By Tim Lister and Paul Cruickshank
Former CIA Director David Petraeus is expected to tell House and Senate committees Friday that soon after the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, it suspected Ansar al Sharia was responsible. But just what is Ansar al Sharia, and why wasn't it identified as a prime suspect two months ago?
There is no easy answer.
Ansar al Sharia is more a label than an organization, one that's been adopted by conservative Salafist groups across the Arab world. The name means, simply, "Partisans of Islamic Law."
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Ansar al-Sharia needs more goatse. Send them goatse.
On a series note the concept of "political Islam" needs to go. For whatever verses of the Quran or the hadith the clerics say support political Islam, get a green pen, cross it out, and say that Islam doesn't say it anymore. If they argue, show them passages that say scientifically wrong things and tell them that morally wrong things get crossed out too.
Is this one open to the public, because I'll be in town today and I'd love to either be there or hear it on cspan.
Well most certainly a Towel Head was. Hahahahahahahhahah