Posted on 04/29/2013 6:26:39 PM PDT by crosslink
The U.S. government had the ability to “react and respond” to the Benghazi terrorist attack and could have had forces on the ground before the second wave of the assault began, a special operator with knowledge of the response told Fox News in an exclusive interview. Due to the explosive nature of his allegations, the special ops member asked to remain anonymous.
“I know for a fact that C 110 the UComm CIF was doing a training exercise, not in the region of northern Africa, but in Europe. And they had the ability to react and respond,” he told Fox News.
The C 110 is a 40-man Special Ops force capable of rapid response and deployment, a group trained specifically for an event like the Benghazi attack, Fox News reports. The unit was training in Croatia on Sept. 11, 2012, just 3.5 hours away from Benghazi.
“They would have been there before the second attack,” the anonymous special operator said. “They would have been there at a minimum to provide a quick reaction force that could facilitate their exfil out of the problem situation.”
He continued: “Nobody knew how it was going to develop, and you hear a whole bunch of people and a whole bunch of advisors say, ‘Hey, we wouldn’t have sent them there because the security was unknown situation.’ If it’s an unknown situation, at a minimum you send forces there to facilitate the exfil or medical injuries. We could have sent a C 130 to Benghazi to provide medical evacuation for the injured.”
The special operator said there are members of special ops and other officials who are still active and involved in the situation. “They would be decapitated if they came forward with information that could affect high-level commanders,” he added.
While he says he doesn’t “blame them for not coming forward,” the special operator said members of the community feel betrayed and believe the betrayal goes all the way to the top. Further, the Special Ops community feels like the Americans in Benghazi were left to fend for themselves.
The White House has said from the beginning that there were no forces available to assist Americans in Benghazi on Sept. 11.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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What difference does it make anyway?
What difference does it make that we had assets ready to deploy?
What difference does it make that they were told to stand down?
What difference does it make that the regime lied about the existence of available assets?
What difference does it make that the regime lied about telling them to stand down?
You make me sick.
Nice, but the media will not cover this. They’re too busy jumping for joy over the gay NBA player.
F Chuck Todd tells us the WON hates the internet and then this jickeyjack joins to tell us we don’t know diddly
that ain’t an accident
“What difference does it make?!”
For that statement alone...
Another shameless propagandist for Hussein at FR... what a surprise!
/s
BOOM de la BOOM BOOM
me like
5.56mm
Breathtakingly weak individuals.
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RetreadKernel is no more.
And, he was never a Colonel, and I doubt he’s retired either.
Judgng from what I saw, he was never in uniform, and has no idea what he’s talking about.
Was your high voltage carbon sculpture supposed to crumble away completely upon being poked?
Because, well, everything is gone.
Not even a shoelace of him left to play with.
*sniffle*
You got that right! I agree! “Retired Colonel” my ass (as someone else posted so succinctly)!
One zot, one kill.
Joint Chiefs must all know the truth, ya think? Where are they?
Beautiful isn’t it?
Makes me all teary knowing that he’s good with it though. We should not continue to help obama though over dwelling in this minor incident ...or something ;)
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