Posted on 10/15/2012 7:02:57 AM PDT by Snuph
A small British firm based in south Wales had secured a contract to provide security for American diplomatic facilities in Benghazi despite having only a few months experience in the country. Sources have told the Daily Telegraph that just five unarmed locally hired Libyans were placed on duty at the compound on eight-hour shifts under a deal that fell outside the State Department's global security contracting system. Blue Mountain, the Camarthen firm that won a $387,000 (£241,000) one year contract from the US State Department to protect the compound in May, sent just one British employee, recruited from the celebrity bodyguard circuit, to oversee the work. The compound was overrun by a mob of Islamic extremists on the morning of September 12 in an apparent planned attack that resulted in the death by asphyxiation of the ambassador, Chris Stevens. Blue Mountain, which is run by a former member of the SAS, received paper work to operate in Libya last year following the collapse of Col Muammar Gaddafi's regime. It worked on short term contacts to guard an expatriate housing compound and a five-star hotel in Tripoli before landing the prestigious US deal. Other firms in the security industry expressed surprise that Blue Mountain had won a large, high profile contract from the US government. One industry executive said the level of service Blue Mountain provided did not appear adequate to the risks presented by a lawless city.
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Zero’s outsourcing really did “kill” people!!
I already posted this last night. In that thread you will find some very interesting information about the contact person for Blue Mountain being a GSA employee.
Let’s go back in time
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/13/us-libya-ambassador-assault-idUSBRE88C02Q20120913
Where did Reuters get all of their lies???? We know now there was know protest.
But wouldn’t the contact person actually be someone at Blue Mountain NOT AN EMPLOYEE and not at the address for GSA?
What happened to that large American firm called the Marines?
If the person in charge of the Benghazi contract fled the country hours before the attack - the question becomes who did that person notify?
No one?????????????????????????????????
A source with knowledge of two State Department meetings — one in June and a second in July — told Fox News that Blue Mountain Libya felt the security provided by the UK partner was “substandard and the situation was unworkable.”
But according to the source, when the Libyans tried to bring in a third party — an American contractor — to improve security, a State Department contract officer declined to get involved.
“The U.S. government is not required to mediate any disagreements between the two parties of the Blue Mountain Libya partnership,” contracting officer Jan Visintainer wrote on July 10 to Blue Mountain Libya, adding that to date “contract performance is satisfactory.”
I’m wondering as all those weak spined commie losers sat and watched 6 hours of attacks on the Benghazi consulate if it ever entered their pea brain to send in some assistance. Oh wait thats a rhetorical question. I already know the answer.
I’m wondering as all those weak spined commie losers sat and watched 6 hours of attacks on the Benghazi consulate if it ever entered their pea brain to send in some assistance. Oh wait thats a rhetorical question. I already know the answer.
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