Was the "Arab Spring" a Roadmap to Benghazi?

You may remember that President Obama supported the "Arab Spring" overthrow of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak back in 2011, and of course you remember the terrorist attack on our "diplomatic facility" in Benghazi on 9/11 ... but did you know these two dots might bear connection?

 

 

 

Raymond Ibrahim:

According to a Libyan intelligence document, the Muslim Brotherhood, including Egyptian President Morsi, were involved in the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, where several Americans, including U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, were killed.

On Wednesday, June 26, several Arabic websites, including Veto Gate, quoted the intelligence report, which apparently was first leaked to the Kuwaiti paper, Al Ra’i.  Prepared by Mahmoud Ibrahim Sharif, Director of National Security for Libya, the report is addressed to the nation’s Minister of Interior. It discusses the preliminary findings of the investigation, specifically concerning an “Egyptian cell” which was involved in the consulate attack.

“Based on confessions derived from some of those arrested at the scene” six people, “all of them Egyptians” from the jihad group Ansar al-Sharia (Supporters of Islamic Law), were arrested.

According to the report, during interrogations, these Egyptian jihadi cell members “confessed to very serious and important information concerning the financial sources of the group and the planners of the event and the storming and burning of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi…. And among the more prominent figures whose names were mentioned by cell members during confessions were: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi; preacher Safwat Hegazi; Saudi businessman Mansour Kadasa, owner of the satellite station, Al-Nas; Egyptian Sheikh Muhammad Hassan; former presidential candidate, Hazim Salih Abu Isma’il…”

 

In other news, Obama Is Sending American Troops to Prop Up Cairo's Islamofascists:

Millions have signed petitions demanding Morsi step down over the growing human rights violations. Yet Morsi and his thugs are digging in their heels and now they'll have, of all things, American reinforcements.

 

As Mubarak's hold on power was failing, Ari Shavit foresaw from Israel some of the repercussions of Obama's "betrayal," though he couldn't have imagined - as many still cannot - that an American president would ever actually support the Muslim Brotherhood.  January 31, 2011:

As goes Mubarak, so goes U.S. might 

.... Obama's betrayal of Hosni Mubarak is not just the betrayal of a moderate Egyptian president who remained loyal to the United States, promoted stability and encouraged moderation. Obama's betrayal of Mubarak symbolizes the betrayal of every strategic ally in the Third World. Throughout Asia, Africa and South America, leaders are now looking at what is going on between Washington and Cairo.

Everyone grasps the message: America's word is worthless; an alliance with America is unreliable; American has lost it. A result of this understanding will be a turn toward China, Russia and regional powers such as Iran, Turkey and Brazil.

The second result of this insight will be a series of international conflagrations that will result from the loss of America's deterrent power. But the general result will be America's rapid disappearance as a superpower.

 

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2011 - September - Riots in the Middle East

 

2013 - June 13 - Muslim Brotherhood in the White House"Banned Cleric's Outspoken Deputy Visits White House" - June 13, 2013. Second on left, in the white headgear, is Sheik Abdullah Bin Bayyah [vice president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, founded and headed by the "spiritual" leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Yusuf Qaradawi, who is banned from entering the U.S.] lobbied the White House to "take urgent action" to help Syrian rebels.

"We demand Washington take a greater role in [Syria]," Bin Bayyah told Al-Jazeera. President Obama later announced plans to arm Syrian rebels.

 

2013 - June 24 - SyriaMembers of the Free Syrian Army reportedly attacked the Christian-dominated al-Duvair village in Reef on the outskirts of Homs on Monday... (Shariah Unveiled).

 

Do these dots really connect in a straight line?  Maybe not, but show me another way to make sense of these events, and I'll be glad to consider it.

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

Of course the dots connect in a straight line. To believe otherwise would be to be believe that these events are happenstance -- historic flukes. Not even the most sheepish Leftie could believe that. This is a virtual replay of 1978-79, when Jimmy Carter betrayed an American friend, the Shah of Iran -- and America got kicked in the teeth for it. Obama's betrayal of Mubarak will have -- is already having -- equally disastrous results. The big difference between 1979 and today is that Carter was too stupid to understand the magnitude of the evil he was abetting. Obama, on the other hand, surely knew what he was doing when he abandoned Mubarak so that he could throw in his lot with the Muslim Brotherhood. Observers all over the world were shrieking that what Obama was doing played directly into the hands of the MB. He did it anyway. The difference between 1979 and now is that Carter was incompetent; Obama is malevolent. We will pay very dearly for his embrace of Islamism.