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*<font color="brown">Gen. [[Michael T. Flynn]] had been Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency for about three weeks. Flynn opposed the creation of the Islamic State. After it was declared in June of 2014, Flynn was fired.</font>

*<font color="brown">Gen. [[Michael T. Flynn]] had been Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency for about three weeks. Flynn opposed the creation of the Islamic State. After it was declared in June of 2014, Flynn was fired.</font>

===September 2012===

'''September 2012'''

*'''5 September.''' <font color="brown">A Libyan ship called Al Entisar (“The Victory”) docks in the Turkish port of Iskenderun carrying 400 tons of cargo including weapons such as rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and shoulder-launched SAM-7 surface-to-air missiles (aka MANPADS) destined for Syrian rebels.</font><ref>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/25/was-syrian-weapons-shipment-factor-in-ambassadors-benghazi-visit.html</ref><ref>

*'''5 September.''' <font color="brown">A Libyan ship called Al Entisar (“The Victory”) docks in the Turkish port of Iskenderun carrying 400 tons of cargo including weapons such as rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and shoulder-launched SAM-7 surface-to-air missiles (aka MANPADS) destined for Syrian rebels.</font><ref>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/25/was-syrian-weapons-shipment-factor-in-ambassadors-benghazi-visit.html</ref><ref>

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/syrian-rebels-squabble-over-weapons-as-biggest-shipload-arrives-from-libya-pr2rmxkpg8d</ref>

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/syrian-rebels-squabble-over-weapons-as-biggest-shipload-arrives-from-libya-pr2rmxkpg8d</ref>

*Bill Clinton introduces Obama; at the exact moment Clinton in speaking, the first black female combat pilot, Army Chief Warrant Officer Thalia S. Ramirez, was shot down and killed by a shoulder-fired missile in Afghanistan, most likely procured from Libya.

*Bill Clinton introduces Obama; at the exact moment Clinton in speaking, the first black female combat pilot, Army Chief Warrant Officer Thalia S. Ramirez, was shot down and killed by a shoulder-fired missile in Afghanistan, most likely procured from Libya.

===October 2012===

'''October 2012'''

*'''5 October.''' <font color="brown">''[[Time magazine]]'' announces the formation of the 20,000 strong Omar al-Farouq Brigade in Syria, one of the "moderate rebel" groups receiving American funding under the umbrella [[Free Syrian Army]].<ref>http://world.time.com/2012/10/05/syrias-up-and-coming-rebels-who-are-the-farouq-brigades-2/</ref> In May 2015 [[Human Rights Watch]] releases a video of one of its commanders carving the heart and liver out of a dead Assad regime soldier and eating the heart.</font>

*'''5 October.''' <font color="brown">''[[Time magazine]]'' announces the formation of the 20,000 strong Omar al-Farouq Brigade in Syria, one of the "moderate rebel" groups receiving American funding under the umbrella [[Free Syrian Army]].<ref>http://world.time.com/2012/10/05/syrias-up-and-coming-rebels-who-are-the-farouq-brigades-2/</ref> In May 2015 [[Human Rights Watch]] releases a video of one of its commanders carving the heart and liver out of a dead Assad regime soldier and eating the heart.</font>

:Although the line is meant as a zinger, the mainstream media is not reporting (a) Obama armed and supported al Qaeda to overthrow Gaddafi; (b) the same al Qaeda groups Obama armed and assisted attacked the US embassey in Benghazi and murdered Americans; and (c) at that very moment Obama was arming al Qaede in Syria which mutated into the Islamic State.</font>

:Although the line is meant as a zinger, the mainstream media is not reporting (a) Obama armed and supported al Qaeda to overthrow Gaddafi; (b) the same al Qaeda groups Obama armed and assisted attacked the US embassey in Benghazi and murdered Americans; and (c) at that very moment Obama was arming al Qaede in Syria which mutated into the Islamic State.</font>

===November 2012===

'''November 2012'''

*'''19 November.''' Dana Milbank of the ''Wahington Post'' writes, "President Obama had a rare “bring-it-on” moment...'If Senator McCain and Senator Graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me...For them to go after the U.N. ambassador . . . and to besmirch her reputation, is outrageous.' ... Obama’s over-the-top defense of Rice was surprising...'''She is ill-equipped to be the nation’s top diplomat.'''...<font color="brown">The '''Russian business daily ''Kommersant'' quoted an anonymous Russian foreign ministry official as saying that Rice, who quarreled with [[Russia]] over [[Syria]], is “too ambitious and aggressive,” and her appointment would make it “more difficult for [[Moscow]] to work with [[Washington DC|Washington]].”'''</font> ...in her much-criticized TV performance, '''she was reciting talking points given to her by the intelligence agencies. But that’s the trouble. Rice stuck with her points even though they had been contradicted''' by the president of the Libyan National Assembly, who, on CBS’s ''[[Face the Nation]]'' just before Rice, said there was “no doubt” that the attack on Americans in Benghazi “was preplanned.” '''Rice rebutted the [[Libya]]n official, arguing — falsely, it turned out — that there was no evidence of such planning'''. True, '''Rice was following orders from the White House, which she does well'''. But the nation’s top diplomat '''needs to show more sensitivity and independence''' — traits Clinton has demonstrated in abundance. Obama can do better at State than Susan Rice.<ref>The article states, "Rice has managed to make an impressive array of enemies ...when she was an assistant secretary of state during the Clinton administration, she appalled colleagues by flipping her middle finger at [[Richard Holbrooke]] during a meeting with senior staff at the State Department, according to witnesses. Colleagues talk of shouting matches and insults. Among those she has insulted is the woman she would replace at State. Rice was one of the first former Clinton administration officials to defect to Obama’s primary campaign against Hillary Clinton. Rice condemned Clinton’s [[Iraq]] and [[Iran]] positions, asking for an “explanation of how and why she got those critical judgments wrong.” Clinton got a measure of revenge in 2010 after she worked out a deal with the Russian foreign minister on a package of Iran sanctions to be adopted by the U.N. Security Council. The White House wanted Rice to make the announcement (part of a campaign to increase her profile that included high-visibility foreign trips and TV appearances), but a Clinton aide got Kerry to ask Clinton about the matter during an unrelated Senate hearing...It was Rice’s own shoot-first tendency that caused her to be benched as a spokesman for the Obama campaign for a time in 2008. She unnerved European allies when she denounced as “counterproductive” and “self-defeating” the U.N. policy that Iran suspend its nuclear program before talks can begin. She criticized President [[George W. Bush]] and McCain because they “insisted” on it. But, as The Post’s Glenn Kessler pointed out at the time, European diplomats were rattled by such remarks because the precondition was their idea. Rice’s pugilism provoked the Russians to weigh in this week in opposition to her nomination as secretary of state."  

*'''19 November.''' Dana Milbank of the ''Wahington Post'' writes, "President Obama had a rare “bring-it-on” moment...'If Senator McCain and Senator Graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me...For them to go after the U.N. ambassador . . . and to besmirch her reputation, is outrageous.' ... Obama’s over-the-top defense of Rice was surprising...'''She is ill-equipped to be the nation’s top diplomat.'''...<font color="brown">The '''Russian business daily ''Kommersant'' quoted an anonymous Russian foreign ministry official as saying that Rice, who quarreled with [[Russia]] over [[Syria]], is “too ambitious and aggressive,” and her appointment would make it “more difficult for [[Moscow]] to work with [[Washington DC|Washington]].”'''</font> ...in her much-criticized TV performance, '''she was reciting talking points given to her by the intelligence agencies. But that’s the trouble. Rice stuck with her points even though they had been contradicted''' by the president of the Libyan National Assembly, who, on CBS’s ''[[Face the Nation]]'' just before Rice, said there was “no doubt” that the attack on Americans in Benghazi “was preplanned.” '''Rice rebutted the [[Libya]]n official, arguing — falsely, it turned out — that there was no evidence of such planning'''. True, '''Rice was following orders from the White House, which she does well'''. But the nation’s top diplomat '''needs to show more sensitivity and independence''' — traits Clinton has demonstrated in abundance. Obama can do better at State than Susan Rice.<ref>The article states, "Rice has managed to make an impressive array of enemies ...when she was an assistant secretary of state during the Clinton administration, she appalled colleagues by flipping her middle finger at [[Richard Holbrooke]] during a meeting with senior staff at the State Department, according to witnesses. Colleagues talk of shouting matches and insults. Among those she has insulted is the woman she would replace at State. Rice was one of the first former Clinton administration officials to defect to Obama’s primary campaign against Hillary Clinton. Rice condemned Clinton’s [[Iraq]] and [[Iran]] positions, asking for an “explanation of how and why she got those critical judgments wrong.” Clinton got a measure of revenge in 2010 after she worked out a deal with the Russian foreign minister on a package of Iran sanctions to be adopted by the U.N. Security Council. The White House wanted Rice to make the announcement (part of a campaign to increase her profile that included high-visibility foreign trips and TV appearances), but a Clinton aide got Kerry to ask Clinton about the matter during an unrelated Senate hearing...It was Rice’s own shoot-first tendency that caused her to be benched as a spokesman for the Obama campaign for a time in 2008. She unnerved European allies when she denounced as “counterproductive” and “self-defeating” the U.N. policy that Iran suspend its nuclear program before talks can begin. She criticized President [[George W. Bush]] and McCain because they “insisted” on it. But, as The Post’s Glenn Kessler pointed out at the time, European diplomats were rattled by such remarks because the precondition was their idea. Rice’s pugilism provoked the Russians to weigh in this week in opposition to her nomination as secretary of state."  

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1112/milbank111912.php3#.WOvs0_9MHMI</ref>

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1112/milbank111912.php3#.WOvs0_9MHMI</ref>

*Snowden leaks detail a program that trained approximately 10,000 rebel fighters at a cost of $1 billion a year.</font><ref>http://fair.org/home/down-the-memory-hole-nyt-erases-cias-efforts-to-overthrow-syrias-government/</ref>

*Snowden leaks detail a program that trained approximately 10,000 rebel fighters at a cost of $1 billion a year.</font><ref>http://fair.org/home/down-the-memory-hole-nyt-erases-cias-efforts-to-overthrow-syrias-government/</ref>

===December 2012===

'''December 2012'''

*'''6 December.''' <font color="brown">''New York Times'' confirms "Qataris provided weapons, money and training to various rebel groups in Libya [destined for Syria]. One militia that received aid was controlled by [Abdelhakim Belhadj], then leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, who was held by the C.I.A. in 2004..."</font><ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/world/africa/weapons-sent-to-libyan-rebels-with-us-approval-fell-into-islamist-hands.html </ref>

*'''6 December.''' <font color="brown">''New York Times'' confirms "Qataris provided weapons, money and training to various rebel groups in Libya [destined for Syria]. One militia that received aid was controlled by [Abdelhakim Belhadj], then leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, who was held by the C.I.A. in 2004..."</font><ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/world/africa/weapons-sent-to-libyan-rebels-with-us-approval-fell-into-islamist-hands.html </ref>