HAS ANYONE ON TBP READ THE ACCOUNTS CIRCULATING ON THE INTERNET SINCE AT LEAST SEPTEMBER 17 THAT SLAIN U.S. AMBASSADOR TO LIBYA, CHRISTOPHER STEVENS, WAS GAY? ANYONE? ME, NEITHER. YET IT’S OUT THERE. AS YOU READ THIS ACCOUNT FROM WORLD NET DAILY, KEEP IN MIND, IF IT’S TRUE, HOW ARROGANT AND STUPID OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS BECOME …. SENDING A HOMOSEXUAL AMBASSADOR INTO A RADICAL MUSLIM COUNTRY IN THE MIDST OF INTERNAL STRIFE DOMINATED BY MUSLIM EXTREMISTS WHO ARE MORE THAN WILLING TO KILL, NOT JUST IMPRISON, GAYS. IF THERE IS ANY TRACTION TO THIS STORY, YOU ARE READING WHAT AMOUNTS TO A GOVERNMENT-MANDATED DEATH SENTENCE TO AN AMERICAN WHO PLEADED WITH HIS SUPERIORS FOR INCREASED SECURITY PROTECTION AND GOT A RESOUNDING NO. RIP, CHRIS. YOU SERVED WELL, AND YOU SERVED VALIANTLY.
from World Net Daily……
“Did President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton send a gay ambassador to Muslim-majority Libya, where homosexual behavior is a crime punishable by imprisonment?
Believing the “Arab Spring” countries would be encouraged to embrace democracy through left-leaning diplomats dedicated to understanding and dialoguing with Muslim communities, did a State Department under Secretary Clinton that refused to establish rules of engagement providing embassy personnel Marine Corps protection take the additional risk of placing a gay ambassador in Muslim countries?
The question comes amid claims in the diplomatic community that J. Christopher Stevens — the U.S. ambassador to Libya brutally murdered on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — was homosexual.
The question is worth serious exploration, even if Stevens’ sexuality cannot be determined with certainty, because U.S. government Foreign Service agencies are actively recruiting from the homosexual community for diplomatic assignments overseas, including in the Middle East. The recruitment derives from a larger policy decision Obama and Clinton have made to confront discrimination against homosexuals globally, even in Muslim countries.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration insists on attributing the deadly attack in Libya and the violent protests throughout the Muslim world as solely a reaction to a 14-minute movie trailer posted on the Internet, without acknowledging that the movie, “Innocence of Muslims,” depicts the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, as a pedophile and a homosexual.
A Washington Post obituary noted Stevens never married and had no children. On a homosexual-rights blog called The New Civil Rights Movement, Jean Ann Esselink, who describes herself as “a straight friend to the gay community,” explored rumors Stevens was “gay.” She said she had heard the rumors and thought that, if true, Stevens’ story would make a good feature for the website. She concluded: “But the truth is, I cannot tell you if Chris was gay. I can only tell you that he was a 52-year-old man without wife or child, at least one he claimed in public.” Esselink noted the phone call Clinton made to inform his next of kin of his death went to his sister, a Seattle doctor. “I could not find a single statement made by Chris himself, about any LGBT issue,” Esselink wrote. “Upon reflection, I suspect it is the kind of briar patch topic that Foreign Service officials avoid.” However, Kevin DuJan, the openly homosexual founder of HillBuzz.org, told WND he spoke with two sources in Chicago diplomatic circles who said Stevens was homosexual.
In shocking developments from the Middle East, it seems the ragheads don’t actually love us. After propping up evil dictators for decades in countries across the Middle East with hundreds of billions in aid and weapons, our fake support for their overthrow seems to have backfired. The CIA and Ron Paul refer to this as BLOWBACK. When a country meddles in the affairs of other countries and attempts to control the people of that country through their use of military power, the people of that country tend not to appreciate our form of benevolent democracy. Does anyone know who the good guys and bad guys are in Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan or Pakistan? If you say you do, then you are lying. The entire Middle East is a giant clusterfuck sitting on top of OUR OIL. It’s a powder keg of hate, religious extremism, dictators, weapons, and American meddling. We’ve been fucking with these people since the 1950s. Now we are getting the blowback. The non-thinking masses will be easily convinced that we must attack someone to restore order. Nothing like starting World War III in the midst of a Greater Depression as we add $3.8 billion per day to the National Debt. I’m sure the rising food prices and food shortages that have already begun will calm the masses in the Middle East.
Blow back is a bitch.
Clashes intensify near US embassy in Cairo |
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Demonstrators angry over anti-Muslim video hurl stones at police, as US braces for more protests after Friday prayers.
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Protesters in Egypt, angry at a video they say insults Prophet Mohammad, have hurled stones on a police force that prevented them from marching towards the US embassy in Cairo.
On Friday, police in riot gear fired tear gas and threw stones back at the demonstrators. A burnt-out car was overturned in the middle of the street that leads to the fortified embassy from Tahrir Square.
Police had tried to clear the Square on Friday ahead of a nationwide protest called by the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s most influential group. The Brotherhood propelled President Mohamed Mursi to power after popular protests that toppled president Hosni Mubarak last year and ushered in the first democratic elections in decades.
Shortly after police cleared Tahrir, however, the demonstrators returned.
The Egyptian authorities had erected large concrete barriers to block the route to the embassy.
“Before the police, we were attacked by Obama,” shouted one demonstrator, blaming US President Barack Obama and the US government for insulting the Prophet.
One banner held aloft by demonstrators read: “It is the duty of all Muslims and Christians to kill Morris Sadek and Sam Bacile and everyone who participated in the film.”
Several demonstrators waved green and black flags with Islamic verses on them.
Protests feared
US anticipated more protests after Friday prayers amid wave of violent demonstrations over anti-Muslim video that has spanned several countries.
The White House said on Thursday that it was prepared for more protests, but stressed that any violence would be unjustified.
“It is important to note that as these protests are taking place in different countries around the world, responding to the movie, that Friday, tomorrow, has historically been a day when there are protests in the Muslim world,” Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, told reporters in Colorado.
“And we are watching very closely for developments that could lead to more protests. We anticipate that they may continue.”
The US has put all of its diplomatic missions overseas on high alert after violent protests raged in parts of the Muslim world particularly Middle East and North Africa.
Protests have also spread to the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, as well as Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Israel and the Gaza Strip. And there have been demonstrations in Sudan and Tunisia.
‘Provoke rage’
On Thursday, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the US secretary of state, delivered an explicit denunciation of the video.
“The United States government had absolutely nothing to do with this video,” she said before a meeting with the foreign minister of Morocco at the State Department. “We absolutely reject its content and message.”
“To us, to me personally, this video is disgusting and reprehensible,” Clinton said. “It appears to have a deeply cynical purpose: to denigrate a great religion and to provoke rage.”
However, Clinton stressed that no matter how offensive it was, the film could not be used as an excuse for violence like that seen in Egypt and in Yemen, where demonstrators tried to storm the embassy compound in Sanaa on Thursday.
Egypt’s ruling Muslim Brotherhood has called for demonstrations after Friday prayers, as did authorities in Iran and the Gaza strip.
At least four people were killed in protests in the Yemeni capital.
There is no justification, none at all, for responding to this video with violence,” Clinton said.
“We condemn the violence that has resulted in the strongest terms. … It is especially wrong for violence to be directed against diplomatic missions. These are places whose very purpose is peaceful: to promote better understanding across countries and cultures.”
She then reminded foreign governments that they have a responsibility to protect embassies as the US embassy in Cairo remained under siege.
Obama vows
On Tuesday, angry demonstrations raided US embassy in Benghazi in which at least 14 people were killed, including the US ambassador Chris Stevens.
US officials said they suspected that the attack at the Benghazi consulate, which had also been the target of an unsuccessful attack in June, may have been only tangentially related to the film.
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They also stressed there had been no advance warning or intelligence to suggest a threat in Libya that would warrant boosting security, even on the 11th anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.
“As we did with all of our missions overseas, in advance of the September 11 anniversary and as we do every year, we did evaluate the threat stream and we determined that the security at Benghazi was appropriate for what we knew,” Victoria Nuland, a State Department spokeswoman, said.
President Barack Obama also pledged that the perpetrators would be punished.
“To all those who would do us harm: No act of terror will go unpunished. I will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world. No act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America.”
Libyan officials have arrested an unspecified number of people suspected of taking part in the attack and they were closely monitoring others to see whether they are linked to a group.
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, on Thursday denounced the violence, and also the provocative video.
“Nothing justifies such killings and attacks,” Ban said in a statement, adding that he condemns “the hateful film that appears to have been deliberately designed to sow bigotry and bloodshed”.
Looks like another feather in our foreign diplomacy cap. I thought Libya would turn into another democratic success story - like Iraq and Afghanistan. It all seemed so easy when we were just launching cruise missiles. I guess those Libyans don’t properly appreciate their U.S. friends. How many U.S. amabassadors to Libya were murdered during the Gadaffi regime?
Fourth Turnings never decrease in intensity. Is this another Archduke Ferdinand moment?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/12/2012 06:49 -0400
Yesterday it was the US embassy in Egypt which fell victim to rioting as angry protestors stormed the building and replaced the US flag with a black one. Today, the violence shifts to Libya where the US ambassador and three staffers was just killed after an attack over a US-produced filmed deemed insulting to Muslims. Perhaps it is time for the US to replace one “pro-democracy” regime with another. From Reuters: “The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on their car, a Libyan official said, as they were rushed from a consular building stormed by militants denouncing a U.S.-made film insulting the Prophet Mohammad.” Number of US ambasadors to Libya killed under Gadaffi’s regime? Zero.
More:
The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on their car, a Libyan official said, as they were rushed from a consular building stormed by militants denouncing a U.S.-made film insulting the Prophet Mohammad.
Gunmen had attacked and burned the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi, a centre of last year’s uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, late on Tuesday evening, killing one U.S. consular official. The building was evacuated.
The Libyan official said the ambassador, Christopher Stevens, was being driven from the consulate building to a safer location when gunmen opened fire.
“The American ambassador and three staff members were killed when gunmen fired rockets at them,” the official in Benghazi told Reuters.
There was no immediate comment from the State Department in Washington. U.S. ambassadors in such volatile countries are accompanied by tight security, usually travelling in well-protected convoys. Security officials will be considering whether the two attacks were coordinated.
Libyan deputy prime minister Mustafa Abu Shagour condemned the killing of the U.S. diplomats as a cowardly act.
The consular official had died after clashes between Libyan security forces and Islamist militants around the consulate building. Looters raided the empty compound and some onlookers took pictures after calm returned.
In neighbouring Egypt, demonstrators had torn down an American flag and burned it during the protest. Some tried to raise a black flag with the words “There is no God but God, and Mohammad is his messenger”, a Reuters witness said.
From Al Jazeera:
The US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, has died from smoke inhalation in an attack on the US consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, the country’s interior ministry and security sources have said.
An armed mob attacked and set fire to the building in a protest against an amateur film deemed offensive to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, after similar protests in Egypt’s capital.
The ambassador was paying a short visit to Benghazi when the consulate came under attack on Tuesday night, Al Jazeera’s Suleiman El-Dressi reported from the eastern Libyan city.
He died of suffocation during the attack, along with two US security personnel who were accompanying him, security sources told Al Jazeera. Another consulate employee, whose nationality could not immediately be confirmed, was also killed.
Two other staffers were injured, Idrissi reported. The deaths were confirmed by Wanis al-Sharif, the Libyan deputy interior minister, to the AFP news agency.
Mustafa Abu Shagur, the Libyan deputy prime minister, condemned the “cowardly act of attacking the US consulate and the killing of [the ambassador] and the other diplomats”.
The bodies of the dead were transported to the Benghazi international airport, to be flown to Tripoli and then onwards to a major US airbase in Germany.
Abdel-Monem al-Hurr, a spokesman for Libya’s Supreme Security Committee, said on Wednesday that rocket-propelled grenades had been fired at the consulate from a nearby farm.
“There [were] fierce clashes between the Libyan army and an armed militia outside the US consulate,” he said. He also said roads had been closed off and security forces surrounded the building.
A group calling themselves the ‘Islamic law supporters’ carried out the attack in response to the relaese of the film, Al Jazeera’s El-Dressi reported.
