UPDATED FACT SHEET: Obamas Saudi Connection The Obama/alQaeda Alliance

January 2nd, 2013 11:20 AM

UPDATED FACT SHEET:

OBAMA'S SAUDI CONNECTION THE OBAMA/ALQAEDA ALLIANCE Create a Select Committee to Investigate Benghazi/Declassify the 28-page Chapter of the Joint Congressional Inquiry on the Saudi Involvement in 9/11
Researched and compiled by This fact sheet was last updated May 4, 2013. William Wertz

While claiming credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden (OBL), President Barack Obama was forging an alliance with al-Qaeda, first, to overthrow the government of Libya, and now, the government of Syria. This reckless and lawless policy of allying with the perpetrators of 9/11/2001, and now, 9/11/2012, to conduct war without the consent of Congress, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, runs the immediate danger of leading to world war, which can only mean thermonuclear war. Explosive new information suggests that in doing this Obama has worked with the government of Saudi Arabia, the same government which has been implicated in the original 9/11/2001 and whose role in both terrorist attacks on the United States has been covered up by both George W. Bush and Barack Obama. This is the elephant in the room, which explains why the Obama Administration has lied and attempted to cover up the true facts about Benghazi. The policy of allying with al-Qaeda, and covering up that alliance and its consequences, is, indeed an impeachable offense. The President of the United States as well as all members of the Senate and the Congress swear an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. The President has violated that oath. The question is whether members of Congress will have the courage to fight for the truth and for justice

on behalf of the victims of this criminal policy and will uphold their own oath of office. While certain facts have come out, the basic issue of Obamas alliance with alQaeda has not been fully addressed. On Monday, Feb. 18, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Algerian government declared the former emir of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), Abdel Hakim Belhadj, persona non grata in Algeria because of his terrorist connections. What does the Algerian government know that the U.S. Congress has thus far failed to publicly question? Why does Belhadj continue to be protected? Is it because he is an ally of the Obama administration and some of his allies in the Republican party in the attempt to overthrow Syrias Assad? According to Al-Hayat, January 2, 2012, Belhadj was in Benghazi in April 2011, where he helped organize the February 17 Brigade, which was hired by the State Department to guard the Benghazi mission. The February 17 Brigade was the conduit through which the Libyan Defense Ministry made payments to Ansar al-Sharia before Sept. 11, 2012 and after a short interruption it has resumed that role. Thus, the group defending the U.S. mission was the paymaster of the group attacking the mission and continues to be so. According to the New York Times, in September 2011 Belhadj was appointed as a member of the Supreme Security Committee (SSC). An SSC officer took photos of the mission the morning of the attack and the SSC failed to post an official vehicle outside the mission 24/7 as requested. According to Mathieu Pellerin, director at the Centre of Strategic Intelligence on the African Continent (CISCA) based in Paris, Belhadj is the current head of domestic security in Libya. During the overthrow of Qaddafi arms shipments from Qatar and the UAE approved by Obama, which were in violation of the UN arms embargo, went directly to Belhadj, bypassing the Transitional National Council. Obama had originally approached Saudi Arabia to provide the weapons. Moreover, an e-mail dated February 16, 2013 from Sidney Blumenthal to Hillary Clinton, which was hacked by someone calling himself Guccifer and then later published by Russia Today, reveals that according to French Intelligence the attack on Benghazi was carried out by al-Qaeda and funded by wealthy Sunni Islamists from Saudi Arabia. This fact is reportedly known by both Algerian and Libyan intelligence agencies. Moreover, according to a second hacked Blumenthal memo dated September 12, 2012, Mohammed Yussef el Magariaf, the President of Libya, believed at the time that the Benghazi terror attack was part of a covert campaign being led by Abdelhakim Belhadj to link him to the CIA.

Now more than ever two steps are required: 1) the creation of a select committee to investigate Benghazi as proposed by Rep. Frank Wolf; and 2) the declassification of the 28 page chapter of the report of the Joint Congressional Inquiry on Saudi Arabias involvement in 9/11/2001 as called for by Rep. Walter Jones. On April 16, 2013, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit reinstated the suit brought by the families of the victims of 9/11 against 12 individuals including nine Saudi Charity officials. In light of the cover-up of the original 9/11 and the cover-up of Benghazi, the recent Boston Marathon bombing, plus the fact that the U.S. is being drawn into a war in Syria in support of Saudi-backed al-Qaeda forces, a 9/11 Review Commission should also be immediately activated as provided in the Defense Authorization continuing resolution signed into law on March 26, 2013. This updated fact sheet presents the currently available evidence from the public domain: The Case of Libya In the case of Libya, the evidence of Obamas alliance with al-Qaeda is overwhelming. Under the guise of the Blair doctrine of humanitarian interventionism or the right to protect, President Obama ordered American military forces to create a no-fly zone, provide close air cover for and approved the provision of weapons to the al-Qaeda affiliated LIFG to overthrow Muammar Qaddafi. He did this in violation of the U.S. Constitution and the War Powers Resolution. He also clearly violated the UN arms embargo by organizing the provision of weapons to the opposition. The opposition in Libya was dominated by the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), which was created in the 1990s by Abdel Hakim Belhadj, who had fought with al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, from 1988 to 1992. (On Feb. 15, 2011, the LIFG, perhaps attempting to gain favor from Barack Obama, changed its name to the Libyan Islamic Movement for Change.) After Kabul fell in 1992, Belhadj moved to Sudan with Osama bin Laden. In 1995, British MI6 approached the LIFG, many of whose leading members resided in the U.K., to carry out a coup against Qaddafi. After the coup and four assassination attempts against Qaddafi failed, many members of the LIFG were jailed in the Abu Selim prison in Tripoli. Four leading members of the LIFG, who later participated in the overthrow of Qaddafi, escaped back to Afghanistan in 1998 where they provided training to al-Qaeda in camps situated in Jalalabad and Kabul.

Kronos Advisory LLC in its Dec. 16, 2011 report A View to Extremist Currents in Libya reports that JTF-GTMO analysts have asserted that most LIFG fighters fought with bin Laden in Afghanistan and trained at the OBLsponsored Torkham Camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. LIFG fighters played a critical role preparing al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters for operations targeting Western forces. Leaked JIF-GTMO detainee assessments reveal training provided at a camp in Afghanistan by one LIFG military committee official was so renowned that Yemeni al-Qaeda member Zuhail Abdo Anam Said al-Sharabi, who underwent training to become a suicide bomber for an aborted component of the original 9/11 attacks, told interrogators he traveled to Afghanistan to undergo training there to prepare for participation in the 9/11 plot. A note contained in the 9/11 Commission Report reveals that the so-called mastermind of the 9/11 attack, Khalid Shaykh Mohammad, claimed to have provided members of the LIFG computer training. LIFG member Abu Anas al-Libi was indicted along with Osama bin Laden for the August 7, 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is now believed to be operating clandestinely in Libya. JTF-GTMO detainee assessments reveal the LIFGs guesthouse in Jalalabad, Afghanistan was visited by many prominent terrorists, including in 2000 by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who later became the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. In 2001, when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, Belhadj, who had returned to Afghanistan in 1998, fled to Tora Bora with Osama bin Laden. Sami al-Saadi, the spiritual leader of the LIFG, elected to stay in Kabul to fight the U.S. forces. Both eventually escaped. Two other members of the LIFG who later participated in the Obama-led overthrow of Qaddafi, were arrested by the Pakistanis and handed over to the U.S. They were Abul Hakim al-Hasadi and Abu Sufian bin Qumu, both originally from Derna, Libya. Al-Hasadi, who had fought for five years in Afghanistan, was sent back to Libya and jailed. When he was released in 2008, he recruited Libyans to join Al-Qaeda to fight the U.S. in Iraq. Qumu was sent to Guantanamo until he was later returned to Abu Salim prison in Tripoli. He was released in 2010. In 2004, Belhadj and Sami Al-Saadi were captured by the CIA in Bangkok, Thailand, and returned to Libya, where they were also imprisoned in Abu Selim. This was shortly after Tony Blair had organized the recognition of Qaddafi by the West. At the time, Blair stated that Qaddafi wanted to join the West in combating al-Qaeda.

Al-Saadi, whom Taliban leader Mullah Omar once called the Sheikh of the Arabs, was the author of a plan to overthrow Qaddafi. This plan was found in the home of Abd al-Rahman al-Faquih in Birmingham, U.K., during a police raid in the middle of the last decade. Al-Faquih had been convicted in absentia by a Moroccan court for complicity in the May 2003 suicide bombings in Casablanca. This same war plan would later be employed against Qaddafi, beginning in February 2011. In March 2010, due to the intervention of Tony Blair, Saif Qaddafi (Muammars son) announced the release of Belhadj and other members of the LIFG and Muslim Brotherhood from Abu Selim as part of a reconciliation of the Qaddafi government with the LIFG and the Muslim Brotherhood. The mediator in this effort, which began in 2005, was the Libyan, Muslim Brotherhood-linked, Qatari-based cleric Ali al-Sallabi. Less than a year after they were released, Belhadj and the other members of the LIFG became the core of the opposition to Qaddafi. According to the Wall Street Journal, bin Qumu began training jihadists in Derna in April of 2011. LIFG Designated a Terrorist Organization At the time of the operation to overthrow Qaddafi under the cover of a UN resolution, the LIFG was designated a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department, the U.K. Home Office, and the United Nations Security Council. On September 25, 2001, President Bush signed an executive order to freeze the LIFGs assets in the U.S. In December 2001, the LIFG was added to the terrorism exclusion list. On December 8, 2004, the LIFG was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. State Department. An excerpt from the U.S. State Department report reads as follows: On November 3, 2007, senior Al Qaeda leaders announced that LIFG had officially joined al-Qaeda. Activities: Libyans associated with the LIFG are part of the broader international terrorist movement. The LIFG is one of the groups believed to have planned the Casablanca suicide bombing in May 2003. Spanish media in August 2005 linked Ziyad Hashem, an alleged member of the LIFGs media committee, as well as the imprisoned amir Abdallah al Sadeq (Belhadj), with Tunisian Islamist Serhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet, the suspected ringleader in the 2004 Madrid attacks. Abdallah al Sadeq is the nom de guerre of Abdel Hakim Belhadj. According to Kronos Advisory LLC, in 2011, Belhadj admitted that he was called twice by Fakhet weeks before the Madrid bombings. He said he did not answer the phone, but called Fakhets Jordanian business partner instead. The Spanish investigation named him a co-conspirator.

Excerpts from the UN resolution read as follows: LIFG commanders, including Abu Yahya al-Liby and the now-deceased Abu al-Laith al-Liby, have occupied prominent positions within Al-Qaedas senior leadership. On 3 November 2007, LIFG formally merged with al-Qaeda. The merger was announced via two video clips produced by Al-Qaedas propaganda arm, AlSahab. The first clip featured Usama bin Ladens (QI.B.8.01) deputy, Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri (QI.A.6.01), and the second featured Abu Laith al-Liby, who then served as a senior member of LIFG and a senior leader and trainer for Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Obama Provides Weapons to Al-Qaeda with the Assistance of Saudi Arabia According to an article published in the Independent on March 7, 2011 just 3 weeks after the Feb. 15, 2011 launching in Benghazi of the overthrow of Qaddafi, by Robert Fisk, Americas secret plan to arm Libyas rebels, Obama asks Saudis to airlift weapons into Benghazi, the Obama administration asked Saudi Arabia if it can supply weapons to the rebels in Benghazi. Washingtons request is in line with other US military co-operation with the Saudis. The royal family in Jeddah, which was deeply involved in the Contra scandal during the Reagan administration, gave immediate support to arm guerrillas fighting the Soviet army in Afghanistan in 1980 and later to Americas chagrin also funded and armed the Taliban. The Saudis remain the only US Arab ally strategically placed and capable of furnishing weapons to the guerrillas of Libya. Their assistance would allow Washington to disclaim any military involvement in the supply chain even though the arms would be American and paid for by the Saudis. The Saudis have been told that opponents of Gaddafi need anti-tank rockets and mortars as a first priority to hold off attacks by Gaddafis armor, and ground-to-air missiles to shoot down his fighter-bombers. Although Fisk does not mention it, the key figure in Saudi Arabia, who provided funding for the Contras was Prince Bandar bin Sultan. When Prince Bandar was the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. in the lead up to 9/11/2001, his wife, the sister of Prince Turki, then head of Saudi intelligence, provided funds to a Saudi intelligence agent in San Diego, al-Bayoumi, who assisted the first two 9/11 hijackers to enter the U.S. Prince Bandar had access to a significant slush fund for covert operations as a result of fees he received related to the BAE Systems arms deal with Saudi Arabia known as Al-Yamamah. From 2005 until 2012, he was head of the Saudi National Security Council. In that position he would have been involved in efforts to provision the Libyan opposition with weapons. And today as the current head of Saudi Intelligence he is once again aiding al-Qaeda, now in Syria.

Although the Saudi response to Obamas request is not known, according to a Dec. 5, 2012 New York Times article, in the Spring of 2011 President Obama approved the provision of weapons by Qatar and the U.A.E. to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, led by Abdel Hakim Belhadj. According to a Wall Street Journal article on Oct. 17, 2011, 20,000 tons of weapons were provided not to the Transitional National Council, but directly to militias run by Belhadj in 18 shipments. Qatar flew at least 18 weapons shipments in all to antiQaddafi rebel forces. The majority of these National Transition shipments went not through the rebels governing body, the national Transitional Council, but directly to militias run by Islamist leaders including Mr. Belhadj. The article reports that much of Qatars aid was guided by Libyan cleric Ali alSallabi who left Libya in 1988 to study in Saudi Arabia and Sudan. His younger brother Ismail headed the February 17 Brigade before the Benghazi attack. A dozen other Qatari-funded shipments came to Libyan rebels allied with the LIFG via Sudan. The shipments continued in September even after the fall of Tripoli. According to the New York Times article Obama insisted that the weapons not be weapons produced in the U.S., so that they would not be traceable to the U.S. According to the New York Times, these weapons are now being shipped to Al-Qaeda in Syria and Mali. It is most likely that these weapons were used to kill Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans, but Obama took precautions to ensure that the weapons could not be traced back to him. To have thus intentionally attempted to conceal the source of the weapons reveals criminal intent. A UN report issued on March 20, 2012 confirms that the U.A.E. may have transferred military materiel to Libya. The U.A.E. told UN investigators, that NATO had told them that inquiries on this matter should be directed to NATO. As of Jan. 12, 2012 NATO never replied to UN inquiries. The same report states in respect to Qatar: During interviews with the Minister of Defence and a representative of the armament section of the Ministry of Defence conducted by the Panel in July 2011 in Benghazi, the Panel was clearly informed that several countries, including Qatar, were supporting the opposition through deliveries of arms and ammunition. According to the same sources, between the beginning of the uprising and the day of the interview, approximately 20 flights had delivered military materiel from Qatar to the revolutionaries in Libya, including French anti-tank weapon launchers (MILANs). A follow-up report issued on April 9, 2013 by the UN Security Councils Group of Experts, reports that weapons, which flowed into Libya in violation of the UN arms embargo, are now flooding into a total of 12 nations including Syria

and Mali. This final report states: The Panel stands by its findings that Qatar supplied arms and ammunition to the opposition during the uprising in beach of the arms embargo. The Panel also reports: The Syrian Arab Republic was presented a prominent destination for Libyan fighters. A number of them have joined brigades as individuals or through networks to support the Syrian opposition. Materiel has also been sent out from Libya to the Syrian Arab Republic through networks and routes passing through either turkey or northern Lebanon. Saudi funding of the Benghazi Attack According to the hacked memo from Sidney Blumenthal to Hillary Clinton dated February 16, 2013, information provided by the French service indicates that the funding for both attacks (Benghazi and In Amenas) originated with wealthy Sunni Islamists in Saudi Arabia. During July and August 2012 these financiers provided funds to AQIM contacts in Southern Europe, who in turn passed the money onto AQIM operatives in Mauritania. These funds were eventually provided to Ansar al Sharia and its allied militias in the Benghazi region in support of their attack on the U.S. consulate. The money was used to recruit operatives and purchase ammunition and supplies. The memo continues: In a separate conversation, the Algerian DGSE officers note in private that Libyan intelligence officers tell them that the Benghazi attacks were funded by these financiers in Saudi Arabia. The Perpetrators of the Benghazi Attack Before Qaddafi was overthrown by the al-Qaeda affiliated LIFG, the military wing of the Transitional National Council (TNC) was initially run by Gen. Abd al-Fatah Yunis. However, he was assassinated on July 28, 2011. Some reports indicate that the assassination was carried out by Ansar al-Sharia, headed by bin Qumu. According to Associated Press a deputy of Yunis, Mohammed Agoury, stated that the February 17 Brigade was behind the assassination. Once Qaddafi was driven from Tripoli, the former emir of the LIFG, Belhadj, became the military commander of the Tripoli Military Council. The Benghazi Military Council, in turn, was run by Ismael al-Sallabi, an ally of Belhadj and the brother of Ali al-Sallabi, who is described as the spiritual leader of the revolution. Ismael and Ali al-Sallabi are the sons of Mohamad al-Sallabi who participated in the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood in Benghazi in the 1960s. Approximately one week after Belhadj was named commander of the Tripoli military Council in August 2011, he and Ismail al-Sallabi accompanied TNC Chairman Jalil on a trip to Qatar, where they met with the financiers of

the revolution and NATO officials, according to the report issued by Kronos Advisory LLC. A report issued July 2012 by New York Universitys Center on International Cooperation also reports that according to a New York Times article the Supreme Security Committee (SSC) was formed on September 4, 2011 and that Belhadj was appointed as one of the 21 members. The SSC operates under the Interior Ministry. Three of the military brigades operating in the Benghazi area - Ansar alSharia, Libyan Shield, and the February 17 Brigade, the latter two of which operate in coordination with the Libyan Ministry of Defense - participated in the attack on the United States mission and a CIA annex in Benghazi, killing U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 al-Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. These three organizations were the chief American combat allies in the drive to overthrow Qaddafi. To be specific: Ansar al-Sharia, led by Abu Sufian bin Qumu, a former alQaeda Guantanamo detainee; the Libya Shield, which met the Marines who came from Tripoli at the airport and accompanied them to the CIA annex, led by Wisam bin Hamid, identified by the Library of Congress as possibly the head of al-Qaeda in Libya; and the February 17 Brigade, which provided security for the mission, organized by Belhadj and led by Ismail Sallabi, are all run by the al-Qaeda-affiliated LIFG. Two other organizations implicated in the attack are the Supreme Security Council (SSC), under the command of the deputy interior minister for eastern Libya and LIFG senior member Wanis alSharif, and the British-run Blue Mountain Group, a private security firm that employed Libyans. Ansar al-Sharia: The leader of the Ansar al-Sharia (ASS) brigade in Benghazi and Derna that actually carried out the assault on the U.S. mission and CIA annex in Benghazi on 9/11/12, is Sufian bin-Qumu. As the Senate Homeland Security Committees report issued on Dec. 30, 2012 states: The group took credit on its own Facebook page for the attack before later deleting the post. The same report also says individuals affiliated with Ansar al-Sharia were allegedly involved in storming the Tunisian consulate in Benghazi on June 18, 2012. According to his Guantanamo detainee assessment report, Qumu received monthly stipends from one of the financiers of the original 9/11/2001 attack: Detainees alias is found on a list of probable Al-Qaida personnel receiving monthly stipends. His alias was found on al-Qaedas 11 September attacks

financier Mustafa Al Hawsawis laptop as an Al-Qaeda member receiving family support. The assessment continues: Detainee is assessed as a former member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, a probable member of Al-Qaeda. The detainee is assessed as a MEDIUM to HIGH risk, as he is likely to pose a threat to the US, its interests and allies. Prior history: he served as a tank driver in the Libyan armed forces as a private. The Libyan Government states he was addicted to illegal drugs/narcotics and had been accused of a number of crimes including murder, physical assault, armed assault and distributing narcotics. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison. In 1993 he escaped and fled eventually to Afghanistan and trained at Osama Bin Ladens Torkham Camp. After Afghanistan he moved to Sudan where he worked as a truck driver for one of OBLs companies. He joined the LIFG and was assigned to the military committee. He left Sudan, allegedly withdrew from the LIFG in 1998 and returned to Afghanistan. Captured in 2001, he was sent to Guantanamo. According to the report, he has admitted associations with al-Qaeda/LIFG facilitator Ayyub Al Libi, Abu Abdullah al Sadiq, which is the nom de guerre of Abdel Hakim Belhadj who is the leader of LIFG, and Abu Al Munihir, a.k.a. Sami Al Saadi, who drew up the war plan to overthrow Qaddafi in the mid2000s. An August 2012 report from the Library of Congress, Al-Qaeda in Libya: A Profile, reports that in June 2012, Ansar al Sharia held a demonstration in Benghazi attended by several other militias including Free Libya, which it reports is Libya Shield, the al-Sahati Brigade, headed by Ismael al Sallabi and the Abu Obeida Bin al-Jarrah brigade headed by Amed Abu Khattala (Bukatela). The Library of Congress report states that these militias probably make up the bulk of al-Qaedas network in Libya. According to Canadafree press.com, Ansar al-Sharia also provided security for the hospital where Ambassador Stevens was taken after the attack. Libya Shield: The last signed diplomatic cable from Ambassador Stevens back to the State Department in Washington, dated Sept. 11, 2012 described a tense Sept. 9 meeting in Benghazi between U.S. security officials and two leaders of Libya Shield, Wisam bin Hamid (misidentified as Wisam bin Ahmed) and Shaykh Muhammad al-Garabi, in which they argued that if the Muslim Brotherhood candidate for Prime Minister, Alwad al Barasi, should win, he would appoint the commander of the February 17 Brigade, Fawzi Bukatif, as Minister of Defense.

Bukatifs appointment, the memo says, would open the MOD (Ministry of Defense) and other security ministries and offices to plum appointments for his most favored brigade commanders - giving February 17 and Libya Shield tacit control of the armed forces. On the other hand, if Jibril, whom the U.S. government was supporting, won, they would not continue to guarantee security in Benghazi, a critical function they asserted they were currently providing. According to al-Fetn.com, Bin Hamid fought against American forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan before returning to the Benghazi-Derna area of eastern Libya to ally with Washington to overthrow and execute Qaddafi. The same al-Fetn.com reported in late October 2011 that bin Hamid became the head of a newly formed supreme board of the Libyan mujahideen. According to the Library of Congress, bin Hamid is widely identified as the actual head of al-Qaeda in Libya. He also held a demonstration in Sirte in March 2012, which was attended by the head of al-Qaeda in Magreb in Sahel, Mokhtar bel Mokhtar. Yet, his Libya Shield militia was entrusted with security for the U.S. mission in Benghazi, and the Sept. 9, 2012 meeting likely provided the group with the travel plans of Ambassador Stevens, who arrived in Benghazi on Sept. 10 for a scheduled several-day visit. According to the Senate Homeland Security Committee report, U.S. Government security personnel who arrived at the Benghazi airport from Tripoli were delayed for at least three hours by Libya Shield. The exact cause of this hours-long delay, and its relationship to the rescue effort, remains unclear and merits further inquiry. The report asks: Was it part of a plot to keep American help from reaching the Americans under siege in Benghazi? The attack on the CIA annex only began after Libyan Shield fighters escorted a Marine rescue team from the airport to the location hours after the initial attack on the U.S. mission, where Ambassador Stevens was killed. February 17 Brigade: According to Joan Neuhaus Schaan, a fellow in Homeland Security and Terrorism at Rice Universitys Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston, the February 17 Brigade, which provided security for the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, was founded by Ismail Sallabi, a known member of al-Qaeda and the LIFG. Both the Kronos Advisory LLC report of Dec. 16, 2011 and a Brookings Doha Center policy briefing dated May 2012, entitled Libyan Islamists Unpacked: Rise, Transformation, and Future, also report that Sallabi heads the February 17 Brigade based in Benghazi. On Sept. 16, 2011 the Guardian identified Sallabi as the head of the Benghazi Military Council, the counterpart to the Tripoli Military Council led by Abdel

Hakim Belhadj. According to Al Arabiya News, the commander of the February 17 brigade is Fawzi Bukatif. According to al-Hayat, Belhadj was in Benghazi in April 2011, where he helped organize the February 17 Brigade. Included in the security force for the Benghazi mission proper, were four members of the February 17 Brigade, described by a State Department source as a friendly militia which has basically been deputized by the Libyan government to serve as our security, our host government security. An additional 16 militia members were part of the quick-reaction security team based at the CIA compound described as the missions annex. Ismael al-Sallabi (who is the brother of Libyas leading Muslim Brotherhoodlinked Islamist, Ali al-Sallabi) also leads the Martyr Rafallah Sahati Brigade, which began as a battalion of the February 17 Brigade. The Brigades commander, Shaykh Muhammad al-Garabi who is also associated with Libya Shield, met with U.S. officials on Sept. 9, along with Wissam bin Hamid of the Libya Shield. The State Department Accountability Review Board (ARB) report questions whether the February 17 Brigade guards at the U.S. mission ever alerted the February 17 Brigade barracks less than 2 km away from the mission of the attack. The Senate Homeland Security Committee report notes that U.S. annex personnel attempted to contact the February 17 Brigade to ask for assistance upon being notified about the attack on the mission. When they left for the mission they made a second attempt to contact the February 17 Brigade. Both attempts were of no avail. The Senate Homeland Security Committee report states that U.S. Department of State personnel were concerned about the involvement of members of the February 17 Brigade in the extrajudicial detention of U.S. diplomatic personnel in at least one incident in Benghazi.... Some U.S. personnel also questioned the Brigades loyalty to the Libyan government and their capacity or desire to safeguard American interests. Moreover, the contract between the State Department and the February 17 Brigade had expired by the time of the attack. On September 8, 2012, just two days before Ambassador Stevens arrived in Benghazi, the principal U.S. diplomatic officer in Benghazi wrote that In early September, a member of the February 17 Brigade told another Regional Security Officer in Benghazi that it could no longer support U.S. personnel movements. The RSO also asked specifically if the militia could provide additional support for the Ambassadors pending visit and was told no. This was communicated to the regional security officer (RSO) at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli in an e-mail

from Alec Henderson to John b. Martinec on September 9, 2012 according to a footnote in the Interim Progress Report issued by the Chairman of five House Committees on Aril 23, 2013. Supreme Security Council: According to the ARB, the Supreme Security Council was asked to station a marked police car at the gates of the mission 24/7 during Ambassador Stevens visit. The SCC, which is under the direction of the Interior Ministry, did not do so. Instead, an individual in a Libyan Supreme Security Council police uniform was seen taking photos of the mission on the morning of the attack and the SSC vehicle deployed to the U.S. mission in the evening left just before the terrorist attack was launched. The individual in charge of the SSC in Benghazi was deputy interior minister Wanis al-Sharif. Wanis al-Sharif has been identified by Associated Press as a senior leader of the Libyan Islamic fighting Group. As reported above, on September 4, 2011 Belhadj was appointed to be a member of the Supreme Security Committee. Al-Sharifs explanations of the events on Sept. 11 were complete disinformation. He announced that no one was in the mission at the time of the attack and then, after the news of the deaths was announced, he tried to put the blame on the U.S. by falsely claiming there was a peaceful demonstration outside the mission over the video film in the U.S. attacking the Prophet Mohamed until US security guards started firing. He also claimed that those responsible for the attack were pro-Qaddafi elements. According to the Libya Herald, Wanis al-Sharif was sacked on September 17, as was Hussein Abu Humaida, the head of the Benghazi security directorate. Both were replaced by Colonel Salah al-Din Awad Doghman. However, according to an article by Nancy A. Youssef published by McClatchy on November 13, 2012 both al-Sharif and Humaida had refused to leave their posts and Doghman had been unable even to get into his office. An article written by Steven Sotloff published by TIME.com on November 26 includes an interview with Wanis Al-Sharif, who is described as an Interior Ministry official responsible for eastern Libya. As recently as March 2013, Associated Press still reports that he is one of the top security officials in Benghazi. Blue Mountain Group: The Blue Mountain Group, a British security firm that hired local Libyans is also suspect. The ARB report indicates no guards were present outside the compound immediately before the attack ensued and that a member of the Blue Mountain contingent responsible for guarding the perimeter may have

left a gate open, allowing the assailants to gain access to the mission facility unimpeded. The Senate Homeland Security Committee report indicates: After an improvised explosive device (IED) was thrown over the wall of the U.S. facility in Benghazi on April 7, 2012, ... a spot report on the day of the event stated that shortly after the event two individuals were questioned. The suspects included one current and one former guard employed by Blue Mountain Group. The United Kingdom is known to have been a safe-haven for the LIFG throughout the 1990s and up until October 2005 when the UK finally designated it as a terrorist organization. In October 2001, the Bush administration provided Libya with the names of Libyan militants living in the UK. On February 8, 2006, the U.S. Treasury Department designated five individuals and four entities including the Sanabel Relief Agency, based in the UK for their roles in financing the LIFG. On October 30, 2008, the U.S. Treasury Department designated three additional U.K.-based individuals for their roles raising funds for the LIFG. According to the Treasury Departments press release regarding the designations, the U.K. is the greatest source of funding for the LIFG. Abdel Hakim Belhadj Any serious investigation of Benghazi would have to look closely at the role of Abdel Hakim Belhadj, the emir of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and, after the overthrow of Qaddafi, the commander of the Tripoli Military Council and a member of the Supreme Security Committee. As commander of the Tripoli Military Council, he was given responsibility, as of Aug. 30, 2011, for the security of all foreign embassies in Tripoli, including the U.S. Embassy, until he stepped down as commander of the TMC to form his own political party (Watan) in May 2012. He was also put in charge of coordinating defense on a national level. There is no indication that he also stepped down as a member of the Supreme Security Committee and in fact as reported above according to Mathieu Pellerin, director at the Centre of Strategic Intelligence on the African Continent (CISCA) based in Paris, Belhadj is the current head of domestic security in Libya. On Nov. 17, 2012, the Saudi-based publication Arab News published an article by Ali Bluwi, reporting that the attack on the Benghazi mission was carried out in revenge for the killing of Abu Yahya al-Libi, a senior Libyan member of alQaeda, killed in a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan in June 2012. The article also reports that U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens prevented Abdel Hakim Belhadj from assuming the portfolio of defense or interior in Libya.

Indeed, the NYU Center on International Cooperation report issued on July 2012 The International Role in Libyas Transition August 2011-March 2012, reports that Belhadj sought to be appointed as the formal head of the new armed forces, but on November 22, 2011 was denied the post of defense minister. Furthermore, according to former Muslim Brotherhood member Walid Shoebat, Belhadj is the al-Qaeda operative that the Libyan expatriates claim was the principal organizer who directed the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi. Also, one of the hacked memos from Sidney Blumenthal to Hillary Clinton entitled Magariaf and the attack on US in Libya, dated September 12, 2012 reports that Magariaf believed the Benghazi attack was the product of the security situation in Libya between 2004 and 2010 (the year when members of the LIFG including Belhadj were rendered to Libya by Western Intelligence services and imprisoned by the Qaddafi regime and the year they were released.) He stated that the attack on the U.S. mission was the result of the atmosphere created by the campaign by his political opponents to link him directly to foreign intelligence services including the CIA through his role in the National Front for the Salvation of Libya. (Both Magariaf and the current Prime Minister Ali Zaidan founded the NFSL.) The memo states that this campaign is being led by Belhadj who captured files and documents describing this relationship from Qaddafis offices in Tripoli. The report continues: A separate source adds that messages to Libya from the CIA and British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) were found among the Tripoli documents indicating that the United States and Britain were eager to help Libya capture several senior LIFG figures, including is co-founders Belhadj and Sammi al-Saadi. On May 31, 1997, the LIFG published a letter of support to Omar Abdal Rahman (aka the Blind Sheikh), who was convicted of seditious conspiracy for his involvement in the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. In this letter, LIFG emir Belhadj warned the tyrant Americans to take heed of the growing anger among Muslims. Both an attack on the International Committee for the Red Cross Red Crescent in Benghazi on May 22, 2012 and the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi on June 6, 2012 were claimed by the Brigades of the Imprisoned Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman. Al-Qaedas Talking Points Although it is clearly established that there was no demonstration outside the mission, the terrorist attack had no relationship to an anti-Muslim video and was clearly a premeditated terrorist incident, the Obama administration adopted the talking points employed by senior al-Qaeda-allied LIFG operatives Wanis al-Sharif, Ismael al Sallabi, and Abdel Hakim Belhadj.

On Sept. 12, Wanis al-Sharif told the press that there had been a demonstration protesting a US video attacking Mohammed. He also falsely claimed that U.S. security guards fired first. On Sept. 12, Ismail al-Sallabi said on radio that what we saw in Benghazi yesterday was an intifada to protect the name of the prophet. On September 21, Abdel Hakim Belhadj told the Guardian: We are fully aware that this despicable hate film, Innocence of Muslims, does not reflect the American peoples views and that the producers of this film are an extremist minority.... [A] hate campaign led by a small number of extremist Islamophobes has led to unacceptable counter-reactions by small extremist groups. As late as October 9, Belhadj gave an interview to the daily al-Sharq al-Awsat in which he stated: The information we received is that the issue at the beginning was spontaneous. The people gathered in front of the consulate, and then an exchange of fire took place between the two sides between the consulates guards and the demonstrators, some of whom were armed. This later resulted in the regrettable action which claimed the life of the U.S. Ambassador. Agreement to Launch Aggressive War Against Syria: According to Ahmed Manai, President of the Tunisian Institute of International Relations and a member of the Committee on Arab Observers in Syria, more than 6,000 Tunisian youth between the ages of 17 and 30 are now fighting in Syria against the government of Assad and are being trained in Libya. According to Manai, this arrangement stems from an agreement which was reached on Dec. 11, 2011, in Tripoli, Libya. The meeting was attended by Youssef Qaradhaoui Rached Ghannouchi, the head of the Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood party, Ennahda; Hamad Jabber bin Jassim al-Thani, the Foreign Minister of Qatar who is also the Prime Minister of Qatar; the number two of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria; the head of the National Transitional Council in Libya, Ghoulioune Abdel Jelil; and the former emir of the AlQaeda-affiliated Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Abelhakim Belhadj, who at the time was the head of the Tripoli Military Council and a member of the Supreme Security Committee. The agreement reached determined to arm and send fighters from Libya and Tunisia to Syria. The basis for this agreement was laid by an October 2011 deal between Jelil and Burhane Ghalioun, who was made head of the Syrian National Council in August 2011 and who was known to be under the influence of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood. Essentially, the Dec. 11, 2011 agreement was an extension of this agreement, concluded immediately after the assassination of

Qaddhafi on October 20, 2011. The Ennahda party has also since come to power in Tunisia in October 2011. It should be noted that Hamad Jabber bin Jassim al-Thani was implicated in an illegal arms deal worth 500 million with BAE Systems, in which 7 million was transferred into two trusts in Jersey of which Hamad was named as a beneficiary. Hamad eventually paid the Jersey authorities 6 million, as a "voluntary reparation." Immediately following the October agreement in November 2011, according to numerous news sources, including the Daily Telegraph, Belhadj traveled to Turkey to meet with the Syrian Free Army, to provide it with training and weapons to overthrow Assad. Belhadjs trip to Turkey was supported by the head of the Transitional National Council Mustafa Abdel Jalil. According to Albawaba.com and thetruthseeker.co.uk, during that same month, some 600 LIFG terrorists from Libya entered Syria and began military operations. The individual who leads the Libyan fighters is Mahdi al-Harati, now head of the Liwa al-Ummah Brigade in Syria. According to an Aug. 9, 2012 article in Foreign Policy magazine by Mary Fitzgerald, entitled The Syrian Rebels Libyan Weapon, al-Harati is a Libyan-born Irish citizen, who was a commander of the Tripoli Brigade, run by Belhadj during the overthrow of Qaddafi in Libya. The Tripoli Brigade was one of the first rebel units to enter the Libyan capital in August 2011. After Tripoli was taken by the rebels, al-Harati was appointed deputy head of the Tripoli Military Council, serving under Abdel Hakim Belhadj. In late 2011, Harati stepped down as commander of the Tripoli Brigade and as deputy head of the Tripoli Military Council, and left for Syria. According to Harati, more than 6,000 men across Syria have joined Liwa alUmmah since its establishment. Harati stresses that 90% of its members are Syrians, the rest are Libyans, most of them, former members of the Tripoli Brigade, along with a smattering of other Arabs. According to Reuters, Liwa al-Ummah includes 20 senior members of the Tripoli Brigade. According to documents obtained and released by former Muslim Brotherhood member Walid Shoebat, an array of records provided to Libyan expatriates from sources inside the Libyan government establish that al-Qaeda operatives in Libya are facilitating the passage of jihadists through Libya to Syria. Specifically, Abd al-Wahhab Mohammad Qaid, a leading member of the LIFG whose brother, al-Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al-Libi, was killed in Pakistan in June 2012 by a U.S. drone attack, now works in the Libyan Interior Ministry where he is in charge of Border Control and Strategic Institutions. The

position allows him to arrange open-border passage for al-Qaeda operatives, facilitating not only the flow of terrorists into Libya, but also al-Qaeda efforts to transport terrorists and weapons into Syria from Libya via Turkey. Clandestine Al-Qaeda According to numerous reports, al-Qaedas strategy in Libya is not to operate openly in its own name for security reasons, but rather to operate under the name of various militias. Nonetheless, at least two known Core al-Qaeda operatives are known to have been deployed from Pakistan to Libya. One of the State Department documents released by the House Oversight Committee in October was from the Research and Information Support Center, dated March 1, 2012. It gives the following assessment of the presence of al-Qaeda in the Benghazi area: In late December 2011, reports indicated that the al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan had sent experienced jihadists to Libya to build a new base of operations in the country. Between May and December 2011, one of these jihadists had recruited 200 fighters in the eastern part of the country. Documents seized in Iraq indicate that many foreign fighters who participated in the Iraqi insurgency hailed from eastern Libya. According to the August 2012 Library of Congress Al-Qaeda in Libya report, the individual sent is believed to be Abd al-Baset Azzouz, who has been close to al-Qaeda head Al-Zawahiri since 1980. According to the same report, he is likely located currently in Libya with another senior Libyan al-Qaeda operative Abd al Hamid al Ruqhay, alias Abu Anas al-Libi, who moved, in the late 1980s, living at various times in Afghanistan and Sudan, where he is believed to have met Osama bin Laden and joined al-Qaeda. The e-book, Benghazi: The Definitive Report, suggests that another senior al-Qaeda operative who may be in Libya is Abu Musab al-Suri (misidentified in the book as Yasin al-Suri). The thesis of this book is that Obama authorized John Brennan to conduct a secret war in the Middle East and in Africa, outside the command of the CIA, Pentagon and the State Department, and that operations conducted by Brennan in Libya during the summer to force alSuri to surface stirred a hornets nest, which resulted in a retaliatory attack on the U.S. mission and CIA annex on 9/11, which Obama and Brennan took no measures to prevent. While they do not identify the specific operation conducted by Brennan in Libya, the fact of the matter is that the drone assassination of Abu Yahya al-Libi in Pakistan in June 2012 by Obama and Brennan entails the same modus operandi and would have had the same consequences.

The Sole Suspect in Custody: a member of Al-Qaeda and the LIFG In early March, it was reported that a suspect by the name of Faraj al-Chalabi had been arrested. Although it has been blacked out in the U.S. press, the {Libya Herald} reports the following: "The man, named as Faraj Al-Chalabi, is said to have been a member both of al-Qaeda and of Libyan Islamist Fighting Group (LIFG). He and two other Libyans, have been wanted by Libya in connection with the deaths of Germans Silvan and Vera Becker near Sirte in 1994. Warrants for the three's arrest were issued in 1998. The killings were claimed by the Qaddafi regime to have been ordered by Osman bin Laden." The two other suspects identified thus far as involved in the attack on the U.S. mission are Ali Harzi and Amed Abu Khattala (Bukatela). Ali Harzi was apprehended after 9/11 in Turkey after the attack reportedly on his way to Syria. He was sent back his native land, Tunisia and has since been released for lack of evidence. According to Investors.com, Sen. Saxy Chambliss stated that Harzi was confirmed to be a member of Ansar al-Sharia. Eli Lake of the Daily Beast reports that Harzi is not considered to be a ringleader of the attack but is considered a suspect because he used social media to tip off friends about the attack. His brother is believed to be Tariq Abu Ammar, a member of al-Qaeda in Iraq whose job is to arrange travel of fighters from North Africa to Syria. The recent government crisis in Tunisia raises questions as to the ability or desire of the Tunisian government to monitor his movement. Amed Abu Khattala (Bukatela), according to the publication Magharebia is a suspect in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the US mission, as well as a suspect in the assassination of Major General Yunis on July 28, 2011. He has also been identified as a suspect in connection with the assassination of Benghazi police chief, Faraj Drissi on Nov. 20, 2012. He was the commander of the Abu Obeida Bin al-Jarrah brigade, which was disbanded after 9/11. He has been linked as well to Ansar al-Sharia. He is now living freely in Benghazi and has never been interviewed by U.S. investigators. On Jan. 6, he was the target of an unsuccessful assassination. Benghazi Attack Precursor to Al-Qaeda/Muslim Brotherhood Coup On September 12, Mahmoud Jibril was indeed defeated in his quest to become Prime Minister by Mustafa Abushagur by two votes, and the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Alwad al Barasi, became deputy prime minister. When Abushagur failed to gain approval for his proposed cabinet, he was voted out as Prime Minister on Oct. 7. He was replaced by Ali Zeidan whose proposed cabinet was approved on Oct. 31. Half of the cabinet members are now members of the National Forces Alliance and half selected by the Muslim Brotherhood Justice and Construction Party. Thus, the Muslim Brotherhood

has succeeded in gaining a major foothold in the new government of Libya just as it has done in Egypt and Tunisia and threatens to do elsewhere due to the deliberate policy of the Obama Administration, the British Empire, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. On September 24, Fawzi Bukatif, commander of the February 17 Brigade, and Ismail al-Sallabi, founder of the February 17 Brigade and also head of the alSahati Brigade, were relieved of their commands and replaced by Army colonels. On November 20, Colonel Faraj Drissi, the Benghazi security chief appointed after the attack on the U.S. Benghazi mission, was assassinated outside of his home. On Dec. 16 a senior police source informed the Libya Herald that the suspected assassin, who had been detained by police, identified seven prominent Islamists in connection with the assassination and related attacks. The most significant among these are: Sufyan ben Qumu, the head of Ansar alSharia, Rafallah al-Sahati chiefs Mohammed al-Garabi and Ismael al-Sallabi and Obeida militia chief Ahmed Bukatela. Libyas new Interior Minister, Ashour Shuwail, stepped in on Dec. 20 to deny that those named, including Ismail al-Sallabi and the group Ansar Al-Sharia, were being sought in relation to the events in Benghazi. Al-Garabi denied any involvement and Ismael alSallabi, speaking from Turkey, also claimed innocence. Meanwhile, in the capital city of Tripoli, the Libyan military tribunal investigating the assassination of General Abdel Fattah Younis near the city of Benghazi on July 28, 2011, issued a summons to former National Transitional Council (NTC) leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil, an ally of Belhadj. Tripoli militia forces immediately blocked roads for three days to protest the courts summoning of Jalil. As a result, the tribunal announced that it was abandoning its inquiry. On January 2, 2013, the acting head of the criminal investigation department in Benghazi, Captain Abdelsalam al-Mahdawi, was abducted. He was seized at gunpoint as he was reportedly about to name suspects in the murder of former Benghazi police chief Faraj al-Drissi. It has since been reported that he was murdered. On January 3, 2013, the President of Libya, Mohammet Magarief, survived an assassination attempt in a hotel in the southern oasis of Sabha where he was then staying. The grip of the LIFG on the government of Libya was then strengthened on January 11 when Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan appointed the deputy emir of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Khalid al-Sharif, as the deputy minister

of defense of Libya. When the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001, Khalid al Sharif escaped Afghanistan to Pakistan, where he remained until 2003. In 2003 he was captured in Pakistan and handed over to the US which later transferred him to Libya in 2005. He was released with Belhadj and others on March 23, 2010 but re-imprisoned by Qaddafi once the revolution began. After the liberation of Tripoli by Belhadj he began working with the Tripoli military council and then went on to form the National Guard, which according to the Libya Herald is involved directly with the Border Guard, patrolling the borders and providing security to oil installations. It also helps the Judicial Police in interrogations and supervising many prisons. On January 19, there was an attempted assassination of Libyas Minister of Defense, Mohammed Mahmoud al Bargati, as he was leaving the airport in Tobruk, eastern Libya. Tobruk has been identified as an area controlled by smugglers of arms across the Egyptian-Libya border. On January 20, the Tripoli Post ran a column proposing that all of the armed militia could be integrated into the National Guard, the commander of which is Khalid al-Sharif. Both the Globe and Mail and the Washington Post reported on Feb. 15 and Feb. 16 respectively that in January an agreement was reached between the alQaeda-linked militias in Benghazi apparently in coordination with the Ministries of the Interior and Defense to reestablish their control over Benghazi. Ansar al-Sharia is now in charge of the western entrance to the city and has resumed guarding two hospitals. Ismail al-Sallabi, who was sacked by the Libyan government on Sept. 24, 2012, is now a senior leader of Libya Shield. His Rafallah al-Sahati brigade has been renamed Libyan Shield 3 and has resumed command of checkpoints on the citys perimeter under the command of the Defense Ministry. An article by John Rosenthal on May 3, 2013 published by Newsmax further documents the relationship between the February 17 Brigade, Ansar al-Sharia and Jabhat al Nusra, the al-Qaeda group in Syria supported by Saudi Arabia. The article reports that the Facebook page of the February 17 Brigade displayed the black flag of al-Qaeda at the June 7, 2012 demonstration in Benghazi which was reported in the Library of Congress report. One entry on the site dated Jan. 29, 2013 suggests that Ansar al-Sharia is the target of a treacherous plot to get the brigade blamed for various attacks and assassination attempts. Another dated Jan. 20, 2013 announces that Ansar alSharia has begun guarding the western gate of Benghazi in the service of our religion and of the Libyan people. A March 2, 2013 posting features a graphic celebrating Jabhat al-Nusra.

According to an article published in the Daily Beast on Feb. 26 entitled "Libyan Government Turns to Ansar Al-Sharia Militia for Crime-Fighting Help," the Libyan government paid the assassins of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens before 9/11 2012 and has recently resumed making those payments. As Daily Beast reporter Jamie Dettmer reveals: "Government payments to Ansar al-Sharia militiamen also have been resumed and are made through other Benghazi brigades, including the 17th of February brigade, according to sources in the General National Congress, Libya's new Parliament." What this means is that the 17th of February brigade which was hired by the Obama Administration to protect the U.S. mission in Benghazi, is paying Ansar al-Sharia, the militia, which conducted the attack on the mission, with funds provided by the Libyan Ministry of Defense. The Deputy Minister of Defense is now of course Khalid al-Sharif, formerly the deputy emir of the LIFG. Dettmer's source for this information is none other than Abd al-Wahhab Muhammad Qaid, who is now the chairman of the national security committee of the General National Congress (Daily Beast Feb. 20), having been elected to the Libyan Parliament on the electoral slate of the Hzbal Umma al Wasat, the party created by Sami al-Saadi. (Khalid al-Sharif is also a member of this party). Abd al-Wahhab Muhammad Qaid is also the head of the National border guard for Southern Libya. On March 5, armed militia took over the meeting of the GNC in an attempt to force those present to pass the Political Isolation Law. A second unsuccessful assassination attempt was made against President Magariaf as he left the building. The proposed law is backed by Abdelhakim Belhadj, Abd al-Wahhab Muhammad Qaid and Sami al-Saadi. If passed, it would prevent anyone who served in the Qaddafi regime in the last 30 years from serving in the postQaddafi government for 10 years. If the law were to pass Magarief and Zeidan would be ousted along with Jabril and about one-third of the General National Council. On Sunday, May 5, the GNC is scheduled to vote on the Political Isolation Law. Since Sunday April 28, armed militia have surrounded the Foreign Affairs Ministry. They have also barricaded the Justice Ministry. VOA news reports that on May 2, trucks from the Libyan Shield Force, a grouping of militias thats supposed to take its orders from the Defense Ministry, showed up outside the Foreign Ministry and joined the blockade. The deputy minister of defense is Khalid al-Sharif, Wissam bin Hamid is head of Libya Shield and Ismail al-Sallabi is head of Libya Shield 3.

The Hostage-Taking In Algeria On January 16, al Qaeda in Magreb launched a major terrorist attack in Algeria. This operation is directly related to Obamas alliance with al-Qaeda in Libya. First, as reported above, weapons provided by Qatar with Obamas approval to Belhadj and the LIFG have been supplied to al Qaeda in Mali. Second, the leader of the hostage-taking in Algeria is Mokhtar bel Mokhtar, an Algerian who fought against the Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s. As reported above, the Library of Congress reports that in March 2012, Wisam bin Hamid, the leader of Libya Shield, whom a Palestinian newspaper identified as the leader of al-Qaeda in Libya, held an al-Qaeda-type demonstration in the city of Sirt. The same newspaper reported that Mokhtar bel Mokhtar, the leader of AQIM in the Sahara, attended the parade as the honored guest of Wisam. Thus, the leader of the Algerian terrorist action is a known ally of the individual who heads Libya Shield, a group which the Obama administration continues to rely upon for security in Benghazi despite its complicity in the assassination of our ambassador and three other Americans. On March 5 CNN reported that a phone call was made from the site of the terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi to Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a senior leader of Al Qaeda in Magreb. The caller expressed congratulations for the terrorist attack. CNN reports the following: "Belmokhtar was one of several leading militants based in Mali who spent time in Libya in the aftermath of Moammar Gadhafi's overthrow, developing relationships with militant Islamist brigades and buying weapons with the proceeds of smuggling and kidnapping operations. According to sources in direct contact with Western intelligence agencies, Belmokhtar was in Libya for four months from December 2011. They say his visit was facilitated by the leader of a radical Islamist militia with influence in Benghazi and the East." On January 24, the New York Times reported that a senior Algerian official said that several Egyptian members of the squad of militants that lay bloody siege to an Algerian gas complex last week also took part in the deadly attack on the United States Mission in Libya in September. On January 19, the Tripoli Post ran a story entitled: Terrorists Who Attacked Algerian Gas Complex May Have Been Trained in Libya, in which they report, A US official said that the hostage-takers appeared to have crossed the Libyan border to carry out the attack. The article further reports that there are three camps in the desert town of Sabha, Libya and that it was highly possible that these camps were connected to the attack. The Libya Herald ran an article entitled: Terrorist source claims Libyan connection with In Amenas

attack, in which they report that the terrorists did indeed have support from Libya. On January 24, several European governments urged their citizens to evacuate Benghazi in response to what the U.K. described as a specific and imminent threat to Westerners. The Libyan press indicated that sources said the threat existed of an attack on a Libyan oil field similar to the attack which had just occurred in Algeria. On Feb. 18, Algerian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ammar Ballani, declared Abdel Hakim Belhadj persona non grata in Algeria. Arabic media sources such as Al-Arabiya TV and French-language Algerian media such as TSAAlgerie.com quoted an Algerian security source who said the Algerian government has definite information that Belhadj had prior knowledge of the attack on the gas production facility in In Amenas. The source also said that Belhadj had attempted to enter Algeria in December 2012 in order to negotiate a deal with Algerian authorities in which Algeria would strengthen his influence in Libya in exchange for his agreement to prevent arms traffic from Libya to Algeria. Algeria refused to let him into the country due to his terrorist connections.

What Must Be Done

President Obama swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, as did every member of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Obama has broken that oath by supporting the enemies of the U.S. Constitution. The issue is the policy of the Obama administration which contributed to causing the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others in Benghazi, and if continued in respect to Syria, threatens to bring the world to the brink of thermonuclear war. On Wednesday, May 8, 2013, the House Oversight Committee will hold hearings on Benghazi. The hearing promises to be explosive as a number of whistleblowers are expected to testify. At the same time, as of April 26, 2013 a total of 129 Congressmen have signed on as cosponsors of Rep. Frank Wolfs H. Res. 36 calling for the creation of a select committee to get to the bottom of the Benghazi 9/11/12 attacks. Whether the investigation is conducted by standing committees or by a select committee what is needed is a thorough airing of the ongoing alliance between the Obama White House and al-Qaeda as mediated by Saudi Arabia. Given the evidence that Saudi Arabia was involved in funding and supporting both

9/11/01 and 9/11/12, it is also necessary that the 28 page chapter of the Joint Congressional Inquiry on the Saudi involvement in 9/11/01 be declassified and that a 9/11 Review Commission be initiated as provided for in the Defense Authorization continuing resolution signed into law on March 26. What makes this particularly urgent is that the al-Qaeda forces Obama allied with in Libya, who then attacked our mission in Benghazi, are on the verge of a coup detat in Libya. If the campaign to increase aid to the al-Qaeda dominated opposition in Syria also proceeds, the British Empire, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and their stooge Obama may very well push the world to the edge of a thermonuclear war with Russia and China. The crimes of Obama of failing to provide sufficient security to the mission prior to the attack, not responding after and during the attack by providing military backup, and then lying to the American people and the world afterwards, are the result of the underlying policy. These crimes and the lies of the Obama Administrations talking points, which were designed to cover them up, are a result of the underlying crime of having allied with known enemies of the United States of America. As RSO officer Eric Nordstrom testified before the House Oversight Committee in October, In my view, the Taliban is inside the building. The killings of the Ambassador and three other Americans were carried out by the very terrorists Obama and his masters intentionally supported to overthrow Qaddafi, and are supporting now to overthrow Assad. The designation of al-Nusra in Syria as a terrorist organization is just a fig leaf. As reported in the September 11 memo sent by Ambassador Stevens to Washington, Wisam bin Hamid and al-Garabi told U.S. officials on Sept. 9 fluid relationships and blurry lines define membership in the brigades in Benghazi. They themselves were members of multiple brigades, they said. The same is true in Syria. As this fact sheet conclusively demonstrates to be the case in Libya, and as the Syrian opposition itself has affirmed in respect to Syria by proclaiming that they are all al-Nusra, the entire Syrian opposition is dominated by al-Qaeda. The individual in Saudi Arabia most prominently supporting Al-Qaeda in Syria is Saudi Minister of Intelligence Prince Bandar bin Sultan. As Saudi Ambassador to the United States it was also Bandar at an earlier time whose wife Haifa, funneled money to a Saudi intelligence agent in San Diego who assisted the first two 9/11 hijackers to arrive in the U.S. Bandar was head of the Saudi Arabian National Security Council from 2005 until his appointment as intelligence chief in July 2012. His role in both 9/11/01 and 9/11/12 needs to be investigated.

As this fact sheet conclusively establishes, Obama is in bed with al-Qaeda. Petraeus was forced to resign for less. Obama must be forced to resign or be impeached now.

Policy questions to be asked by Congressional investigators:

1. According to the hacked Feb. 16, 2013 memo from Sidney Blumenthal to Hillary Clinton, French Intelligence told Algerian intelligence that the Benghazi terrorist attack was funded by wealthy Sunni Islamists from Saudi Arabia. According to Algerian intelligence, Libyan intelligence gave them the same information. Saudi Arabia is suspected of responsibility for the original 9/11 attack on the U.S., but just as there has been a cover-up of Benghazi, the Saudi role in 9/11/2001 has been covered up through classification of the 28 page chapter of the report of the Joint Congressional Inquiry on Saudi involvement. Unless this cover-up ends, more terrorist events like Benghazi and the Boston Marathon are likely to occur. Why was this 28 page chapter classified? Why has Obama not fulfilled his promise to the families of 9/11 victims to declassify it? Shouldnt it be immediately declassified given charges that Saudis also funded Benghazi? Have we contacted French, Algerian and Libyan intelligence to obtain their intelligence on the Saudi funding of Benghazi? Who were the wealthy Sunni Islamists from Saudi Arabia? Were they a cut-out for Prince Bandar? 2. According to the Independent on March 7, 2011, the Obama administration asked Saudi Arabia to provide weapons to the Benghazi opposition to Qaddafi. It is known that both Qatar and the U.A.E did so. This is reported by the United Nations. What was the response of Saudi Arabia to this request? What was the involvement of Prince Bandar, who then headed the Saudi National Security Council? Did Saudi Arabia provide weapons and ammunition directly or indirectly through Qatar and the U.A.E. to the opposition? 3. The LIFG was listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the U.S. State Department, the UN Security Council and the UK Home Office before it officially disbanded in February 2011 and merely renamed itself the Libyan Islamic Movement for Change. In 2007 Al-Qaeda announced the merger of AlQaeda and the LIFG. There are numerous links between the LIFG and 9/11/2001 known to the U.S. from interrogations in Guantanamo. The sole suspect currently in custody is a member of al-Qaeda and of the LIFG. How does the Obama administration justify allying with leading members of the LIFG in Libya? Did Obama authorize the decision to work with the LIFG? Given the U.S. State Department designation of the LIFG as a FTO did anyone in the White House or the State Department object to this policy? Why has the

Obama administration not designated the Libyan Islamic Movement for Change as a FTO? 4.The emir of the LIFG Abdel Hakim Belhadj fought with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and then moved with him to Sudan in 1992. He ran training camps for Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in the late 1990s. He fled Kabul in 2001 and went with Osam bin Laden to Tora Bora. He was listed as a co-conspirator in the 2004 Madrid bombings. In Libya he received weapons from Qatar approved by Obama. He became the military commander of the Tripoli Military Council in August 2011 and was responsible for security at all foreign embassies. He became a member of the Supreme Security Committee in September 2011. Why did we ally with a known terrorist to overthrow Qaddafi? Why did we allow Qatar to provide him with weapons, bypassing the Transitional National Council? Did the Obama administration protest his becoming responsible for security for all foreign embassies? Is he indeed the current head of domestic security in Libya as stated by Mathieu Pellerin, head of the Paris-based CISCA. 5.General Yunis, the military commander of the TNC, was assassinated on July 28, 2011. The assassination paved the way for Belhadj to become the military commander of the Tripoli Military Council. A deputy of Yunis, Mohammed Agoury, told Associated Press that the February 17 Brigade was behind the assassination. Other sources have said that Ansar al-Sharia was responsible. Why did the Obama Administration hire the February 17th Brigade to provide security in Benghazi under these circumstances? 6. After Belhadj became head of the Tripoli Military Council he and Ismael alSallabi traveled with TNC Chairman Jalil to Qatar to meet with NATO officials and financiers of the revolution. Who attended this meeting? Why did NATO choose to meet with known terrorists? Who authorized this meeting? Who were the financiers? 7.Bin Qumu is head of Ansar al-Sharia. Ansar al-Sharia took credit for the attack on the U.S. Mission on its own Facebook page. The Senate Homeland Security committee report says individuals affiliated with Ansar al-Sharia were allegedly involved in storming the Tunisian consulate in Benghazi on June 18, 2012. Bin Qumu is known to be a member of the LIFG and Al-Qaeda and was assessed to be a MEDIUM to HIGH risk to U.S. interests. He received a monthly stipend from one of the financiers of the original 9/11. He began training rebel forces in Derna in April of 2011. What actions did the Obama administration take against him and Ansar al-Sharia before Sept. 11? Why is Ansar al-Sharia not listed as a FTO?

8. U.S. officials met with Wisam bin Hamid and Muhammad Al-Garabi on Sept. 9. The Library of Congress reports that Wisam bin Hamid is possibly the leader of al-Qaeda in Libya. He leads Libya Shield, which is the same as Free Libya. He hosted a demonstration in Sirte in March 2012 attended by the head of Al-Qaeda in Magreb, Mokhtar Bel Mokhtar, as his honored guest. Mokhtar Bel Mokhtar has been identified as the leader of the hostage-taking event which took place beginning Jan. 13 at a British Petroleum gas field in Algeria. Bin Hamid also participated in another rally in Benghazi with other militias on June 7-8, 2012. The Library of Congress reports that these militias probably make up the bulk of al-Qaedas network in Libya. Why did U.S. officials meet with him? Which officials met with him? Why did we rely on Libya Shield for security in Benghazi? On Nov. 28 the New York Times reported that US investigators of the Benghazi terrorist attack have been escorted by Mr. Hamid. Why do we continue to rely on Wisam bin Hamid and Libya Shield for security while investigating a crime in which Wisam bin Hamid must be a suspect? 9. The Supreme Security Committee police car assigned to the mission left the scene of the terrorist attack just as it began. An individual wearing a SSC police uniform took photos of the mission on the morning of the attack. On Sept. 12 Wanis al-Sharif, deputy interior minister for Eastern Libya in charge of the SSC in Benghazi and a senior leader of the LIFG spread disinformation about the terrorist attack. On September 17 he was sacked by his own government. And yet until at least 2 months later Wanis al-Sharif had defied the order and refused to step down. Why was Wanis al-Sharif sacked? Why was he nonetheless still in his office until at least mid-November? Since he continues to be referred to as a top security official in Benghazi by the media, what is his current status? What are we doing to identify the individual who took photos? Have we interviewed al-Sharif to find out why he lied and why he did not provide a marked police car outside the mission 24/7? Have we interviewed the driver who left the scene? As deputy interior minister for eastern Libya what is his involvement in running weapons to al-Qaeda in Syria and Mali? 10. The Senate Homeland Security Committee report indicates that a current and a former employee of Blue Mountain were suspects in the bombing of the mission on April 6, 2012. The ARB report says that a Blue Mountain guard may have left the gate to the mission open and had done so on a previous occasion. Why did we continue to employ Blue Mountain? 11. The February 17th Brigade was formed by Ismael al-Sallabi. Belhadj was in Benghazi in April 2011 to help form the brigade. According to the Senate Homeland Security Committee report, the Feb. 17th Brigade was involved in

extrajudicial detentions of U.S. diplomatic personnel prior to Sept. 11. On Sept. 11, according to the ARB the Feb. 17th Brigade guards at the mission failed to notify the Feb. 17th Brigade barracks. According to the Senate Homeland Security Committee the February 17th Brigade failed to respond to two calls for assistance from the CIA annex. On September 24, Ismael alSallabi and Fawzi Bukatif the founder and commander of the February 17th Brigade, were sacked by the Libyan government. On Feb. 16, 2013, the Washington Post reported that al-Sallabi is now a senior member of Libya Shield 3. The Daily Beast reports that the Ministry of Defense of Libya has resumed paying Ansar al-Sharia through the February 17th Brigade. That means that before 9/11/2012, the killers of Ambassador Stevens and others were being paid by the defenders of the mission. Why did we rely on the Feb. 17th Brigade for security in the first place, given that it was created by known LIFG operatives? Why did we continue to employ the Feb. 17th Brigade after they conducted extrajudicial detentions and after their loyalties were called into question? Why were al-Sallabi and Bukatif sacked? Why is al-Sallabi now working with Libya Shield under the Defense Ministry? Why is the February 17th Brigade currently paying Ansar al-Sharia? 12. In October 2011, the Burhane Ghalioun, head of the Syrian National Council and Jelil, the head of the Libyan Transitional National Council signed agreement in which Libya agreed to assist in the overthrow of the Syrian government of Assad. Belhadj traveled to Turkey to meet with the Syrian Free Army in November 2011 to provide money, weapons and fighters to overthrow the Syrian government. On Dec. 11, 2011, the October agreement was expanded in a meeting in Tripoli involving Jelil, Youssef Qaradhaoui Rached Ghannouchi, head of the Tunisian Muslim Brotherhood party, Ennahda, Hamad Jabber bin Jassim al Thani, the Foreign and Prime Minister of Qatar, the number two of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria and Abdelhakimn Belhadj. The agreement reached determined to arm and send fighters from Libya and Tunisia to Syria. What role did the Obama administration play in the October and December agreements? Did Obama know about Belhadjs trip to Turkey to meet the Free Syrian Army? Did Obama approve this trip? Did this trip result in the provision of weapons, personnel and training to the Free Syrian Army? 13. 600 LIFG fighters went to Syria in November 2011 led by al Harati, the deputy commander of the Tripoli Military Council under Belhadj. Who knew about and approved this deployment? 14. Belhadj and the LIFG are now providing weapons provided to them in violation of the UN arms embargo by Qatar and the UAE with the approval of Obama to Al-Qaeda in Syria and Mali. What is the role of the US and NATO in

facilitating this weapons flow? Why has the U.S. or NATO not intercepted these weapons, which in the case of Syria are transported to Turkey by ship? 15. It is reported that Ambassador Stevens opposed Belhadj becoming either Minister of Defense or Minister of the Interior in Libya. Is this true and if so, why? Did Ambassador Stevens in any way oppose the policy carried out by Belhadj of sending weapons to al-Qaeda in Syria and Mali? 16. The Libyan Interior Ministry official in charge of border control is Abd alWahhab Mohammad Qaid, a leading member of the LIFG whose brother, alQaeda leader Abu Yahya al-Libi, was killed in Pakistan in June 2012 by a U.S. drone attack. He is now the chairman of the national security committee of the Libyan Parliament. What contact does the Obama administration have with him about the transport of jihadists and weapons to and from Libya? What is his involvement in the events in Benghazi on Sept. 11 given the killing of his brother in June 2012, which some sources identify as a motivation for the attack? 17. Wisam bin Hamid and Muhammad al-Garabi told U.S. officials on Sept. 9 that they would not continue to provide security for the mission, if Jabril became prime minister. On September 12, one day after Sept. 11 Jabril was defeated. Now the Muslim Brotherhood controls nearly a half of the cabinet positions in Libya and the Muslim Brotherhood candidate for Prime Minister, Barasi, who was supported by them, is a deputy Prime Minister. Did the U.S. and Ambassador Stevens support the Jabril for Prime Minister in the General National Congress elections which took place Sept. 10-12? Did the Obama administration support this ascension of the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Libya? 18. The last meeting Ambassador Stevens had in Benghazi before the terrorist attack was with the Turkish ambassador. What was the purpose of Ambassador Stevens meeting with the Turkish ambassador in Benghazi just before the attack on Sept. 11? 19. The Accountability Review Board (ARB) report states that UK diplomatic personnel were in Benghazi on Sept. 11. The attack began immediately after UK security personnel left the U.S. mission. What was the purpose of this oneday visit and did they meet with Ambassador Stevens? 20. Besides the mission, the U.S. also maintained an annex in Benghazi run by the CIA. What was the purpose of the CIA annex in Benghazi? Why was the mission in Benghazi never formally notified to the Libyan government as reported by the ARB? Was it involved in support operations for supplying weapons or personnel to Syria?

21. Leading spokesmen for the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group stated that the attack on the mission in Benghazi on 9/11 was a spontaneous demonstration against an anti-Muslim video. Did the Obama administration tailor its talking points to protect its al-Qaeda assets in Libya who were responsible for the terrorist attack? 22. On January 11, Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan appointed the deputy emir of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Khalid al-Sharif, as the deputy minister of defense of Libya. Did the Obama administration protest this appointment of an individual who was the second in command of the alQaeda-allied LIFG? Is the U.S. military now working directly with Khalid alSharif in his position as deputy defense minister? 23. Khalid al-Sharif is also the head of the Libyan National Guard which is under the Ministry of Defense and involved directly with the Border Guard, patrolling the borders and providing security for Libyan oil installations. On January 24, the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands advised their citizens to leave Benghazi due to an imminent terrorist threat. The Libyan press reports that the threat is that of an attack on a Libyan oil field. Has the Obama administration demanded that Khalid al-Sharif be dismissed? If not, why not? What has the Obama administration done to prevent the Libyan militias from being consolidated in the National Guard under Khalid al-Sharifs control?