In response to yesterday's post, Italian Priest Cancels Cemetery Nativity Scene Because It Could Offend Muslims, Jim wrote:
Damn right. The same can be said of YouTube videos (even though, in the case of The Innocence of Muslims, it had nothing to do with either the violent protests at the American Embassy in Cairo or the coordinated, planned terrorist attacks in Benghazi, which killed 4 Americans and injured many others).
I have little doubt that part of the reason Hillary lost was the fact that she and other Democrats continue to say shit like this:
'Islam is the religion of peace and Muslims have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.'
Hillary tweeted that following the Bataclan Massacre and stated versions of the same following the terrorist attacks in San Bernardino and Orlando.
This is a woman and a Party that was so intent on protecting Islam that they covered up a terrorist attack by Ansar al Sharia in Benghazi and blamed an innocent Coptic Christian and his stupid and little-known YouTube video.
Oh, and this is CRITICAL to never forget. I wrote about it at PHUP, Benghazi: The Definitive Timeline:
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06.22.12: Ambassador Stevens warns State that extremist groups are operating in the open in Benghazi and Libya, as a whole, carrying out terrorists attacks, making threats against Western targets, and that he is a target.
06.25.12: Ambassador Stevens sends a cable to the State Department entitled 'LIBYA’S FRAGILE SECURITY DETERIORATES AS TRIBAL RIVALRIES, POWER PLAYS AND EXTREMISM INTENSIFY' and states '[f]rom April to June, Libya also witnesses an increase in attacks targeting international organisations and foreign interests,' describing attacks on a United Nations official in Benghazi, International Committee for the Red Cross buildings in Benghazi and Misrata, and IED at the mission in Benghazi, and RPG fired at the British Ambassador’s convoy, and an attack on the consulate of Tunisia.
06.29.12 (75 days before the attack): Newly-elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi pledges to free Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Blind Sheikh, who he describes as a political prisoner. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION OF THE FILM 'INNOCENCE OF MUSLIMS' OR ANY OTHER 'VILE YOUTUBE VIDEO' MADE WHATSOEVER.
06.30.12 (74 days before the attack): A film called 'The Innocence of Bin Laden' is shown at a small independent cinema on Hollywood Boulevard called the Vine Theatre to only a handful of viewers in the two showings that evening. It runs less than an hour and is notable for its poor production value. A witness says that the man organising the screening is an Egyptian living in America, who had hired two Egyptian security guards for the evening.
June to July: Eric Nordstrom, the Regional Security Officer for Libya at the time, documents over 200 security threats and violent incidents threatening to U.S. personnel in Libya. Some 50 of those incidents occur in Benghazi.
07.02.12 (72 days before the attack): 'Sam Bacile' a/k/a Nakoula Basseley Nakoula posts English-language promotional trailers for Innocence of Muslims on YouTube.
@20:59 (2:59 PM EST): Charlene Lamb sends (SBU) email to State Department personnel with ‘Subject: Re: Tripoli – Request for extension of TDY Security Personnel’ wherein she responds to Eric Nordstrom’s intent to request an MSD extension: ‘NO, I do not [I repeat] not want them to ask for the MSD team to stay!’ She demands Tripoli not make formal request for extension of SST and MSD security teams.
07.09.12: Ambassador Stevens sends a cable requesting continued help from military SST and State Dept. MSD (Mobile Security Deployment team) through mid-Sept. 2012, saying that benchmarks for a drawdown have not been met. He requests at least 13 more security personnel, citing 'unpredictable' situation in Libya.
07.09.12 @18:24 (12:24 PM EST): David C. McFarland cables Ambassador Chris Stevens, Eric Nordstrom, et al., ‘Subject: (SBU) Tripoli O-I July 9’ and advises them that Charlene Lamb is ‘reluctant to ask for an SST extension, apparently out of concern that it would be embarrassing to the [State Department] to continue to have to rely on [Defence Department] assets to protect our Mission.’
07.21.12: Regional Security Officer (RSO) Nordstrom warns State Dept: Risk to US officials in Libya is 'HIGH.'
07.21.12: The private security contractor, Nordstrom, warns State to be on high alert for terrorist activity.
08.02.12: Ambassador Stevens sends urgent cable to Clinton's office requesting 'protective detail bodyguard.'
08.02.12 (41 days before the attack): Egypt formally requests that the United States release Abdel-Rahman. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION OF THE FILM 'INNOCENCE OF MUSLIMS' MADE WHATSOEVER.
08.05.12: State Department orders removal of Ambassador Stevens' security team (SST).
08.05.12: State refuses to renew Nordstrom’s contract and replaces it with a Welsh group, Blue Mountain, which has little knowledge of the conditions in Libya.
08.08.12: Ambassador Stevens sends a cable to State entitled 'THE GUNS OF AUGUST; SECURITY IN EASTERN LIBYA' and states '[s]ince the eve of the (July) elections, Benghazi has moved from trepidation to euphoria and back as a series of violent incidents has dominated the political landscape during the Ramadan holiday.' Stevens describes the incidents as 'organised, but this is not an organised campaign.' The Supreme Security Council, the interim security force, he says, 'has not coalesced into a stabilising force and provides little deterrence.' He further states that 'a series of violent incidents has dominated the political landscape" and calls them "targeted and discriminate attacks.'
08.08.12: Ambassador Stevens' SST departs Libya.
08.15.12: Emergency meeting at US mission in Benghazi on security.
08.16.12: Regional Security Officer (RSO) sends email to Clinton's office warning of dire security situation.
08.27.12: State Department issues a travel warning for Libya citing the threat of assassination and car bombings in Benghazi/Tripoli.
08.30.12 (12 days before the attack): Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya calls for a protest at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on 11 September 2012 to demand the release of Abdel-Rahman, the Blind Sheikh. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION OF THE FILM 'INNOCENCE OF MUSLIMS' MADE WHATSOEVER.
09.04.12 (7 days before the attack): Egyptian deputy Interior Minister, General Sami Sidhom, receives a letter warning that Sinai- and Gaza-based Global Jihad cells are planning attacks on the American and Israel embassies in Cairo. Copies of the letter are sent to all in the Egyptian security sector. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION OF THE FILM 'INNOCENCE OF MUSLIMS' MADE WHATSOEVER.
09.06.12: President Barack Obama does not attend his Presidential Daily Briefing concerning national security threats.
09.06.12: The Libyan-flagged vessel, the Al Entisar (which means 'The Victory') that had departed from Benghazi sails into the Turkish port of Iskenderun — 35 miles from the Syrian border. While its manifest claims that it is carrying humanitarian supplies, a search of the vessel reveals 400 tonnes of American-made ‘SAM-7 surface-to-air anti-craft missiles and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs).’ The Intisaar is detained in Iskenderun. Only after a phone call from the US government is the shipment released.
09.07.12: President Barack Obama does not attend his Presidential Daily Briefing concerning national security threats.
09.08.12 (3 days before the attack): Benghazi security officials warn US of attacks.
09.08.12: The February 17th Martyrs Brigade announces that it will no longer provide security at the Benghazi consulate.
09.08.12 (3 days before the attack): Egyptian website, El Fagr, posts a statement by Jihadi groups in Egypt, including Islamic Jihad, the Sunni Group, and Al Gamaa Al Islamiyya wherein they threaten to burn the U.S. Embassy in Cairo to the ground. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION OF THE FILM 'INNOCENCE OF MUSLIMS' MADE WHATSOEVER.
09.08.12 (3 days before the attack): Egyptian TV network al-Nas, which had periodically been suspended under the Mubarak regime for “promoting religious or sectarian hatred," airs a short montage of a clip of clip from the trailer of 'The Innocence of Muslims.' The show, Masr El-Gadeeda, is hosted by Muslim Salafist hardliner, Sheikh Khalid Abdallah. Abdallah has been described as 'part of a school of particularly shrill religious demagogues who turn every possible event into an attack on Islam' by the New York Times and Abdullah's channel 'traffics in demagoguery and hatemongering. 'The airing of the video clip on the Saturday before the Cairo protest was not accidental. It was a strategic and planned move by leaders like Nader Bakar of the Salafist Nour Party and Mohammed al-Zawahiri, brother of Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s longtime deputy and now head of al-Qaeda. Al-Nas posts the first Arabic-dubbed version of Innocence of Muslims on the internet.
09.08.12: No protest over the YouTube video is recorded ANYWHERE.
09.08.12: President Barack Obama does not attend his Presidential Daily Briefing concerning national security threats.
09.09.12: No protest over the YouTube video is recorded ANYWHERE.
09.09.12: President Barack Obama does not attend his Presidential Daily Briefing concerning national security threats.
09.09.12: Alec Henderson, the RSO in Benghazi, relays the warning from the February 17 militia to John Martinec, who is the RSO in Tripoli.
09.09.12 (2 days before the attack): Egyptian newspaper, Al-Masry Al-Youm (Egypt Independent) reports that it has received a copy of the 'top secret' letter, which stated that Egypt’s General Intelligence Service had notified the ministry’s national security body that a jihadi group was planning to launch terrorist attacks against the US and Israeli embassies in Cairo. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION OF THE FILM 'INNOCENCE OF MUSLIMS' MADE WHATSOEVER.
09.09.12 (2 days before the attack): US State Department has credible information that American missions may be targeted in Cairo and Benghazi; yet, no warnings are given for diplomats to go on high alert and ‘lockdown,’ under which movement is to be severely restricted. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION OF THE FILM 'INNOCENCE OF MUSLIMS' MADE WHATSOEVER.
09.10.12 (1 day before the attack): Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri calls for Libyans to avenge the death of his deputy, Abu Yahya al-Libi. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION OF THE FILM 'INNOCENCE OF MUSLIMS' MADE WHATSOEVER.
09.10.12: President Barack Obama does not attend his Presidential Daily Briefing concerning national security threat.
09.10.12: CIA warns of social media reports calling for a demonstration in front of the Cairo Embassy and that jihadists are threatening to break into the Embassy. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION OF THE FILM 'INNOCENCE OF MUSLIMS' MADE WHATSOEVER.
09.10.12: No protest over the YouTube video is recorded ANYWHERE.
09.10.12 (1 day before the attack): Raymond Ibrahim at PJMedia.com reports the threat, the intended protest and links to the site. He also translated the post from El Fagr:
“The group, which consists of many members from al-Qaeda, called [especially] for the quick release of the jihadi [mujahid] sheikh, Omar Abdul Rahman [the "Blind Sheikh"], whom they described as a scholar and jihadi who sacrificed his life for the Egyptian Umma, who was ignored by the Mubarak regime, and [President] Morsi is refusing to intervene on his behalf and release him, despite promising that he would. The Islamic Group has threatened to burn the U.S. Embassy in Cairo with those in it, and taking hostage those who remain [alive], unless the Blind Sheikh is immediately released.”
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION OF THE FILM 'INNOCENCE OF MUSLIMS' MADE WHATSOEVER.
NOTE:THIS WAS THE DAY BEFORE THE ATTACK!
09.11.12: There are a total of 28 US personnel on the ground at the Benghazi Mission and Annex, including Ambassador Stevens.
09.11.12 @9:43 AM (3:43 AM EST): Ambassador Stevens sends cables to D.C., including a Benghazi weekly report of security incidents reflecting Libyans' 'growing frustration with police and security forces, who are too weak to keep the country secure.' He warns that 'security situation is deteriorating dramatically.'
09.11.12 (Day of the attack): The Jerusalem Post reports that Egypt’s General Intelligence Service has warned that a jihadi group is planning to launch terrorist attacks against the US and Israeli embassies in Cairo. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION OF THE FILM 'INNOCENCE OF MUSLIMS' MADE WHATSOEVER.
09.11.12 (***@12:00 PM*** (6:00 AM EST) ON THE DAY OF THE ATTACKS): THE U.S. EMBASSY IN CAIRO RELEASES A STATEMENT ON ITS WEBSITE DISAVOWING A YOUTUBE FILM NAMED "INNOCENCE OF MUSLIMS," WHICH MOCKS THE PROPHET MOHAMMAD.
Later that afternoon, protesters who had gathered outside the embassy compound stormed the gates and tore the American flag down, replacing it with a black Salafist flag.
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NOTE THAT THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN CAIRO APOLOGISED FOR THE YOUTUBE VIDEO HOURS BEFORE EVEN THE PROTESTERS BEGAN TO ASSEMBLE OUTSIDE OF THE EMBASSY.
The planned protest in Cairo was KNOWN for WEEKS before 09.11.12 and was not about a YouTube video. It was about getting Obama to release the Blind Sheikh. Yet, the American ambassador, Anne Patterson (who fervently supported Morsi and the MoBros and opposed the Egyptian people's demand that they leave office), issued an 'apology' for The Innocence of Muslims YouTube video HOURS before the protest even took place.
Whether or not the Cairo protest was linked to the Benghazi attack (the Libyan president claimed that it was) may not be known, but quite conveniently the Hillary Clinton State Department had concocted a fabricated excuse for both before either happened.
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