{"id":10061,"date":"2013-11-19T08:53:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T13:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/?p=10061"},"modified":"2013-11-13T13:57:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T18:57:19","slug":"investors-com-intelligence-warnings-on-benghazi-were-loud-and-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/investors-com-intelligence-warnings-on-benghazi-were-loud-and-clear\/","title":{"rendered":"Investors.com: Intelligence Warnings On Benghazi Were Loud And Clear"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"drone.peac\"<\/a>By SUSAN KATZ KEATING AND RICHARD MINITER<\/p>\n

Months before the murder of a U.S. ambassador in Benghazi, American intelligence analysts documented a massive al-Qaida rally a few miles from the ambassador’s residence.<\/p>\n

At that rally, terror leaders called for the murder of American diplomats.<\/p>\n

Three U.S. intelligence reports, unearthed by the American Media Institute and detailed here for the first time, offer vivid descriptions of the al-Qaida meeting.<\/p>\n

Flying the black flag of al-Qaida, some 300 armed men gathered in Benghazi’s Al-Tahrir Square on June 7 and 8, 2012. They brandished machine guns, rocket launchers and a truck mounted with an anti-aircraft cannon.<\/p>\n

The two-day meeting, which included outdoor prayers and a parade of armed vehicles, was attended by a baker’s dozen of North African al-Qaida affiliates.<\/p>\n

“It was like a team pep rally before the game, only for jihad,” said a U.S. intelligence analyst who monitors North Africa. “Organized and deadly. You saw what followed. People died.”<\/p>\n

In the face of these three reports, the State Department continued to deny requests for additional security for the U.S. ambassador in Libya.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the State Department issued a travel advisory warning Americans against going to Libya in August 2012.<\/p>\n

Obama administration officials have long denied any warning before the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attacks.<\/p>\n

On the campaign trail, the president insisted that al-Qaida was “decimated” and “on the run,” while intelligence reports prepared for the president’s advisers told a different story \u2014 that al-Qaida’s menace was growing in Libya and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Al-Qaida itself publicly displayed its strength. Al-Qaida posted pictures of the June 2012 Benghazi meeting on its Arabic-language Facebook page and invited the Arabic-language media to cover the event, which many did.<\/p>\n

The three U.S. intelligence reports documenting the al-Qaida gathering in Benghazi were circulated in August 2012 and earlier among Defense and State Department officials, as well as America’s 16 intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n

The country’s dangers were known to stem from al-Qaida. “In April 2011, I warned Congress to watch out for al-Qaida in Eastern Libya,” said counterterrorism expert Thomas Joscelyn, a senior fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.<\/p>\n

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