A mounting body of evidence suggests a low-budget film about Islam
and Muhammad was not the primary motive behind a series of violent
attacks on U.S. embassies abroad, foreign policy experts say.
“The attack in [Libya] was not a protest or demonstration but a major terrorist attack—planned and organized in advance by men who had access to mortars and other weapons,” Elliott Abrams, former national security adviser for President George W. Bush, told the Free Beacon. “It had nothing to do with any film. It was timed for Sept. 11.”
“There’s clear evidence these were planned in advance, especially in Egypt,” Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, told the Free Beacon Friday. “The movie wasn’t up online until Sept. 10, and they didn’t know about it when these things were planned.”
News outlets continue to link the so-called “protests” to the anti-Islam film, and have even promulgated false information regarding the video’s purported creator, an Egyptian-American Coptic Christian with a sordid past who originally claimed he was an Israeli-American.
The Associated Press, for instance, reported, “The violence has raised worries that further protests could break out around the Muslim world as anger spreads over the movie.”
CNN reported and has promoted a story that the attack at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was executed by a pro-al Qaeda group, which used the film as a “diversion.”
But the network has also proclaimed that the Egyptian “protests are the latest to roil the Middle East over the online release of a film produced in the United States… that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad.”
Read more: http://freebeacon.com/pretext-to-murder/
“The attack in [Libya] was not a protest or demonstration but a major terrorist attack—planned and organized in advance by men who had access to mortars and other weapons,” Elliott Abrams, former national security adviser for President George W. Bush, told the Free Beacon. “It had nothing to do with any film. It was timed for Sept. 11.”
“There’s clear evidence these were planned in advance, especially in Egypt,” Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, told the Free Beacon Friday. “The movie wasn’t up online until Sept. 10, and they didn’t know about it when these things were planned.”
News outlets continue to link the so-called “protests” to the anti-Islam film, and have even promulgated false information regarding the video’s purported creator, an Egyptian-American Coptic Christian with a sordid past who originally claimed he was an Israeli-American.
The Associated Press, for instance, reported, “The violence has raised worries that further protests could break out around the Muslim world as anger spreads over the movie.”
CNN reported and has promoted a story that the attack at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was executed by a pro-al Qaeda group, which used the film as a “diversion.”
But the network has also proclaimed that the Egyptian “protests are the latest to roil the Middle East over the online release of a film produced in the United States… that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad.”
Read more: http://freebeacon.com/pretext-to-murder/
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