Is Benghazi Obama's Waterloo?

[Frank M 181]

getting worse for the criminals in white house....they didn't even consult with their resources. this was an intended incident that went bad. all the evidence points to a staged theater and a doublecross.

 

cbs

 

propaganda media is starting to turn on hussein muhammed on this.

 

either amb stevens was in on the fake kidnapping scheme or he was intentionally hit for something he had on obama. there's more to this. anderson cooper and stevens knew each other. cooper ends up with the diary somehow. cooper knows something about this.

 

the head of africom finally authorized help and was immediately arrested by his second in command. he is now being transitioned out of africom.

 

Perfect example of the nonsense coming out. I'm supposed to get worked up about this conspiracy theory BS?

[nikki2200 4]

I appreciate your honest assessment.

 

That being said, I think it is tough to compare the two events. It would have been pragmatically impossible to have avoided 9/11; hindsight is 20/20, and we could not have put in TSA and the associated bullshiot without 9/11 happening. People hate TSA procedures as it is; could you imagine our mindset if it was just preventive for some theoretically possible attack?

 

Benghazi was specific, surgical, and the risk was identified. It could have easily been prevented, or at least made much more difficult. Not to mention the little problem of not helping them when the shiot hit the fan.

 

And you know this how? Were you conferenced in on the discussions in the WH situation room? Pancetta, Hillary, Obama, and various military officials of various decoration are discussing the issue and they called jerryskids apparently.

 

Obama: Well.. jerryskids, after being debriefed on the whole situation, what is your take on it? What should we do?

 

Jerryskids: Benghazi is a specific, surgical, and the risk is identified. It should be easily prevented and we should send troops in.

 

Obama: Nah. Fock em. Fock em dead.

 

[Phurfur 70]

And you know this how? Were you conferenced in on the discussions in the WH situation room? Pancetta, Hillary, Obama, and various military officials of various decoration are discussing the issue and they called jerryskids apparently.

 

Obama: Well.. jerryskids, after being debriefed on the whole situation, what is your take on it? What should we do?

 

Jerryskids: Benghazi is a specific, surgical, and the risk is identified. It should be easily prevented and we should send troops in.

 

Obama: Nah. Fock em. Fock em dead.

 

 

MK-Ultra, you got it bad.

 

YouTube Video!

[KSB2424 3,148]

And you know this how? Were you conferenced in on the discussions in the WH situation room? Pancetta, Hillary, Obama, and various military officials of various decoration are discussing the issue and they called jerryskids apparently.

 

Obama: Well.. jerryskids, after being debriefed on the whole situation, what is your take on it? What should we do?

 

Jerryskids: Benghazi is a specific, surgical, and the risk is identified. It should be easily prevented and we should send troops in.

 

Obama: Nah. Fock em. Fock em dead.

 

Can you read this please? CBS News

[KSB2424 3,148]

I'll be the first to admit that FoxNews normally chases at cars with anyting, I mean anything negative they can find on the Left and/or the President. Some of it, like the birther stuff is Fox just chasing at cars to feed the beast.

 

However this time, they seem to be actually on to something. Things are not matching up. What we were told and what we are finding out they knew are not jiving. I don't think it was some conspirarcy per se, but it does seem there was some serious mis steps and some crucial decisons made to stand down. And the worst of it is that the pubic seems to have been purposely mislead. Just not good at all.

 

FoxNews may be a broken clock most of the time; and you know what they say, a broken clock is right twice a day. Fox seems to be the only one telling the correct time on this one.

[DankNuggs 305]

Because the vast majority of the stuff coming out on it is nonsense. Mistakes were made, there will be investigations, heads will roll, but trying to use this incident to paint the President as a Muslim sympathizer demon spawn baby eater isn't working with the general public since people can figure out for themselves that being an ambassador to a dangerous Middle East country probably entails a little more risk than being an ambassador to England or the Bahamas.

more incompetant and a politically motivated liar...

 

This guy operates with absolutely zero accountability...

[BudBro 183]

I'm supposed to get worked up about this conspiracy theory BS?

i wouldn't if i were you.

[Frank M 181]

more incompetant and a politically motivated liar...

 

This guy operates with absolutely zero accountability...

 

Whatever. It still isn't working.

 

But by all means, continue to be confused at the lack of outrage at this.

[Frank M 181]

i wouldn't if i were you.

 

Cool. Because I'm not.

 

[jerryskids 6,813]

And you know this how? Were you conferenced in on the discussions in the WH situation room? Pancetta, Hillary, Obama, and various military officials of various decoration are discussing the issue and they called jerryskids apparently.

 

Obama: Well.. jerryskids, after being debriefed on the whole situation, what is your take on it? What should we do?

 

Jerryskids: Benghazi is a specific, surgical, and the risk is identified. It should be easily prevented and we should send troops in.

 

Obama: Nah. Fock em. Fock em dead.

 

I wasn't talking about the minutes after the attack per se. Prior to it we (the gubmint) knew that AQ cells were training in Benghazi, and that the ambassador had requested additional security, and that our ambassador was in an extremely insecure compound. On 9/11. Additional security should have been implemented; to argue otherwise is asinine.

 

But since you brought up that timeframe: given what we knew, then yeah, it wouldn't have been rocket science to have immediately concluded that it was most likely a terrorist attack. Unfortunately for 4 Americans, they didn't ask me at the time.

[DankNuggs 305]

We need to remember that all dems care about is getting free generic birth control pills and allowing transexuals to expose themselves to children...

 

We all know nobody will be truly free unless they obtain free little white pills, and can flop around their lady dongs...

[Phurfur 70]

I'm supposed to get worked up about this conspiracy theory BS?

It is not a conspiracy, it is an inept President trying to hang on for a second term. It is sad and pathetic but not a conspiracy. HTH

[DankNuggs 305]

Whatever. It still isn't working.

 

But by all means, continue to be confused at the lack of outrage at this.

see above

[Frank M 181]

see above

 

You would think that with all this important info coming out, Romney would be hammering this home if the President was just lying about it all to save his job.

 

I wonder why he's not?

[DankNuggs 305]

You would think that with all this important info coming out, Romney would be hammering this home if the President was just lying about it all to save his job.

 

I wonder why he's not?

Romney has avoided any links to warmongering, I believe this issue opens anyone up to question why immediate security/military response didn't occur... Pretending it didn't really happen because it was just spontaneous happenstance avoid the reality and the issue... And Romney knows the economy is his path to the presidency. Thats the best rationale i can come up with... Ambassadors being besieged and killed by terrorists is a BIG deal...

 

Personally I think its pretty easy to rough up obama on this, and I'm curious why they are letting it ride until after the election...

[Frank M 181]

Romney has avoided any links to warmongering, I believe this issue opens anyone up to question why immediate security/military response didn't occur... Pretending it didn't really happen because it was just spontaneous happenstance avoid the reality and the issue... And Romney knows the economy is his path to the presidency. Thats the best rationale i can come up with... Ambassadors being besieged and killed by terrorists is a BIG deal...

 

Personally I think its pretty easy to rough up obama on this, and I'm curious why they are letting it ride until after the election...

 

If it was something the general public cared about, he would.

[BudBro 183]

You would think that with all this important info coming out, Romney would be hammering this home if the President was just lying about it all to save his job.

 

I wonder why he's not?

worthless media like abc and cbs are coming around on it to reach the sheepy uniformed that vote for leftists. jobs are the main topic still and those aren't getting better. this is too complicated for the simpletons and nobody wants to know the guy they voted in is undermining his own country. they just want a job and someone who can get incomes rising again.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

Personally I think its pretty easy to rough up obama on this, and I'm curious why they are letting it ride until after the election...

It's not an issue that gets votes. Romney needs to stay the course on the economy. If you don't know Obama's foreign policy has been a failure by now, you won't be convinced. And most do not care about foreign policy anyway.

 

Don't worry, should Obama win, he is going to get hammered on this.

[DankNuggs 305]

If it was something the general public cared about, he would.

Like I said, he'd be opening himself up to warmongering, and turning attention away from the economy. The public cares about it, but not as much as the liberals pine for govt scraps, and conservatives worry about the economy...

[Frank M 181]

worthless media like abc and cbs are coming around on it to reach the sheepy uniformed that vote for leftists. jobs are the main topic still and those aren't getting better. this is too complicated for the simpletons and nobody wants to know the guy they voted in is undermining his own country. they just want a job and someone who can get incomes rising again.

 

So we have a nine page thread describing Obama's failings in this situation and predicting that this will help lose him the election, yet Mitt Romney is not talking about this important foreign policy disaster because:

 

1-He doesn't want to be seen as a warmonger

 

2-The situation is too confusing for the average voter who don't really want him to say anything bad about Obama

 

3-All people care about when they vote this time will be jobs

 

4-The mainstream media isn't giving us the "true" story which is why we don't care and Mitt is just responding to that not caring by not bringing it up

 

Is that about right?

 

[Frank M 181]

It's not an issue that gets votes. Romney needs to stay the course on the economy. If you don't know Obama's foreign policy has been a failure by now, you won't be convinced. And most do not care about foreign policy anyway.

 

Don't worry, should Obama win, he is going to get hammered on this.

 

You would think that Obama's foreign policy would be a big deal if you read this thread. Isn't foreign policy a big part of the President's job? Especially considering this "disaster."

 

[BudBro 183]

CBS News has learned that during the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Obama Administration did not convene its top interagency counterterrorism resource: the Counterterrorism Security Group, (CSG).

 

"The CSG is the one group that's supposed to know what resources every agency has. They know of multiple options and have the ability to coordinate counterterrorism assets across all the agencies," a high-ranking government official told CBS News. "They were not allowed to do their job. They were not called upon."

 

why would they not be called upon by the commander-in-chief of our military forces?

[KSB2424 3,148]

If it was something the general public cared about, he would.

This is why the non reporting on this topic means so much. The general public only cares about what the news outlets report on. i.e. There are kidnappings every day, but the general public gets all emotional on the ones that the media latch on too and become headlines on People magazine and Lifetime movies are made from eventually. The media drives what the general public cares about unfortunately.

 

Last Sunday on the news shows none of the shows even broght up Benghazi. On Meet the Press with David Gregory, somebody brought it up and Gregory quickly shut it down. He said "We'll have time for that topic later" But they never got back to it. Instead Meet the Press spent 30 mintues talking about this wacko Indiana Congressmen or whatever that said that Abortion/Rape comment.

 

This is a news story. Something investigative journalist should be creaming over. And we are finally starting to see some others like CBS start to pick up again and ask questions.

[nikki2200 4]

So we have a nine page thread describing Obama's failings in this situation and predicting that this will help lose him the election, yet Mitt Romney is not talking about this important foreign policy disaster because:

 

1-He doesn't want to be seen as a warmonger

 

2-The situation is too confusing for the average voter who don't really want him to say anything bad about Obama

 

3-All people care about when they vote this time will be jobs

 

4-The mainstream media isn't giving us the "true" story which is why we don't care and Mitt is just responding to that not caring by not bringing it up

 

Is that about right?

 

 

It's mind-boggling. But it must be true! I mean all these media outlets illegally obtaining classified information, statements, e-mails, etc. on the matter from mid-level scrubs within various intelligence agencies is not enough for you to provide your expert opinion on this clear military and central intelligence blunder? I mean you do have a computer and an internet connection, obviously. Isn't that all you need?

 

 

 

I'm not saying that this was necessarily not a fock up. It very well may have been. But we have absolutely no basis for saying that considering what has been released is probably about 10% of the story. I have a hard time believing that our intelligence and military officials willfully let Americans die just for the lulz of it all. The youtube story they were presenting to the public was beyond bizarre. Mitt Romney completely dropping this as a talking point when it has the ability to paint the incumbent President in a very bad light is head scratch worthy. Hillary falling on her sword and taking the blame - what? And the Republican House seemingly being rather quiet about this whole thing until the official hearing days before they want to get the current President ousted... well something smells rotten and it's not Obama's afro. I'm a little scared about what happened. It doesn't seem right and we know it involved al-Qaeda. I will wait to the hearing on November 15 and see what the official presentation says. If the committee tries to sweep the whole thing under the rug and gives vague explanations of what went down.... frankly I'm going to be a little scared. There could very well be a reason that the embassy and the CIA annex were attacked by al-Qaeda that was a little more than just wanting to murder some Americans.

[IGotWorms 4,058]

So it turns out the CIA was on the scene in Benghazi. Deployed from secret base in city and sent reinforcements from Tripoli. Organized Libyan military convoy to escort survivors to waiting airplanes.

 

Those of you who think there was no response whatsoever are clearly wrong. It defies reason to think nobody did anything at all as a diplomatic mission was attacked.

 

My guess is that officials have been tight lipped because it's considered a strategic type failure and victory for the terrorists. Officials probably don't want to embolden terrorists and make America look weak by admitting that they pulled off a minor coup here.

 

It is possible, perhaps even likely, that the terrorists were underestimated and a greater response should have been ordered earlier. That's what I'll be listening for as the investigation unfolds.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

You would think that Obama's foreign policy would be a big deal if you read this thread.

Thanks, but I'll get my opinions of foreign policy from somewhere other than Fantasy Football thread. BTW it was a disaster from the time the terrorists rolled and and assassinated the Ambassador to the time Obama called it a protest and arrested a Youtuber. Perhaps they can put the dude in Gitmo, I hear it's still open for business.

[BudBro 183]

It's mind-boggling. But it must be true! I mean all these media outlets illegally obtaining classified information, statements, e-mails, etc. on the matter from mid-level scrubs within various intelligence agencies is not enough for you to provide your expert opinion on this clear military and central intelligence blunder? I mean you do have a computer and an internet connection, obviously. Isn't that all you need?

 

 

 

I'm not saying that this was necessarily not a fock up. It very well may have been. But we have absolutely no basis for saying that considering what has been released is probably about 10% of the story. I have a hard time believing that our intelligence and military officials willfully let Americans die just for the lulz of it all. The youtube story they were presenting to the public was beyond bizarre. Mitt Romney completely dropping this as a talking point when it has the ability to paint the incumbent President in a very bad light is head scratch worthy. Hillary falling on her sword and taking the blame - what? And the Republican House seemingly being rather quiet about this whole thing until the official hearing days before they want to get the current President ousted... well something smells rotten and it's not Obama's afro. I'm a little scared about what happened. It doesn't seem right and we know it involved al-Qaeda. I will wait to the hearing on November 15 and see what the official presentation says. If the committee tries to sweep the whole thing under the rug and gives vague explanations of what went down.... frankly I'm going to be a little scared. There could very well be a reason that the embassy and the CIA annex were attacked by al-Qaeda that was a little more than just wanting to murder some Americans.

fair enough. nov 15th may be too late if they find what you hope they don't find, though.

[Phurfur 70]

So it turns out the CIA was on the scene in Benghazi. Deployed from secret base in city and sent reinforcements from Tripoli. Organized Libyan military convoy to escort survivors to waiting airplanes.

 

Those of you who think there was no response whatsoever are clearly wrong. It defies reason to think nobody did anything at all as a diplomatic mission was attacked.

 

My guess is that officials have been tight lipped because it's considered a strategic type failure and victory for the terrorists. Officials probably don't want to embolden terrorists and make America look weak by admitting that they pulled off a minor coup here.It is possible, perhaps even likely, that the terrorists were underestimated and a greater response should have been ordered earlier. That's what I'll be listening for as the investigation unfolds.

It lasted over 7 hours, 4 Americans serving their country died and you think "Organized Libyan military convoy to escort survivors to waiting airplanes" is acceptable. You are a massive fool in denial but you are lucky that you aren't smart enough to ever figure it out. Go watch your YouTube video.

 

BTW: The entire world knows that "terrorists pulled off a minor coup here". You and your lefty buddies are the only ones left in the dark.

[IGotWorms 4,058]

It lasted over 7 hours, 4 Americans serving their country died and you think "Organized Libyan military convoy to escort survivors to waiting airplanes" is acceptable. You are a massive fool in denial but you are lucky that you aren't smart enough to ever figure it out. Go watch your YouTube video.

 

BTW: The entire world knows that "terrorists pulled off a minor coup here". You and your lefty buddies are the only ones left in the dark.

 

You're an America hating dbag, so you have no credibility on this issue. Some people are actually concerned with the county's strategic standing in the world.

[Phurfur 70]

You're an America hating dbag, so you have no credibility on this issue. Some people are actually concerned with the county's strategic standing in the world.

 

I've been there you haven't so STFU. What have you done for your country in your pathetic life?

 

How does letting Americans died at the hands of terrorist help our strategic standing in the world? How does denying it help?

[Frank M 181]

It's mind-boggling. But it must be true! I mean all these media outlets illegally obtaining classified information, statements, e-mails, etc. on the matter from mid-level scrubs within various intelligence agencies is not enough for you to provide your expert opinion on this clear military and central intelligence blunder? I mean you do have a computer and an internet connection, obviously. Isn't that all you need?

 

 

 

I'm not saying that this was necessarily not a fock up. It very well may have been. But we have absolutely no basis for saying that considering what has been released is probably about 10% of the story. I have a hard time believing that our intelligence and military officials willfully let Americans die just for the lulz of it all. The youtube story they were presenting to the public was beyond bizarre. Mitt Romney completely dropping this as a talking point when it has the ability to paint the incumbent President in a very bad light is head scratch worthy. Hillary falling on her sword and taking the blame - what? And the Republican House seemingly being rather quiet about this whole thing until the official hearing days before they want to get the current President ousted... well something smells rotten and it's not Obama's afro. I'm a little scared about what happened. It doesn't seem right and we know it involved al-Qaeda. I will wait to the hearing on November 15 and see what the official presentation says. If the committee tries to sweep the whole thing under the rug and gives vague explanations of what went down.... frankly I'm going to be a little scared. There could very well be a reason that the embassy and the CIA annex were attacked by al-Qaeda that was a little more than just wanting to murder some Americans.

 

I agree. Someone somewhere screwed up, there will hearings about it, and heads will roll because of it.

 

Some of the mouthbreathers in this thread won't be happy about this unless Obama is impeached, thrown onto the curb at the White House, covered with honey and left to lay on an anthill, raped with a sandpaper d1ldo, hung off a bridge on the Potomac River, then drawn and quartered.

 

This idea that we need to be privy to and second guess every single decision coming out of the White House is focking annoying. You're right, a computer and an internet connection, all of a sudden we're all foreign policy experts that know exactly what happened leading up to the completely volatile situation well as knowing exactly what WE would have done in the same focked up, volatile situation if WE were in charge.

[Frank M 181]

I've been there you haven't so STFU. What have you done for your country in your pathetic life?

 

How does letting Americans died at the hands of terrorist help our strategic standing in the world? How does denying it help?

 

No you haven't.

 

HTH

[MDC 7,461]

Is there a version of Waterloo where Napoleon eeks out a narrow victory in the electoral college?

 

If so, the answer is YES: Benghazi will be Obummer's Waterloo.

[IGotWorms 4,058]

I've been there you haven't so STFU. What have you done for your country in your pathetic life?

 

How does letting Americans died at the hands of terrorist help our strategic standing in the world? How does denying it help?

 

Damn near every post you've ever made here is about how America sucks or Americans are stupid. If this were the 19th century they would've shot you for treason by now.

[MDC 7,461]

Damn near every post you've ever made here is about how America sucks or Americans are stupid. If this were the 19th century they would've shot you for treason by now.

 

Don't forget lying about military service. Several congressmen have floated bills to make that a crime. They should throw Phurfur in Gitmo and lose the key.

[Bruce Benedict 0]

Romney has avoided any links to warmongering...

lolwut?

 

His entire roster of campaign advisors are neocons. Not saying that as a generic term for bum-focking republitard scumbags that litter every campaign. Actual signatories to the neocon manifestos and stuff. Like 80% of them are the same guys that fellated Whang Cheney the whole way to yellowcake/high-grade-aluminum-tubing heaven.

 

Almost every single person he's aligned himself with is a chickenhawk or worse...a John Bolton type.

 

Romney already has Syrian invasion plans tattooed on his arse, and if you don't realize this, you're way, way, WAY too far out of your depth to step forth and claim your unfortunate right to vote.

 

There should really be an exam. Virtually no republican would nail the blank for his own name, much less successfully flip to the foreign policy section.

[Phurfur 70]

lolwut?

 

His entire roster of campaign advisors are neocons. Not saying that as a generic term for bum-focking republitard scumbags that litter every campaign. Actual signatories to the neocon manifestos and stuff. Like 80% of them are the same guys that fellated Whang Cheney the whole way to yellowcake/high-grade-aluminum-tubing heaven.

 

Almost every single person he's aligned himself with is a chickenhawk or worse...a John Bolton type.

 

Romney already has Syrian invasion plans tattooed on his arse, and if you don't realize this, you're way, way, WAY too far out of your depth to step forth and claim your unfortunate right to vote.

 

There should really be an exam. Virtually no republican would nail the blank for his own name, much less successfully flip to the foreign policy section.

 

LINK?

 

Yup, I thought so.

[Gepetto 1,370]

CIA officials in Libya made key decisions during Benghazi attacks

 

By Mark Hosenball

 

WASHINGTON | Thu Nov 1, 2012 9:20pm EDT

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA officials on the ground in Libya dispatched security forces to the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi within 25 minutes and made other key decisions about how to respond to the waves of attacks on U.S. installations on September 11, a senior American intelligence official said on Thursday.

 

Officials in Washington monitored events through message traffic and a hovering U.S. military drone but did not interfere with or reject requests for help from officials in the line of fire, the official said.

 

The information emerged as officials made available on Thursday a timeline chronicling the U.S. response to the Benghazi attacks in which Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, and three other American officials died. The material appears to refute claims by critics that officials in Washington delayed sending help to the besieged personnel.

 

The handling of the attack by the Obama administration and CIA has come under sharp criticism by supporters of Republican challenger Mitt Romney during the campaign ahead of the presidential election on November 6.

 

The senior intelligence official said that CIA officers in Benghazi, "responded to the situation on the night of 11 and 12 September as quickly and as effectively as possible.

 

"The security officers in particular were genuine heroes. They quickly tried to rally additional local support and heavier weapons, and when that could not be accomplished within minutes, they still moved in and put their own lives on the line to save their comrades," the official said.

 

"At every level in the chain of command, from the senior officers in Libya to the most senior officials in Washington, everyone was fully engaged in trying to provide whatever help they could," the official said.

 

"There was no second-guessing those decisions being made on the ground, by people at every U.S. organization that could play a role in assisting those in danger. There were no orders to anybody to stand down in providing support," the official added.

 

OBAMA, CIA PUSH BACK AGAINST CRITICISM

 

Intelligence and other administration officials expressed particular dismay about a report on Fox News last week that alleged that armed CIA operatives near the U.S. compound in Benghazi were repeatedly told to "stand down" after asking for permission to assist on the night of September 11 and were also refused military backup by the CIA chain of command.

 

Following the initial broadcast of the Fox News report, Jennifer Youngblood, a CIA spokeswoman, denied that CIA had ever turned down requests for help from U.S. personnel in Benghazi.

 

"No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate," Youngblood said.

 

According to the timeline, around 9:40 p.m. Benghazi time, officials at the CIA's relatively fortified and well-defended base in Benghazi got a call from State Department officials at the U.S. diplomatic mission about a mile away that the less-fortified public mission complex had come under attack from a group of militants, the intelligence official said.

 

Other official sources said that the initial wave of attacks on the diplomatic mission involved setting fires using diesel fuel. The dense smoke created by the fuel both made it hard for people at the compound to breathe and to organize a response to the attack.

 

About 25 minutes after the initial report came into the CIA base, a team of about six agency security officers left their base for the public diplomatic mission compound.

 

Over the succeeding 25 minutes, the CIA team approached the compound, and tried, apparently unsuccessfully, to get local Libyan allies to bring them a supply of heavier weapons, and eventually moved into the burning diplomatic compound, the intelligence official said.

 

At around 11:10 p.m., a Defense Department drone, which had been on an unrelated mission some distance away, arrived in Benghazi to help officials on the ground gather information. By 11:30, U.S. personnel who had been working or staying at the mission had been rounded up except for Ambassador Stevens, who was missing, the intelligence official said.

 

When they tried to drive out of the diplomatic compound to return to the CIA base, however, the convoy carrying U.S. evacuees came under fire.

 

Once they got back to the CIA base, that installation itself came under fire from what the intelligence official described as small arms and rocket-propelled grenades. These patchy attacks went on for roughly 90 minutes, the intelligence official said.

 

CIA SENT TEAM FROM TRIPOLI

 

Around the same time, a CIA security team based in Tripoli, which included two U.S. military officers, landed at Benghazi airport. Upon its arrival, however, the team spent some time trying both to arrange local transport and to locate the missing Ambassador Stevens.

 

After some time trying to solve these problems, the security team that had flown in from Tripoli eventually arranged for an armed local escort and extra transportation, but decided not to go the hospital where they believed Stevens had been taken. In part this was because they had reason to believe Stevens was likely dead, and because security at the hospital was believed, at best, to be "uncertain," the intelligence official said.

 

Not long before dawn, the reinforcements from Tripoli managed to take themselves and a convoy of vehicles to the CIA base to prepare for an anticipated evacuation.

 

However, just after they arrived at the CIA base, the official said, a new round of attacks on that facility was launched, this time with mortars. Although the mortar attacks lasted only 11 minutes, two U.S. security officers were killed by a direct hit from one of the shells, the intelligence official said.

 

Finally, a bit less than an hour later, a heavily armed Libyan military unit arrived at the CIA base to help evacuate the compound of U.S. personnel to the Benghazi airport, the official added.

 

Over the next few hours, roughly 30 Americans, as well as the bodies of Stevens and the other three Americans killed during the attacks, were loaded on planes and flown out of the city, several U.S. officials said.

 

(Reporting by Mark Hosenball; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

link

 

 

[nikki2200 4]

BUT BUT there are classified e-mails from unknown intelligence sources that were "leaked" to the media that say they were all just left there to die in an Obama-coordinated nefarious plot to kill Americans because he sympathizes with Mooslims!!!!

 

IDGI.

[jerryskids 6,813]

BUT BUT there are classified e-mails from unknown intelligence sources that were "leaked" to the media that say they were all just left there to die in an Obama-coordinated nefarious plot to kill Americans because he sympathizes with Mooslims!!!!

 

IDGI.

They are feeding you the baby food you crave, and you are lapping it up.

 

It took this long for this version to come out?

25 minutes to leave the compound?

25 minutes to get there and "apparently" be unsuccessful at getting weapons from the military?

Were they laser-sighting mortars, and if so, why if not for bombing support?

Nobody "at any level of the CIA" denied help?