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Al-Qa'ida source claims Benghazi Embassy attack was failed kidnapping
March 15, 2013
In an interesting development, it was reported today that last September's
terrorist attack on US Embassy Benghazi, which resulted in the death of
Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, was actually an effort
to kidnap Stevens to exchange him for high-value Al-Qa'ida detainees. MEMRI
has the story or if you have Arabic you can read the original here.
The site where the posting appeared is Ansar al-Mujahidin, a well known
Salafi jihadist forum with ties to Al-Qa'ida, and the person credited with
the posting is Abdallah Dhu al-Bajadin, a known AQ fanboy and famous
bomb-maker in jihadist circles, who was behind the oddly named "Al-Qa'ida
Airlines" magazine.
The post claims that the Benghazi attack was a well-planned AQ operation
which sought to capture Stevens with the intent of trading him for
high-value jihadist prisoners in US or Allied hands. The post, which is
filled with taunts against the United States, the State Department, and
former Secretary Hillary Clinton for alleged incompetence, adds that Stevens
did not die through asphyxiation, as Washington, DC, has claimed, rather he
was killed by mujahidin via lethal injection when the kidnapping operation
went wrong.
The author provides no direct evidence for his claims, but this looks
certain to reopen the Benghazi attack, which remains controversial and
partly unexplained, particularly since this is the day Senator Lindsey
Graham accused the Obama administration of a cover-up about Benghazi,
telling survivors to "be quiet" about what happened.
More as it happens .. the Benghazi story appears far from over.
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