The General giSt of the Benghazi operation was to knock off the Assad on the cheap; this CIA operation had no Congressional approval, no Congressional funding, which is the best way if you want to keep it quiet and have no leaks.
Khaddafi’s mostly unguarded arsenal would finance knocking off Assad.
Khaddafi’s Arsenal made especially good sense because after Reagan bombings of Tripoli and Benghazi, khaddafi had a very strong and healthy respect for American airpower, so he had been on a decade-long manpads buying binge, and that was one weapon type that the CIA was especially interested in procuring for free.
Benghazi was essentially a manpads acquisition and quality control operation for rebel proxies in syria.
this meant that events in far away Benghazi were affecting Russian and Iranian interests in Syria.
after awhile this International arms smuggling ratline became known.
Russia’s only access to the Mediterranean is in Syria which is its client State as well as that of Iran, so naturally both Russia and Iran had very good reason to resent American clandestine activity in Benghazi.
the attack on the compound was financing arranged by Iran and Russia.
This Thread started out with the question why did Benghazi get attacked, and that is the reason why.
my own belief is that that the weapons used in the nerve gas attack in Syria 3 years ago probably came from Gaddafi’s unguarded Arsenal, which did include chem weapons.
I don’t know if those chem weapons went through Benghazi, but the idea that that attack was a Russian chem attack is ridiculous.
the chem attack was from our Rebel friends, who were waist-deep in Khaddafi’s weapons.
Why attack the State Department compound, then?