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Arms dealer says administration made him scapegoat on Libya operation to 'protect' Clinton | Fox News

As Fox News has reported extensively, in 2011, the Obama administration with support from some Republican and Democratic lawmakers explored options to arm the so-called “Libyan rebels” during the chaotic Arab Spring but United Nations sanctions prohibited direct sales.

Turi's plan was to have the U.S. government supply conventional weapons to the Gulf nations Qatar and UAE, which would then in turn supply them to Libya. But Turi says he never sold any weapons, and he was cut out of the plan. Working with CIA, Turi said Clinton's State Department had the lead and used its own people, with weapons flowing to Libya and Syria.

"Some (weapons) may have went out under control that we had with our personnel over there and the others went to these militia. That's how they lost control over it," Turi said. "I can assure you that these operations did take place and those weapons did go in different directions."

Asked by Fox News who got the weapons -- Al Qaeda, Ansar al-Sharia, or ISIS -- Turi said: "All of them, all of them, all of them."

Turi exchanged emails in 2011 with then U.S. envoy to the Libyan opposition Chris Stevens. A day after the exchange about Turi's State Department application to sell weapons, Clinton wrote on April 8, 2011 to aide Jake Sullivan, "fyi. the idea of using private security experts to arm the opposition should be considered."
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I've been on record since the Benghazi event first happened stating that it smelled more like a "hit" than a terrorist attack. Arming bad people to do your dirty work is something that has come back to bite us over and over and over...
 
Re: Arms dealer says administration made him scapegoat on Libya operation to 'protect

Tip of the iceberg. More will be forthcoming. Ask yourself what was a CIA operation in Benghazi? Why?
 
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It's been said that Benghazi was nothing more than Obama/Clinton's version of Reagan/Oliver North's "Iran/Contra Affair". Whether it be lose weapons rebel forces collected from the battle field in Libya or arms smuggled to the Syria rebels through Turkey, it's still a gun running operation that went terribly wrong.

Unfortunately, as long as Congressional Republicans continued to focus on "the narrative angle" over what was said, who changed talking points and the ethics surrounding the death of four Americans instead of getting to the real deal behind maintaining a Consulate office in Benghazi, the people will never learn the truth of the matter.

I've said repeatedly their deaths wasn't the BIG story nor was whether or not it was a terror attack. No. The big story really was/IS...the guns!
 
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Jack Fabulous said:
Arms dealer says administration made him scapegoat on Libya operation to 'protect' Clinton | Fox News



I've been on record since the Benghazi event first happened stating that it smelled more like a "hit" than a terrorist attack. Arming bad people to do your dirty work is something that has come back to bite us over and over and over...
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Privatizing war and covert operations has turned out to be a more prominent liability in recent times. Marc Turi is an international illegal arms dealer who is still miffed that he didn't win any contracts.
 
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Napoleon said:
Privatizing war and covert operations has turned out to be a more prominent liability in recent times. Marc Turi is an international illegal arms dealer who is still miffed that he didn't win any contracts.
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Marc Turi is a pawn.

I believe and have believed for some time that Benghazi was not just some random act of terror.
 
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Deuce said:
A "hit" on who?
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Finally someone asked. I will second that, Hit Who? Are you really saying it was a hit on the Ambassador?
 
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Deuce said:
A "hit" on who?
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Good question. Arms cache? Arms deal gone bad?

Terrorism usually involves random crowds and maximum loss of life. This was a targeted attack and the victims were specific.
 
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Jack Fabulous said:
Good question. Arms cache? Arms deal gone bad?

Terrorism usually involves random crowds and maximum loss of life. This was a targeted attack and the victims were specific.
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The target was a consulate and the victims were the people inside it.

Did the USS Cole involve "specific victims?"
 
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Casper said:
Finally someone asked. I will second that, Hit Who? Are you really saying it was a hit on the Ambassador?
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Maybe?
 
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