State Dept Misled on Another Benghazi Attack? -Declassified Documents Show No Response to Previous Terror Strike

Aaron Klein / WND

TEL AVIV – Did the State Department and White House hide information indicating a jihadist group promoting an Islamic state in Libya was responsible for a bomb attack on the U.S. special mission in Benghazi three months before the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the same compound, which killed a U.S. ambassador?

Information contained in Pentagon documents released in response to a Judicial Watch lawsuit sheds light on who was responsible for a June 6, 2012, IED attack on the Benghazi special mission.

WND obtained and reviewed the newly declassified Benghazi documents, which for the first time publicly blame a group “promoting an Islamic state in Libya” for the IED attack.

Since the attack, the group, Ansar al-Sharia, has sworn allegiance to ISIS, which has established an Islamic “caliphate” in portions of Syria and Iraq that it intends to expand throughout the Middle East.

An arm of Ansar al-Sharia, the Martyrs of the February 17th Brigade, provided internal security at the U.S. Benghazi mission.

The IED attack took place June 6, 2012, causing no injuries but blowing a large hole in the compound’s exterior wall.

Despite the attack, the Obama administration took no significant steps to enhance security at the U.S. special mission.

Page 15 of the State Department’s Accountability Review Board report, or ARB, reported of the IED attack: “Omar Abdurrahman group makes an unsubstantiated claim of responsibility.”

Page 16 of the ARB relates the “June 6 IED at the SMC and the May ICRC attack were claimed by the same group,” referring to the Omar Abdurrahman Brigades.

The Egypt-centric Abdurrahman Brigades calls, among other things, for the release of the so-called “blind sheik,” Omar Abdel-Rahman, imprisoned in the U.S. after he was convicted for plotting the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

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