Ben Gazarra Wrote:
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> Mish Mash Wrote:
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> > wronggg Wrote:
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> > > Wingnut the video story was lifted from the
> > > protest in Cairo where it MAY have had had an
> > > impact on the protests the same day.
> >
> >
> > Yeah, it had nothing to do with Ayman
> al-Zawahiri
> > calling on his supporters to raise up and
> attack
> > American interests in Egypt and the rest of the
> > Middle East for the killing of fellow terrorist
> > Abu Yahya al-Libi
> >
> (http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/09/11/
>
> > 237300.html). Funny, this was the right before
> > all these protests broke out, first in Egypt
> and
> > then spread, just like he wanted. And they all
> > were flying the Al Qaeda flag, both over our
> > consulate after dragging Stevens body out of
> there
> > and into the street and in front of our embassy
> in
> > Cairo.
> >
> > Putz
>
>
> Exactly right. The demonstrations were planned
> and advertised for 9/11 long before the video
> became known. They were mostly related to the
> 'Blind Sheikh' with a 'sit-in' protest around the
> US embassy in Egypt for months prior to. As was
> the attack on the Algerian gas plant and several
> other attempted attacks on US embassies in Turkey
> and elsewhere.
>
>
> "...The killings in Libya followed demonstrations
> in front of Cairo's U.S. Embassy, where protesters
> tore down the U.S. flag and scaled the embassy's
> wall.
>
> The protest was planned by Salafists well before
> news circulated of an objectionable video
> ridiculing Islam's prophet, Mohammed, said Eric
> Trager, an expert at the Washington Institute for
> Near East Policy.
> The protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo was
> announced Aug. 30 by Jamaa Islamiya, a State
> Department-designated terrorist group, to protest
> the ongoing imprisonment of its spiritual leader,
> Sheikh Omar abdel Rahman. He is serving a life
> sentence in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade
> Center.
>
> When the video started circulating, Nader Bakkar,
> the spokesman for the Egyptian Salafist Noor
> party, which holds about 25% of the seats in
> parliament, called on people to go to the embassy.
> He also called on non-Islamist soccer hooligans,
> known as Ultras, to join the protest.
>
> On Monday, the brother of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al
> Zawahiri, Mohamed al Zawahiri, tweeted that people
> should go to the embassy and "defend the prophet,"
> Trager said.
>
> Zawahiri justified al-Qaeda's 9/11 attacks in an
> interview with Al Jazeera last month.
>
> "If America attacks the Arab peoples and their
> regimes do not defend them, somebody who does
> defend the Arab and Muslim peoples should not be
> considered a criminal," Zawahiri told the
> television network, according to a translation by
> MEMRI. "We have done nothing wrong."
>
>
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/story/20
> 12/09/12/deadly-embassy-attacks-were-days-in-the-m
> aking/57752828/1
>
>
> NOBODY with any knowledge of the region believes
> that the video played any significant role.
Of course. Per usual, the cover up will the worse than the initial act.