Posted on 07/27/2013 10:14:48 AM PDT by blueyon
BREAKING: US Benghazi Hero Waited 20 Hours For Help With a Shredded Leg – While Obama Campaigned in Las Vegas
Diplomatic security agent David Ubben, like former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, ran into the Special Mission Compound (SMC) to help save US officials under siege in Benghazi. Ubben was struck by a mortar round that killed Woods and Doherty. His leg was shredded. Ubben was forced to wait twenty hours before a plane was sent to pick him up.
While Ubben was waiting for help with a shredded leg Barack Obama was campaigning in Las Vegas.
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Yeah, well, what difference does it make? More importantly Kerry was in Vietnam and got a paper cut once or twice.
I don’t know about the legality of what they were doing. I know the interests of departments of our government often conflict (State and CIA) and that is made even more confusing by the wishes of an administration.
It is clear there is something about Benghazi that powerful people wish to conceal. Given the apparent lack of curiosity of the mainstream media one can infer the administration (and likely State Department) are the ones that have something to conceal. The CIA is by it’s very nature secretive as is the military. One can possibly infer that “whatever was there” was something they were afraid of the military finding as well. Why else would they have refused to send rapid reaction forces to secure the compound and rescue our people?
I doubt we will ever hear a true accounting of Benghazi because who in their right mind would want to become Snowden? The decision to allow our enemies access to such things before our military operators and even other non-involved intelligence operatives is quite curious.
No one contests the POTUS treachery during the Bengazi crisis, but there’s more —what happened AFTER is equally treacherous.
US KIA arrive at DOVER, right? That’s a little far from DC, while Andrews AFB is in their backyard.
The Bengazi KIA were flown to ANDREWS, not Dover. That’s highly, highly unusual. Can you guess why? Here is why:
Because POTUS driving to Andrews would TAKE LESS CAMPAIGN TIME...!
Yes, there was still an election to be won, and they all foresaw that it would be a squeeker —EVERYTHING had to be done to make sure he was re-elected.
So while everyone knows POTUS went to bed early to fly off to Vega$ to golf with a rapper, what they don’t realize is that even AFTER he’d written off 43 Americans, more or less, he CONTINUED to act treacherously, even after he understood there had been fatalities and wounded.
**THAT** is how little he really cares about people.
There had been multiple deaths and he STILL could not be made to care about non-election stuff.
Interesting enough, David Ubben father was quoted back in a Sept. 20, 2012 article from the NYT’s, so David’s story was available quite a while ago to journalist.
From the article “American counterterrorism officials and Libyans on the scene say the mortar attack was most likely carried out by the same group of assailants who had attacked the mission and then followed the convoy of American survivors retreating to what they thought was a safe house.
The first mortar shell fell short, but the next two hit their mark in rapid succession with deadly precision, according to an account that David Ubben, one of Mr. Stevens’s security guards, told his father, Rex Ubben, which was supported by other American and Libyan officials.
“There are three villas inside and the walls are high, and the only house that got hit was the house we were in,” said Fathi el-Obeidi, a Libyan militia commander who came to help evacuate the Americans.
This indicated that many of the assailants were practiced at aiming their mortars, skills they learned in fighting Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s army.
“David did not draw a distinction between the attackers,” Rex Ubben said in a telephone interview. David Ubben, a 31-year old Iraq war veteran, was wounded in the mortar attack, and is recovering from his wounds at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. His father said he had declined to speak to reporters”
article here - > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/world/africa/mistaken-sense-of-security-cited-before-envoy-to-libya-died.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Can you imagine what the Rats would be doing if a GOP president was pulling these pathetic and sometimes treasonous stunts? It would be bloody.
Ditto.
The sad part is that they'll have it on him again and again and again. I look back on Arlen Specter's career, and it was obvious that he was being blackmailed. Yet instead of stepping down from office, he kept his seat of power so that he could continue being a Democrat tool.
If Issa is being blackmailed, then he needs to resign. Now.
God.Too painful to read.
David Ubben most certainly disagrees with these horrific, sordid and selfish losers we have "in charge" of our military government agencies.
The Butcher’s bill one day will be paid in full! My guess is that meal will be served very, very cold!
Between this disgusting abandonment and Extortion 17, I can’t imagine a world in which Special Op’s men are betrayed and murdered and no one will pay for it. Sometime in the future a number of people are going to fall down a very long staircases with tragic results.
Putting a face to a tragic story...it shows Obama made a calculation early on not to engage the enemy as for an international crisis to blow up in his prior to the November elections.
Please add me. :)
My bet is that there was a weapons-deal involved. (A mid-east fast-and-furious?)
What the hell is going on? The “administration” uses the NSA and DOJ to harass and blackmail Americans, and they use the IRS to intimidate them too. If someone still wishes to speak up, that person “dies in a tragic accident” like Michael Hastings and Andrew Breitbart.
I am having a tin foil moment here on BenGahzi- what if Bin Laden was being held there and tortured? And he wasn’t KIA by the seals? And that’s what people know and can’t let be discovered?
Being a nosy female I’d LOVE to know just what their blackmail items are. Because I’m female and we’re just wired that way. It’s a chromosomal weakness.
Yeah. He’ll be living abroad in some warm peaceful place with gazzilion dollar state of the art security for him and his family. You just think he’s untouchable and teflon now...
While you’re sweating and working your heart out here he’ll be drinking drinks with little umbrellas in them watching the sunset over the surf.
And his wife will weigh 300+lbs from all the wagyu and lobster.
Oh come on, Congress is getting ready for their summer vacation. They are busy, you know. /sarc
Where’s the Rep outrage?
13 Benghazis Occurred on Bush’s Watch Without a Peep from Reps
January 22, 2002. Calcutta, India. Gunmen associated with Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami attack the U.S. Consulate. Five people are killed.
June 14, 2002. Karachi, Pakistan. Suicide bomber connected with al Qaeda attacks the U.S. Consulate, killing 12 and injuring 51.
October 12, 2002. Denpasar, Indonesia. U.S. diplomatic offices bombed as part of a string of “Bali Bombings.” No fatalities.
February 28, 2003. Islamabad, Pakistan. Several gunmen fire upon the U.S. Embassy. Two people are killed.
May 12, 2003. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Armed al Qaeda terrorists storm the diplomatic compound, killing 36 people including nine Americans. The assailants committed suicide by detonating a truck bomb.
July 30, 2004. Tashkent, Uzbekistan. A suicide bomber from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan attacks the U.S. Embassy, killing two people.
December 6, 2004. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Al Qaeda terrorists storm the U.S. Consulate and occupy the perimeter wall. Nine people are killed.
March 2, 2006. Karachi, Pakistan again. Suicide bomber attacks the U.S. Consulate killing four people, including U.S. diplomat David Foy who was directly targeted by the attackers. (I wonder if Lindsey Graham or Fox News would even recognize the name “David Foy.” This is the third Karachi terrorist attack in four years on what’s considered American soil.)
September 12, 2006. Damascus, Syria. Four armed gunmen shouting “Allahu akbar” storm the U.S. Embassy using grenades, automatic weapons, a car bomb and a truck bomb. Four people are killed, 13 are wounded.
January 12, 2007. Athens, Greece. Members of a Greek terrorist group called the Revolutionary Struggle fire a rocket-propelled grenade at the U.S. Embassy. No fatalities.
March 18, 2008. Sana’a, Yemen. Members of the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic Jihad of Yemen fire a mortar at the U.S. Embassy. The shot misses the embassy, but hits nearby school killing two.
July 9, 2008. Istanbul, Turkey. Four armed terrorists attack the U.S. Consulate. Six people are killed.
September 17, 2008. Sana’a, Yemen. Terrorists dressed as military officials attack the U.S. Embassy with an arsenal of weapons including RPGs and detonate two car bombs. Sixteen people are killed, including an American student and her husband (they had been married for three weeks when the attack occurred). This is the second attack on this embassy in seven months.
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