According to our ambassador to the UN? Her best assessment of what happened in Libay could be summed up by a famous bumper sticker. "Sh@t Happens."
Really? Hijacked by individual cluster of extremist? absent any pre-planning whatsoever?
This is the rose colored world as viewed by the leftist presently in power in Washington. Nothing is ever anyone's fault other than America.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said the attack on
the American consulate in Benghazi was not premeditated, directly
contradicting top Libyan officials who say the attack was planned in
advance.
“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,” Rice
told me this morning 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,” Rice said, referring to protests in Egypt
Tuesday
over a film that
depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud. Protesters in Cairo breached
the walls of the U.S. American Embassy, tearing apart an American flag.
“We believe that folks in Benghazi, a small number of people came to
the embassy to – or to the consulate, rather, to replicate the sort of
challenge that was posed in Cairo,” Rice said. “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 it then
evolved from there.”
The Libya president seems to believe that the attack was planned. The only difference is that he wants to blame 'outsiders' and "Al Qaida" for the attack. Not that he would admit having any Al Qaida indigenous to Libya (heaven forbid)..
Libya President Mohamed Yousef El-Magariaf said Sunday that 50 arrests have been made in connection with last week's "preplanned" attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that left U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead.
"The way these perpetrators acted and moved -- I think we, and
they're choosing the specific date for this so-called demonstration, I
think we have no, this leaves us with no doubt that this was
pre-planned, determined," Magariaf said on CBS's "Face the Nation."
"And you believe that this was the work of al Qaeda, and you believe
that it was led by foreigners. Is that what you’re telling us?" CBS host
Bob Schieffer asked.
"It was planned, definitely. It was planned by foreigners, by people
who entered the country a few months ago. And they were planning this
criminal act since their arrival," Magariaf said.
This old technique of "Jedi-speak" is growing pretty thin indeed.
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