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| First Western eyewitness in Benghazi to go public gives account of attack, warning signs | |
| 2013-10-28 | |
| [FoxNews] The first Western eyewitness to the deadly Benghazi terror attacks has given an account of the seven-hour assault on the U.S. outpost in Libya and says Americans knew such an incident was inevitable. The witness -- a former British soldier who for decades helped protect U.S. diplomats and military leaders -- told CBS' "60 Minutes" that Al Qaeda forces first attacked the U.S. Special Mission Compound in which Ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed. Then they launched a second attack on a secret CIA annex about a mile across the city. "They knew what they were doing," the security guard told CBS. "That was a well-executed attack." The guard's most dramatic account of the hours-long ordeal is when a team from the annex rushed to help fellow Americans under siege at the compound. "About 30 minutes into the attack, a Quick Reaction Force from the CIA annex ignored orders to wait and raced to the compound, at times running and shooting their way through the streets just to get there. "Inside the compound, they repelled a force of as many as 60 armed hard boyz and managed to save five American lives and recover the body of Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith. They were forced to fight their way out before they could find the Ambassador" Stevens.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 Mr 'Morgan's (scant little new here revelations) could be a very British way of #10 telling the regime to curb their NSA dog. Or am I boxing at shadows once again? Perhaps. Or perhaps more of an indication of displeasure with the White House, State, and the US IC, not just the NSA. Notice there is no mention whether "Mr. Jones" was self-employed, sub-contracted, or a contract employee. Also no mention of who the contracting company is. Interesting. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-10-28 14:29 |
| #4 I've always believe Blue Mountain Security held the keys to this cock-up. The BMS pull-out of Benghazi may have not been a total withdrawal. It could have been a phased extraction. Bringing the program manager home would have terminated the contract and sent a message. Discretely having someone remain on the ground to monitor developments, just good business from a indications and warnings standpoint. Mr 'Morgan's (scant little new here revelations) could be a very British way of #10 telling the regime to curb their NSA dog. Or am I boxing at shadows once again? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-10-28 11:18 |
| #3 It would seem that he was in some capacity, since Blue Mountain had the contract: [Jones] claimed that having been employed to train the unarmed guards for the mission's entrance, he told US officials that a team of armed Libyan militiamen hired separately by the State Department to defend the mission in the event of an attack were not up to the task. It's safe to state that he wasn't management, since it's been reported that Blue Mountain had pulled had that individual flown out of Libya shortly prior to the attack. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-10-28 10:57 |
| #2 The Telegraph ran this. Perhaps the British contractor was an employee of the UK's Blue Mountain Security, the firm that held the training contract. Blue Mountain pulled out of Benghazi and the contract for some reason. What was it ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-10-28 10:36 |
| #1 The entire episode is a frightening reminder of how poor the entire administration has performed. They tried to spin the old "it's our fault, we made them kill us" and when that blew up in their faces, they then gave these peculiar explanations. Of course, the bigger question is why Stevens was in Benghazi that night and for what reason? |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2013-10-28 10:34 |