{"id":6138,"date":"2013-06-27T17:21:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T17:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=6138"},"modified":"2013-06-27T17:21:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T17:21:28","slug":"libyan-intelligence-muslim-brotherhood-morsi-involved-in-u-s-consulate-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/libyan-intelligence-muslim-brotherhood-morsi-involved-in-u-s-consulate-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Libyan Intelligence: Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi Involved in U.S. Consulate Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Raymond Ibrahim<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raymondibrahim.com\/from-the-arab-world\/libyan-intelligence-muslim-brotherhood-morsi-involved-in-u-s-consulate-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>RaymondIbrahim.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a Libyan intelligence document, the Muslim Brotherhood, including Egyptian President Morsi, were involved in the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, where several Americans, including U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, were killed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, June 26, several Arabic websites, including Veto Gate, quoted the intelligence report, which apparently was first leaked to the Kuwaiti paper,\u00a0<em>Al Ra\u2019i<\/em>.\u00a0 Prepared by Mahmoud Ibrahim Sharif, Director of National Security for Libya, the report is addressed to the nation\u2019s Minister of Interior.<\/p>\n<p>It discusses the preliminary findings of the investigation, specifically concerning an \u201cEgyptian cell\u201d which was involved in the consulate attack. \u201cBased on confessions derived from some of those arrested at the scene\u201d six people, \u201call of them Egyptians\u201d from the jihad group Ansar al-Sharia (\u201cSupporters of Islamic Law), were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, during interrogations, these Egyptian jihadi cell members \u201cconfessed to very serious and important information concerning the financial sources of the group and the planners of the event and the storming and burning of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi\u2026. And among the more prominent figures whose names were mentioned by cell members during confessions were: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi; preacher Safwat Hegazi; Saudi businessman Mansour Kadasa, owner of the satellite station,\u00a0<em>Al-Nas<\/em>; Egyptian Sheikh Muhammad Hassan; former presidential candidate, Hazim Salih Abu Isma\u2019il\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that these findings are unsurprising: the supremacism of prominent Brotherhood figure Safwat Hegazi is such that he publicly declares the Brotherhood \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.raymondibrahim.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">will rule the world<\/a>\u201c;\u00a0 Saudi Mansour\u2019s hate-mongering, pro-Brotherhood TV station repeatedly aired footage of the YouTube Muhammad movie inciting violence around the Muslim world; popular Sheikh Muhammad Hassan holds that smiling to non-Muslims is forbidden, except when trying to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.raymondibrahim.com\/from-the-arab-world\/sharias-sinister-smiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">win them over to Islam<\/a>; \u00a0and Sheikh Hazim Abu Ismail is simply an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.raymondibrahim.com\/from-the-arab-world\/egyptian-presidential-candidate-says-no-freedom-in-islam\/\" target=\"_blank\">openly anti-freedom<\/a>, anti-infidel religious leader.<\/p>\n<p>As for President Morsi, a video made during the consulate attack records people speaking in the Egyptian dialect: as they approach the beleaguered U.S. compound, one of them yells to the besiegers, \u201cDon\u2019t shoot\u2014Dr. Morsi sent us!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Raymond Ibrahim RaymondIbrahim.com According to a Libyan intelligence document, the Muslim Brotherhood, including Egyptian President Morsi, were involved in the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, where several Americans, including U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, were killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[140,227],"tags":[1051,1045,1048,139,162],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-1B0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6122,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/obama-to-egyptian-christians-dont-protest-the-brotherhood\/","url_meta":{"origin":6138,"position":0},"title":"Obama to Egyptian Christians: Don&#8217;t Protest the Brotherhood","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim FrontPage Magazine As Egyptians of all factions prepare to demonstrate\u00a0\u00a0in mass against the Muslim Brotherhood and President\u00a0Morsi\u2019s\u00a0rule on June 30, the latter has been trying to reduce their numbers, which some predict will be in the millions and eclipse the\u00a0Tahrir\u00a0protests that earlier ousted Mubarak.\u00a0\u00a0Accordingly, among other influential\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Muslim Brotherhood&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Muslim Brotherhood","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/the-middle-east\/muslim-brotherhood\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6357,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/in-egypt-media-sympathizes-with-muslim-brotherhood-persecution-of-christians-ignored\/","url_meta":{"origin":6138,"position":1},"title":"In Egypt, Media Sympathizes with Muslim Brotherhood, Persecution of Christians Ignored","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0NRO's The Corner While Western media, following the lead of pro-Brotherhood Al Jazeera, continue demonizing the Egyptian military\u2019s attempts to neutralize the Muslim Brotherhood terror bases \u2013\u00a0where people have been tortured, raped, and killed, all according to Islamist fatwas (yes, including the rape, more on this later)\u00a0the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Muslim Brotherhood&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Muslim Brotherhood","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/the-middle-east\/muslim-brotherhood\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6664,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/murdered-christian-children-the-price-of-obamas-pro-brotherhood-jihad\/","url_meta":{"origin":6138,"position":2},"title":"Murdered Christian Children: The Price of Obama&#8217;s Pro-Brotherhood Jihad","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0RaymondIbrahim.com\u00a0 Who is more deserving of punishment by the United States?\u00a0 Millions of Egyptians, for ousting the Muslim Brotherhood?\u00a0 Or the Muslim Brotherhood, for habitually terrorizing and murdering Christians, among many other crimes? 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