Those people dragging the ambassador's body were not trying to save him

Phyllis Chesler:

I have been looking at the photos and the brief video of Ambassador Stevens and I have spoken to two different Arabists, who assure me that the mob dragging Steven’s body are chanting a song of victory over one’s enemies and are praising God for it.

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It is already 9/20, a full ten days after the Muslim mob tortured and murdered the American Ambassador and three other American personnel in Libya; and still, the loyal and avid NYT’s reader is being told that it was an “anti-Islam video that set off attacks against American embassies and violent protests in the Muslim world.” 

That is not true. Here’s what’s happening. 

America is now experiencing what Israel has had to live with, unaided, disbelieved, for decades. 

Remember the ghoulish lynching of the two Israeli reservists in Ramallah in 2000? And how the Palestinians danced for joy in the streets on 9/11? In 2012, the Arab Street, the Islamist Muslim Street, is again dancing in blood, dancing with corpses. 

People have cautioned me not to write about mob mass rape without proper sources. They are right. But today, what constitutes a credible source? Would one turn to theNew York Times (or Huffington Post or NPR) or to The Wall Street Journal, National Review, or the Weekly Standard? 

What constitutes irrefutable proof—the kind accepted by all? 

Remember the Mumbai massacre? Islamist terrorists forced hotel guests to strip naked to humiliate them before they killed them. Remember the Chabad Rabbi and his very pregnant wife in Mumbai? They were both tortured in full sight of each other and their genitals were mutilated. 

I know of many instances of Islamist Muslim mobs on a rampage. They have attacked civilians, including women and children, with axes, swords, knives, whips, chains, and rocks and they hacked, stabbed, lashed, and stoned their victims to death. The mob also be-headed their victims and sexually mutilated them, both while they were still alive and after death. They have also been known to gang-rape and gang-grope their victims. 

As yet, we have no autopsy reports about our American dead in Libya, nor do we have any eyewitness accounts of the possible sodomizing of Ambassador Stevens. 

However, I have been looking at the photos and the brief video of Ambassador Stevens and I have spoken to two different Arabists. 

The Arabists both assure me that the mob dragging and photographing Ambassador Steven’s body are chanting a song of victory over one’s enemies and are praising God for that victory.
The photos and video show a mob of men photographing a half-naked, facially battered man as they drag him through the streets. They do not look like Good Samaritans who are rushing him to the hospital for treatment. Ambassador Stevens looks quite dead. 

According to one of my Arabists, the Arab language media reported that Ambassador Stevens had been gang-raped before he was mob-murdered. He sent me a link to an Arab media venue. (And no, I am not referring to the Lebanese source which recanted this information).
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The US has been strangely silent about the results of an autopsy of Steven's body.  Has anyone asked the State Department if one has been done?  I think it could tell us a lot about what happened to him.  Congress should be asking to see it as they investigate the events.  There should also be an explanation of the celebration by those dragging the body.

This administration has had difficulty keeping its story straight about the event including whether or not it was a terrorist attack.  I am not sure they are ready to tell the truth about what happened to Ambassador Stevens, but Congress should be demanding it.