Libya Sacks Benghazi Security Chiefs after U.S. Attack
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Libya's interior minister has sacked Benghazi security chiefs after last week's deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in the eastern city, according to official statements seen Monday by AFP.
Deputy Interior Minister for the eastern region, Wanis al-Sharef, and the head of national security for Benghazi, Hussein Bou Hmida, were both replaced, said two separate statements dated September 12, a day after the attack.
Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed as the Benghazi consulate came under fire from rocket-propelled grenades during a protest against an anti-Islam film made in America.
17 September 2012, 21:51
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AFP: that is about the most unbelievable synopsis of a news event I've ever read. The four people killed by the RPG's that hit the consulate during the protest just happened to be the man who, during the toppling of Gadhafi, "ran the office" in Benghazi, the US/EU/NATO bridgehead (with the US in the driver's seat), two former SEALs (evidently bodyguards), and the fourth, an embassy commo specialist, was a military veteran so had perhaps been pressed into service as a body-guard also. Other news reports mentioned mortar fire, the presence of the Ambassador being a secret, and the location of the safe house where he died also, presumably, a secret--that's what "safe house" usually means.
Maybe AFP is thinking the same thing as me: this was an Israeli hit, designed to punish Obama and to provoke a US attack somewhere that would slow down the Arab dawn.
