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Okay, I already have questions abou this timeline:

The timeline:

–Around 9:40pm (local time) the Annex receives the first call that the Mission is under attack.

–Fewer than 25 minutes later, a security team leaves the Annex for the Mission.

____ What ‘security team’? How many?

–Over the next 25 minutes the team members approach the compound, attempt to secure heavy weapons, and make their way onto the compound in the face of enemy fire.

____ What do they mean by “attempt to secure heavy weapons”. From the attackers? Or their own?

–At 11:11pm the requested drone surveillance arrives over the Mission compound.

____ What was the drone supposed to be doing? Why did they request it? What did they want it to do?

–By 11:30pm all US personnel, except for US Ambassador Stevens who was missing, depart the Mission. The exiting vehicles come under fire.

____ How did they depart? How many vehicles? How many people?

–Over the next roughly 90 minutes, the Annex receives sporadic small arms fire and rocket propelled grenade rounds. The security team returns fire and the attackers disperse at approx 1am.

____ Okay, was the CIA annex being fired on while the “securtiy team” was over a the Mission? If so, who was left behind to defend? How many? Or did the firing resume once the “security team and Mission personell got back?

–At about the same time a team of additional security personnel lands at the Benghazi airport and negotiates for transport into town. Upon learning the Ambassador was missing and that the situation at the Annex had calmed the team focused on locating the Ambassador and tried to obtain information on the security situation at the hospital.

–It’s still pre-dawn when the team at the airport finally manages to secure transportation and an armed escort. Having learned that the Ambassador was almost certainly dead and that the security situation at the hospital was uncertain the team heads to the Annex to assist with the evacuation.

–They arrive with Libyan support at the Annex at 5:15am, just before the mortar rounds begin to hit the Annex. The two security officers were killed when they took direct mortar fire as they engaged the enemy. That attack lasted only 11 minutes before dissipating

___ Okay, these “additional security personell” did they join in the defense of the annex or where they only getting others out? Was it just Doherty and Woods who were providing cover for the evacuation?

–Less than an hour later a heavily-armed Libyan military unit arrived to help evacuate the compound of all US personnel.

___ So it was a Libyan team who eventually evacuated the Annex? What happened during that hour (remember previously they said the mortar attack lasted 11 minutes. what happened in between those times?