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1/15/2013
Speaking from Libya, Ahmed Salem, a young political activist opposed to radical Islamic terrorism who witnessed the Benghazi attack, told WND that al-Qaida and other radical Islamic militia groups, including some from Egypt, launched a pre-planned, well-organized, heavily armed attack on the U.S. compound.
“It began shortly after 9 p.m. at night in Libya, and at first it was designed to look like a protest made up of extremists,” said Salem, who noted that he lives near the compound.
“But the idea this was a protest over the movie was completely a pretext. This is the way of al-Qaida,” Salem explained.
He said that many times during the civil war to overthrow Moammar Gadhafi, Islamic rebels began attacks on military compounds with what at first looked like a protest.
“But the so-called ‘protestors’ had guns on them,” he said. “The attackers on the Benghazi compound were extremists. I could tell because of their beards and the outfits, and they were heavily armed.”
He said “there was no way this was a civilian protest.”
“When they got near the compound, the attackers began firing with the AK-47s they brought with them concealed from view,” Salem said.
He argued the attack on the Benghazi compound was well planned. He said he did not witness the subsequent attack on the CIA annex.
“When the attack began, Islamic militia set up check-points all over Benghazi, to block the roads, so even people who lived there could not get to their homes,” he said. “All over the neighborhood of the consulate the checkpoints stopped anyone from coming into the compound area.”
He detailed that the organization and planning included creating checkpoints around the U.S. compound during the attack.
“I saw one of the people who lived near the U.S. compound in Benghazi who was trying to photograph what was happening with his cell phone,” he said. “The militia beat him up and took his cell phone away from him.
“No one in their right mind can say the attack on the Benghazi compound was spontaneous,” he insisted. “Covering that neighborhood with those checkpoints took advance planning. The whole neighborhood was surrounded – checkpoints, heavy weapons, everybody stopped – the militia looked like the government or the police in your country shutting off an area systematically.”
Salem described how the Benghazi attack began.
“They started to march and they were protesting about the movie about Prophet Muhammad and they started shooting. When they started shooting, the Libyan guards hired by the U.S. to protect the compound returned fire,” he said.
Americans flee
Salem recounted how most of the Americans in the compound escaped.
“After the first wave of the attack, the so-called ‘protestors’ retreated, and that’s when the heavy guns appeared, about a half-an-hour later,” he said.
But there is very important information here,” he emphasized. “Then after the first clash between the so-called ‘protestors’ and the Libyan guards, two land cruisers evacuated the U.S. compound with U.S. personnel aboard. I saw them leaving the compound with my own eyes. At first I thought the U.S. personnel at the compound got out.”
Salem said that at first, the Islamic fighters attacking the compound did not realize Ambassador Christopher Stevens was there.
“They thought it was impossible, because if Stevens was there, the Americans would have gotten Stevens out in one of the Land Cruisers,” he said.
“But they left Stevens there. I don’t know why, but maybe they intentionally left him there. The reason is not clear to me. The U.S. personnel leaving in the Land Cruisers had a clear way out. It was a surprise to us all that Ambassador Stevens was there in the compound. The attack was on 9/11 and Benghazi is not exactly the safest place to be.”
Foreign Islamic radicals attack
Salem said it took about an hour for the Islamic radicals to start entering the U.S. compound and begin looting and burning the buildings.
“I can’t say for sure how many of the attackers were al-Qaida,” he said. “But I am positive there were members of Ansar al-Sharia there. Ansar al-Sharia are all Libyans.”
He said he also heard an Egyptian accent among the fighters from many different countries who were attacking the U.S. compound.
“Even the names the attackers were using are thousand-year-old names that are used in other Islamic countries, but not in Libya. The old Islamic names are used, for instance, in Afghanistan where the Taliban want to initiate the age of the prophet in this age,” he said. “I could also tell there were foreigners among the attackers because the outfits they were wearing were not the traditional Libyan outfits.”
He noted that in the second phase of the attack, the terrorists were shooting bazookas toward the U.S. compound.
“I feared from the heavy firing gun fire and bazookas that I was going to be dead,” Salem said. “But the attackers were surprisingly nice to me. The attackers gave the impression they were after Americans, not Libyans. But this was not the case. The attackers fired at the Libyan guards at the gate with the intention of killing them.”
After the guards ran away, the Islamic fighters overran the compound.
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