Benghazi Scores Another Couple Victims--Hillary's 2016 Run And The New York Times' Credibility

State Department Blows Up NY Times Benghazi story

LEFT/ISLAMIC ALLIANCE: MEDIA, INTELLIGENTSIA LIBYA JIHAD: ISLAMIC SUPREMACISM ATTACKS 9/11/12 UNCATEGORIZED

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In a stunning and unrecoverable blow to the already damaged  reputation of the NY Times,
 the State department today blamed al Qaeda-linked groups for the 2012 Benghazi attack on America.

For the NY Times, it may have been the first salvo in the Hillary 2016 offensive,
 but like the jihad bomber who detonates too early, the NY Times blew itself up and Hillary, too.
 If America is deaf, dumb and blind enough to elect her, they deserve the punishment they
will most assuredly get.

Obama blamed the first amendment and jailed a Coptic Christian who made a you tube
 video for a murderous jihad attack on September 11th. That’s the real story.

Daniel Greenfield wrote here, 

“When Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods, one of the Navy SEALS who died
 fighting in Benghazi, met with Hillary Clinton, she assured him that, “We’re going to have
 that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video.” And they got him, officially on
charges of violating parole, unofficially on charges of violently offending violent Muslims.

The woman whose policy had overthrown the Libyan government and then placed a barely
 defended diplomatic facility in the middle of a city of terrorists, did not promise the grieving
 father that his son’s killers would pay. She promised him that the man who offended his son’s
 killers would pay.

Not only would his son be the first casualty of that appeasement policy, but the
Constitution that his son had sworn to support and defend would be the second casualty.

“State Department names groups behind Benghazi strike,” Catherine Herridge and Greg Palkot,
 Fox News, January 10, 2014

The State Department on Friday for the first time blamed specific groups and militants 
for the 2012 Benghazi attack, designating them as terrorists — a move that further 
undermines initial claims the attack was spontaneous.

The department announced that it was labeling Ansar al-Sharia in Benghazi and Ansar al-Sharia
in Darnah as terror organizations, in part over their role in the Benghazi attack. It applied
 the same label to Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia, over a separate attack on Americans in 
Tunis.

The State Department also labeled as terrorists Sufian bin Qumu, head of the Darnah branch
and a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, and Ahmed Abu Khattalah, head of the Benghazi branch.

Fox News previously reported that the two were suspected of playing a role in the attack. And
 despite State Department claims that Al Qaeda leadership was not involved and a
 recent news report echoing that assessment, Fox News has learned that bin Qumu
 has Al Qaeda ties.

According to his Guantanamo file, he has historic ties to the Al Qaeda network,
 including training at one point at “Usama bin Laden’s Torkham camp.”

The State Department, in its announcement Friday, specifically discussed allegations against
the Ansar al-Sharia branches.

“Ansar al-Shari’a in Benghazi and Ansar al-Shari’a in Darnah have been involved in
 terrorist attacks against civilian targets, frequent assassinations, and attempted
 assassinations of security officials and political actors in eastern Libya, and the 
September 11, 2012 attacks against the U.S. Special Mission and Annex in
Benghazi, Libya,” the department said. “Members of both organizations continue
 to pose a threat to U.S. interests in Libya.”

Shortly after the attack, administration officials indicated it was related to protests
 over an anti-Islam film that were raging elsewhere in Africa and the Middle East, 
describing it as spontaneous. They have since backed off that explanation, though have
not ruled out the film as having played some role. Many lawmakers, though, have claimed the
 film was not a factor and the attack was planned by terrorists.

The department on Friday cited Khattalah and bin Qumu over their leadership roles in the
al-Sharia organizations. Khattalah, though, told Fox News in October 2012 that while he was
at the U.S. consulate that night, he was not responsible for the attack. He claimed he was
 helping Libyan security workers defending the compound.

The new terror designation bars anyone from providing or trying to provide “material support
or resources” to those organizations and individuals, and freezes any assets they have in the
 U.S. The State Department announced that it has also updated its Rewards for Justice website
 to include a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of
 anyone involved in the Benghazi attack.

The department had faced criticism for not including that reward on the website, though officials
claimed reward offers had nevertheless been made.

Four Americans died in the 2012 attack, and so far nobody has been brought to justice in
 connection with the killings.

“The U.S. government is committed to taking all appropriate actions against the organizations
and individuals responsible for the attacks against the U.S. diplomatic facilities in Libya and Tunisia,”
 the State Department said, also referring to a 2012 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Tunis.

Fox News’ Catherine Herridge and Greg Palkot contributed to this report.

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