If they wanted to kidnap Stevens, a simple road block would have worked. They would not have attacked a Mission with a known safe room. The primary purpose of the attack appears to be taking down the Obama/Hillary regimes covert gun running into Libya through Turkey. Stevens had just had a meeting with Turkish officials a couple of hours earlier that day.
Thank you for the clarification.
I think the attackers wanted inside the compound. Lots of documents and computers with asset lists, equipment locations, names/locations of operatives, upcoming plans, etc. The Amb may have been the primary target, but the second would most likely have been the data/info in the compound.
Did I see that there had been a whole lot of millions of dollars US in CASH - that was there but then disappeared?
Surely motive for someone who knew.