US Captures Benghazi Ringleader

News Pigeon wrote:Surprise.. surprise....no response!  

Outerlimits wrote:Do you REALLY  think we should congratulate Obama for a job well done?  What kind of fool do you have to be to believe any of this nonsense?

Outerlimits wrote:How'd they know it was the right guy? Did he have a movie poster on his wall of the Youtube Video that started the whole spontaneous protest?
 
            
 
I thought it was hilarious (and pathetic) on Tuesday when Obama State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki could not identify why it took two years to find the guy that was not hiding.

She said:  ” we did it as expeditiously as possible.”  
 
That must be the same expeditious manner in which we are scheduling appointments for veterans who need immediate healthcare treatment.
 
Dozens of media outlets where able to find the guy and interviewed him face to face…some even from HIS OWN HOUSE and we are supposed to believe it took all of our intelligence gathering agencies 2 years to find and apprehend  him?
 
We knew his name and address!!!
 
Do you REALLY  think we should congratulate Obama for a job well done?  What kind of fool do you have to be to believe any of this nonsense?

News Buzzard wrote:

Outerlimits wrote:Do you REALLY  think we should congratulate Obama for a job well done?  What kind of fool do you have to be to believe any of this nonsense?

I'm the "fool" who voted for the winner, not once, but twice !      

Outerlimits wrote:

News Buzzard wrote:

Outerlimits wrote:Do you REALLY  think we should congratulate Obama for a job well done?  What kind of fool do you have to be to believe any of this nonsense?

I'm the "fool" who voted for the winner, not once, but twice !      

At least you have the guts to admit to a mistake.     

WHL wrote: LOL, I was going to say I can't believe he admits it!

New Pigeon wrote:Are you aware of what an investigation entails? Would you have our guys just go grab someone they "thought might be the guy but then again"...???????
That would be something the knee-jerk Republicans might do.....

Outerlimits wrote:At least you have the guts to admit to a mistake.

Outerlimits wrote:

New Pigeon wrote:Are you aware of what an investigation entails? Would you have our guys just go grab someone they "thought might be the guy but then again"...???????
That would be something the knee-jerk Republicans might do.....

Maybe you should be the next State Depart Spokeswoman.  You just made up a slightly more plausible excuse Psaki was able to come up with.

News Buzzard wrote:The captured suspect said the video was part of the attack:

News Buzzard wrote:

Outerlimits wrote:Do you REALLY  think we should congratulate Obama for a job well done?  What kind of fool do you have to be to believe any of this nonsense?

I'm the "fool" who voted for the winner, not once, but twice !    

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. - Justice will soon be served for hundreds of Florida voters, after a man from Washington state admitted that he tried to keep local Republicans from turning out in the 2012 presidential election. That man could soon be headed to prison.

State and federal agencies first started looking into possible voter fraud in Palm Beach County in the fall of 2012.
http://www.wptv.com/news/region-c-palm-beach-county/west-palm-beach/seattle-man-admits-to-voter-fraud-intimidation-in-palm-beach-county

New Pigeon wrote: It's not an excuse, it's a fact! Remember the 500+ prisoners Bush had to release from Gitmo, they were poor farmers captured by mistake in the rush to prove his "manliness"...

News Buzzard wrote:"...In the end, Obama is the President and you are not..."

News Hawk wrote:

News Buzzard wrote:"...In the end, Obama is the President and you are not..."

For now.

News Buzzard wrote:"...My vote wasn't fraudulent and I'm glad I voted for President Obama..."

Washington—Sunni extremists in Iraq have occupied what was once Saddam Hussein's premier chemical-weapons production facility, a complex that still contains a stockpile of old weapons, State Department and other U.S. government officials said.

"We remain concerned about the seizure of any military site by the ISIL," Jen Psaki, the State Department spokeswoman, said in a written statement. "We do not believe that the complex contains CW materials of military value and it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to safely move the materials."

The takeover underscores the chaos gripping Iraq and the possibility that the growing Sunni rebellion could further destabilize the Middle East. Not lost on U.S. government and military officials is the irony that the latest chapter in a war designed to strip Iraq of chemical weapons could see radical Sunni extremists take control of that same stockpile.

The rise of ISIS has reignited the debate about the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the Bush administration and the 2011 decision by the Obama administration to withdraw remaining military forces from the country. The takeover of a chemical weapons stockpile—even if the weapons are useless—seems likely to further intensify those debates.

Al-Iraqiya TV is full of patriotic programming and ads as the Iraqi Army struggles to counter an ISIS offensive. One TV ad portrays ISIS as a snake-handling ghoul. Via The Foreign Bureau, WSJ's global news update.

During the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, Hussein used the Muthanna complex to make chemical weapons, including sarin, mustard gas, and VX (a nerve agent), according the Iraq Study Group, which conducted the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in the aftermath of the war.

The Iraq Study group did find chemical munitions at Muthanna but determined that inspections by United Nations Special Commission, or Unscom, had ensured the facility was dismantled and remaining chemical stocks militarily useless and sealed in bunkers.

"Two wars, sanctions and Unscom oversight reduced Iraqi's premier production facility to a stockpile of old damaged and contaminated chemical munitions (sealed in bunkers), a wasteland full of destroyed chemical munitions, razed structures, and unusable war-ravaged facilities," the Iraq Study Group's 2004 report concluded.

The Muthanna complex is near Lake Tharthar, roughly 45 miles northwest of Baghdad, an area now firmly in control of the Sunni rebels. ISIS has taken control of most of Anbar province as well as Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city.

Military officials said the U.S. was well aware of the Muthanna stockpile and wouldn't have left it there if it posed a military threat. Still, when the U.S. pulled out of Iraq, it didn't anticipate a large swath of the country, including numerous military bases, would be overrun by radical Sunni militants. One official said that if the U.S. had known the Iraqi government would lose control so soon, it might not have left the old chemical weapons in place.

"The only people who would likely be harmed by these chemical materials would be the people who tried to use or move them," said a military official.

ISIS military gains have been aided by other Sunni groups including Baathists and other former loyalists to Hussein. Officers in Hussein's army have also taken leadership roles in the rebellion. Some of those men may have some working knowledge of the use of chemical weapons from the Iran-Iraq war.

Write to Julian E. Barnes at julian.barnes@wsj.com