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Libya Rescue Squad Ambushed; Two Americans Killed
Reuters via BigPeace.com ^
| 9/13/2012
Posted on 09/14/2012 12:00:48 AM PDT by GVnana
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A squad of U.S. troops despatched 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.
Miscommunication which understated the number of American survivors awaiting rescue - there were 37, nearly four times as many as the Libyan commander expected - also meant survivors and rescuers found themselves short of transport to escape this second battle, delaying an eventual dawn break for the airport.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911ii; benghazi; imamobama; jimmycarterredux; libyanrescuesquad; marxistbrotherhood; muslimbrotherhood; whathappened
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To: GVnana
The linked to Reuters article was published Wednesday and is probably what the CNBC article/FR thread was based on.
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posted on
09/14/2012 12:42:05 AM PDT
by
fso301
To: GVnana
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posted on
09/14/2012 12:43:41 AM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: GVnana
To: petitfour
Obama and State had better come clean on this. Quick! If sensitive information, at least to our cleared Congressional Intellience and Military Operations Committees. Congressman West ought to get out front and center on this one.
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posted on
09/14/2012 1:42:49 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Donate, & walk precincts, not for "Parties", but for individual, principled "Candidates" (& for FR)
Where’s Obama today? Chilaxing??/
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posted on
09/14/2012 2:16:02 AM PDT
by
RginTN
To: GVnana
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posted on
09/14/2012 2:34:32 AM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(End the occupation. Annex today.)
To: GVnana
Time for the Obama’s to go on vacation again... /sarc
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posted on
09/14/2012 2:35:40 AM PDT
by
OrioleFan
(Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
To: cynwoody
A US official told POLITICO: There is no intelligence. The attack in Benghazi was premeditated (but we won’t admit it, because then we’d look stupid).
Fixed.
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posted on
09/14/2012 2:36:50 AM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(End the occupation. Annex today.)
To: mylife
Have the hostages been secured yet in Benghazi? Are they having fun over at the Libyan embassy in Washington?
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posted on
09/14/2012 2:43:49 AM PDT
by
Eleutheria5
(End the occupation. Annex today.)
To: pepsionice
I’d take a strong guess that someone on inside of the top level of the Libyan gov’t had a hand in the planning of this.
I’d take a strong guess that they had help from someone inside the top level of the US gov. Think Huma.
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posted on
09/14/2012 3:03:32 AM PDT
by
Josephat
(`)
To: GVnana
These murders and rapes were PLANNED by Obama/Clinton
and the DNC/StateDept.
The treason was condoned by the US Congress
which is ONLY busy fulfilling its greed while
leaving all borders open.
America HATES the Congress for this.
Justifiably HATES.
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posted on
09/14/2012 3:07:03 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
To: GVnana
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posted on
09/14/2012 3:08:31 AM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: GVnana
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posted on
09/14/2012 3:20:44 AM PDT
by
golas1964
(Obama must be defeated in 2012)
To: treetopsandroofs
"Desert II" Jimmie Carter II
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posted on
09/14/2012 3:36:32 AM PDT
by
blam
To: treetopsandroofs
"Desert II" Jimmie Carter II
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posted on
09/14/2012 3:36:49 AM PDT
by
blam
To: All
The US Govt. is now leaking out the bad information in dribs and drabs.
Those Fockers are keeping information from us for absolutely political reasons.
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posted on
09/14/2012 3:42:14 AM PDT
by
rbmillerjr
(Conservative Economic and National Security Commentary: econus.blogspot.com)
To: GVnana
Jimmy Carter all over again!
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posted on
09/14/2012 3:48:22 AM PDT
by
DH
(Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
Comment #38 Removed by Moderator
To: Eleutheria5
Black Jimmah spending to much time drink’n white house Billy beer brewskis instead of going to national security meetings.
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posted on
09/14/2012 4:18:16 AM PDT
by
Rodm
To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
Why would we? The US government has been caught lying and cheating so much that they no longer have any credibility.
LLS
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posted on
09/14/2012 4:21:28 AM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
("if it looks like you are not gonna make it you gotta get mean, I mean plumb mad-dog mean" J. Wales)
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