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Bengazi is a war zone with two sides armed with military weapons,
spies and counterspies galore. Recent civil war gave military training
to every able bodied male. The anti-US faction located close to Bengazi
sent more Al Qaida to Iraq than any other spot on Earth.
It does not take a lot of planning for a phone tree to call up four or
six trucks of soldiers and tell them to saddle up. The Consulate was
fully surveilled, with video phones recording every direction of
approach and all comers and goers, local delivery people giving
comprehensive interior details. The "safe house" one mile (ten blocks)
away, likely was totally compromised, and the safe house was where the
murders took place.
Whatever was going on was TOP SECRET. The ambassador was not traveling
with a convoy of bodyguards, on 9/11 anniversary, with Al Qaida still
angry hornets over the drone killing of their local hero (The Libyan)
Abu Yahya al-Libi, Al Qaeda's then-number two, who was born in this
vicinity.
The public does not know, and does not need to know, the TOP SECRET details.
Al Qaida has been at war with the US for decades. An act of war, call it
terrorism, or ambush, or murder as you prefer, makes no difference what
words you use. People die in war zones, heros know the risk and go
anyway. It is giving aid and comfort to the enemy to fight among
ourselves over choice of words.
Bengazi is a war zone with two sides armed with military weapons, spies and counterspies galore. Recent civil war gave military training to every able bodied male. The anti-US faction located close to Bengazi sent more Al Qaida to Iraq than any other spot on Earth.
It does not take a lot of planning for a phone tree to call up four or six trucks of soldiers and tell them to saddle up. The Consulate was fully surveilled, with video phones recording every direction of approach and all comers and goers, local delivery people giving comprehensive interior details. The "safe house" one mile (ten blocks) away, likely was totally compromised, and the safe house was where the murders took place.
Whatever was going on was TOP SECRET. The ambassador was not traveling with a convoy of bodyguards, on 9/11 anniversary, with Al Qaida still angry hornets over the drone killing of their local hero (The Libyan) Abu Yahya al-Libi, Al Qaeda's then-number two, who was born in this vicinity.
The public does not know, and does not need to know, the TOP SECRET details.
Al Qaida has been at war with the US for decades. An act of war, call it terrorism, or ambush, or murder as you prefer, makes no difference what words you use. People die in war zones, heros know the risk and go anyway. It is giving aid and comfort to the enemy to fight among ourselves over choice of words.