You know... If there were only 3 Libyan guards at the compound at the time of the initial attack, as related by DAS Lamb, we know one was wounded and out of the fight immediately, and one escaped and went for help. That only leaves one unaccounted for, and I suppose he might have either been killed, fled, was a rat and hooked up with the attackers, or was with the Americans who went to the safe house. (And possibly ratted them out there?)
I wonder how large the first “wave” of Libyans who arrived with the guard who went for help, was. Maybe it was large enough to give a pretty decent account of itself. I also keep wondering if there were other “forces” at the compound that we are not being told about: CIA, private contractors, etc.
More shortly (lots to type, and I’m not a fast typist.) :-)
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Hardly Mentioned: 8 Americans Wounded in Benghazi - Local Security Abandoned the Property
Maggie's Notebook ^ | 9-14-12 | Maggie@MaggiesNotebook
Posted on Saturday, September 15, 2012 9:21:10 PM by maggiesnotebook
The UK Independent article has been quoted many times concerning the news that the US had a 48-hour warning before the Cairo Embassy and Benghazi Consulate attacks, but little has been known about another 8 Americans wounded, some of them Military, or that the 30+ force of Libyan guards on the property abandoned it, for the most part. Also, news that the Consulate had just had a “security health check,” by local sources, due to the coming day of 9/11, and apparently passed. A pressing question: how badly wounded are these 8 Americans. Other than emotional scars, will they bear life-alternating physical limitations? UPDATE: Some later reports say 14 were wounded, but I haven't found confirmation, or clarification that they were all Americans.
I don’t have the link handy but theoretically the regime was trying to run the con that the locals were taking over security and they were being paid $30 per day. Trouble is they hadn’t been paid in along time. This is right up the regimes alley.Create a lie perpetrate it giving them cover and then let things take their course.