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An Islamic militant group said Sunday it has “secured” a U.S. Embassy in Libya’s capital city of Tripoli. In July, PPD reported that American personnel were evacuated from the area and relocated to Tunisia amid ongoing fighting in the country.
The State Department said embassy operations would be suspended until the security situation improved.
Now, a commander for the Islamic group, Dawn of Libya, said his forces had first entered the compound last week, and have been in control of the compound since. Despite daily press briefings and even an press conference by President Obama, himself, neither him nor White House Press Secretary Josh Ernst said a word about it.
People’s Pundit Daily has not been able to independently verify the claim, and a White House spokesperson refused to comment on the validity of the claims. However, an Associated Press journalist walked through the compound Sunday after the Dawn of Libya, an umbrella group for Islamist militias, offered to allow journalists and onlookers inside.
The AP said glass windows at the compound had been broken, though it appeared at a glance that most of the equipment was present and untouched.
There has been no U.S. military presence at the compound since the State Department pulled out, and no assets are reportedly in the region. A video posted online — viewable below — showed men playing in a pool at the compound.
U.S. Ambassador to Libya Deborah Jones said the video appeared to have been shot in at the embassy’s residential annex. She also said it appeared the compound was being “safeguarded” and had not been “ransacked.”
On Sept. 11, 2012, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, and State Department information management officer Sean Smith were killed in a terror attack on a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya.
The House voted 232-186 in May to establish a select committee on Benghazi, with 7 Democrats joining the 225 Republicans voting in favor. The vote marked the official launch of a serious investigation into the withholding of information and potential cover up of a terrorist attack that took place during the 2012 president campaign, when President Obama was barnstorming the country on the campaign trail claiming Al Qaeda was on the run.
“Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive,” were the words spoken at a Nevada fundraiser the day after the terror attack in Benghazi. Until this day, no one can account for the president’s actions or location during the night of the attack.
The Dawn of Libya militia is deployed around the capital and has called on foreign diplomats to return now that the fighting has subsided.
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