'Benghazi: The Definitive Report' In 2012, a secret war across North Africa was well underway.

First charges filed in connection with Benghazi attack

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Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against an alleged militia leader in connection with the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, CBS News has confirmed.

Ahmed Khattalah becomes the first person charged in connection with the attack that killed four Americans.

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Khattalah is a Libyan militia leader who admitted to being in Benghazi last Sept. 11, Global Post reported. Reuters reported last year that officials considered Khattala a suspect in the attacks but U.S. investigators were not sure about the scope of his role.

The charges against him are under seal.

The charges against him are under seal


Ahmed Khattalah first charged in Benghazi embassy attack

Libyan militia leader Ahmed Khattalah admitted he was in Benghazi, but said he didn't organize attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
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five fast facts about Ahmen Khattalah.

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Just minutes after 35 jihadists crashed through the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, nearly one year ago, the facility got word to the State Department, FBI and Pentagon that terrorists were attacking, according to a forthcoming book that provides the fullest review of the assault to date.

In “Under Fire, the Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi,” it is revealed that an unidentified security official in the Benghazi compound protecting Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens messaged the U.S. embassy in Tripoli: “Benghazi under fire, terrorist attack.” Stevens and three others died that night./ex]

So what was the motivation for the lie??

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I"m sure it wasn't a 'secret war' to the Obama administration.
They knew it was going on .... but they screamed 'mob upset by you tube video' anyways.
Why Obama keeps trying to cover for Islamic radicals is a mystery.

Benghazi Blackout: How the Big Three Networks Have Censored or Spun Obama's Deadly Foreign Policy Failure
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US consulate attack in Benghazi: a challenge to official version of events

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FlyersFan
I"m sure it wasn't a 'secret war' to the Obama administration.
They knew it was going on .... but they screamed 'mob upset by you tube video' anyways.
Why Obama keeps trying to cover for Islamic radicals is a mystery.

Not much of a mystery considering what we suspect about Obama and his ties to the MB

The US Military’s Pivot to Africa

The startling size, scope, and growth of US operations on the African continent.

They’re involved in Algeria and Angola, Benin and Botswana, Burkina Faso and Burundi, Cameroon and the Cape Verde Islands. And that’s just the ABCs of the situation. Skip to the end of the alphabet and the story remains the same: Senegal and the Seychelles, Togo and Tunisia, Uganda and Zambia. From north to south, east to west, the Horn of Africa to the Sahel, the heart of the continent to the islands off its coasts, the US military is at work. Base construction, security cooperation engagements, training exercises, advisory deployments, special operations missions, and a growing logistics network, all undeniable evidence of expansion—except at US Africa Command.

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Some senior Obama administration and law enforcement officials would like Libya to arrest and try the suspects because they do not want the United States to be seen as interfering with another country’s sovereignty. But with militias controlling much of eastern Libya, that may not be possible logistically or politically. If the suspects were handed over to the United States, it is not clear whether they would be tried in civilian courts or military tribunals, like the ones in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

“The Libyan government has to wrestle with this idea: ‘What would that mean to us if we apprehended some of these people, if we tried them, if we handed them over?’ ” Gen. Carter F. Ham, a former head of the military’s Africa Command, told a conference in Aspen, Colo., in July. “It’s a very, very complex issue.”

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It's been going on for a lot longer than 2012. I have a thread that was largely ignored taking about UAV operations, as well as civil fleet SOF aircraft operating across Africa.

The Air Force has been rotating F-15E Strike Eagle units through a less than advertised base in the region for ten years. Every once in awhile there will be a press release about them, but they've never said why they're there. They're too far away to support Iraq or Afghanistan operations, and too few to attack Iran.

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I noticed that today, there was a timeline site.
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Here's the thread I wrote about it. The UAVs have been flying over at least Somalia since 2007. SEAL Teams have been sneaking in since 2003. There have been AC-130 strikes, UAV strikes, SOF teams operating there... As of 2012, there were 678 medium/large UAVs operating in the area, and as many as 3,000 hand launched Raven UAVs.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Zaphod58
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Here's the thread I wrote about it. The UAVs have been flying over at least Somalia since 2007. SEAL Teams have been sneaking in since 2003. There have been AC-130 strikes, UAV strikes, SOF teams operating there... As of 2012, there were 678 medium/large UAVs operating in the area, and as many as 3,000 hand launched Raven UAVs.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Thanks, I will check that out.

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Interesting article from Yemen too.

AvWeek

They have started flying a P-3 Orion around listening for electronic signals, and apparently caused a mass panic with people thinking it was a Reaper or some other UAV.