Uh. Where did you get your info? These guys were former SEALs, and there were other well trained men, possibly former SEALs as well. There were five Americans at the consulate when the attack started. There were around 24 people at the safe house. I would wager that they were all trained to wage war and to win. And then there were the guys sent from Tripoli to aid in the battle. Do you think they were missionaries or something? It is amazing that these people left with only four killed. I still want to know how many of the attackers were killed. I have seen varying numbers from 8 to 60. It is disgusting that two of these guys died because the person sipping tea in the situation room could not pull the trigger and order the necessary assistance. It is also disgusting that the ambassador and Sean Smith were left with three Americans to defend the US consulate in hostile territory. It’s unconscionable.
Will we ever know the rest of the story?
[ Where did you get your info? These guys were former SEALs, and there were other well trained men, possibly former SEALs as well. ]
Fox news and other places.. Once a seal always a seal.. kinda like being a marine.. Well trained men without ordinance do not do well against RPG’s.. and mortars..
The idiot running this operation is indeed an idiot..
He(she) should have recalled them all or beefed up the security..
An idiot was running this operation..
They must be graduating idiots at Annapolis(West Point).. now..
Maybe some Air Force General was busy choking the chicken.. or stuffing it..
Among many sources, check:
Background Conference Call With Senior State Department Officials
Washington, DC
October 9, 2012 http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/10/198791.htm
And ex-CIA Clare M. Lopez, now V-P of the Intelligence Summit, and Professor at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies:
http://blogs.jpost.com/content/benghazi-october-surprise
If something is wrong, here, let’s correct it. The goal is to synthezise all the known data into a single coherent narrative.
You say: “There were around 24 people at the safe house.”
When you say ‘safe house’, you mean one of the building of the main compound? Or the CIA annex?
Oh, and btw: we all know about the QRF en route from Tripoli. But the question here is: why no AIR support? AC-130, or armed Predator drones? Or even a helico...
“There were around 24 people at the safe house.”
The safe house, aka CIA annex, was a VERY high-value target. That’s why it was much more protected than the so-called “Main” compound.
“...there was a CIA post in Benghazi, located 1.2 miles from the U.S. consulate, used as “a base for, among other things, collecting information on the proliferation of weaponry looted from Libyan government arsenals, including surface-to-air missiles”.
source: http://www.businessinsider.com/us-syria-heavy-weapons-jihadists-2012-10
This CIA “annexe” is in fact ONE OF THE LARGEST CIA OPERATIONS CENTERS in the Middle East: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/50586
It served as the logistics headquarters for running arms and weapons in and out of post-Gaddafi Libya.
The “Main” compound was not much. Yet the State Department seems to be willing to spin it the other way around:
“The [main] compound is roughly 300 yards long – that’s three football fields long – and a hundred yards wide. [...]
...In addition to all those, there is an additional security force at another U.S. compound two kilometers away. It serves as a rapid reaction force, a quick reaction security team – a quick reaction security team, okay?”
Source: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/10/198791.htm