Judicial Watch Unravels Benghazi Scandal with New Documents
Judicial
Watch has blown open the Benghazi scandal yet again. We forced the
release of new smoking-gun documents that show that the Obama
administration knew almost from the outset that the attack on the U.S.
Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012, was
coordinated and pre-planned. The news about these documents was broken
by Catherine Herridge of Fox News.
Your JW obtained more than 100 pages of previously classified "Secret" documents from the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of State revealing
that DOD almost immediately reported that the attack on the U.S.
consulate in Benghazi was committed by the al Qaeda and Muslim
Brotherhood-linked "Brigades of the Captive Omar Abdul Rahman" (BCOAR),
and had been planned at least 10 days in advance. Rahman is known as the
Blind Sheikh, and is serving life in prison for his involvement in the
1993 World Trade Center bombing and other terrorist acts.
These just-released documents were not given voluntarily, but forced out of the secretive Obama administration thanks to a court order that followed a May 15, 2014, Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed
against both DOD and State asking for communications between the two
agencies and congressional leaders "on matters related to the activities
of any agency or department of the U.S. government at the Special
Mission Compound and/or classified annex in Benghazi." The documents
provide us with the first official confirmation that the U.S. government
was aware of arms shipments from Benghazi to Syria. The documents also
include an August 2012 analysis warning of the rise of ISIS and the
predicted failure of the Obama policy of regime change in Syria.
(Interestingly, it is not clear if the information was ever shared with
Congress, even though the documents were responsive to a request about
communications with Congress.)
U.S.
Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. Foreign Service Information
Management Officer Sean Smith were both killed in the Benghazi terrorist
attack on September 11, 2012. Several hours after the initial assault, a
second terrorist attack took place targeting a different compound
located just one mile away. Two CIA contractors, Tyrone Woods and Glen
Doherty, were killed in this second attack and 10 others were injured.
Let's see how Obama and Clinton operatives (such as George Stephanopoulos) explain away a Defense Department document from
the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), dated September 12, 2012, the
day after the Benghazi attack, which details that the attack on the
compound had been carefully planned by the BOCAR terrorist group "to
kill as many Americans as possible." This document was sent to Clinton,
then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the
Obama White House National Security Council. The heavily redacted DOD
"information report" says that the attack on the Benghazi facility "was
planned and executed by The Brigades of the Captive Omar Abdul Rahman
(BCOAR)." The group subscribes to "AQ [al Qaeda] ideologies:"
The
attack was planned ten or more days prior on approximately 01 September
2012. The intention was to attack the consulate and to kill as many
Americans as possible to seek revenge for U.S. killing of Aboyahiye((ALALIBY)) in Pakistan and in memorial of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center buildings.
"A
violent radical," the DIA report says, and "the leader of BCOAR is
Abdul Baset ((AZUZ)), AZUZ was sent by ((ZAWARI)) to set up Al Qaeda
(AQ) bases in Libya." The group's headquarters was set up with the
approval of a "member of the Muslim brother hood movement...where they
have large caches of weapons. Some of these caches are disguised by
feeding troughs for livestock. They have SA-7 and SA-23/4
MANPADS...they train almost every day focusing on religious lessons and
scriptures including three lessons a day of jihadist ideology."
The
Defense Department reported that the group maintained written documents
in "a small rectangular room, approximately 12 meters by 6
meters...that contain information on all of the AQ activity in Libya."
It should be noted that Azuz is again blamed for the Benghazi attack in an October 2012 DIA document.
The DOD documents provide confirmation that
the Obama administration knew weapons were being shipped from the Port
of Benghazi to rebel troops in Syria. This had been the source of much
speculation, as many have asked, including Judicial Watch,
just exactly what we were up to in Benghazi that would require a rushed
facility that was unsecured (the Benghazi Special Mission Compound).
Some darn big clues are in the October 2012 DIA report:
Weapons
from the former Libya military stockpiles were shipped from the port of
Benghazi, Libya to the Port of Banias and the Port of Borj Islam,
Syria. The weapons shipped during late-August 2012 were Sniper rifles,
RPG's, and 125 mm and 155mm howitzers missiles.
During
the immediate aftermath of, and following the uncertainty caused by,
the downfall of the ((Qaddafi)) regime in October 2011 and up until
early September of 2012, weapons from the former Libya military
stockpiles located in Benghazi, Libya were shipped from the port of
Benghazi, Libya to the ports of Banias and the Port of Borj Islam,
Syria. The Syrian ports were chosen due to the small amount of cargo
traffic transiting these two ports. The ships used to transport the
weapons were medium-sized and able to hold 10 or less shipping
containers of cargo.
The DIA document further details:
The
weapons shipped from Syria during late-August 2012 were Sniper rifles,
RPG's and 125mm and 155mm howitzers missiles. The numbers for each
weapon were estimated to be: 500 Sniper rifles, 100 RPG launchers with
300 total rounds, and approximately 400 howitzers missiles [200 ea -
125mm and 200ea - 155 mm.]
The
heavily redacted document does not disclose who was shipping the
weapons. The level of detail presented suggests that the Obama
administration, in the least, was in a position to stop any transfers.
Why
is the weapons transfer issue important? Because the Libya fiasco was
allowing weapons to move into a jihadist madhouse in the Syria-Iraq
region.
Another DIA report,
written in August 2012 (the same time period the U.S. was monitoring
weapons flows from Libya to Syria), said that the opposition in Syria
was driven by al Qaeda and other extremist Muslim groups: "the Salafist,
the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI are the major forces driving the
insurgency in Syria." The growing sectarian direction of the war was
predicted to have dire consequences for Iraq, which included the "grave
danger" of the rise of ISIS:
The deterioration of the situation has dire consequences on the Iraqi situation and are as follows:
This
creates the ideal atmosphere for AQI [al Qaeda Iraq] to return to its
old pockets in Mosul and Ramadi, and will provide a renewed momentum
under the presumption of unifying the jihad among Sunni Iraq and Syria,
and the rest of the Sunnis in the Arab world against what it considers
one enemy, the dissenters. ISIS could also declare an Islamic state
through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria,
which will create grave danger in regards to unifying Iraq and the
protection of its territory.
Some
of the "dire consequences" are blacked-out, but the DIA presciently
warned one such consequence would be the "renewing facilitation of
terrorist elements from all over the Arab world entering into Iraqi
Arena."
It turns out the DIA warnings were right on the nose. In a recent crushing victory, ISIS terrorists took over Ramadi.
The Iraqi military cut and ran. And now the murderous Islamic radicals,
with volunteers courtesy of Obama's Libya creation, have embarrassed
America and taken many American military assets that we gave to the
Iraqi military!
From a separate lawsuit, the State Department produced a document created
by Hillary Clinton's offices and the Operations Center in the Office of
the Executive Secretariat the morning after the Benghazi attack, which
was sent widely through the agency, including to Joseph McManus
(then-Hillary Clinton's executive assistant). At 6:00 am, a few hours
after the attack, the top office of the State Department sent a "spot
report" on the "Attack on U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi" that
makes no mention of videos or demonstrations:
Four
COM personnel were killed and three were wounded in an attack by dozens
of fighters on the U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Benghazi beginning
approximately 1550 Eastern Time....
The
State Department has yet to turn over any documents to Judicial Watch
from the secret email accounts of Hillary Clinton and other top State
Department officials. However, the State Department released some of
these secret emails recently - again thanks in no small measure to our
oversight pressure. For corrupt politicians, the long Memorial Day
weekend is the best time to release damaging information in the hopes most miss it during the holiday.
These
documents show that the Benghazi cover-up has been in motion for years
and is only unraveling through our independent lawsuits. The Benghazi
scandal just got a whole lot worse for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
These
documents are jaw-dropping. No wonder we had to file more FOIA lawsuits
and wait over two years for them. If the American people had known the
truth - that Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other top administration
officials knew that the Benghazi attack was an al-Qaeda terrorist attack
from the get-go - and yet lied and covered this fact up - Mitt Romney
might very well be president. And why would the Obama administration
continue to support the Muslim Brotherhood even after it knew it was
tied to the Benghazi terrorist attack and to al Qaeda? These documents
also show connections between the collapse in Libya and the ISIS war -
and confirm that the U.S. knew remarkable details about the transfer of
arms from Benghazi to Syrian jihadists.
Your JW will keep fighting. Earlier this month, our legal team filed seven new FOIA lawsuits against
State to obtain the release of documents about the Clinton email
scandal, including the emails of her top aide Huma Abedin, and records
about the Benghazi and Clinton Foundation scandals.
We
will keep you updated as new information flows in. In the coming weeks
and months, you can be sure to expect additional fallout.
