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2012-10-13 Home Front: WoT

U.S. intel set back when Libya base was abandoned

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Posted by Steve White 2012-10-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Yep, they're all washed up in Benghazi. No sense looking for representatives of the Great Satin there now, they're kaputt!

Posted by Besoeker 2012-10-13 04:04|| 2012-10-13 04:04|| Front Page Top

#2 The correct description for this is "disastrous clusterfark".

Posted by lotp 2012-10-13 09:34|| 2012-10-13 09:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Political prattle. Anyone with a smidge of experience takes as a matter of course that any diplomatic facility will be an intelligence-gatherer.

It was surmised by the media that Benghazi was an intel facility weeks ago; one does not mention "lists of cooperative Libyans" casually, especially given the media's coziness with this administration.

It was also theorized that a 'capable' foreign intelligence agency coordinated the assault. Given the attacks, that still seems likely.

Posted by Pappy 2012-10-13 10:59|| 2012-10-13 10:59|| Front Page Top

#4 It was also theorized that a 'capable' foreign intelligence agency coordinated the assault

Any theorizing about a particular 'capable' foreign agency, Pappy?

Posted by trailing wife 2012-10-13 13:48|| 2012-10-13 13:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Gee, Iran? Not Jordan, or Syria, or Egypt (yet), or The Kingdom, so maybe it was the Somali's or the Emirates, yeah, it must have been them. No one else has been at war with us since the mi 80's have they?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2012-10-13 14:55|| 2012-10-13 14:55|| Front Page Top

#6 My list, in general order of probability:

Iran (either Al Quds Force, or with Hesb'allah)

Egypt

Pakistan

One of the Gulf nations

Russia

A criminal enterprise (similar to, or the same one that runs Somalia's piracy industry.)

In all but the last of the above, it portends political complications for the current administration and likely the next one as well.

It's also possible that the attackers may have been remnants of Qafaffi's supporters rather than post-rebel militia elements. That opens up a whole new can of worms, such as the possibility of attempting to topple the interim Libyan government.

Posted by Pappy 2012-10-13 15:05|| 2012-10-13 15:05|| Front Page Top

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