Report: Egypt won’t let U.S. interrogate suspect linked to Benghazi
posted at 3:21 pm on February 22, 2013 by Allahpundit
Why would they? A few weeks ago, Morsi told a bunch of U.S. senators that Jews were controlling American media, whereupon they called a press conference and … promised to keep the foreign aid coming. Barring a surprise invasion of Israel, there’s virtually nothing he can do to alienate the America’s foreign-policy establishment, which is nervous about losing whatever shred of leverage it has with Islamists after the Arab Spring. You might see Rand Paul pound the table about this next week as part of his campaign to get American voters to rethink foreign aid generally, but that’s it.
Here’s the background on “Abu Ahmed” and his possible role in Benghazi from Tom Joscelyn of the Long War Journal and Weekly Standard. Ahmed wasn’t there shooting at Chris Stevens on the evening of 9/11 but he may have trained the guys who were. Just one question: Are we sure that O wants American interrogators grilling this guy? His drone policy gets all the attention but don’t forget that he’s very quietly continued the practice of rendition that liberals used to get upset about under Bush. It’s mentioned in the clip that Egyptian interrogators are interviewing Ahmed and relaying info to the U.S. Are they shielding him because he’s an Islamist or are they “extracting” information at the behest of their American colleagues? If you know how Egypt’s handled prisoners in the past, up to and including the very recent past, you’ll have a strong guess about the answer to that question.
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Better scenario: Imagine the story AP would run…
socalcon on May 21, 2013 at 7:35 PM
Has the IRS reported to DOJ yet on the content of their prayers?
de rigueur on May 21, 2013 at 7:37 PM
{raises hand} ahem, if I might get a copy of those criteria? please? {shrinking away}
socalcon on May 21, 2013 at 7:39 PM
If any money changed hands for weapons, wanna bet said reimbursements were in the form of campaign donations? Now that would truly be the end to end all ends!
can_con on May 21, 2013 at 8:15 PM
Sooo… Obama, Holder and Clinton; who are the other two guys? Oops, my bad, I meant James Rosen, Sharyl Atkisson, Major Garrett – who are the other two?
ghostwalker1 on May 21, 2013 at 8:30 PM
Why should these guys worry? They’ve been laughing in public for almost a year now.
ghostwalker1 on May 21, 2013 at 8:34 PM
Why doesn’t al Jazeera or some other Arabic company interview these guys and find out what really happened?
At this point I think al Jazeera’s word on this is no more or less reliable than that of this fascist administration.
slickwillie2001 on May 21, 2013 at 9:22 PM
If the CIA was trying to recover arms, or the STate Dept. wanted it as an outpost, all I can say is…so what? Somebody should have protected them!
Surely, Hillary didn’t deny protection to teach the CIA a lesson, did she?
PattyJ on May 21, 2013 at 10:39 PM
Ya know, I would just rather this administration just SHUT UP rather than continuing to open their mouths and spew shi’ite at me, believing I am completely stupid.
We have video / pictures of guys carrying AK-47s and rocket launchers. They have video / pictures of guys dragging Stevens through the Street. Several of the perpetrators went on THEIR version of ‘Oprah’ & THEIR ‘Sunday Talk Shows’ after this attack. we KNOW who they are – some of them. We have a cell at Gitmo just waiting for them…what we DON’T have is a President who is NOT an ‘Islamic Extremist Sympathizer’ & who is willing to protect American lives.
As President, Obama armed Mexican Drug Cartels who used those weapons to wipe out towns, kill men/women/children, & kill a U.S. Border Patrol Agent – 300+ and counting. He protected the Ft. Hood terrorist by calling his attack on troops prepping to deploy a case of ‘work-place violence’. He practically handed Stevens & the other Americans over to Al Qaeda as a sacrifice by asking THEM to ‘protect’ him, by ignoring 2 previous terrorist attacks, by refusing to provide additional security over & over again, & by betraying/abandoning Americans who fought for their lives for 7-8 hours while waiting for help that never came!
Whether it is our lives or our Constitutional Rights, this President has preyed upon, attacked, & sacrificed anything/everyone again and again to push his agenda & protect his ‘friends’.
easyt65 on May 22, 2013 at 9:19 AM
All me & my friends need to ‘prosecute’ them is a good set of coordinates! :)
easyt65 on May 22, 2013 at 9:20 AM
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