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Originally posted by wasaka
"Rogue" U.S. General Arrested for Ignoring 9/11 Bengzahi Stand-Down Order
Is an American General losing his job for trying to save the Americans besieged in Benghazi?
unspy.wordpress.com...
Africom commanding officer U.S. General Carter Ham, after being ordered to essentially surrender control of the situation to alleged Al Queda terrorists and let Americans on the ground die, made the unilateral decision to ignore orders from the Secretary of Defense and activated special operations teams at his disposal... According to reports times247.com... once the General went rogue he was arrested within minutes by his second in command and relieved of duty.
Sounds like the story line for Last Resort (the new TV series on ABC)
edit on 30-10-2012 by wasaka because: added HULU link to Last Resort
Originally posted by Destiny Of Souls
ATS is becoming pathetic.
It's no longer Deny Ignorance, it's "Deny Everything You Don't Agree With, Accept Anything That Does."
The fact that people actually believe this crap as soon as it hits from known biased sites is just sad. What the hell has happened to this place?
Originally posted by Zaphod58
reply to post by MsAphrodite
Except that all the evidence is that General Ham was never arrested, never detained, or hasn't been fired. He's continued in his role as AFRICOM since the incident happened. If he had been removed from command, then his replacement would have been in place within a week or two, at most. Instead, here it is the end of October, and he's still acting in the role as theater commander.
Yes, the administration lied, and there is a lot more to this than we have been told, but with regards to just this particular story, I'm calling BS.
Source
The issue was almost certainly a refusal to come in, guns blazing, into Benghazi, a Muslim city, for fear of destabilizing Eastern Libya and upsetting Muslims with an American show of force. The decision was made to rely on the Muslim Brotherhood’s Feb 17 Brigade to help evacuate the area, even though Ansar Al-Sharia, the militia leading the attack, was a splinter group of Feb 17 and serious questions remain about the complicity of Feb 17 personnel in the attack.
Benghazigate is now a focus, but it should be remembered that there have been countless Benghazigates in Afghanistan, where US forces were denied air and artillery support while under fire. That should be the real focus of this conversation. What happened in Benghazi is what has been going on in Afghanistan for some time. It’s the outcome of the Obama Administration’s CVE and Hearts and Minds program that puts Muslim sensibilities first and American lives last.
Originally posted by Destiny Of Souls
ATS is becoming pathetic.
It's no longer Deny Ignorance, it's "Deny Everything You Don't Agree With, Accept Anything That Does."
The fact that people actually believe this crap as soon as it hits from known biased sites is just sad. What the hell has happened to this place?
Originally posted by jefwane
Two flag officers being canned in the same geographic area in a short time span does seem incredibly unusual doesn't it. Could anyone repeat the name of the Navy Admiral relieved recently as well? I couldn't find it with the awesome search function here.
It is highly unusual for the Navy to replace a carrier strike group commander during its deployment.
The Navy did not reveal details of the allegations, citing only an accusation of "inappropriate leadership judgment" that arose during the strike group's deployment to the Middle East. Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Navy's chief spokesman, declined to discuss the investigation.
What we do know is that the New York Times — one of the most slavishly pro-Obama publications in the country — reported in an Oct. 14 article, “Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster.”
In short, it seems President Obama has been engaged in gun-walking on a massive scale. The effect has been to equip America’s enemies to wage jihad not only against regimes it once claimed were our friends, but inevitably against us and our allies as well. That would explain his administration’s desperate and now failing bid to mislead the voters through the serial deflections and bold face lies.
What cries out for further investigation — and debate in the remaining days of this presidential election — is whether this shipment was part of a larger covert Obama effort to transfer weapons to our enemies that could make the Iran-Contra scandal, to say nothing of Operation Fast and Furious, pale by comparison.