A few nights ago, I watched an hour-long interview titled 13 Hours in Benghazi: The Inside Story featuring one of the Fox News anchors interviewing three private security contractors who were there. I learned some things I wasnt expecting to hear, especially through Fox. The following is all taken directly from Fox News reporting [my comments are in brackets]: The attack began at 9:30 pm, and by 1:15 am, Ambassador Stevens was dead. [Thats a little over 4 hours - hardly enough time to get a squadron of jets or attack helicopters from Italy to Libya to save the Ambassador.] During the attack, the Ambassador had been left behind by the contractors hired to protect him, but was found by some Libyan looters who took him to a hospital, where he soon died while being treated. Nobody knows what time the Ambassador was wounded. When the contractors initially saw the compound (the CIA annex) where the Ambassador was staying, they told the everyone there that the place was impossible to defend, and that, if there were an attack, theyd probably die. The Ambassador decided to stay anyway, instead of moving to the more defensible consulate a mile away. Nobody in the compound, including the contractors, was expecting an attack of any sort - one contractor was getting ready for bed when the attack came at about 9:30 pm. When the attack happened, the Ambassador was taken by one contractor to the safest place in the compound. The attackers set the compound on fire using diesel fuel, so the contractor told the Ambassador to follow him and crawled through the smoke to a window which he open, crawled through and dropped onto the ground. Nobody followed after him, so he went back inside. The place was in flames, and after several attempts to locate the Ambassador in the smoke and dark, the contractors decided to leave the compound and move to the consulate, where they survived. These men were not cowards. They were ex-special forces. They left the person they were hired to protect behind in the compound to die because they couldnt find him after a few attempts to locate him in a burning building. They were gone by the time the looters took the Ambassador to the hospital around 1:00 am. They said that having aerial support would have helped in the battle [but it would not have saved the Ambassador.] [Draw your own conclusions as to how well these men performed the duty they were hired to do. It should be obvious, however, that there was nothing Pres. Obama or Secretary Clinton could have done to save the Ambassador.]
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:21:33 +0000
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