The compound where they had their consulate wasn't really a fortress. It was some one's residential compound. It had a main residence with several bedrooms, a Cantina where staff ate and an armory. It also had a barracks type building near the main gate that housed a Libyan security force. Our government raised the walls around this compound and made a "panic room" inside that was basically a jail cell and was only intended to keep someone safe until reinforcements could come rescue them. But the forces that would have helped save the ambassador left a month before the attack.
I also noticed that the White House is playing semantics. They keep saying that they were not asked for more security. In a way, they're right. They were asked to NOT have the security that was in place removed. They didn't listen. John Bolton thinks they withdrew troops in order to make the appearance of them not being needed. If we actually let people know we needed the added security, then they would have to admit that Al Queda wasn't defeated.
When the attack hit, the report says that Ambassador Stevens had already "turned in" around 9 PM. The attack hit about 9:40. It also says that the alert system was activated immediately. This means that Washington was getting LIVE shots of what was happening outside. The security man in the main living quarters went to the bedroom to get Stevens, and it somehow obliquely admits that he took Stevens along with his advisor, Shaun Smith to the panic room. And I have to wonder, just where did he pick up Shaun at? Was he in the bedroom with Stevens, or another bedroom? He is just suddenly there with Stevens and the security guy.
We've heard reports of Stevens being raped by the Muslims, that the government denies. Is this because they knew Stevens was in a relationship with Smith? Did the Muslims also know this? There are just so many unanswered questions to even this report. Why would you send a known homosexual to a Muslim country that kills homosexuals? Did President Obama feel so comfortable with the Muslim community that he never dreamed that he could do anything wrong with them? Did he think because we are so tolerant and swallow lies about the Muslims, that the Muslims could be convinced that homosexuality was just an alternative life style and should be tolerated? Did he ignore the fact because Stevens knew something? And if Stevens knew there was trouble brewing, and went anyway to Benghazi, why would he go to bed so early? Why would they not be on high alert?
At this point, after they couldn't get to Stevens in the panic room, they poured diesel fuel around the building, lit it and left. After a while, the three trapped men decide to leave. The security man gets a window open and leaves, but Stevens and Smith don't follow. He went in several times in order to save them, but can't find them. He's overcome with smoke and gets to the roof.
At this point, I have to wonder, did one of the terrorists have a gas mask and was waiting for them? Is this the point in time where the Ambassador was taken? Another team does find Smith, and he's already dead. My question at this point is what killed him? Was it smoke inhalation or bullets? The report doesn't say and I've not heard. At this point, live feeds are showing real time pictures to the white house of a place with all three buildings on fire, men running around shooting and our forces leaving in a panic. And President Obama went to sleep.
At 11:00 PM, the security men take Smith's body and leave because they can no longer hold the compound. They drive to another building a mile away. This all started at about 9:40, so we're talking an hour and 20 minutes. Some time after midnight, looters go in to the building where Stevens is and find him. Now it's been about 2.5 hours. He arrives around 1 AM at the hospital and dies of smoke inhalation (asphyxiation).
If Washington was getting live feeds of real time action, why did they insist it was a demonstration gone bad? Why did they insist it was all over an Internet story? I think everyone is learning that it was because the Obama administration has been running for reelection on the fact that they have Al Queda on the run, that they are winning the war on terror, when in fact the opposite is true. The Muslims are not tucking their tails and running like our fearless leader insists. They are in fact getting stronger with the smell of blood from us. They smell indecision and hesitation and are going in for the kill.
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