Archiv: attack on the unofficial US embassy and CIA compound in Benghazi on September 11 2012


28.04.2026 - 18:49 [ Daily Mail ]

Arms dealer says Clinton and Obama accidentally gave guns to ISIS, Al Qaeda and Benghazi attackers – then tried to scapegoat him for their screw-up with failed $10m felony case

(October 12, 2016)

– Marc Turi ‚had plan to get arms to Libyan rebels in 2011 despite UN ban‘
– But he says Clinton stole the idea and she and CIA did it without him
– However the guns ‚then went to Al Qaeda, ISIS and Benghazi attackers‘
– They tried to scapegoat him by saying he sold the arms illegally, he says
– But he claims that he never sold anything in Libya
– The five-year, $10m case was dropped last week by prosecutors
– He says they didn‘t want to press on because it would compromise Clinton
– The trial would have started on November 8 – which is Election Day
– Turi also hinted at information on weapons that disappeared in Benghazi

28.04.2026 - 18:35 [ New York Times ]

U.S.-Approved Arms for Libya Rebels Fell Into Jihadis’ Hands

Dec. 5, 2012

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration secretly gave its blessing to arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but American officials later grew alarmed as evidence grew that Qatar was turning some of the weapons over to Islamic militants, according to United States officials and foreign diplomats.

No evidence has emerged linking the weapons provided by the Qataris during the uprising against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi to the attack that killed four Americans at the United States diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in September.

But in the months before, the Obama administration clearly was worried about the consequences of its hidden hand in helping arm Libyan militants, concerns that have not previously been reported.

28.04.2026 - 18:14 [ Tracy Ellin / Youtube ]

Steven Sotloff Reporting on Benghazi for CNN

(report from October 12, 2012)

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so it‘s definitely something that they may have heard in advance um as as far as uh what they were wearing and thinking if they were wondering if they were Libyan or not some people were
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wearing an Afghan G that you just don‘t see in this part of the country um they weren‘t speaking the local dialect they were speaking a classical Arabic uh
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dialect which you usually get from Quran Scholars so it‘s unsure they‘re unsure where these people came from um but they belied some of them were not local and
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these guys described to you how they were afraid for their lives uh they have not they‘ve gone into hiding now and they essentially feel abandoned by the
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American government why do they feel that way I mean why do they still feel that they‘re under threat

02.10.2017 - 16:01 [ Reuters ]

Trial of alleged ringleader of Benghazi attack begins in Washington

Khatallah has been awaiting trial since 2014, when he was captured by a team of U.S. military and FBI officials in Libya and transported on a 13-day journey to the United States aboard a Navy vessel.

Prior to his capture, he was part of a revolutionary militia group aimed at overthrowing the Gaddafi regime.

13.10.2016 - 08:00 [ Daily Mail ]

Arms dealer says Clinton and Obama accidentally gave guns to ISIS, Al Qaeda and Benghazi attackers – then tried to scapegoat him for their screw-up with failed $10m felony case

– Marc Turi ‚had plan to get arms to Libyan rebels in 2011 despite UN ban‘
– But he says Clinton stole the idea and she and CIA did it without him
– However the guns ‚then went to Al Qaeda, ISIS and Benghazi attackers‘
– They tried to scapegoat him by saying he sold the arms illegally, he says
– But he claims that he never sold anything in Libya
– The five-year, $10m case was dropped last week by prosecutors
– He says they didn‘t want to press on because it would compromise Clinton
– The trial would have started on November 8 – which is Election Day
– Turi also hinted at information on weapons that disappeared in Benghazi

28.02.2016 - 01:19 [ Radio Utopie ]

Benghazi-Attentat am 11. September: U.S.-Senatoren vermuten Vertuschungsmanöver durch Weißes Haus

(26.11.2012) Laut Augenzeugen waren vor dem Attentat – natürlich völlig unbemerkt – 150 Bewaffnete in Trucks, mit dem Logo von Milizen die mit der C.I.A. kooperierten und die zuvor beim Libyen-Krieg eingesetzt worden waren, in Benghazi eingetroffen und hatten Straßensperren („roadblocks“) in der Stadt errichtet.

28.02.2016 - 01:15 [ Daily Mail ]

The extraordinary moment Bill Clinton snaps at veteran and tells him to listen after he interrupted his speech to attack Hillary on Benghazi

As the Marine kept shouting at Clinton, he drew jeers and boos from the crowd, so much that he was then escorted out by security…Another woman jumped out and started shouting after the Marine was escorted out. She said constantly repeated that ‚Hillary lied over four coffins‘. After more boos from the crows, she was also escorted out

28.11.2015 - 13:16 [ Daily Mail ]

Rand Paul‘s campaign accuses suspended CNN reporter of coordinating coverage of a 2013 Benghazi hearing with Hillary Clinton‘s top aide

– CNN foreign affairs correspondent Elise Labott landed in hot water after this week‘s release of State Department emails
– Email exchanges from January 2013 suggest Clinton‘s aide Philippe Reines was giving Labott suggestions on tweets about Benghazi hearing
– On January 23, Labott tweeted: ‚Sen Paul most critical on committee of Clinton, but a little late to the #Benghazi game.Not sure he was at many of the 30 previous briefings‘
– A Paul campaign aide on Wednesday called on CNN to address ‚this bias and lack of journalistic integrity‘
– Labott has been suspended from the network for two weeks for sending a tweet criticizing House bill to block Syrian refugees from the US

11.10.2015 - 02:56 [ Telegraph ]

Fired investigator says Benghazi panel is biased against Hillary Clinton

Major Bradley Podliska, an intelligence officer in the Air Force Reserve, is preparing to file a lawsuit against the House Select Committee on Benghazi next month, saying he was fired in part because he opposed the panel‘s decision to focus primarily on the role of Mrs Clinton during her time at the helm of the US State Department. (…)
Mr Podliska told CNN that the panel – chaired by Republican Representative Trey Gowdy – diverted resources from investigations of other individuals and agencies to focus almost exclusively on Mrs Clinton and the State Department.

08.10.2014 - 04:46 [ CNN ]

Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack

(1. August 2013) Speculation on Capitol Hill has included the possibility the U.S. agencies operating in Benghazi were secretly helping to move surface-to-air missiles out of Libya, through Turkey, and into the hands of Syrian rebels. (…)

the State Department also clearly told CNN, they „can‘t speak for any other agencies.“

The CIA would not comment on whether it was involved in the transfer of any weapons.

08.09.2014 - 15:47 [ Fox News ]

Top CIA officer in Benghazi delayed response to terrorist attack, US security team members claim

Speaking out publicly for the first time, the three were security operators at the secret CIA annex in Benghazi – in effect, the first-responders to any attack on the diplomatic compound. Their first-hand account will be told in a Fox News special, airing Friday night at 10 p.m. (EDT).

08.09.2014 - 15:47 [ New York Times ]

New Book Says C.I.A. Official in Benghazi Held Up Rescue

Five commandos guarding the C.I.A. base in Benghazi, Libya, in September 2012 say that the base chief stopped them from interceding in time to save the lives of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and an American technician during the attack on the diplomatic mission there.

In a new book scheduled for release next week and obtained by The New York Times, the commandos say they protested repeatedly as the base chief ordered them to wait in their vehicles, fully armed, for 20 minutes while the attack on the diplomatic mission was unfolding less than a mile away.

31.05.2014 - 01:48 [ Roll Call ]

Standing Down? Issa Drops Benghazi Subpoena for John Kerry

“No matter how long the investigation of a terrorist attack that killed four Americans takes, getting the full truth is what matters. The Select Committee is the House of Representatives’ commitment to getting this truth. It will conduct its investigation in the face of an all-hands-on-deck effort by defenders of the principal actors to further obscure the facts. While Speaker Boehner and I had both originally concluded that Secretary Kerry needed to promptly testify and explain why his Department had withheld subpoenaed documents, neither of us immediately recognized how opponents of congressional oversight would use this as an opportunity to distract from the Select Committee’s effort.