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    Quote Originally Posted by GrassrootsConservative View Post
    Al Qaeda is dead, right Obama supporters?

    GM is alive and Al Qaeda is dead.

    ... Along with 4 Americans.
    I don't think that is any great loss , particularly considering the identity of the Americans concerned --- direct friends and relatives excepted .
    God knows how many civilians including masses of women and children America kills every year -- defined in various ways to divert responsibility .

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    The story is no surprise. The surprise would have been that the mission was staffed with State Department employees. They don't like to go to combat zones..... And I have said since this story broke that the ex seals were CIA contractors, not State Department.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    The story is no surprise. The surprise would have been that the mission was staffed with State Department employees. They don't like to go to combat zones..... And I have said since this story broke that the ex seals were CIA contractors, not State Department.
    You may understand this:

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    The military is preparing a timeline from the night of the Benghazi attack and plans to outline what assets were available to commanders in the region, including AFRICOM commander General Carter Ham, who was visiting Washington, DC on September 11 and was in the Pentagon overseeing the operation that night.
    Pentagon spokesman George Little says, “On the night of the attack on American personnel and facilities in Benghazi, there were no armed unmanned aerial vehicles over Libya, and there were no AC-130s anywhere close.”
    On Thursday, the CIA excluded Fox News from a briefing for a small group of reporters in which they provided a timeline from the night of the attack in which they explain that at 5:15 a.m. (7 hrs and 28 minutes after the attack on the consulate began) five mortars are fired at the annex, three of them striking the roof and killing Woods and Doherty.
    The CIA told the Washington Post’s David Ignatius that “the rooftop defenders never ‘laser the mortars’ as has been reported,” a reference to an earlier Fox News report. The CIA added the “defenders have focused their laser sights earlier on several Libyan attackers, as warnings not to fire.”


    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz2BGK5LPky

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    Quote Originally Posted by shaarona View Post
    You may understand this:

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    The military is preparing a timeline from the night of the Benghazi attack and plans to outline what assets were available to commanders in the region, including AFRICOM commander General Carter Ham, who was visiting Washington, DC on September 11 and was in the Pentagon overseeing the operation that night.
    Pentagon spokesman George Little says, “On the night of the attack on American personnel and facilities in Benghazi, there were no armed unmanned aerial vehicles over Libya, and there were no AC-130s anywhere close.”
    On Thursday, the CIA excluded Fox News from a briefing for a small group of reporters in which they provided a timeline from the night of the attack in which they explain that at 5:15 a.m. (7 hrs and 28 minutes after the attack on the consulate began) five mortars are fired at the annex, three of them striking the roof and killing Woods and Doherty.
    The CIA told the Washington Post’s David Ignatius that “the rooftop defenders never ‘laser the mortars’ as has been reported,” a reference to an earlier Fox News report. The CIA added the “defenders have focused their laser sights earlier on several Libyan attackers, as warnings not to fire.”


    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz2BGK5LPky
    I understand what is written in the article. I will have to check other sources before I comment. But I know that we have a major airbase close enough to have F15s on target within 1 hour. Not sure the time on target for an AC 130 from that base.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I understand what is written in the article. I will have to check other sources before I comment. But I know that we have a major airbase close enough to have F15s on target within 1 hour. Not sure the time on target for an AC 130 from that base.
    Do you mean Aviano Italy? Its over a thousand miles away. Is an F 15 the right sort of aircraft for that distance and application?

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    Quote Originally Posted by shaarona View Post
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-Benghazi.html
    CIA confirms role in US consulate attack in Benghazi


    The US consulate in Benghazi that came under attack by militants on September 11 was mainly a secret CIA operation, shedding new light on the deadly assault.


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    The Wall Street Journal said the consulate was being used as a CIA operation, adding that of the 30 American officials evacuated from Benghazi following the assault, just seven worked for the State Department.


    It also identified the two security contractors killed in the attack – former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty – as working for the Central Intelligence Agency and not the State Department.

    In a break from tradition, it said CIA Director David Petraeus did not attend the ceremony when the coffins arrived back on American soil in order to conceal the CIA operation in eastern Libya.


    It said the nearly two dozen CIA operatives secretly worked out of a separate building known as the "annex," where officials at the consulate had retreated following the initial attack before coming under fire again.

    (this is why they have been reluctant to talk)
    So, the CIA confirms they had an operation in the consulate. Does that in any way explain the lies from the Obama administration?

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    Quote Originally Posted by patrickt View Post
    So, the CIA confirms they had an operation in the consulate. Does that in any way explain the lies from the Obama administration?
    You mean in not exposing a covert operation?

    Libya is bleeding weapons all over Africa.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shaarona View Post
    Do you mean Aviano Italy? Its over a thousand miles away. Is an F 15 the right sort of aircraft for that distance and application?
    There are refueling aircraft at the NAS on the island of Sicily. Your point has failed.


    Mission Libya: Video of F16 fighters & A10 tank busters at US base in Italy





    More NATO jets took off from Aviano airforce base in northern Italy on Tuesday as sorties over skies of Libya continued in a NATO-led coalition airstrikes against Moammar Gadhafi's regime. US F16 fighter jets along with A10 jets, took off early morning on Tuesday, as more planes returned to the airforce base upon the finish of the nights raids.
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    F-16 Fighter Falcon Returns to Aviano Air Base




    Footage of F-16 Aircrafts return to Aviano Air Force Base, Italy, on March 20, 2011, after supporting Operation Odyssey Dawn. Joint Task Force Dawn is the U.S. Africa Command task force established to provide operational and tactical command and control of U.S. military forces supporting the international response to the unrest in Libya
    Last edited by DonGlock26; 11-05-2012 at 09:37 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DonGlock26 View Post
    There are refueling aircraft at the NAS on the island of Sicily. Your point has failed.


    Mission Libya: Video of F16 fighters & A10 tank busters at US base in Italy





    More NATO jets took off from Aviano airforce base in northern Italy on Tuesday as sorties over skies of Libya continued in a NATO-led coalition airstrikes against Moammar Gadhafi's regime. US F16 fighter jets along with A10 jets, took off early morning on Tuesday, as more planes returned to the airforce base upon the finish of the nights raids.
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    F-16 Fighter Falcon Returns to Aviano Air Base






    Footage of F-16 Aircrafts return to Aviano Air Force Base, Italy, on March 20, 2011, after supporting Operation Odyssey Dawn. Joint Task Force Dawn is the U.S. Africa Command task force established to provide operational and tactical command and control of U.S. military forces supporting the international response to the unrest in Libya
    You may be surprised at the facts, Don.. You have assumed a great deal.

    Fox fueled hysteria over Benghazi.

    http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blo...azi-collapses/

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    Quote Originally Posted by shaarona View Post
    Do you mean Aviano Italy? Its over a thousand miles away. Is an F 15 the right sort of aircraft for that distance and application?
    No I don't mean Aviano.

    Agreed that the F-15 is not the best platform for that sort of mission, but it could have broken the will of the enemy.

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