Four Americans died in the attack: Ambassador Stevens, Information Officer Sean Smith, and two embassy security personnel, Glen Doherty[158] and Tyrone Woods,[159] both former Navy SEALs.[160] Initial reports indicated that ten Libyan guards died; this was later retracted and reported that seven Libyans were injured.[161] A report in The New York Times has stated that there were two facilities used by the Americans in Benghazi, one for the American mission and an annex a half-mile away[162] and that:
Neither was heavily guarded, and the annex was never intended to be a “safe house,” as initial accounts suggested. Two of the mission’s guards — Tyrone S. Woods and Glen A. Doherty, former members of the Navy SEALs — were killed just outside the villa’s front gate.[163]
A subsequent report quoted in Bloomberg News states that mortar fire from the attackers was the cause of death: "At about 4 a.m., the two officials said, the annex took mortar fire. Some rounds landed on the roof, killing two agents and severely wounding another. Tyrone S. Woods and Glen A. Doherty, two former Navy SEALs working as security personnel, were the other Americans killed in Benghazi."[164] There are recent reports that Woods's mother has been pressing officials for an accounting of the circumstances surrounding his death. As reported in Foreign Policy magazine, Hillary Rodham Clinton described the circumstances of Woods's death: "if not for him, the 30 people inside the consulate would not have made it out."[165]
The numbers in square braces are sources.
If you have counter sources, send them to me to fight the Wiki-LIE-berals. But they're crafty, and I need GOOD sources.
"That you approve a continued US presence in Benghazi through then end of 2012; and that you approve a combined footprint of 35 US government personnel in Benghazi including eight State Department and USAID and two TDY beds."
I don't believe that Woods and Doherty were part of the State security contingent once you deduct the RSOs, commo, Principle Officer and management personnel. There was obviously another mission for the outpost in Benghazi. Based on the Congressional hearings, there was concern about retrieving the 10 to 20 thousand hand held anti-air weapons. The PM Bureau in State and DOD were probably overseeing it along with other intel agencies. There have been news reports to that effect if you google it.
Wood and Doherty were located in annex and were not part of the reaction force on the main compound. They just happened to get involved in the firefight due to their past history. It was not their mission.
I also found it intstructive to note that at the Andrews AFB ceremony receiving the bodies back that Panetta attended the ceremony. It indicated to me that Wood and Doherty were probably on the DOD payroll or at least one of them was.
There are some other factors that indicate to me they had nothing to do with Embassy security, but I will just leave it at that.