Increasingly it looks like the regime has to choose between 2 explanations:
1. We are soul-less bastards who didn’t care that 22 people in our complex were going to be gunned down by Islamists.
2. We knew the attack was just a harmless theatrical production so we didn’t need any real protection coming in and screwing up the charade.
3. Both of the above.
I do believe predator was overhead —thats why he was painting tatgets. Buy Spectre overhead...? Hmmm...that one is iffy. I think they thought it would get shot down....that did happen once with the AC-130.
They thought they were cutting their losses and avoiding a Blackhawk Down scenario before an election.