Posted on 09/12/2012 3:21:13 PM PDT by ColdOne
The consulate where the American ambassador to Libya was killed on Tuesday is an “interim facility” not protected by the contingent of Marines that safeguards embassies, POLITICO has learned.
Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed with three other Americans in an attack on the U.S. consulate in the city of Benghazi, where Libyan rebels ousted strongman Moammar Qadhafi last year.
Marine Corps spokeswoman Capt. Kendra Motz said that Marines were not posted to the consulate, unlike the embassy in the capital, Tripoli.
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Muslims ONLY respect STRENGTH.....ONLY strength!!!! Sadly the Amb.was seen as WEAK.
Where oBama single handedly ousted strongman Moammar Qadhafi last year for his Libyan rebel buddies.
Fake but accurate
Tripoli I assume. That's where the embassy is, that's where their post is. They aren't the ambassador's personal bodyguards.
I doubt even that is true. They hate. It's what they do best. They hate without fear from retaliation because when your goal is martyrdom then it doesn't matter if you're picking on the biggest guy in the room or the smallest.
FR Thread:
CBS: Libyan security team fingered US ambassador to be killed; Libyan president issues apology
No, they actually DO respect STRENGTH.......it;s the ONLY thing they do.
You’ve got every right to be pissed. And you missed something from a related article. This was one of the last postings by the ambassador, in some on-line game forum (so, he wasn’t perfect). He was smart - he knew his days were over.
“(12:54:09 PM) vile_rat: assuming we don’t die tonight. We saw one of our ‘police’ that guard the compound taking pictures”
on 9/11 they couldn’t arrange the ambassdador to be in Tripoli
embassy guarded by Marines
he’s at Benghazi?????? with no Marines?????
naive, incompetent, dangerous, arrogant, foolish
oh, I see Obama is Prez, therefore everyone loves us and nothing bad
will happen 9/11
Are you telling me that our AMb. have no security detail....anywhere???? Come on...especially in the Arab world.
Kind of reminiscent of how Clinton & Les Aspin refused to send our Rangers the equipment they asked for, and then left them there to die in Mogadishu.
The Obama White House and State Department have repeatedly been told since 2009, by both Congressional Committees, and the State Department's own watch-dog, that security at our embassies needs to be beefed up. So what did Obama and Clinton know, and when did they know it? When will we see Sandy Burgher make another trip to the Archives to stuff classified papers covering this tragic event, down his pants?
Liberals think themselves invincible.
I know the shadow of too many disastrous presidents hangs over this one....
Anarchist or incompetent or too much toot. The Foreign Policy of this Administration has
always been a day late and a "dollar" short !
A dead Muzz doesn’t have to respect strength.
>> Folks we are being lied to.
I don’t get how this is being characterized as a social-media based operation, yet there was no actionable intel that would have helped to protect the embassy personnel.
No doubt the MSM spun that to sound like they took the living Ambassador to the hospital. I've never heard someone refer to a living person as a "body" that they are taking to the hospital.
No that was Sean Smith that was the in the online game forum not Amb Stevens.
“All I can say is WTF IS WRONG WITH THE REPUBLICANS?”
It’s called the stupid party for good reasons.
Sleep well in your bed tonight because Republicans are watching over you. (sarcasm)
Wikipedia tells me that Smith (vile_rat) was a big time gamer. Like, known globally.
Must have made a hell of a contribution to Obama's administration.
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