Former CIA officer, Clare Lopez, sat down with Glenn Beck to discuss the terrorist attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya.
Clare has written about the situation there and Ambassador Steven's ties to jihadist groups in Libya and Syria.
She explains that Stevens was in Libya as a "U.S. government liaison to al-Qaeda-linked jihadist militias, and they would include some of the same people now trying to overthrow Assad in Syria."
Clare has written about the situation there and Ambassador Steven's ties to jihadist groups in Libya and Syria.
She explains that Stevens was in Libya as a "U.S. government liaison to al-Qaeda-linked jihadist militias, and they would include some of the same people now trying to overthrow Assad in Syria."
"During the 2011 Libyan revolt against Muammar Qaddafi, reckless U.S. policy flung American forces and money into the conflict on the side of the rebels, who were known at the time to include Al Qaeda elements. Previously the number two official at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Christopher Stevens was named as the official U.S. liaison to the Libyan opposition in March, 2011.
"Stevens was tasked with helping to coordinate U.S. assistance to the rebels, whose top military commander, Abdelhakim Belhadj, was the leader of the Al Qaeda affiliate, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG). That means that Stevens was authorized by the U.S. Department of State and the Obama administration to aid and abet individuals and groups that were, at a minimum, allied ideologically with Al Qaeda, the jihadist terrorist organization that attacked the homeland on the first 9/11, the one that’s not supposed to exist anymore after the killing of its leader, Osama bin Laden, on May 2, 2011." ~Clare Lopez
