DefDog: AP – Libyan Witnesses Say Organized Attack, No Video Protest — Independent Report Finds USG Story Inconsistent with Facts on the Ground, No Real Investigation So Far

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Libyan witnesses recount organized Benghazi attack

Associated Press, Sunday, October 28, 2012

TRIPOLI, Libya — It began around nightfall on Sept. 11 with around 150 bearded gunmen, some wearing the Afghan-style tunics favored by Islamic militants, sealing off the streets leading to the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. They set up roadblocks with pick-up trucks mounted with heavy machine guns, according to witnesses.

The trucks bore the logo of Ansar al-Shariah, a powerful local group of Islamist militants who worked with the municipal government to manage security in Benghazi, the main city in eastern Libya and birthplace of the uprising last year that ousted Moammar Gadhafi after a 42-year dictatorship.

There was no sign of a spontaneous protest against an American-made movie denigrating Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. But a lawyer passing by the scene said he saw the militants gathering around 20 youths from nearby to chant against the film. Within an hour or so, the assault began, guns blazing as the militants blasted into the compound.

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Yasser el-Sirri, a former Egyptian militant who runs the Islamic Observation Center in London closely tracking jihadi groups, said the attack “had nothing to do with the film but it was a coincidence that served the (militants’) purpose.”

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Was Benghazi Attack on U.S. Consulate an Inside Job?

One man gives his harrowing account of the attack on the U.S. Ambassador

Newsweek via Daily Beast, 20 October 2012

Read full article (four screens).

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