| #1 Fox, October 12, 2016: In 2011, the Obama administration with support from some Republican and Democratic lawmakers explored options to arm the so-called “Libyan rebels” during the chaotic Arab Spring but UN sanctions prohibited direct sales. Arms merchant Turi's plan was to have the U.S. government supply conventional weapons to Qatar and UAE, which would in turn supply them to Libya. But Turi says he never sold any weapons, and he was cut out of the plan. Working with CIA, Turi said Clinton's State Department had the lead and used its own people, with weapons flowing to Libya and Syria. "I can assure you that these operations did take place and those weapons did go in different directions." Asked by Fox who got the weapons -- Al Qaeda, Ansar al-Sharia, or ISIS -- Turi said: "All of them, all of them, all of them. |