As late as yesterday morning (Sunday), the Obama Administration was still peddling the That-Bad-Movie-Killed-the-Ambassador nonsense (Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard):
On Sunday, it fell to Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to make the administration’s case.
“Our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous – not a premeditated – response to what had transpired in Cairo,” she said on This Week. “In Cairo, as you know, a few hours earlier there was a violent protest that was undertaken in reaction to this very offensive video that was disseminated…. We believe that folks in Benghazi, a small number of people came to the embassy to – or the consulate, rather, to replicate the sort of challenge that was posed in Cairo. And then as that unfolded, it seems to have been hijacked, let us say, by some individual clusters of extremists who came with heavier weapons…. And then it evolved from there.”
As Hayes himself put it, “That’s unlikely.”
Indeed, that same morning, none other than Mohammed el-Megarif, the current president of Libya, told it like it is (Weekly Standard):
“The idea that this criminal and cowardly act was a spontaneous protest that just spun out of control is completely unfounded and preposterous,” Megarif says in an interview on NPR. “We firmly believe that this was a precalculated, preplanned attack that was carried out specifically to attack the U.S. Consulate.”
The Libyan president added, “The intention was there from the beginning, for it to take this ugly barbaric, criminal form.”
Megarif claims evidence shows that some elements of Ansar al-Sharia, an extremist group in eastern Benghazi, were used as tools by foreign citizens with ties to al-Qaida to attack the consulate and threaten Libya’s stability.
The Libyan account of the horrific events, however, contradicts what American officials are saying.
And how!
On the plus side, it is good to know that at least there is a president that understands the danger here. I just wish it were the American president, rather than the Libyan one. Our loss, their gain, I suppose.
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