US citizen Jones agrees to consider modifying his support or display of movie at the request of the US government on behalf of Muslim savages. Reuters attempts to help re-elect Obama by blaming the pastor for the US ambassador's murder in the first paragraph:
9/12/12, "Top U.S. military officer calls pastor over anti-Islam film," Reuters
"General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, called a Florida pastor on Wednesday and asked him to withdraw his support for a film whose portrayal of the Prophet Mohammad has been linked to violent protests - including one that ended with the death of America's envoy to Libya."...
- [Ed. note: Completely false. As the NY Times reported, the lynching and murder of a US Ambassador and 3 other US personnel was planned in response to Obama's drone killing of a top Al Qaeda member, had nothing to do with any film. (Update: The NY Times seems to have erased the article implicating Obama in the Libya events which was there when I copied it at 5:05pm Wed. 9/12. The NYT link now goes to a different story with different authors and places the blame entirely on a US pastor and a movie. The now disappeared NYT text is posted below. Another Reuters article mentions among many theories the now disappeared NYT Obama drone connection in the 4th paragraph from the end). The blood of the brutally murdered Ambassador and 3 others is most certainly on Obama's and Obama's hands alone.]
(continuing, Reuters): "In the brief call, Gen. Dempsey expressed his concerns over the nature of the film, the tensions it will inflame and the violence it will cause," Dempsey's spokesman, Colonel Dave Lapan, told Reuters.
U.S. military officials are concerned that the film could inflame tensions in Afghanistan, where 74,000 U.S. troops are fighting. The Taliban called on Afghans on Wednesday to prepare for a fight against Americans and urged insurgents to "take revenge" on U.S. soldiers over the film.
"He told me he had seen the film and that the film was pornographic ... and very, very bad. He asked me not to support it," Pastor Terry Jones told Reuters.
Jones agreed to "re-evaluate" his plans to show the film. "If the film is indeed pornographic, then, of course, as a Christian pastor I cannot support that type of film and could not show it," he said.
Dempsey's office declined comment on Jones' characterization of the call.
A U.S. official, briefing reporters later, described Jones as "non-committal" during the call.
Jones, who heads a tiny church in central Florida called the Dove World Outreach Center, has promoted Koran-burning events that have provoked outrage across the Muslim world and warnings from the Obama administration that such actions only help terrorist groups like al Qaeda. Jones' plans to burn the Koran triggered deadly riots in Afghanistan in 2010.
Jones said he received a 13-minute trailer of the movie, "Innocence of Muslims," via email two weeks ago and planned to show it on his website on Tuesday as part of a so-called International Judge Muhammad Day marking the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Due to technical difficulties, Jones said, he wasn't able to show the trailer as planned. But he said the event, streamed live on the website StandUpAmerica.org included a burning of the Koran and an effigy of Mohammad.
Addressing the attacks on U.S. diplomats in Libya and Egypt, Jones denied that the film or his group's activities had contributed to the violence.
"The outbreak of violence and deaths is not because of the film, it is not because of the activities that we have done and that we will continue to do."" via Atlas Shrugs
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9/12/12, "Libya Attack May Have Been Planned, U.S. Officials Say," Reuters, Mark Hosenball
"The attack that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other American diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, may have been planned and organized in advance, U.S. government officials said on Wednesday....
They also said some reporting from the region suggested that members of Al-Qaeda's north Africa-based affiliate, known as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, may have been involved....
U.S. and European officials said that in contrast to the Benghazi attack, which some investigators say may have been calculated and organized, the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo appeared more likely to have been a spontaneous eruption by a mob....
A London think-tank run by a former Libyan militant leader suggested on Tuesday that not only was the Benghazi attack "well planned," but that it may have been retaliation for an American drone attack which killed a Libyan leader of al-Qaeda's core command group earlier this year.
The Quilliam Foundation said that 24 hours before the Benghazi incident, al Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, distributed a video to militant websites in which he confirmed the death of his second in command, known as Abu Yahya al-Libi, and urged Libyans to avenge his killing.
Quilliam, whose president, Noman Benotman, once was a leader of an anti-Gaddafi militant faction known as the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, said that according to its sources, up to 20 militants had prepared for
- a military assault.
Quilliam said the assault on the Benghazi Consulate took place in two waves. After the first wave, U.S. officials arranged an evacuation of the Consulate by Libyan security forces. As the evacuation was taking place, a second wave of attacks was launched against U.S. officials who had already been moved to a supposedly secure location, Quilliam said."...
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Below is a NY Times report which I copied at 5:05pm Sept. 12 but which now seems to have been "disappeared." It now links to a different story with different authors and blames the Libyan murders on a movie instead of Obama:
9/12/12, "U.S. Suspects Libya Attack Was Planned," NY Times, Baker et al.
"About 24 hours before the consulate attack, however, Al Qaeda posted to militant forums on the Web a video in which its leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, acknowledged the death in an American drone strike in June of his Libyan deputy, Abu Yahya al-Libi, and called on Libyans to avenge the death.
If it were established that the deaths of the American diplomats resulted not from the spontaneous anger of a crowd about an insult to Islam but from a long-planned Qaeda plot, that might sharply shift perceptions of the events. But officials cautioned that the issue was still under urgent study. ...
The news of the deaths emerged on Wednesday after violence spilled over the American Consulate in Benghazi and demonstrators stormed the fortified walls of the American Embassy in Cairo. Anti-American protests also were reported in Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring revolution, and in Gaza. The Taliban called on Afghans to “take revenge” on American targets in Afghanistan. ...
In Italy, the Web site of the newspaper Corriere della Sera showed images of what it said was the American Consulate in Benghazi ablaze with men carrying automatic rifles and waving V-for-victory signs, silhouetted against the burning buildings. One photograph showed a man closely resembling Mr. Stevens apparently unconscious, his face seeming to be smudged with smoke and his eyes closed."...
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Mr. Greenwald is one of the few on the left that will speak of Obama's atrocities:
7/18/11, "The War on Terror, now starring Yemen and Somalia," Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com
"There is a concerted campaign underway to ensure that the War on Terror bonanza continues unimpeded in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death, and even despite Leon Panetta's acknowledgment that Al Qaeda has a grand total of "fewer than two dozen key operatives" on the entire planet. That effort relies primarily on touting a growing villainous alliance -- the scariest since Marvel Comic's Masters of Evil -- between Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (mostly in Yemen) and the al Shabab group in Somalia. To accomplish this, all the standard fear-mongering propaganda is being trotted out, and the War on Terror apparatus is simply being re-directed to those nations. Most notably,
- the establishment media is being used to disseminate these messages,
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