Posted on 11/05/2012 12:26:50 AM PST by neverdem
It is now apparent that the president of the United States countermanded standing Pentagon orders to help American personnel under attack. Ambassador Stevens and three others were left to die without AC-130 Spectres and rescue teams that are always on standby in the Africom theater. Only the White House could have countermanded those standing orders, and we know that POTUS had an emergency meeting with Panetta and Hillary within 55 minutes of the start of the attack. AFRICOM's General Carter F. Ham was fired -- presumably for wanting to rescue the Americans under fire.
Ambassador Stevens and his people were left to die to protect a deep-cover NSC-CIA operation. But what could be so important that 32 Americans had to be abandoned to the mercy of al-Qaeda? Benghazi was a major gun-running operation, funneling armaments from the crushed Libyan regime of Moammar Gaddafi to rebel forces opposing Syria's Assad. Ambassador Stevens was negotiating with a whole Star Wars barroom thug collection of bad actors, a reported ten different jihadist militias operating in Benghazi.
The most damning Benghazi revelation is the Obama policy that led to the disaster: Obama's four-year policy of secretly supporting violent Islamists against civilized Muslims, like Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, and modern-minded people in countries like Turkey and Iran. We used to support moderate Muslims until Obama took over; now we support our deadly enemies. In Benghazi, some of those gangster types turned against us, tore the cover off the operation, burned out Ambassador Stevens, and killed American defenders with mortar fire. Our defenders had the AQIM mortar crew laser-marked for jet bombers and gunships that never showed up.
We now have four solid years of Obama administration support for radical jihadi movements against the modern world. The United States has abandoned any moral basis for its...
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Petraeus’s Quieter Style at C.I.A. Leaves Void on Libya Furor
Not completely. That was in Saturday's NY Times. Go figure.
Obama’s legacy: The blunder in Benghazi
WaPo today!
Most of the early reports said that 37 people were evacuated from the consulate to Tripoli. Plus four dead equals 41.
Thank you!
I cannot vouch for the absolute accuracy of that figure but it is what was reported in several publications at the time and I have seen no other reports on those survivor-evacuees since then. It is difficult to find those early reports now through searches FWIW. I wish I had bookmarked more of them but it took me a couple of days to realize that I would want an extensive file on this.
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