Americans in Benghazi could have been saved -- except that Obama said No
The news is breaking today but there is a small bit that is being overlooked. According to the statements from Fox News:
"The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Specter gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights. The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours — enough time for any planes based in Sigonella Air base, just 480 miles away, to arrive. Fox News has also learned that two separate Tier One Special operations forces were told to wait, among them Delta Force operators."
Everyone is reporting this but they are missing a key point. From the retired Delta operator:
"Having spent a good bit of time nursing a GLD (ground Laser Designator) in several garden spots around the world, something from the report jumped out at me.
One of the former SEALs was actively painting the target. That means that Specter WAS ON STATION! Probably an AC130U. A ground laser designator is not a briefing pointer laser. You do not "paint" a target until the weapons system/designator is synched; which means that the AC130 was on station."
Only two places could have called off the attack at that point; the WH situation command (based on POTUS direction) or AFRICOM commander based on information directly from the target area.
If the AC130 never left Sigonella (as Penetta says) that means that the Predator that was filming the whole thing was armed.
If that SEAL was actively "painting" a target; something was on station to engage! And the decision to stand down goes directly to POTUS! This is far bigger than Watergate.
The second worst feeling in the world has to be the platform crew being desperately asked for help, given a clear target and then having to stand down and watch your fellow Americans die.
The worst has to be the team on the ground knowing that the President just left you to die.
Update: Even with two Predators on station, one unarmed and filming and one armed, the call to stand down comes from the same sources. Earlier today, Bob Owens at PJ Media posts about the responsibility of the order to call off the mission as well as some good info about the AC130s on station.
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Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
1 comment:
Have you no shame shoveling this shit? Have you no brain, assuming you believe the shit you are shoveling is actually true. Yes, of course, the POTUS was fully aware our embassy was under attack by terrorist trying to kill a personal friend he appointed as ambassador. We had the offenders in our gun sights as all this was happening, and our commander in chief, In front of his staff and with full knowledge he was aiding and abetting the terrorist in their mission, personally interceded and ordered our military to stand down so that our embassy would be overrun and his friend killed. Yes, of course, it happened just like that, and all those who were witness to this traitorous act or on the receiving end of such traitorous orders have all stayed silent. Thank goodness for the brilliant mind of John Ray, objective and fair-minded guy that he is, for having figured it all out for us.
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