Hat tip Middle East Media Research Institute.
The Middle East Media Research Instiute has posted letters drafted on the morning of 9-11-12 by the Benghazi consular staff to Libyan authorities asking why police were not protecting their site. The letters were discovered at the consulate after the attack by Alaan TV of the United Arab Emirates.
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6785.htm
Imagine the feeling of those Americans on 9-11 to see that the Libyan cops were not patrolling around the consulate-except for one cop observed photographing the grounds 15 hours before the attack.
Can you imagine the feeling after months of having requests for further security turned down? There they were at Ft Apache with no help in sight.
It begs the question: Why did we even keep this post open in the first place?
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It begs the question: Why did we even keep this post open in the first place?
Because Benghazi is the second largest and politically the second most important city in Libya?
Because is is where the revolution against Qadaffi began?
Why would any European nation have a consulate in Chicago, Los Angeles, or San Francisco?
There are some great comments over at The American Conservative about this. The are appended to a post by Patrick Buchanan, who is beating the same drums Gary is...
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/benghazis-smoking-gun/
...but consider these sensible observations:
call me a cynic, but this would not be the first time the CIA ran an operation under the cover of the State Department. there is no “smoking gun”. four Americans died on 9/11/12 and there is no way Fox News, the mainstream media, or the Romney campaign will ever know the mission that brought two ex-SEALs now employed as “private security” contractors to Benghazi. perhaps the reason there was no military response is the fact that Doherty and Woods “were never in Libya” until they were KIA. if you want to make political hay out of what you consider to be an ineffective, or misguided foreign policy (re: Libya), have at it; but to use words like “cover-up” and “smoking gun” without a full understanding and analysis of the facts is politically biased speculation and conjectue as opposed to valid criticism.
was the decision to ignore warnings about the security of the Marine barracks in Beruit in 1983 “purely political” (241 Americans killed)? and with all due respect to ex-SEALs, whom by most accounts were patriotic and heroic Americans; the fact remains; they were private contractors (possible working for the CIA and not the State Department) – not active duty military – which means it may not be possible (or operationally wise) for the White House, State Department, or CIA to provide specific information about their presence in Benghazi.
and we should also remember the failures of the Bush administration on the first 9/11. After all, not only was their intel saying something was going to happen, but the FBI had the eventual perpetrators under surveillance. What not take Bush to task for having the blood of 3,000 on his hands?
Unfortunately, the constant drum beat of turning this into a piece of campaign rhetoric as Buchanan is also clearly doing here will only serve to continue to bury the truth and make it impossible to understand what happened, how communications broke down, and what lessons can be learned to mitigate such incidents in the future.
Here's another solid factual account:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-libya-cia-20121102,0,2438659.story
I'm surprised you weren't aware of it, Gary.
Siarlys,
Yes, I read it. Here is Fox's answer:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/03/exclusive-security-officials-on-ground-in-libya-challenge-cia-account/
Nobody disputes that a group from the annex responded nor that a team flew from Tripoli which included Glen Doherty. These were all apparently CIA contractor types. At dispute is whether Woods was initially told by someone not to go to the consulate.
Still to be answered is the months of pleas for enhanced security prior to 9-11. Also, why was our military not sent to Benghazi when the attacks lasted 7 hours? If you look on the map, you can see that the distances to benghazi from Sicily and Tripoli are similar.
Fox clearly has sources who were on the ground and are outraged by what happened. As in Fast and Furious, everybody in Washington is covering their asses.
So, slipping sideways as the sand pours out from under your feet, you have a list of speculative questions, replacing your previous speculative questions which have now been answered, and, since percentages suggest at least one in five people on the ground never wanted Obama to be president anyway, there is some shadowy voice raising further insinuations, which is exactly what you need to keep up this charade.
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