I’ve read some sites today that claim this was an Iranian set up. That trained “troops” were just waiting with man pads for US planes to appear. Interesting speculation, eh?
That occurred to me as well. Not necessarily the Iranian part, but if there are 20K manpads missing, some of them might have been with the attacking militia. A couple of observations:
1) If that was so, the whole operation of feeding arms and trying to buy back arms was fatally flawed
2) Sending the ambassador to Benghazi after pulling his security force a few weeks before was beyond incompetent
3) If we were too afraid to have overhead assets, why were the SEALS painting the mortar with their lasers? It implies the assets were there.
I would think there are alternatives to the gunships if someone was interested in helping out the seals, which obviously, no one was.
That occurred to me as well. Not necessarily the Iranian part, but if there are 20K manpads missing, some of them might have been with the attacking militia. A couple of observations:
1) If that was so, the whole operation of feeding arms and trying to buy back arms was fatally flawed
2) Sending the ambassador to Benghazi after pulling his security force a few weeks before was beyond incompetent
3) If we were too afraid to have overhead assets, why were the SEALS painting the mortar with their lasers? It implies the assets were there.
If anyone knew that then we had enough intel to let Iran know that if there was so much as a twitch out of their fighters on the ground in Benghazi that their city of Qom or a port facility of theirs was going to be reduced to ashes.