BlindBoo
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Two weeks ago the NYT reported and you eagerly agreed that it was a video which caused a protest.
Now it's the CIA...
You'd better find the main water shut off valve because for Obama and his people, this thing is circling the bowl.
No. Here is what they reported.
"The attack was led, instead, by fighters who had benefited directly from NATO’s extensive air power and logistics support during the uprising against Colonel Qaddafi. And contrary to claims by some members of Congress, it was fueled in large part by anger at an American-made video denigrating Islam."
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"One of his allies, the leader of Benghazi’s most overtly anti-Western militia, Ansar al-Shariah, boasted a few months before the attack that his fighters could “flatten” the American Mission. Surveillance of the American compound appears to have been underway at least 12 hours before the assault started.
The violence, though, also had spontaneous elements. Anger at the video motivated the initial attack. Dozens of people joined in, some of them provoked by the video and others responding to fast-spreading false rumors that guards inside the American compound had shot Libyan protesters. Looters and arsonists, without any sign of a plan, were the ones who ravaged the compound after the initial attack, according to more than a dozen Libyan witnesses as well as many American officials who have viewed the footage from security cameras."
The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia
Nothing about a protest.
From your post:
Anger at the video motivated the initial attack.
some of them provoked by the video
What is it to you think a "protest" is? Are you fucking blind?
Protest - "an event at which people gather together to show strong disapproval about something"
Attack - "take aggressive action against (a place or enemy forces) with weapons or armed force, typically in a battle or war."
Thank you for highlighting the difference. The initial talking points included references to the possibility of the Attack developing in reaction to the Protest in Cairo over the dumbass video. Or that there was even protest in Benghazi. That turned out not to be true. I take exception to thereisnospoon claiming the NYT's reported the video cause a Protest. It didn't.
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