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Fog of War in Benghazi Hampered Military Response
Military.com ^ | July 12, 2014 | Donna Cassata and Bradley Klapper

Posted on 07/12/2014 12:12:46 PM PDT by QT3.14

The military might have been able to prevent two of the four U.S. deaths in Benghazi if commanders had known more about the intensity of the sporadic gunfire directed at the CIA installation where Americans had taken refuge and had pressed to get a rescue team there faster, according to senior military leaders.

In closed-door testimony to Congress earlier this year, top military officers said that after the first attack on the main U.S. diplomatic outpost on Sept. 11, 2012, they thought the fighting had subsided and the Americans who had fled to the CIA base about a mile away were safe. In fact, they were facing intermittent small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades around midnight and had returned fire. Then the attackers dispersed.

Hours later, at first light, an 11-minute mortar and rocket-propelled grenade attack slammed into the CIA annex, killing security contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.

(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; hillary; military; obama; scandals
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To: Hulka

I agree with you.


21 posted on 07/12/2014 1:45:27 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Hulka

Geeze, even I know that, and the closest I’ve ever been to the ramp at Aviano was on a drive through.


22 posted on 07/12/2014 1:47:33 PM PDT by stanne
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To: drunknsage
According to this article, drones can’t see well at night...

A lie designed to fool only the idiots with the high-volume slobber: SAR --Synthetic Aperature Radar turns night into day, piercing even (literal) fog and heavy cloud cover. The units get smaller and smaller. While they used to be on satellites, now they're a bit larger than a bread box, they panelize and are even on small drones --much smaller than Predator.

23 posted on 07/12/2014 1:53:47 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: QT3.14

Leadership plays a huge role in the problems at Benghazi. And the leader at the top is President Obama. He has no military experience. Maybe it’s important for the American Commander-In-Chief to have some military experience. The choke point between the American people and the American military is the President. The President has to show leadership. I have yet to see where Obama displayed any leadership during the Benghazi incident.
People here at Free Republic have rightly stated that experts focus more on logistics than tactics. But leadership is critical. Would Third Army have been able to relieve Bastogne without the leadership of Patton? Probably not. The leader sets the tone. What was the tone set by President Obama in this? He went fundraising. Does that send a message of urgency and concern?
We can analyze Benghazi with an electron microscope, but the truth is always going to be that Benghazi belongs to President Obama.


24 posted on 07/12/2014 1:58:57 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: QT3.14

The fog of war is no excuse to being totally unprepared.


25 posted on 07/12/2014 2:02:49 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: QT3.14

Military and Law Enforcement officers immediately respond to “shots fired” and never wait, you move and call in for instructions. Now they may be called off for extenuating circumstances, but at the outset you drop everything and move - lives may be at risk.

That concept may be old fashioned for the moderns.


26 posted on 07/12/2014 2:12:18 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: QT3.14
Fog of War in Benghazi Hampered Military Response

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The only 'fog' that hampered the military response in Benghazi is the one that surrounds Barry's head.

No, what hampered it was that he was not even there to give the cross border authority so the military could act.

The others involved just basically sat there and watched them die.

27 posted on 07/12/2014 2:22:13 PM PDT by MamaTexan (I am a Person as created by the Laws of Nature, not a person as created by the laws of Man)
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To: Ray76
Obama loves the smell of Pink Slips in the morning.
28 posted on 07/12/2014 2:37:28 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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I forgot Trey Gowdy challenged the MSM with these questions that don't appear in the article:

Can you tell me why Amb. Stevens was in Benghazi the night he was killed?

Do you know why we were the last flag flying in Benghazi when the British had left and the Red Cross bombed?

Do you know why requests for additional security by Amb. Stevens were denied or unheeded?

Do you know why no assets were deployed during the siege. Were other countries asked for assistance?

Do you know why Susan Rice was picked to appear on 5 Sunday talk shows when HC claims she hates appearing in that venue?

29 posted on 07/12/2014 3:01:56 PM PDT by QT3.14 (USA born 7.4.1776 fathered by geniuses, died 11.4.2008 (Suicide) by idiots and traitors)
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To: QT3.14

Under the Clown Prince nobama “leadership” it is becoming the “fag of war.”


30 posted on 07/12/2014 3:41:42 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: QT3.14

Just finished reading the ninth transcript. General Ham. Issa and Chaffetz asked the tough questions. They aren’t whimps.
You analyze Benghazi in chunks of time. You have the time prior to the incident. You have the time when the incident is going on. You have the time after the incident. Most of the questioning for all 9 people focused on what happened prior to the incident. Embassies belong to The State Department. Most of what went on before the incident falls to The State Department. They are the ones who could have prevented this, not the military.
Could the military have done better during the incident? Probably. The Air Force has two big strengths. They can attack from above and they can get to the battlefield fast. Did either of those happen at Benghazi? Why not?
No American military Officer wants to be a goat. They get to the top by believing that they never make mistakes. Well, they do. I have seen Officers who eat bullets for breakfast but could never admit they were wrong or accept criticism. Too bad.
Ambassador Stevens worked out of the facility in Benghazi during the overthrow of Qadaffi. It was probably a well known American facility and a target for some time.
These transcripts are just a little bitty teeny tiny piece of the incident at Benghazi. I stick by my earlier opinion that Benghazi is Obama’s baby.


31 posted on 07/12/2014 5:15:51 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: hosepipe
ONLY FOG was in the White House... everywhere else was pretty clear..

The fog machine has been running full tilt from the beginning. Funny how some officers told Congress (about 100 years ago it seems) a different story. Maybe Obama managed to fire enough that were involved, and have real info, to be able to ensure those that remain will maintain the Party line....

And you can count on the MSM to further push any facts into the background. If there were photos that made it hard for them to tell lies, then the photos disappeared after everyone saw them, the MSM would say, "I knew it - the photos were a vast Right Wing conspiracy and never existed".

32 posted on 07/13/2014 2:46:18 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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