{"id":484,"date":"2012-09-12T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.alexanderhiggins.com\/?p=484"},"modified":"2024-04-24T12:09:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T12:09:52","slug":"officials-attack-libya-planned-183171","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alexanderhiggins.com\/middle-east\/officials-attack-libya-planned-183171\/","title":{"rendered":"US Officials Say Attack In Libya May Have Been Planned"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Officials within the Obama administration have reportedly said the deadly attack on the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi, which killed ambassador Chris Stevens, was planned in advance.<\/h3>\n

Now the corporate media is reporting that the RPG attack that killed the Ambassador\u2019s and 3 other Americans after the US embassy in Benghazi was burned to the ground was planned in advance.<\/p>\n

According to the reports the protests occurring leading up to the violence were nothing more than a diversion to draw Ambassador Stevens into a trap.<\/p>\n

Libya security forces are said to have step aside and let the militants attack the consulate yesterday during which the consulate was set on fire.<\/p>\n

Today the Ambassador and his staff are said to have been killed in an RPG attack while visiting the consulate.<\/p>\n

RT has more:<\/p>\n

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RT<\/strong><\/a><\/cite> \u2013 Officials within the Obama administration have reportedly said the deadly attack on the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi, which killed ambassador Chris Stevens, was planned in advance.<\/p>\n

\u00adBoth the New York Times and CNN are quoting sources within the administration as saying the attack on the consulate was planned.<\/p>\n

CNN\u2019s source claimed \u201cTuesday\u2019s attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was planned in advance, and the attackers used the protest outside the consulate as a diversion\u201d. Intelligence officials also reportedly said the attack on the Benghazi consulate was too coordinated or professional to be spontaneous.<\/p>\n

Some media reports have also suggested \u2018Innocence of Muslims\u2019, the scandalous film<\/a> that many blame for sparking the protest, was used as a pretext for the attacks on US embassies in Libya and Cairo.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey has called on notorious far-right Florida Pastor Terry Jones, who promoted the film, to \u201cconsider withdrawing\u201d<\/em> his support for it. Dempsey expressed \u201cconcerns over the nature of the film, the tensions it will inflame and the violence it will cause.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Senior US officials also told CNN that unmanned surveillance drones are expected to begin flying over Benghazai and other locations in eastern Libya to look for jihadi encampments and targets that may be tied to the deadly attack on American personnel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Officials within the Obama administration have reportedly said the deadly attack on the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi, which killed ambassador Chris Stevens, was planned in advance. Now the corporate media is reporting that the RPG attack that killed the Ambassador\u2019s and 3 other Americans after the US embassy in Benghazi was … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alexanderhiggins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alexanderhiggins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alexanderhiggins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alexanderhiggins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alexanderhiggins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alexanderhiggins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alexanderhiggins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alexanderhiggins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alexanderhiggins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alexanderhiggins.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}