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Admission: Special Forces were only hours from Benghazi
WND ^ | 6.14.13 845pm | Aaron Klein

Posted on 06/14/2013 6:08:57 PM PDT by Perdogg

JERUSALEM – In a bombshell admission that has until now gone unreported, Martin Dempsey, chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, conceded that highly trained Special Forces were stationed just a few hours away from Benghazi on the night of the attacks but were not told to deploy to Libya.

In comments that may warrant further investigation, Dempsey stated at a Senate hearing Wednesday that on the night of the Sept. 11, 2012, attack, command of the Special Forces – known as C-110, or the EUCOM CIF – was transferred from the military’s European command to AFRICOM, or the United States Africa Command.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghazistanddown; bloodontheirhands; dempsey; lyingjerks; lyingustraitors; murderousthugs; obamaslept; scandalanche; scumoftheearth; specialforces
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1 posted on 06/14/2013 6:08:57 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: MestaMachine; Nachum

ping


2 posted on 06/14/2013 6:09:15 PM PDT by Perdogg (Sen Ted Cruz, Sen Mike Lee, and Sen Rand Paul are my adoptive Senators)
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To: Perdogg

I took it for granted we could have helped them. Eventually the story will come out. It will look much worse in the end too.


3 posted on 06/14/2013 6:14:19 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Now playing... [ * * * Manchurian Candidate * * * ], limited engagement, 8 years...)
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To: Perdogg

Yeah, they were 450 miles away at the Naval Air Station on Sicily at Sigonella. And it would have taken 20min for an F-18 to rush there and induce baddy-scattering sonic booms.

It’s a very, very well-known and easy tactic.

Sigonella is closer to Bengazi than Tripoli.


4 posted on 06/14/2013 6:15:26 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

Good post Perdogg, H/T

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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5 posted on 06/14/2013 6:15:35 PM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Perdogg

And General Ham? head of AFRICOM was relieved of command based on his actions that night - right?


6 posted on 06/14/2013 6:17:12 PM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: Nachum

the question is WHY were all told to stand down


7 posted on 06/14/2013 6:17:16 PM PDT by advertising guy (golf in june in Phoenix ? it's so dry, our gators use Gold Bond)
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To: DoughtyOne; TigersEye

I agree. We always knew a rescue could have been, SHOULD have been launched, and that there were those willing to be part of it.

To say otherwise is a brazen insult to our fighting forces.


8 posted on 06/14/2013 6:19:22 PM PDT by cyn (Benghazi.)
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To: Perdogg
The 0bama regime let Chris Stevens and three others die for a reason. The reason? Look at Syria.

5.56mm

9 posted on 06/14/2013 6:21:41 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: cyn

Others have also mentioned that just a fly-over could have ended the whole thing. We didn’t have any assets in the area that could do that? We’re talking about thirty minutes tops for that.

Hillary wasn’t up to the task.

Obama couldn’t even be bothered to show up.


10 posted on 06/14/2013 6:21:42 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Now playing... [ * * * Manchurian Candidate * * * ], limited engagement, 8 years...)
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To: Perdogg

I also think that we had “assets” available from Incirlik AB, Turkey.


11 posted on 06/14/2013 6:22:32 PM PDT by Kahuna
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To: M Kehoe

They were hung out to die to cover up gun smuggling to Syrian “rebels”.


12 posted on 06/14/2013 6:23:00 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Perdogg

And having once been a part of it for a few months, I keep wondering where the forces of the Sixth Fleet were. If we still have a Sixth Fleet, they would definitely have had some capabiity to help unless they were at some of the most distant points from Libya in the Med.


13 posted on 06/14/2013 6:26:09 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Perdogg

This is not news and you are right. It’s wnd repeating what we already know and embellishing it to make it seem like news. Can’t do it.


14 posted on 06/14/2013 6:29:26 PM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: M Kehoe

When U.S. donated moose slime manpads start bringing down civilian airlines, some will know the media is criminally complicit int he murders, along with the drug-addled regime, but most Americans will believe every lie the criminal media feeds them. When the collapse arrives, I know where open season starts ... guillotines from orbit, rained down on the media. It’s the only way to be sure they don’t aid and abet the enemies of We The People in the future.


15 posted on 06/14/2013 6:29:59 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Lurker

I agree.


16 posted on 06/14/2013 6:31:10 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Lurker
They were hung out to die to cover up gun smuggling to Syrian “rebels”.

"Rebels"=muslim brotherhood or al-queda. A distinction without a difference.

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17 posted on 06/14/2013 6:31:34 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: advertising guy

They were not given an order to stand down. They were never given an order to proceed...which they could not do without it.


18 posted on 06/14/2013 6:32:55 PM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: Perdogg

It was a grand bargain:

MorroccoBomber’s first act after election was going to Egypt and giving his speech, “A New Beginning”. That’s why the Foreign Minister later said point-blank that Obama told them that he is STILL a Muslim. The famously progressive and anti-Imperial Obama wants to help “populists” all over the Middle East throw off vestiges of they days when they were colonies.

Libya, Algeria, Syria, Jordan —many more.

This means giving them weapons and money, and the bargain is that He And His will retain influence with the new enlightened fundamentalists who come to power —they’ll be Obama’s peeps, see?

Friends.

That’s what overthrowing Khadaffi was all about —cash and weapons for his friends. It was literally a War For Oil —nice huh? Remember all that, “No War for Oil” screaming? Yeah.

And this, instigated by PROGRESSIVES...? It’s pretty incongruous, and the prospect that it will all come out is justifiably terrifying to progressives everywhere.

The nice thing about cash and weapons from Libya is that it would COMPLETELY get around Congress, which is MorroccoBombers Modus Operandi, as I’m sure you have noticed.

No troublesome debates and VOTES, and stuff. No begging.

Libya was just one domino in the intended line, and it has the fingerprints of Obama and Hitlery alllll over them.


19 posted on 06/14/2013 6:33:52 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: MHGinTN
I know where open season starts ... guillotines from orbit, rained down on the media.

And when the red stain grows on their collective chests, before they expire, they will wonder "what happened?"

5.56mm

20 posted on 06/14/2013 6:36:35 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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