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.
Now THAT'S a caption
OMG, and the quarterback is toast! (from Die Hard).
Great job AD Guy kick em’ in the arse when they need it.!
Is this similar to telling someone to go take an aeronautical intercourse at an oscillating donut?
All the regime needs is one retarded General or whatever to claim that no one could get there in time and the DBM have everything they need for plausible deniability not to run the story or even cover it.
That too.
They know we exist.
Heck we had a ‘teechur’ named casuist here.
Seems he was trolling the place as part of his college course for the kiddies.
So why not some political idgits as well?
There was another ‘teacher’ who haunted the immigration threads. Didn’t like it when she slilipped up bragging one day about how she saved 5 grand on a roofing job by illegals (on an unrelated thread) and got hammered. She pops up whenever debate gets hot and heavy, reminded and vanishes for a couple months.
Her nic escapes me but I’ll post if it when I think of it. Windflier may remember as he and I hammered her relentlessly.
Windy?
Fun!!
Been alot of stuff over the years.
I promoted me to General.....why not...he did
Why not? Plenty of ex seals out there today. And it’s even legal!
SIR! (Salute ;)
“Even a single fly over with an A-10 could have broken the attack without a single shot fired.”
In the mid 1960’s we had another left wing president, LBJ, who left our men out to dry with the Pueblo and Liberty.
Before those acts of treason, he or his A$$holes in charge of the military didn’t respond to urgent pleas for help from another USN ship due to a sudden, unprovoked hostile action from larger ship.
Fortunately, an Air Force commander in the area ordered a fly over of the situation and had his jet pilot break the sound barrier over the foreign ship trying putting the USN ship into harm’s way. The jet then stayed in the area with a hovering/close circle maneuver over the two ships.
That allowed the Navy CO to go from a dire defensive position to the offensive. No shots were fired, but the bridge of the offending ship probably needed to be sanitized after staring at a 5 inch mount and some snipers on the USN ship.
The American CO via loud speakers told the offending ship that they had 10 seconds to break away. If not the first shot would take out their bridge, then the next shots would run the length of the ship at their water line and their rudder would be taken out. The next pass would fire phosphorus shells into the previous shell holes. Any survivor on deck on their ship would be shot from the USN ship.
The offending ship abruptly stopped the challenge/harassment, did a rapid 180 and left the area.
The event is probably still classified.
I need me a jeep stat
Stars do not ride in jeeps. They have armored limos. Gotta play the part fully!
Appears as though the Colonel’s eagle done crapped out.
Hope you’re well.
it's possible he/she is a colonel of the "Kentucky Fried" sort.
Don’t forget that the Clintons allowed many people to die to ensure their Presidency.
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Do I have to call you general now?
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