Perhaps this is why two Navy SEALs were ordered to STAND DOWN and NOT depart the Annex for the Consulate (they went ANYWAY)?
Egypt's new president vows to free blind sheikh tied to 1993 WTC bombing
Freeing the blind sheik was probably intended as the payment for the attack.
The attack itself was planned in part as a cover story to explain how the terrorist got the weapons.
Had the attack gone as planned they could claim they weren’t giving the terrorist weapons the terrorist just took the weapons that were being gathered up by the CIA.