Monday, December 30, 2013

How come no mention of these guys?

Thomas Joscelyn at the Weekly Standard asks this about David D. Kirkpatrick's NYT piece claiming that the video was a big factor in the Benghazi attack and al-Qaeda wasn't:   Why did he not even mention Muhammad Jamal al-Kasher, a longtime al-Zawahiri loyalist, and Faral al-Shibli, who, according to US intelligence sources, was Osama bin-Laden's bodyguard in the 1990s?

And Bing West at NRO wants to know why ringleader Abu Khattala - dismissed by Kirkpatrick as a "second-tier Islamist" - is still roaming free?

And Paul Mirengoff at Power Line spoke with one of Kirkpatrick's interviewees whose assessment of where Kirkpatrick was coming from was this:

Kirkpatrick’s heavy reliance on self-serving comments by Libyans that also serve the purposes of Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, etc, suggests that he had a story he wanted to write and was looking for confirmation of that story.
This suspicion was confirmed to me by one of the people Kirkpatrick interviewed. This person, probably as well informed about the Benghazi attack as any American, tells me that during the interview with Kirkpatrick (which occurred many months ago), it quickly became clear that he “had his conclusions and simply wanted me to confirm them, not refute them.” It also became clear, my source adds, that Kirkpatrick “was off the rails.”
Carrying water for the H-word Creature seems to be what really drove Kirkpatrick.


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