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A small team of Special Forces operatives was ready to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi last year after Libyan insurgents attacked the U.S. mission there, but was told it was not authorized to board the flight by regional military commanders, according to a career State Department official scheduled to testify before Congress on Wednesday.
Gregory Hicks, then deputy chief of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya, told investigators for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that U.S. officials had persuaded the Libyan government to allow the Special Forces operatives to board the rescue flight from Tripoli to Benghazi. But an officer received a phone call telling them to stand down before they left for the airport, according to excerpts of his account made available to NBC News on Monday.
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That conversation occurred after the U.S. ambassador to Libya and another American had been killed in the initial attack, but hours before a second attack that killed two other Americans.
Originally posted by SeekerofTruth101
Names of the officials in the conversation or it didnt happen.
Enough is enough with the 'unnamed official' yet again BS being spewed around.
If 'they', if they even exists, have the guts to make such statements, then have the guts to have their name spelt out and FULLY investigated on. Phone and any communication records can be easily traced in this day and age.
Hatred of the govt or the President is one thing, but truth is quite another.
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by SeekerofTruth101
So you justify the inaction due to "collateral damage" and brush away action by stating that it wouldn't have been worth it?
Originally posted by SeekerofTruth101
Would the presence of the Spec Forces made any differences, more so after the ambassador had been found dead and the other 2 only hours away from death, which the trip from Tripoli would have taken the same or not longer time?
Originally posted by SeekerofTruth101It was a tragic fate, not only for those in the embassy, but even for the small group of spec offrs whom would not have been able to deal with that highly charged and inflamed radicalised heavily armed mob with an intent by the hundreds there.