[TigersEye]

I think it was about three hours before Stevens body was found. The flames and smoke were long gone by then so I'm sure the attackers were too. I think of how awful it was to be sick from smoke inhalation for three hours before he died.

Just one or two inhalations of some burning vegetable oil will give you a royal headache, nausea and make you short of breath for a day or two. Smoke from burning building and furniture has got to be a lot worse.

[RitaOK]

I remain flummoxed over the purpose of our come and go presence in Benghazi at all. It was becoming all risk and no reward, from the British point of view, so, what possible reward did we have in mind that couldn’t be had in Tripoli?

I suppose this is where the suspicion of us storing and moving weapons around from that reportedly top secret annex a mile away comes in.

[Lady Heron]

I think it was about three hours before Stevens body was found. The flames and smoke were long gone by then so I'm sure the attackers were too.

That does not mesh with the torture and rape rumors. Rumors other embassies had just a few days later from talking to those on the ground.