Barry Rubin
As I've noted, Libya is starting to fall apart and the Benghazi scandal cover-up prevented the Obama Administration from taking serious action in regard to that country, including retaliation against the terrorist group that the United States knows was responsible.
In the last week,
there was a car bomb and four attacks on Libyan military posts in
Benghazi. The al-Qaida affiliate that murdered four Americans controls
parts of the city and is unchallenged by the central government, which
has been too weak to confront those who reject its authority.
Al-Qaida still controls part of the city's entrances and the hospital
where the U.S. ambassador's body was taken by them last September 11. It
has faced zero retaliation by the U.S. government and no pressure from
Washington for the Libyan government to crack down on it.
Remember that the government's attempt to make people forget the scandal
and the insistence that the attack was caused by a demonstration
against a video gone wrong has prevented the highlighting of the actual
murders and action taken against them.
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