WTOP: Officials believe embassy attack in Libya was coordinated [View all]

[cthulu2016]

Odd, this is one of two posts in GD about a very big deal... but neither of them seems to evince much interest so I'll do some self-kicking.

It's quite significant if the consulate murders were a planned para-military attack carried out under cover of a mob protest. If our President is currently responding to an al-Qaida attack on American diplomats that's kind of a big story—National security, diplomatic and political.

Officials believe embassy attack in Libya was coordinated

WASHINGTON - Intelligence experts and U.S. government officials are starting to view the attack in Libya that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others in Benghazi as a coordinated attack. Sources including officials at the Pentagon and the State Department are discussing the possibility that it was a planned operation, and some say several developments seem to support the possibility.

The incident does not appear to be a random mob scene, but rather an opportunity that militants seized, sources say. The attackers used a rocket-propelled grenade, a weapon not traditionally carried by protesters, but commonly used by terrorists.

The attack is believed to have come in two waves. The first wave got inside of the compound, and a second wave penetrated a secure location inside the building. This development raises questions about how the attackers knew the location of that secure facility, sources say.

On Sept. 11, al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri put out a video eulogizing Abu Yahya al-Libi, an Islamist terrorist and high-ranking al-Qaida member, who was killed in a drone attack in June. Sources have said they believe the Libyan incident might have been revenge for the death of al-Libi.

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http://wtop.com/215/3033617/Officials-Embassy-attack-in-Libya-was-coordinated