Posted on 09/12/2012 6:42:57 PM PDT by Kartographer
A squad of U.S. troops dispatched by helicopter across the Libyan desert to rescue besieged diplomats from Benghazi on Wednesday ran into a fierce overnight ambush that left a further two Americans dead, Libyan officials told Reuters.
Accounts of the mayhem at the U.S. consulate, where the ambassador and a fourth American died after a chaotic protest over a film insulting to Islam, remain patchy. But two Libyan officials, including the commander of a security force which escorted the U.S. rescuers, said a later assault on a supposedly safe refuge for the diplomats appeared professionally executed.
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A squad is only 8 men. Suicide mission. God bless these brave troups.
Who sent them in? Mogadishu revisited?
“Leading from behind”
Or leading from Las Vegas
Or leading from the scampaign trail
Or leading from a fundraiser
Or leading from the sandtrap next to 12th green
Leading from behind = The Obama Doctrine
(I’m sure you concur)
You mean whose gutsy call was it?
I don't know if this can carrier launch but it would get their attention...
Indeed.
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