by TFittonJW
Obama/Clinton created Syria/Iran mess.
This is perhaps Judicial Watch’s most important find:
Judicial Watch announced today that it obtained more than 100 pages of previously classified “Secret” documents from the
Department of Defense (DOD)and the
Department of State revealing
that DOD almost immediately reported that the attack on the U.S.
Consulate in Benghazi was committed by the al Qaeda and Muslim
Brotherhood-linked “Brigades of the Captive Omar Abdul Rahman” (BCOAR),
and had been planned at least 10 days in advance. Rahman is known as the
Blind Sheikh, and is serving life in prison for his involvement in the
1993 World Trade Center bombing and other terrorist acts. The new
documents also provide the first official confirmation that shows the
U.S. government was aware of arms shipments from Benghazi to Syria. The
documents also include an August 2012 analysis warning of the rise of
ISIS and the predicted failure of the Obama policy of regime change in
Syria.
The documents were released in response to a
court order in accordance with a May 15, 2014, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
lawsuit filed
against both the DOD and State Department seeking communications
between the two agencies and congressional leaders “on matters related
to the activities of any agency or department of the U.S. government at
the Special Mission Compound and/or classified annex in Benghazi” (
Judicial Watch v U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of State(No. 1:14-cv-00812)).
Spelling and punctuation is duplicated in this release without corrections.
A
Defense Department document from
the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), dated September 12, 2012, the
day after the Benghazi attack, details that the attack on the compound
had been carefully planned by the BOCAR terrorist group “to kill as many
Americans as possible.” The document was sent to then-Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and the Obama White House National Security Council.
The heavily redacted Defense Department “information report” says that
the attack on the Benghazi facility “was planned and executed by The
Brigades of the Captive Omar Abdul Rahman (BCOAR).” The group
subscribes to “AQ ideologies:”
The attack was planned ten or more days prior on
approximately 01 September 2012. The intention was to attack the
consulate and to kill as many Americans as possible to seek revenge for
U.S. killing of Aboyahiye ((ALALIBY)) in Pakistan and in memorial of the
11 September 2001 atacks on the World Trade Center buildings.
“A violent radical,” the DIA report says, is “the leader of BCOAR is
Abdul Baset ((AZUZ)), AZUZ was sent by ((ZAWARI)) to set up Al Qaeda
(AQ) bases in Libya.” The group’s headquarters was set up with the
approval of a “member of the Muslim brother hood movement…where they
have large caches of weapons. Some of these caches are disguised by
feeding troughs for livestock. They have SA-7 and SA-23/4 MANPADS…they
train almost every day focusing on religious lessons and scriptures
including three lessons a day of jihadist ideology.”
The Defense Department reported the group maintained written
documents, in “a small rectangular room, approximately 12 meters by 6
meters…that contain information on all of the AQ activity in Libya.”
(Azuz is again blamed for the Benghazi attack in an October 2012 DIA document.)
The DOD documents also contain the
first official documentation that
the Obama administration knew that weapons were being shipped from the
Port of Benghazi to rebel troops in Syria. An October 2012 report
confirms:
Weapons
from the former Libya military stockpiles were shipped from the port of
Benghazi, Libya to the Port of Banias and the Port of Borj Islam,
Syria. The weapons shipped during late-August 2012 were Sniper rifles,
RPG’s, and 125 mm and 155mm howitzers missiles.
During the immediate aftermath of, and following the uncertainty
caused by, the downfall of the ((Qaddafi)) regime in October 2011 and up
until early September of 2012, weapons from the former Libya military
stockpiles located in Benghazi, Libya were shipped from the port of
Benghazi, Libya to the ports of Banias and the Port of Borj Islam,
Syria. The Syrian ports were chosen due to the small amount of cargo
traffic transiting these two ports. The ships used to transport the
weapons were medium-sized and able to hold 10 or less shipping
containers of cargo.
The DIA document further details:
The weapons shipped from Syria during late-August 2012
were Sniper rifles, RPG’s and 125mm and 155mm howitzers missiles. The
numbers for each weapon were estimated to be: 500 Sniper rifles, 100 RPG
launchers with 300 total rounds, and approximately 400 howitzers
missiles [200 ea – 125mm and 200ea – 155 mm.]
The heavily redacted document does not disclose who was shipping the weapons.
Another
DIA report,
written in August 2012 (the same time period the U.S. was monitoring
weapons flows from Libya to Syria), said that the opposition in Syria
was driven by al Qaeda and other extremist Muslim groups: “the Salafist,
the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI are the major forces driving the
insurgency in Syria.” The growing sectarian direction of the war was
predicted to have dire consequences for Iraq, which included the “grave
danger” of the rise of ISIS:
The deterioration of the situation has dire consequences on the Iraqi situation and are as follows:
This creates the ideal atmosphere for AQI [al Qaeda Iraq] to return
to its old pockets in Mosul and Ramadi, and will provide a renewed
momentum under the presumption of unifying the jihad among Sunni Iraq
and Syria, and the rest of the Sunnis in the Arab world against what it
considers one enemy, the dissenters. ISI could also declare an Islamic
state through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and
Syria, which will create grave danger in regards to unifying Iraq and
the protection of its territory.
Some of the “dire consequences” are blacked out but the DIA
presciently warned one such consequence would be the “renewing
facilitation of terrorist elements from all over the Arab world entering
into Iraqi Arena.”
From a
separate lawsuit, the State Department produced
a document created
the morning after the Benghazi attack by Hillary Clinton’s offices, and
the Operations Center in the Office of the Executive Secretariat that
was sent widely through the agency, including to Joseph McManus
(then-Hillary Clinton’s executive assistant). At 6:00 am, a few hours
after the attack, the top office of the State Department sent a “spot
report” on the “Attack on U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi” that
makes no mention of videos or demonstrations:
Four COM personnel were killed and three were wounded in
an attack by dozens of fighters on the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in
Benghazi beginning approximately 1550 Eastern Time….
The State Department has yet to turn over any documents from the
secret email accounts of Hillary Clinton and other top State Department
officials.
“These documents are jaw-dropping. No wonder we had to file more FOIA
lawsuits and wait over two years for them. If the American people had
known the truth – that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other top
administration officials knew that the Benghazi attack was an al-Qaeda
terrorist attack from the get-go – and yet lied and covered this fact up
– Mitt Romney might very well be president. And why would the Obama
administration continue to support the Muslim Brotherhood even after it
knew it was tied to the Benghazi terrorist attack and to al Qaeda? These
documents also point to connection between the collapse in Libya and
the ISIS war – and confirm that the U.S. knew remarkable details about
the transfer of arms from Benghazi to Syrian jihadists,” stated Tom
Fitton, Judicial Watch president. “These documents show that the
Benghazi cover-up has continued for years and is only unraveling through
our independent lawsuits. The Benghazi scandal just got a whole lot
worse for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.”
