Yet more amazing revelations continue to emerge about the Benghazi attack.
Foreign Policy magazine has a story on its website by two Dubai-based Arabic TV reporters who visited the site of the former U.S. consulate on Oct. 26 and found important documents lying around that were left behind by an FBI team that visited a month ago. These included a document claiming that on the morning of September 11 one of the consulate security guards spied a police officer charged with guarding the compound photographing it instead. Sean Smith, one of the slain diplomats, wrote hours just before his death in an online forum: “Assuming we don’t die tonight. We saw one of our ‘police’ that guard the compound taking pictures.”
This raises obvious questions as to whether these concerns were communicated to State Department superiors and Africa Command; and if they were, why wasn’t more done in response?
The larger question that is raised here is why the U.S. has abandoned this diplomatic outpost, so that anyone–whether reporters or civilians, friends or foes of the United States–can rummage through its rubble. The jihadists who attacked our consulate were surely hoping to drive us out of Benghazi, and they have now accomplished this purpose. I am at a loss to know why marines were not sent to secure the site of the compound and why efforts have not been made to rebuild. This is yet another failure that gives the people of the Middle East an impression of American retreat.
ref: “…yet another failure that gives the people of the Middle East an impression of American retreat.”
For the Obamazoids in general –and all the more so for the strategically positioned Ikhwan fellow-travellers now in the administration, particularly in Hillary’s inner circle– that’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
As a former State Department FSO, I have been writing about the Libya disaster for over twenty months. The entire Obama/Clinton policy toward Libya made no sense from the start. Now our people pay for it with their lives, and nobody seems to care.
because you are too stupid brainless shameless partisan hack?
Obama is making exactly the impression he wanted to make.
One thing that's certain…when Americans are placed in harm's way sometimes harm will come to them. n nJune 14, 2002, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan nSuicide bomber kills 12 and injures 51. n nFebruary 20, 2003, international diplomatic compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia nTruck bomb kills 17. n nFebruary 28, 2003, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan nGunmen on motorcycles killed two consulate guards. n nJuly 30, 2004, U.S. embassy in Taskkent, Uzbekistan nSuicide bomber kills two. n nDecember 6, 2004, U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia nMilitants stormed and occupied perimeter wall. Five killed, 10 wounded. n nMarch 2, 2006, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan nSuicide car bomber killed four, including a U.S. diplomate directly targeted by the assailants. n nSeptember 12, 2006, U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria nGunmen attacked embassy with grenades, automatic weapons, and a car bomb (though second truck bomb failed to detonate). One killed and 13 wounded. n nJanuary 12, 2007, U.S. embassy in Athens, Greece nA rocket-propelled grenade was fired at the embassy building. No one was injured. n nJuly 9, 2008, U.S. consulate in Istanbul, Turkey nArmed men attacked consulate with pistols and shotguns. Three policemen killed. n nMarch 18, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana'a, Yemen nMortar attack misses embassy, hits nearby girls' school instead. n nSeptember 17, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana'a, Yemen nMilitants dressed as policemen attacked the embassy with RPGs, rifles, grenades and car bombs. Six Yemeni soldiers and seven civilians were killed. Sixteen more were injured.