Defense University in Washington D.C., Champ went out of his way to spin the terrorist attacks in Benghazi as a predictable result of loosely-affiliated terrorism. Predicable? Was it then preventable as well ? First, Champ stated that "the core of al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan is on the path to defeat ... Hence their marked increase in activity. They did not direct the attacks in Benghazi or Boston." This is a bizarre spin, considering that the Benghazi attackers were from Ansar al-Shariah, a terrorist group directly affiliated with al Qaeda, and that Ansar al-Shariah is a highly organized local terrorist group. In any case, al Qaeda is an umbrella organization working with dozens of terrorists groups around the world. Obama continued trying to claim that Benghazi was an isolated incident, despite the fact that the terrorist attack there was merely the latest in a long line, and very similar to terrorism from Iraq to Afghanistan. He said, "We'll face more localized threats like what we saw in Benghazi ... in which local operatives -- perhaps in loose affiliation with regional networks -- launch periodic attacks against Western diplomats, companies and other soft targets, or resort to kidnapping and other criminal enterprises to fund their operations." But Benghazi is nothing new. That has been the pattern of terrorism for the last forty years. Obama's attempt to claim that he has effected a groundshift in the nature of terrorism is simply false. |
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