Obama, Benghazi, Al Qaeda, CIA, Syria, Turkey, Israel, Iran and Russia ......what if ?

What if there's a more immediate threat to world and US security than Iran obtaining nuclear weapons ? News reports and sources in Israel say that Netanyahu's "red line" won't be breached until late next spring.

Could it be that the WMD's (Weapons of Mass Destruction) located in Syria are far more destructive and insecure than has generally been understood and publicly reported ? Defense Secretary Leon Panetta claims the US has already lost track of some of them. The US has made it clear on more than one occasion what will happen in the way of US intervention if WMD's are mobilized and used against anyone.

What if we are nearing a precipice only the intelligence community understands ? One that is very imminent due to deteriorating political conditions in Syria. Credible reports from widely disseminated sources have shown that Al Qaeda is active in Syria - fighting with the opposition forces challenging Syria's government. The same opposition forces are supported by the US. And In the other corner, supplying the Syrian government with weapons is Putin's Russia. Iran indirectly supports Al Qaeda in Syria while at the same time backing Assad's Syrian regime.

 Ironically, in this conflict the Obama Administration finds itself in the position of arming Al Qaeda terrorists to topple Assad.

Incredibly and secretly, Obama has aligned our interests over Syria with Iran's duplicity. No wonder Israel, an ally has been held at bay by the Administration as Obama tries to walk a "fine line" between his conflicted goals and foreign policy. No wonder too, his Administration is keen not to discuss the extent talks have been carried on with Iran and for what purposes.

In the aftermath of Benghazi, politically, Obama will have an impossible task of revealing and explaining to Americans why their tax dollars are being used by the CIA to arm our Al Qaeda enemy - unless of course Al Qaeda is no longer a threat or non-existent - a perception Obama has tried to create on the campaign trail and from the White House ever since Bin Laden was killed. 

An inconvenient truth for the Administration however is that the CIA operation to arm the Syria opposition forces has been well underway in secret since the fall of Qaddafi's Libya and long before Bin Laden's death.

Al Qaeda elements fighting in Syria with US support are from Libya !

The State Department shows a consulate listed in Tripoli but no consulate in Benghazi - only the media have reported it as a consulate. Both Clinton and Obama have only ever described it as a US "mission".

The CIA operation to oppose the Syrian government and Pro-Syrian forces is based both in Turkey and in Libya more specifically at Benghazi.

There are reports that the CIA is trans-shipping heavy weapons purchased by Saudi Arabia from both Libyan stockpiles left over from the Qaddafi overthrow and Turkey to Syrian opposition forces.

Recently the Israeli's intercepted a weapons shipment from Turkey.

Pro Syrian government forces have recently "accidentally" attacked Turkey.

It's been speculated that the Benghazi compound was a secure meeting place for CIA operatives and representatives of governments and forces, including those of Al Qaeda to plan and implement the overthrow of the Syrian government. Also that Ambassador Stevens had at various times been a participant in those meetings.

On the day of his death it's been reported that Ambassador Stevens met with a Turkish representative at the Benghazi "mission".

Immediately after the attack the first world leader Obama conferred with was the President of Turkey.

The next day after the attack Libyan officials were surprised at both the number of CIA personnel who evacuated from their country and by the number who were there without their knowledge.

News agencies have been able to report on the ground in Benghazi yet apparently it hasn't been secure enough for the FBI to conduct its investigation into the Benghazi attack. After a month's delay the FBI has had access to the compound, but well after the majority of CIA personnel have left the country.

Presumably a well coordinated and heavily armed force of 125 combatants attacked the compound and took documents - it's been suggested that Ambassador Stevens was killed because he had the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time - and it's speculated the attack was directed at the CIA outpost and not the Ambassador !

Incredulously, the Administration is claiming once again that Al Qaeda was not responsible for the attack.

If so, then who was ?

It's been observed that Israel already facing an existential threat posed by Iran was less than enthusiastic about Obama's operation to provide heavy weapons to Al Qaeda in Syria. Israel believing rightfully that the same weapons would ultimately be trained upon and used against their nation. More importantly, an ensconced Al Qaeda in Syria with access to WMD's and reporting to Israel's mortal enemy, Iran, posed an unacceptable security threat. Could an Israeli proxy have been used to thwart the CIA operation by attacking the mission ?

More likely, Pro-Syrian security and intelligence forces were responsible directly or through their own proxies to preserve their regime. In the murky world of spies and constantly changing loyalties it's not inconceivable however that the CIA was compromised by Israel acting in its own defense through the leaking of sensitive information about the operation to the Syrians.

Or, based upon intelligence the US has from phone intercepts, the terrorist cell known as Ansar  al Sharia was directly involved.

Ultimately from the beginning of his term Obama, the ineptly, has been sucked into the Byzantine world of duplicity and intrigue known as Middle Eastern power politics.

Some reports claim that the Obama Administration is looking for a target to attack with drones in retribution. The Libyan government though, it too, suspects Ansar al Sharia complicity is so far unwilling to allow the US to arm its Predator drones patrolling Libyan skies with missiles. Other sources claim that if the "October Surprise" that was expected to be harvested from the short circuited CIA operation won't now materialize for Obama then a mini-one in the form of a retaliatory drone strike will have to do. And the pressure is on to find a suitable target.

Ultimately the Obama Administration and Obama have a colossal intelligence and security screwup on their hands. An operation that conceivably could have yielded an Obama political campaign advantage in his re-election bid against his Republican rival, Mitt Romney.

But the hard ball, dirty Chicago style political lies and misrepresentations of Obama wouldn't ever come into play in this campaign, right ? ... No, of course not.

A pitiful footnote: this entire sorry mis-adventure is but one more example of the US government and its leadership spending more of its time, energies and resources to hide the truth about the details of a blown intelligence operation while the rest of the world and America's enemies look on knowing more of what really took place than do America's citizens.

The Saudi Gasoline Fix is In …. How Much You Wanna Bet?

While gasoline prices remain high and under pressure elsewhere in the world, prices here have been stable ($3.80 a gallon down from May 2012)– and – surprise - just in time for the US elections! At least so they won’t be a negative factor for the Obama Campaign barring a shooting war between Israel and Iran.

Wait you say, “That would mean the Saudi’s are interfering with our election process!” No, it means they were invited to by the Obama Campaign and pressured perhaps by the Obama Administration. (in the last 4 years Saudi Arabia purchased over 52 billion dollars of advanced weapons systems from the US – much of it opposed by Israel as a threat to its own national security interest http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/01/09/steeplechase.html )

Legendary investor Jim Rogers in an interview and reported in July 2012 thinks the Saudis want to see Obama re-elected.

Is it at all plausible that the Obama administration accustomed to using and well criticized for hard ball Chicago style election tactics would actually violate US law and pressure the Saudi’s to open up the supply spigot for oil in an effort to drive down gasoline prices at the pump for political purposes?  Or, might they just bend the law up to the point of breaking it, with well placed official assurances that Saudi interests would be better served with Obama occupying the White House for another 4 years - rather than say… oh, I don’t know…. risk an Israeli loving Romney administration who’s also on public record for supporting energy independence for the US from Middle Eastern oil by fully developing US oil, natural gas and coal?

You Know - One of Those Old Greek Philosopher Guys. I'm telling you his name was Polonium something or other...

Way back in 2004 and I know you recall the incident because it was on the Nightly News, Yasser Arafat the ailing 75 year old ex- rabble rouser, murderer, terrorist, all around nasty Palestinian leader supposedly had a change of heart previously and moderated his views about reconciliation with Israel.

Well, having mysteriously died in a French Hospital, though some said from a stroke, Arafat apparently also had a change of blood chemistry too.

His wife said she always suspected murder most foul by Israeli agents. She had his possessions and clothing tested recently and surprise, surprise ... the lab reported traces of radioactive polonium - the same nasty stuff Russian agents used to murder a dissident in London in 2006.

Israel, never one to hold a grudge, claims it did not "have a hand in this".

And as yet, no one has expressed any official concern as to whether rogue elements of the Swedish CIA, SAPO accounting directorate could possibly be involved....

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise ... Iran Has More Nuclear Material Than Thought

The IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) announced that Iran's unstable and extremist leader, Ahmadinejad has his hands on more nuclear material for atomic weapons than was at first thought ... or, read that as .... the US government was ever willing to disclose.

They also announced that since 2004 Iran has been aggressively working on a continuous program to place a nuclear payload on a missile. Again, official pablum spoon served to the public assured us that was not the case.
The IAEA report came to several conclusions including: Obama's pursuit of sanctions against Iran have and continue to fail to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapons capability and the IAEA is no longer capable of detecting military aspects of Iran's nuclear programs.

Hopefully, Israel's intelligence community is either 1) smarter and better informed than our own and 2) not handicapped by deceiving politicians, and 3) unwilling to rely on US provided intelligence assessments.

Iran, knowing full well that the only response likely from a weak Obama is more "pretty speeches", in this prediction can be counted upon when in possession of a fully operational nuclear device and missile platform to deliver it, to either a) annex territory from Iraq uncontested and or, b) use it against Israel to make good on its threat to wipe that nation off the face of the earth.