Showing posts with label Libya. Show all posts
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Monday, July 25, 2016

Fourteen Bodies Found After 'Execution' In Benghazi, Libya

July 25, 2016 Fourteen Bodies Found After 'Execution' In Benghazi , Libya 0 Comments


By Reuters, July 22, 2016 

(Reuters) - Fourteen unidentified bodies with shot wounds to the head have been found in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, a hospital official said on Friday.

U.N. Libya envoy Martin Kobler said he was "shocked and dismayed by the summary execution," labelling it a war crime and calling for those responsible to be brought to justice.

The bodies were recovered from Laithi, a neighbourhood that forces loyal to eastern commander Khalifa Haftar captured this year from a loose alliance of Islamists and other opponents.
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Sunday, August 31, 2014

Awkward

August 31, 2014 Benghazi , Libya 0 Comments
UK Accused Of Harbouring Libyan Cleric Who Helped Aid Islamist Insurgency

Sheikh Sadik Al-Ghariani
Photograph: Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images
Source:  The Guardian
Chris Stephen and Josh Halliday, Aug. 29, 2014, Theguardian.com

Britain has been accused of housing a possible war crimes suspect after the Guardian learned that Libya's highest spiritual leader, the grand mufti Sheikh Sadik Al-Ghariani, helped orchestrate the Islamist takeover of Tripoli from the UK.

On a day when David Cameron announced tougher measures to tackle the threat from terrorists, the Foreign Office confirmed that Ghariani was residing in the UK, from where he is encouraging his followers to overthrow the Libyan government.

Earlier this week, the radical cleric celebrated the violent capture of Tripoli by Islamist militia force Libya Dawn and called for a widening of the rebellion using an online television channel registered by a close family relative in Exeter.

The day after Tripoli fell to the Islamist group Libya Dawn, Ghariani sent congratulations to the Islamist militants using his internet channel, Tanasuh: "I congratulate the revolutionaries in their victory, I give blessing to the martyrs," he said.

Ghariani's presence in Britain will prove acutely embarrassing for the government, emerging on the day the prime minister warned of a "greater and deeper threat to our security than we have known before" from Islamist extremists as the security threat level was raised from substantial to severe.

The matter is also likely to strain relations with Washington. American officials are understood to be furious that he has been allowed a pulpit to preach in the UK, particularly following his praise in June of the militant group Ansar Sharia, which the US blames for the killing of its ambassador Chris Stevens in Bengazi in 2012.

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Saturday, May 3, 2014

CBS Evening News Finally Notices Benghazi Emails; Discloses Exec.'s Family Tie to White House --Oh, THAT...

CBS Evening News Finally Notices Benghazi Emails; Discloses Exec.'s Family Tie to White House --Oh, THAT...

May 03, 2014 Ben Rhodes , Benghazi 0 Comments
By Matthew Balan, May 2, 2014, Newsbusters.org


On Friday, CBS Evening News caught up with its Big Three competitors and reported on the latest developments on the controversy surrounding the September 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. facility in Benghazi, Libya. CBS also finally mentioned its own president's family connection to a White House official involved in the Obama administration's handling of the immediate aftermath of the attack.

Nancy Cordes gave a full report on how the "the White House released previously unseen e-mails" about the federal government's response to the terrorist strike, which led to House Speaker John Boehner forming a new select committee to investigate the attack. Scott Pelley also disclosed that "Ben Rhodes, the White House deputy national security advisor mentioned in Nancy's story, is the brother of CBS News President David Rhodes." [MP3 audio available here

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Thursday, May 1, 2014

Jay Carney Lies About The Benghazi Email --Was there an email? What email? Email? Oh, that email...

May 01, 2014 Benghazi , Dag Vega 0 Comments
By John Hinderaker, Apr. 30, 2014, Powerlineblog.com

Yesterday I wrote about the most significant email that the Obama administration produced in response to a FOIA request by Judicial Watch. It was sent by White House political operative Ben Rhodes to a variety of administration officials whose duties related to PR, not policy. Among the recipients were David Plouffe, Dan Pfeiffer, Dag Vega and Jay Carney. Sent on the Friday before Susan Rice made her infamous tour of the Sunday morning talk shows, it set the talking points for the prep session that the group had scheduled with Rice for Saturday afternoon. Here it is:


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White House E-mails On Benghazi Stoke More Questions No, same ones. What's the truth?

May 01, 2014 al-Qaeda , Benghazi 0 Comments
Credit:  Susan Walsh / AP
Oren Dorell, Apr. 30, 2014, Usatoday.com

The White House should "come clean" and release all of its e-mails related to the crafting of former U.N. ambassador Susan Rice's message on the Benghazi attack, including ones redacted for supposed national security purposes, says the GOP.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, a member of a House committee investigating the attack, made the demand a day after the release of an e-mail showing that White House aide Ben Rhodes wanted to blame the 2012 assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on a protest that never happened there.

Referring to Benghazi and Middle East unrest, he said that she should "underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy."

Chaffetz told USA TODAY that the White House has turned over e-mails with much of the content blocked out.

"There were other e-mails that went to Susan Rice. We got them with heavy redactions," Chaffetz told USA TODAY. "The White House needs to come clean on what they said."

White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters Wednesday that Rhodes' e-mail had been misconstrued because it was referring to protests happening across the Muslim world at the time.

"The e-mail and the talking points were not about Benghazi. They were about the general situation in the Muslim world," Carney said.

But the White House had provided the emails to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform based on a request for communications on Benghazi. And portions on Rhodes' email that were blocked out pertained to Benghazi.

The emails came to light only after a watchdog group sued for the unblocked emails under a Freedom of Information Request.

Carney's claim is "laughable," Chaffetz said. "Susan Rice was asked about Benghazi and she repeated exactly what Ben Rhodes wanted her to say."

Susan Rice used her TV appearances to deny that the Benghazi attack was a terrorist plot and to blame it on a non-existent protest that turned violent. U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three State Department employees were killed in the attack, which the White House later acknowledged was a planned terrorist attack and not preceded by a protest.

Republican lawmakers have accused the White House of seeking to minimize the role of terrorism in the attack while President Obama was seeking re-election and claiming that al-Qaeda was in retreat.

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