Posted on 10/09/2012 6:30:06 PM PDT by kristinn
Senior State Department officials provided a more detailed picture Tuesday of the consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. A look at how they say the attack took place:
Sept. 10-11, 2012
Stevens arrives in Benghazi and holds meetings on and off the consulate grounds on Sept. 10. He spends the night, and for the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. holds meetings only inside the compound. It is an enclosed area about 300 yards long by 100 yards wide, with a 9-foot outer wall topped by barbed wire and augmented by barriers, steel drop bars and other security upgrades. There are four buildings in the compound. Five diplomatic security officers are present, along with four members of a local militia deployed by Libya's government to provide added security.
Around 8:30 p.m.
Stevens finishes his final meeting of the day and escorts a Turkish diplomat outside the main entrance of the consulate. The situation is calm. There are no protests.
Around 9:40 p.m.
Agents hear loud noises, gunfire and explosions near the front gate. A barracks at the entrance housing the local militiamen is burnt down. Agents viewing cameras see large group of armed men flowing into the compound. Alarm is sounded. Telephone calls are made to the embassy in Tripoli, officials in Washington, the Libyan authorities and a U.S. quick reaction force located at a second compound a little over a mile away.
Grabbing weapons
One agent, armed with a sidearm and an M4 submachine gun, takes Stevens and computer specialist Sean Smith to a safe room inside one of the compound's two main residences. It has a heavy metal grill and several locks, medical supplies and water, and windows that can be opened only from the inside.
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I was watching Fox at 6:50 est pm tonight when Special Report was on...I said to myself this is big!~
But I then flipped the dials at 7, nobody talking about it. Was surprised that Fox did not go into the 7 oclock hour with breaking news on it, thought it would be a big big story?
Not surprised to find CNN and MSNBC talking about Romney Lies/47 percent/
CNN said long after 7 pm that the top story was Romney talking to Blitzer, like CNN was not aware of the conference call, they were in it!
How can they call themselves journalists with straight face???
Expect them to call this latest dump info “old news.”
What is the latest leftist label for any inconvenient information? “Ancient history”, I believe reading.
In this version, Stevens simply goes missing before everyone else evacuates the consulate. He just disappears.
Are they still saying it was the movie, before it wasn’t the movie...?!?!
Rueters, Excerpt:
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a conference in Florida on Tuesday that there was no advanced warning about the Libya attack.
He scoffed at media portrayals of him as “hapless and hopeless” for acknowledging on September 28 a shift in the intelligence assessment of the Benghazi assault, calling it a deliberate terrorist attack instead of an event stemming from spontaneous protest, as initially thought.
Clapper suggested it was unrealistic for anyone to expect the U.S. intelligence community to have a “a God’s eye, God’s ear certitude” right after an attack like the one in Libya.
Link: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/us-officer-got-no-reply-cables-asking-more-174539222.html
State is going to claim that the size of the assault was so large and unprecedented that no matter how much they would have reinforced the facility or beefed up security personnel they wouldn’t have been able to withstand from being overrun.
"Attackers breach the compound"Attackers penetrate Stevens' building and try to break the grill locks for the safe room, but cannot gain access. They dump jerry cans of diesel fuel in the building, light furniture on fire and set aflame part of the exterior of the building. Two of the remaining four agents are in the compound's other residence. Attackers penetrate that building, but the agents barricade themselves in and the attackers can't reach them. Attackers try to enter the tactical operations center, where the last two agents are located. They smash up the door but cannot enter the building.
"Americans trapped
"Meanwhile, Stevens' building rapidly fills up with thick diesel smoke and burning fumes from the furniture. Inside, visibility is less than 3 feet. Unable to breathe, the Americans go to a bathroom and open a window, but still can't get enough air. They decide to leave the building. The agent goes first, flopping out onto a patio enclosed by sandbags. He takes immediate fire, including probably rocket-propelled grenades. Stevens and Smith don't come out of the building. The agent, suffering severely from smoke inhalation, goes in and out of the building several times to look for them. He then climbs a ladder to the roof of the building and collapses. He radios the other agents to alert them to the situation there.
"The other four agents are able to reunite and take an armored vehicle to Stevens' building. They reach the collapsed agent and try to set up a perimeter. They take turns going into the building, searching on hands and knees for the missing Americans. Smith is pulled out, dead. Stevens cannot be found.
"Evacuation
"Agents pile into an armored vehicle, with Smith's body, and leave through the main gate. They face immediate fire. Crowds and groups of men block two different routes to the security compound. Heavy traffic means they are traveling only about 15 mph, and trying not to attract attention. On a narrow street they reach a group of men who signal for them to enter a compound. They sense an attack and speed away, taking heavy fire from AK-47 machine guns at a distance of only 2 feet, and hand grenades thrown against and under the car. Two tires are blown out."
Really? I find this version of events hard to believe. If this narrative is correct, how do they explain the photos of Stevens being murdered and tortured?
This version also notes that there were no protesters earlier in the evening. Odd that they are still framing this attack as part of a protest.
It mentions that Stevens was outside briefly. This is more evidence of a startling lack of security since we all know it was a terrorist attack.
And further, where is the autopsy report? People have the right to know what happened.
I suppose they figured if they could fool people for more than 10 days into believing Stevens murder was the result of a video that only a handful of Muslims saw, they would probably be able to fool people until after the election with this sanitized version of events.
That one small one is a picture I haven’t seen before, how very awful. Dear God......
Placeamark.
Ah gots yo tellgens brefs rite heah! |
“I heard Carney briefed all the media. Except Fox. That true?”
Yes, it is true.
“Obama set the ME in flames.”
Unfortunately, Billy Joel is a serious Hussein Head, or he’d be hard at work remaking, “We didn’t start the fire....”
And Hussein THANKED them for this.
That entire unedited press briefing should be made public on the GOV website! OK...when pigs fly...
Please ping to live hearing.
I wonder what time I should start the thread? I was thinking around 10:00.
Any advice?
ANY person who defends this by their silence, of whatever party or persuasion, needs to leave this country.......
ANY person who defends this by their silence, of whatever party or persuasion, needs to leave this country.......
I heard that too - Fox News was NOT invited to the briefing. Only those news outlets on the Obama payroll were invited.
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