Report Confirms Benghazi Attack Was a Repeat of Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam

The United States Department of State’s own investigation into the September 11, 2012 murders of four Americans at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, reportedly confirms the suspicion based upon earlier media reports that the attack was a grim repeat of al-Qaeda’s attacks on the American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania in 1998, in terms of the failure to provide adequate security.  Those simultaneous attacks in East Africa killed 12 Americans, among the 200 dead and several hundred wounded. 

The attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi during the Obama Administration, like the attacks on the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam during the Clinton Administration, were preceded by pleas for more security against terrorist threats by the U.S. Ambassadors that were ignored by Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and Madeline Albright, respectively.  The consulate in Benghazi had even been attacked previously.  The facility was not as adequately defended as diplomatic facilities in less dangerous places, such as by Marines, despite the continued civil war in Libya after the fall of dictator Muammar Qaddafi.  The Libyan guards, upon whom the U.S. depended, were on strike at the time, according to the report.

Furthermore, the State Department report, which resulted in the resignations of several officials, disproves the claims the Obama Administration made insistently that the attack was part of a spontaneous protest to a video offensive to Muslims.  The act of jihad was pre-planned by al-Qaeda and timed on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks by the same terrorist organization.  There was no protest occurring at the time of the attack.  The report thus confirms that the Obama Administration was eager to avoid admitting the attack was committed by Islamists, specifically, al-Qaeda, as an act of jihad.  During the presidential campaign, the supporters of the Democratic Obama-Biden ticket boasted that al-Qaeda had been defeated and the threat of terrorism diminished because of their policies.  An admission by the Administration or its supporters of the truth about the attacks would have called into question those assertions.

In Spain, the conservative party lost the parliamentary election, in which it had been leading in the polls, because the outgoing conservative prime minister had labeled the separatist left-wing Basque terrorist organization, the ETA, as suspects of the March 11, 2004 Madrid train bombing which, it soon became apparent, were committed by al-Qaeda.  The Obama Administration’s obfuscations and misleading statements, together with a sympathetic liberal media, allowed President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden to escape unscathed politically.  The report by the Obama Administration’s own State Department, however, assures that they and Hillary Clinton will not escape the judgment of history.