May 6, 2013
Compare and Contrast: What the State Department
did, what Army leadership did
You can’t make this stuff
up
Dear Nelson,
On May
3rd, Newsmax reported that in 2012 the State
Department hired a Libyan militia group that had obvious sympathies for al Qaeda
(see story below, highlights added) to help protect our consulate in
Benghazi!
In fact, the militia group “…prominently displayed the
al-Qaida flag on a Facebook page for months before the deadly
attack.”
File this under “you can’t make
this stuff up.”
Contrast that State Department decision with what Army
leadership did to Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley.
Lt. Col.
Dooley |
In 2012, Gen. Martin Dempsey
publicly reprimanded Lt. Col. Dooley for teaching a course entitled
“Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism” at the National Defense
University.
In spite of Lt. Col. Dooley’s sparkling record, Gen. Dempsey
then ordered a negative evaluation of Lt. Col. Dooley and Dooley was
reassigned.
But the travesty doesn’t end there. Lt. Col. Dooley received
an Outstanding Officer Evaluation report in his new assignment, but was slapped
down again, this time by Gen. Lloyd Austin (see
story here).
So while our State Department
hires a militia group sympathetic to al Qaeda to “protect” our consulate, two
generals go out of their way to destroy the career of a West Point graduate and
highly decorated officer because he dared to point out the threat posed by
radical Islam. |
When government
officials can’t tell who is the enemy and who is a friend, we’re in
trouble.
Newsmax:
US Hired Al-Qaeda-Linked Group to Defend Benghazi Mission
Newsmax Exclusive: US
Hired al-Qaida-Linked Group to Defend Benghazi Mission
By John
Rosenthal, Newsmax.com
The Libyan militia group that the State Department hired
to defend its embattled diplomatic mission in Benghazi had clear al-Qaida
sympathies, and had prominently displayed the al-Qaida flag on a Facebook page
for months before the deadly attack.
That organization, the February 17th Martyrs Brigade,
was paid by the U.S. government to provide security at the U.S. diplomatic
mission in Benghazi, Libya. But there is no indication the Martyrs Brigade
fulfilled its commitment to defend the mission on Sept. 11, when it came under
attack.
The assault claimed the lives of four Americans:
Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, information officer Sean Smith, and former
Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. Stevens was the first U.S. ambassador
to be killed in the line of duty since 1979.
Several entries on the militia’s Facebook page openly
profess sympathy for Ansar al-Sharia, the hardline Islamist extremist group
widely blamed for the deadly attack on the mission. The U.S. State Department
did not respond to a Newsmax request for an explanation as to why the February
17th Martyrs Brigade was hired to protect the mission.
On April
23, House Republicans released an interim progress report on its investigation
into the Benghazi killings. It cited “numerous reports” that “the Brigade had
extremist connections, and it had been implicated in the kidnapping of American
citizens as well as in the threats against U.S. military assets.”
The
report also stated that just a few days before Ambassador Stevens arrived in
Benghazi, the Martyrs Brigade informed State Department officials they would no
longer provide security as members of the mission, including Stevens, traveled
through the city.
From June 2011 to July 2012, Eric Nordstrom, the
Regional Security Officer for Libya at the time, documented over 200 security
threats and violent incidents threatening to U.S. personnel in Libya. Some 50 of
those incidents occurred in Benghazi.
Yet despite those threats, repeated
requests for additional security from the mission went unheeded by the State
Department, for reasons that remain unclear.
But perhaps the biggest
question is why the State Department would hire a group that openly displayed
its admiration for al-Qaida, and ask it to participate in the defense of its
diplomatic mission.
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