ARREST IN LIBYA ATTACK!

[cilla4progress]

Tamron Hall just announced it.

Anyone else surprised?

Our Prez is ON THE JOB!!!!!!!!!

Game - set - match!

[ProudProgressiveNow]

1. K&R nt

[libdem4life]

2. Thankful...in more ways than one. Excellent.

[geek tragedy]

3. Is this the guy in Tunisia, or someone else? nt

[cilla4progress]

7. I believe so ...

actually only heard initial report. Waiting.

Edited my OP from arrest in LIBYA, to arrest in Libya ATTACK.

Thanks!

[livetohike]

4. Here we go......put the seal on the foreign policy debate

[MSMITH33156]

5. LOL

it must suck for Romney that the president is actually good at his job.

[FSogol]

6. Romney is wondering if Tunisia is the only path to the sea for Libya?

[pinboy3niner]

8. *SNORT*

[KurtNYC]

14. Maybe that is why Romney bought the La Jolla house

so he doesn't get lost on his way to the sea.

[BellaKos]

9. I wonder

if Trump thinks this happened because of him?

[MSMITH33156]

10. Still developing

Tunisia: Reported consulate suspect arrested
28-year-old in custody in Tunis

Updated: Wednesday, 24 Oct 2012, 1:02 PM CDT
Published : Wednesday, 24 Oct 2012, 12:42 PM CDT

BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The Tunisian government has confirmed it has arrested a 28-year-old Tunisian reportedly linked to the U.S. consulate attack in Libya.

Photos: U.S. ambassador killed in Libya

Tunisian Interior Ministry spokesman Tarrouch Khaled said Wednesday that Ali Harzi was in custody in Tunis. Khaled tells The Associated Press "his case is in the hands of justice." He did not elaborate.

In Washington, the State Department had no comment. Earlier this month, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the U.S. has been looking into the arrests of two Tunisian men being detained in Turkey reportedly in connection with attacks on a consulate in Libya last month.

Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans died in the attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in the Libyan capital of Benghazi on Sept. 11.


This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates as they become available.

http://www.kxan.com/dpps/news/international/28-year-old-linked-to-libya-attack-in-custody-nd12-jos_4855012

[MSMITH33156]

11. I believe it might be time

for Obama to head to the Rose Garden, and "spike the football."

[Waltons_Mtn]

15. I would like to see him live from the oval office during the seventh inning stretch tonight.

I think it would be a thing of beauty.

[txdemsftw]

12. WONDERFUL news!!

[whttevrr]

13. Thanks for the heads up...

This is not the time to spike the football or gloat, but I really hope the President plays this in a low key matter of fact finding presidential way.

I hope it comes out that the people responsible have been tracked and monitored for weeks while investigators were getting enough evidence to convict these people who thought they could get away with attacking our Ambassador.

[AAO]

20. And all of Romney's bluster almost blew their cover!

[KurtNYC]

16. dress the perp in a "Romney / Ryan " t-shirt

[reflection]

17. Best. Response. Yet.

"He was wearing this when we caught him!"

[jsmirman]

33. Four of ours died - let's show some respect

I don't think this is an instance for yuks.

I'm not blind to the political value of progress in the investigation for our side.

But I think it is inappropriate to be anything other than sober when dealing with anything that relates to the two real parts of this story - the loss of American lives and the search for those responsible.

[yellowcanine]

18. But Obama didn't use the exact word "terrorism" the very next day? Isn't that more important?

[AAO]

21. Act of terror = terrorism

[Jackpine Radical]

26. Oh, now, stop & think.

Where's the advantage to Willard in making that equivalence?

[AAO]

29. Willard gets no advantage from anything. It always seems to backfire. He is truly, the Mittwitt!

[Jackpine Radical]

30. Then why is he above the 30% Idiot Waterline in the polls?

[AAO]

39. Not real people? Zombies? Phantoms? Ghosts? I don't know but it couldn't be people with an IQ>100.

[Indpndnt]

40. That would be the Racist Idiot Waterline. The ones who want Obama out of 'their' WH.

Even if they don't like Willard. They hate Obama more. They are pond scum. My apologies to pond scum for the unfavorable comparison.

[Jackpine Radical]

41. Yes, that's the bunch I'm talking about.

Dittoheads, dolts & demon-possessed.

[Cha]

34. Really. That is just the latest Huge example of vapid bullshit churnned out

from the goPROPAGANDA MACHINE and the freaking US Tabloid Media. They sound like first graders who didn't learn Anything in Kindegarten.

[Calypso0956]

19. And a check stub from Romney & assoc~ nt

[DFW]

22. The best part is:

It didn't happen the day before the debate, so Rolls-Ryan can't complain it was held back for that occasion, AND it didn't happen the weekend before the election, so Rolls-Ryan can't complain of it being used to boost their chances in the hours before election day.

Obama MUST be careful not to play this up too much. The media will do it for him. The more he plays it cool ("look, I said we'd get them, and we got them. It's not the first time. What's the big deal?&quot , the more the media will play it up. Fox will scream about the timing, but if Obama keeps it low key, he will sink their ship before it even gets out of port.

[RomneyLies]

23. And the right wing will show their true colors whining about America catching terrorists

[Doctor_J]

38. He should make a joke out of it

"I know that Fox "News" and Talk radio will be complaining that we should have waited until after the election, but I commend our people for getting this done fast"

[helpisontheway]

24. I don 't see it on CNN or MSNBC

Website yet. Great news though!

[WallaceRitchie]

25. MORE arrests?

The Libyan government previously said they had arrested about 50 people in connection with the attack... and that was within a week of the event. Whatever happened to those suspects?

[CoffeeCat]

27. Will we now see Romney head to campaign in Texas, Tennessee, Missouri and North Dakota?

Ok, ok--I'm kind of exaggerating.

However, Mitt and the rest of the rabid Republicans--and their blowhard cohorts on right-wing radio--have hitched their wagon to these Benghazi conspiracy theories.

Obama has said all along that there was an investigation ongoing. He would share details as the FACTS were revealed.

If this situation is resolved and if Obama addresses the nation on this--to reveal the facts, then it's game over.

Republicans and Mitt lose so much credibility and Obama looks like the Commander in freakin Chief.

[BlueDemKev]

28. Watch the Rethugs say he didn't have Congress' permission to arrest the guy...

...that he has no respect for the Constitution, blah, blah, blah...

[sheshe2]

31. Hawaii Five O!

O's team was on it!
Go O!

[patrice]

32. Ha! ha! Republicans do not understand the POWER of taking the time to get it right. nt

[Botany]

36. So the US Govt. and the FBI helped to track down and arrest the terrorist?

What say you Joe Scarbourogh?

Updated at 3:58 p.m. ET

TUNIS, TUNISIA A Tunisian man who was arrested in Turkey earlier this month with reported links to the attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya has been returned to Tunisia and is facing terrorism charges, his lawyer said Wednesday.

snip

Meanwhile, a U.S. government official told CBS News that American investigators are in possession of some of the security camera video footage recorded during the attack. The official said the footage is of decent quality and investigators are reviewing it.

CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan reports that the State Department has footage from 10 cameras. The FBI obtained the footage from Libyans who removed it from the consulate compound days after the attack. The footage was recorded on non-infrared cameras and isn't complete.

[Blue Idaho]

37. Fucking Rmoney...

In his blind rush to score a cheap political point he and his campaign stepped in it big time. Now we see just what a short sighted weakling he is in Foreign Policy. The President shows us how to lead - and how to bring international terrorists to justice.

Congratulations Mr. President!

and

Fuck You Rmoney.

[Third Doctor]

42. I have a feeling that Obama

is not saying too much about this because he want's to lower the boom later this week or sometime next. It would make a great photo op this close to election day.