[GeronL]

I have read that our aircraft were 485 miles away. That is less than an hour for fighters. This whole ordeal from the first attack took something like 11 hours.

[American Constitutionalist]

They can land a AC-130 on a aircraft carrier and take off from a aircraft carrier IF they had to.

[Jane Long]

I have read that our aircraft were 485 miles away. That is less than an hour for fighters. This whole ordeal from the first attack took something like 11 hours.

Yet, Def Sec Panetta said "the attack happened over a few hours and was over before the U.S. had the chance to know what was happening."