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The Truth Behind the Benghazi Attack
The Daily Beast ^ | 10/22/2012 | Jamie Dettmer

Posted on 10/22/2012 10:56:42 AM PDT by PhxRising

The blow-by-blow of the killing of Ambassador Stevens.

Diplomatic Security special agent David Ubben waits silently, his M-4 assault rifle at the ready as he hides deep in the dark inside the villa that serves as the United States Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Ubben’s assignment is close protection for U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, which isn’t always easy. Stevens, a former Peace Corps volunteer, likes to get out among the people in the countries where he serves, especially Libya, which he helped to liberate from Muammar Gaddafi during the war last year. But even he has started to believe that al Qaeda is gunning for him, and on this day, the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, Stevens has let himself be persuaded to hold all his meetings behind the nine-foot walls and the coils of concertina wire that surround the Benghazi consulate.

That hasn’t been enough. Now groups of armed men swarm through the compound, firing their AK-47s in staccato bursts, and every so often the air shakes with the concussion of a grenade. Behind Ubben, in a specially fortified suite called a safe haven, the ambassador and another diplomat, Sean Smith, should be well protected. There is a large closet, similar to a “panic room,” with supplies of water and food to withstand a siege of hours or even days, and Ubben has radioed the four other American security men holed up in other consulate buildings that he and the ambassador and Smith are OK. This is what the safe haven and the safe room have been built for. And he is there with his M-4 at the ready. He will make sure nobody gets through the steel grilles that protect them.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ambassadorstevens; benghazicoverup; obama; shadowwars; threatmatrix
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To: blueunicorn6

“Somebody should see if there were any diesel cars or equipment at the consulate.”

Fuel cans for the consulate’s generator. The terrorists didn’t bring it in.


21 posted on 10/22/2012 12:50:00 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: blueunicorn6

“But now, watching from the dark, Ubben sees some of the attackers coming into the other, open side of the villa. They are carrying jerrycans full of diesel used to fuel the embassy’s electrical generators.”

But wouldn’t that mean these people knew just where to look? Or had been told?


22 posted on 10/22/2012 12:53:54 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: PhxRising

I don’t think this is the truth. It repeats the old lefty line that the Libyans were rescuing him, whereas it appears that he had been tortured and murdered by the time his body ever got to the hospital.


23 posted on 10/22/2012 1:13:23 PM PDT by expat2
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To: PhxRising

You think this is the truth? How come no mention by Nobama of the supposed video that caused a “protest”? Are you a Drone?


24 posted on 10/22/2012 1:24:07 PM PDT by DallasDeb
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To: PhxRising

Nor a mention of the rape of our ambassador?


25 posted on 10/22/2012 1:25:00 PM PDT by DallasDeb
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To: DallasDeb

I agree a lot of missing information and fluff. Shouldn’t some CIA or State Department Director corroborate facts? Since when are official facts disseminated via Newsweek?


26 posted on 10/22/2012 1:34:00 PM PDT by mgist
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To: PhxRising

Sorry to ask if you were a drone. Hope you will forgive me.


27 posted on 10/22/2012 3:01:03 PM PDT by DallasDeb
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To: PhxRising

Does this maybe have anything to do with Trump’s grand announcement on Wednesday?


28 posted on 10/23/2012 7:35:56 PM PDT by hummingbird (Lather, Rinse........BUT DO NOT REPEAT - REPEAT IS A WASTE - A SCAM!)
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