Former Rep. congressman Col. Allen West detailed on his website last month an encounter aboard a commercial flight where he sat beside a personal acquaintance of one of the Americans killed during the Benghazi attack.
West states that the source used detailed schematics to illustrate the “ground truth” of what happened September 11, 2012. The story includes repeated orders to the men at the CIA annex to stand down, proximity of the ‘staging area’ of the attack Ansar al-Sharia – a group affiliated with al-Qaida, blackmail to keep people quiet, a covert weapons scheme where the US supplied radical Islamists with weapons against Gadhafi, and more.
Today as I returned from Detroit, I had a moment that I truly felt was God sent, as I don’t believe in coincidences. It happened on one of my flights, and it was two hours I will never forget.
I was seated beside someone who personally knew one of the men who was there on the roof in Benghazi. This person was excited to share with me the “ground truth” of what happened September 11, 2012.
My seat mate drew schematics to orient me to the “time and spacing” and the direction of the attack. I learned about the repeated orders to the men at the CIA annex to stand down and do nothing — thank God two of them, Glenn Doherty and Ty Woods, lived up to their code of honor and ran to the sound of the guns, resulting in their loss of life — but the preservation of life for others, their fellow Americans.
I learned about the proximity of the staging area of the attack to the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, and the attackers were indeed Ansar al-Sharia, a group affiliated with al-Qaida. I came to understand why Ambassador Chris Stevens was there in the first place and that he had in fact requested better security but was denied – the question is, by whom? And I learned that the Martyrs of 17 February Brigade were in charge of security and were the ones who opened the gates, then fled.
I learned there are those who are being threatened with their pensions being cut off if they come forth to speak.
And I learned, as I presumed, that there was a covert weapons scheme going on in Libya, Benghazi. We had been supplying radical Islamists with weapons against Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi, effectively supplying the enemy and destabilizing that country. And it seems that there was a CIA weapons buy-back program, the aim of which was to ship the retrieved weapons out of Libya through Turkey, and to the Islamist forces in Syria.
Benghazi and the operations in Libya are shrouded in a fog of lies, deceit, manipulation, threats, intimidation, coercion, abandonment, and worst of all, potentially treason.
No, it was not about a kidnapping scheme, it was about something, as I’ve stated, that will make Iran-Contra look like Romper Room. The web of lies spun is coming apart, and all other committee hearings on this matter should be shut down.
The House has established a Select Committee — quite telling that the same has not been done in the Senate — and those involved, to include the President, MUST appear before Rep. Trey Gowdy.
And to those Democrats appointed to the committee: if you seek to obstruct the revelation of the truth, you are complicit and guilty as well.
Am I afraid because of what I now know? Heck no. I’m honored to have been entrusted, so I for one can be on the right side of history.
why hasn’t West made it fully public ??
Why did West vote to let the President NDAA us.
Ambassador Christopher Stevens did NOT die of smoke inhalation in the embassy compound as was claimed by the Obama administration, but was taken alive, raped, sodomized, and God only knows what else. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and all those in their vile orbit knew this from day one and all bold-faced lied. They all willfully, deliberately, and with malice LIED to Ambassador Stevens’ family and to ‘We the People’. And while we all know that some claim that Stevens was the middle-man in Obama’s gun and weapons running operation to the Syrian rebels, or that he was actually kidnapped to trade for the Blind Sheik and mistakenly killed, I believe that what I will tell you about this picture coupled with Obama’s cover-up and LIES, gives credence to my belief (one that I’ve had since day one) . The State Department is responsible for maintaining foreign organization out of country to keep their personnel safe. Hillary Clinton was head of the State Department during the Benghazi slaughter. The Obama Administration (possibly under the instruction of Hillary) was busily threatening U-tube not to be accepting videos that insulted Mohammad. AS THE MEN IN BENGHAZI WERE DYING! At the very same moment of time!….You can clearly see whose tails they were looking out for—only THEIR OWN! Consolidating their deceptions by sending Susan Rice out to lie to America the next weekend! Their alibi was more important than the lives of the people in Benghazi! Now, this is Hillary’s response, “‘Those who exploit this tragedy over and over as a political tool minimize the sacrifice of those who served our country. (??)Those who insist on politicizing the tragedy will have to do so without me.” She’s lived in her ‘made for reality’ world so long, she believes she can control the rest of the narrative on Benghazi. I think Trey Gowdy is thinking something else! We’ll see……
It’s about time someone started talking about the arms deals!
Lt. Col. West walked the walk, he is the Man!
What happened to the CIA operators that were there???
They should be ashamed of themselves! Our men were torchured!!!!
Al West for the TRUE first black president. Obama needs to be stricken from all of history, in its entirety.
check out 9-11 first,,
All of you benghazi truthers are the most hypocritical bunch of POS I have ever seen…. where are all these damn cries for justice for all of the people killed during the bush administration at several embassies. 60 something ppl died on his watch no ONE $#%&!@*ING CONGRESSIONAL HEARING! Someone dies on the black man’swomans watch and you crazy ass holes want heads to roll. You sicken me
Thad
Get your facts straight. NOT one American died during the Bush administration at the Embassies. AND Bush NEVER lied to the American people about the Embassies. It was all over the news as it happened.