It doesn’t make that much sense to me, in a place where you could buy an assortment of modern weapons at the local bazaar, they go into a compound to get an Ambassador? I still think the weapon goal was a ruse as big as the You Tube video. They were after the Ambassador and it wasn’t spontaneous.
“They were after the Ambassador and it wasn’t spontaneous.”
I watched ‘the panel’ on Baier’s show one evening prior to 9/11/12. Every last man said the Blind Sheikh would be released by the end of the year that year.
After 9/11, that meme stopped. Hard.
“They were after the Ambassador and it wasn’t spontaneous.”
I think there is a high likelihood you are correct. Something doesn’t add up during the time he was unaccounted for. The Villa that Stevens, Smith, and agent Wickland holed up in was set on fire. Wickland became separated from Stevens and Smith. He went back into the burning building to look for them until smoke, heat, and exhaustion got the better of him, at which point he climbed up to the roof and collapsed, nearly unconscious.
By the time Tyrone Woods and Jack Silva reached the villa, they found DS Agents Wickland and Ubben standing in front of the villa covered in soot and exhausted. That’s when Woods and Silva made over a dozen trips into the burning building searching for Stevens and Smith as well.
At some point Ubben and one of the Tripoli DS Agents aquired gas masks. As Jack came back to the front of the building, he saw them coming out from the smoke dragging a body which turned out to be Smith. After determining there was nothing more they could do to revive him, they returned to the searchimg for Stevens. After many searches, it was finally decided that nobody could possibly be alive in the building and the decision was made for everybody to return to the annex.
What I don’t get, is how Stevens later turned up at the hospital, allegedly alive. There was that period of time when a nearly unconscious Wickland was on the roof, and Stevens and Smith were presumed to be still inside the building, and Tyrone and Jack had not yet arrived. When Tig arrived, nobody was on the front patio. He took up a position behind sand bags. He heard a bunch of crashing and a door being kicked in and assumed it was Tyrone and Jack inside moving furniture. Shortly after that a Land Cruiser came around a corner to the front of the villa. He almost shot until he recognized the face of Ubben through the windshield. Also in the vehicle was one of the Tripoli based agents.
What doesn’t add up is how an allegedly alive Stevens got to the hospital. How did Stevens make it out, but Smith allegedly didn’t? If there was going to be some kind of kidnapping/trade deal, what stopped it? From the time Wickland got seperated from Stevens and Smith, until Smith’s body was being retrieved from the building, something happened that if known, would most likely blow this whole thing wide open. I think the ‘official’ story is that after everybody left for the annex, the savages returned, and THEY somehow managed to find Stevens, who miraculously survived inside the burning villa.