To: Calpublican
●1:15 a.m.: CIA reinforcements arrive on a 45-minute flight from Tripoli in a plane they’ve hastily chartered. The Tripoli team includes four GRS security officers, a CIA case officer and two U.S. military personnel on loan to the agency. They don’t leave the Benghazi airport until 4:30 a.m. The delay is caused by negotiations with Libyan authorities over permission to leave the airport; obtaining vehicles; and the need to frame a clear mission plan. The first idea is to go to a Benghazi hospital to recover Stevens, who they rightly suspect is already dead. But the hospital is surrounded by the al-Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Sharia militia that mounted the consulate attack. I guess Barry's new fifteen minute rule for cutting red tape doesn't apply to "Libyan authorities".
7 posted on
11/01/2012 4:35:11 PM PDT by
Argus
To: Argus
...The delay is caused by negotiations with Libyan authorities over permission to leave the airport... When our embassy is under attack, the only terms in any negotiation should be "get the hell out of our way and we will let you live".
11 posted on
11/01/2012 4:44:57 PM PDT by
Never on my watch
(I can see November from the Chick-Fil-A drive through lane.)
To: Argus
...The delay is caused by negotiations with Libyan authorities over permission to leave the airport... When our embassy is under attack, the only terms in any negotiation should be "get the hell out of our way and we will let you live".
12 posted on
11/01/2012 4:45:43 PM PDT by
Never on my watch
(I can see November from the Chick-Fil-A drive through lane.)
To: Argus
...The delay is caused by negotiations with Libyan authorities over permission to leave the airport... When our embassy is under attack, the only terms in any negotiation should be "get the hell out of our way and we will let you live".
14 posted on
11/01/2012 4:49:00 PM PDT by
Never on my watch
(I can see November from the Chick-Fil-A drive through lane.)
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