Posted on 05/10/2013 9:45:50 AM PDT by topher
The U.S. military has alerted two elite military units in Europe to be on standby if needed to respond to a deteriorating security situation in Tripoli, Fox News has learned.
In recent days both the U.S. embassy and British embassy in Libya have removed non-essential staff from their embassies.
A specialized Marine unit based in Moron, Spain, is in the process of being repositioned closer to Libya; and in Stuttgart, Germany, a special operations force assigned to AFRICOM has been placed on heightened alert.
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Eight months late!
Is that guy putting up more videos from prison?
Frikken’ Youtube!!!
However, the US Navy only has a couple of them at this time...
The one I am thinking of that would be handy are LHA/LHD type ships. We have a few of these.
They handle more than just helicopter aircraft...
In jail my @ss .. they should be executed for treason.
Another thing that happened this week was that an ammunition dump in Iran blew up.
According to Iran, they were trying to transfer some things when things blew up.
Supposedly made missiles that Syria was going to try to give to Hezbollah (but Israel dropped bombs on them last weekend...)
Bombs went off in Benghazi yesterday/overnight...
Hmmm. I find the timing suspicious.
Yeah, the MEU/BLT forces are still available to deploy in short notice. It makes you wonder... according to Wikipedia the standard MEU attachment contains the following forces:
4 M1A1 main battle tank ground
7 to 16 Light Armored Vehicle ground
15 Assault Amphibious Vehicle ground
6 155mm howitzer: M777 ground
8 M252 81mm mortar ground
8 BGM-71 Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missile weapon system ground
8 FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile ground
4 to 6 AH-1W SuperCobra attack helicopters aviation
3 UH-1N Twin Huey utility helicopter aviation
12 CH-46E Sea Knight medium lift assault helicopter aviation
4 CH-53E Super Stallion heavy lift assault helicopter aviation
6 AV-8B Harrier jet aviation
2 KC-130 Hercules re-fueler/transport aircraft
Note: usually maintained in the continental United States aviation
2 Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Unit logistics
1 LMT 3000 water purification unit logistics
4 Tractor, Rubber Tire, Articulated Steering logistics
2 TX51-19M Rough Terrain Forklift logistics
3 D7 bulldozer logistics
1 Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement dump truck logistics
4 Mk48 Logistics Vehicle System logistics
7 500 gallon water containers
63 Humvee multiple
30 Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement trucks
That looks to be enough mobile power to take on anything quickly.
Not our bombs, no.
It was in my paper this AM, that explosions occurred at (I think) a police station in Benghazi.
Maybe Bammy should fly he and his family over there on AF1 and stop in for a photo op with the same security they had back on 9/11? Take Joe with you.
I can’t see the dog well, but the wagging is clear
Operation “Better late then never” is about to commence.
I don’t think the wookie nor the wookie spawn fly with him.
There is fear of being killed in one pile
Some have already Implied it:
National Review: 5/9
“The warning comes the day after a House Oversight Committee hearing on the terrorist attack that killed four Americans in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, during which whistleblowers alleged that the Obama adminsitration misled Americans about the nature of the attack and attempted to silence witnesses in order to protect its reputation.”
Steyn said that the late U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens was a true believer of President Barack Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s view of the Arab Spring, that it was a positive movement and was trying to make the best of it. Clinton and senior State Department officials, he said, let Stevens die, meaning that he was “sacrificed for the Obama-Clinton fiction of the Arab Spring.”"
Steyn: 'How empty and dead' were they to let Chris Stevens die for 'Obama-Clinton fiction?'
my new tagline reference, but maybe the title is even better.
Yep, police stations bombed, property damage but no casualties.
Reuters link: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/10/us-benghazi-bomb-idUSBRE9490DM20130510
Yup, pure wag the dog, Willie J. Clinton style.
“What difference does it make?” After all, “death is part of life”
Where would you like to be stationed?...
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