re: #119 Obdicut

Depends what you mean by business. I have no problem with people being interested in the attack, in the motivations, etc. I do have a problem with people who think that private citizens knowing about the incident makes some sort of difference to how the CIA or State will defend against future attacks, which seems to be what you’re implying.

This is now the third time I’ve asked you this. Could you please respond?

Why does it make more sense, when the group that attacked had launched an attack over a video before, and they stated that the video was their motivation? What do you think the motivation for the attack was?

See SFZ’s post which I belatedly quoted. The motivation is anti-Western and anti-American sentiment. Ansar al-Sharia in Benghazi are a jihadi group. Frankly, they don’t need a provocation to get them angry at America.

One of the group’s leaders stated publicly that they had a plan for attacking the compound, but they didn’t actually attack until there were widespread demonstrations against the video. What makes more sense to you - that they came up with a plan to attack but lacked the desire to execute it until the video gave them a push? That the plan required some sort of diversion, and the demonstration provided them with that diversion? Or that they saw a target of opportunity as a result of the chaos created by the demonstration, and seized the moment?

To me the first one seems the least likely, by far.