An excerpt from,
"New York Times Report: CIA-Backed Militias Linked to Benghazi, Libya Attack" by Patrick Martin, December 30, 2013:
A lengthy front-page report in Sunday’s New York Times provides
additional confirmation that the attack on a US facility in Benghazi,
Libya in September 2012 was the outcome of the Obama administration’s
use of Islamic fundamentalist terrorists in its war against the Libyan
regime of Muammar Gaddafi.
The Times article, based on dozens of interviews in
Benghazi, asserts that the attack that killed four Americans, including
US Ambassador Christopher Stevens, was carried out by Libyans who had
previously been allied with the US government in the 2011 war that
overthrew and murdered Gaddafi. Times correspondent David D.
Kirkpatrick writes that the attack was not organized by Al Qaeda or any
other group from outside Libya, but “by fighters who had benefited
directly from NATO’s extensive air power and logistics support during
the uprising against Colonel Qaddafi.”
The main US facility in Benghazi was not the small mission building
in which Stevens and an aide died, but a larger unmarked compound
described as “the Annex” that housed at least 20 people from the CIA.
Two security guards at this building were killed by a mortar barrage
eight hours after the attack that killed Stevens.
The disparity in staffing between the CIA compound and the diplomatic
outpost is telling: the main mission of the US government in Benghazi
was the CIA operation, which had spearheaded by the campaign against
Gaddafi in 2011, but by 2012 was devoted to a different and even
bloodier operation: recruiting manpower and supplying weapons to the
Islamic fundamentalist insurgency against the Syrian regime of Bashar
al-Assad.
All Governance in Libya Remains Contested. Source: The Real News. Date Published: July 16, 2014. Description:
Vijay Prashad discusses the current political crisis in Libya as results
from the parliamentary elections are soon to be released
