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US aircraft were near Benghazi
during Libya attack but unable
to prevent deaths: report
New York Post, by Staff
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Original Article
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Posted By:FlyRight, 10/20/2012 1:36:05 PM
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| US drones were in the skies over Benghazi during last month’s fatal attack on US ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, a new report claims.Defense Department officials weighed sending troops to rescue Stevens and more than 30 other Americans whose compound was surrounded by an angry mob on Sept. 11, says the report by CBS News. But no US counterattack or rescue effort was carried out.The drone and other reconnaissance aircraft observed the final hours of the protracted, seven-hour battle at the US Consulate.
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Comments:
In attempt to fix URL, source [New York Post] keeps changing it [5 times, now]. Story found on top of front page:
http://www.nypost.com/
LCom Staff.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
noddy, 10/20/2012 1:39:51 PM (No. 8948243)
I was unaware aircraft and drones were one and the same. Unfortunately you can't fit too many rescuers inside a drone. But the headline says help was trying to get there.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
fire_mission, 10/20/2012 1:44:41 PM (No. 8948251)
Obama Doctrine: Whatever the crcumstances, just can't upset those Muzzies.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 10/20/2012 1:45:25 PM (No. 8948254)
Once all of your own people are dead you should be able to sanitize the area with impunity.
But, no...not this islamo hippy choom-gang.
Musn't anger the Jihadis.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Douglas DC, 10/20/2012 1:48:20 PM (No. 8948259)
Seven hours is nothing for an F-18 to get there.Where was the US Military. Drones
were watching?
Murder most foul..
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
zahbudda, 10/20/2012 1:51:56 PM (No. 8948264)
If this is so... why didn't the drone put a "Hellfire" missile in the midst of the Jihadists?...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
gerty, 10/20/2012 1:53:44 PM (No. 8948266)
I can't be reading this correctly. If I am, we knew what was going on, when it was going on and made NO attempt to stop it?
Impeach the bastids!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
killerbee, 10/20/2012 1:54:51 PM (No. 8948267)
All this shoddy info coming out two days before the foreign policy debate. It's smoke and mirrors.
The time to help was before the attack, when the ambassador was asking for more security.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Coy860, 10/20/2012 2:02:29 PM (No. 8948273)
Drip drip drip, I feel so sorry for the families of those killed.
The Obama administration can't give a straight answer to save themselves.
Imagine how they must feel, not knowing what happened to their loved ones.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
FenwayFrank, 10/20/2012 2:04:47 PM (No. 8948280)
So now there were recon aircraft. I could swear that we were told there were no air assets, so we only had to rely on the cable traffic & live video feed from Benghazi at first. Any other surprises zippy?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Spidey, 10/20/2012 2:08:09 PM (No. 8948286)
The only people Obama has fired since being in office are whistleblowers reporting his corruption.4 Americans get killed through pure dereliction of duty and crickets on someone getting fired.Hillary Clinton is still the most popular woman in America,,Go figure.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MMC, 10/20/2012 2:30:04 PM (No. 8948308)
This is most interesting..
The WH wants us to believe that they did what they could... or had a reason not to do what they did..
Yet.. those pesky nuggets of truth and timeline keep interferring with their story.
So.. piecing together, or cobbling the story- either Hillary knew about the attack sooner than she let on, Obama knew sooner, but ignored and went to Las Vegas, or all the information was put in an inbox for the Monday morning Security Meeting...
It really is a SNAFU of foreign policy.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino, 10/20/2012 2:37:46 PM (No. 8948316)
Hey, c'mon - - give Zippy a break.
Have you ever tried to direct a drone strike from a Las Vegas fundraiser? It's not that easy.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bob913, 10/20/2012 2:40:16 PM (No. 8948319)
Hillary Clinton sought clearances from Libya to fly in their airspace
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They held meetings to cover their rearends while these men were fighting for their lives!!
Mitt Romney needs to bring this up now and at the next debate calling obama a liar stating he knew the attacks were going on yet you did nothing to help those men. obama was helping the MUSLIM terrorists.
Then obama went to Las Vegas to party!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
theodorea, 10/20/2012 2:42:08 PM (No. 8948323)
Finally, we're getting to the heart of the matter - which is why there was no attempted rescue / counterstrike.
Question: Were rescue / counterstrike discussed with WH?
Answer: Of course they were.
Question: Who turned thumbs down on these options?
Answer: Who do you think?
Question: Why did WDYT disallow rescue / counterstrike?
Answer: Because WDYT had reason for wanting the attack to succeed.
Question: What was the reason? Answer: Attempted rescue would have likely revealed information embarrassing to WDYT.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
drkillj0y, 10/20/2012 2:50:09 PM (No. 8948338)
Moved AGAIN!
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/prevent_aircrafts_fatalities_unable_gkgtuh5FU0qwhyQZzJOK
Anyhoo, like the article said, Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily, is only 480 miles from Benghazi and we could have had F15s/F16s/F18s orbiting over the embassy in 20 minutes, 35 top.
The inept clowns in charge just let it burned while diddling around waiting for a group think consensus and permission from NATO's puppet govt.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bob913, 10/20/2012 2:50:26 PM (No. 8948340)
Valerie Jarrett turned down the request for help. She must have told obama not to help Americans but only the muslim terrorists.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
curious1, 10/20/2012 2:54:05 PM (No. 8948345)
FTA: "...Americans whose compound was surrounded by an angry mob on Sept. 11,..."
The NYP, still blatting that false meme that it was an angry mob. Not the same thing as a battalion sized Al-Q assault that succeeded because the Americans weren't resupplied or provided CAS even though they held out for over 6 hours. A murder trial would be too good for those responsible for abandoning those men.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
buckeye1, 10/20/2012 3:03:38 PM (No. 8948367)
With all due respects to the dead, this will make a great movie premise in the future: a morally bankrupt government makes an ethical decision to keep the murder of a diplomat asecret for the ''greater good''.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
qmcgs, 10/20/2012 3:11:29 PM (No. 8948376)
So State had eyes on the ground and Defense had eyes in the sky and they did nothing but watch people get killed.
Did Hillary ask Libya if we could enter their air space when Gaddafi was alive? Does the Libyan government in Tripoli today control anything in Benghazi? What's the worst that could have happened to us if we went in on a rescue mission? I know, four more years of 0bama.
What the 0bama administration needs to be pounded on is their response on 9/11 compared to GWB's response to his 9/11.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
rlwo, 10/20/2012 3:23:43 PM (No. 8948397)
These drones didn't have Hellfire missiles on them?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
3XALADY, 10/20/2012 3:50:53 PM (No. 8948440)
@6 Glenn Beck reported on Thursday or Friday that real time video was being sent to the Situation Room in the White House from an overhead drone while the fight was going on. I had heard it was being beamed to the State Dept. or some other place. I had not heard the fight lasted 7 hours. Thought the four were killed pretty early on. Will we ever get a straight story? Feel sorry for the families. Anyone know wher the bodies were sent for burial? Smith's mother didn't know.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
carolina blue, 10/20/2012 5:38:52 PM (No. 8948637)
Just hang on Obumbo will get his before it
is all over. I have a feeling this is going
to be an interesting week come Monday night
and onward.....why hasnt it came out about
all the other trouble places where we have pulled out all the dependants out because we are scared of something taking place there. I saw last week where they ransacked some school etc. and we were pulling alot of the dependents out from various places in our troubled places...so there are some other hotspots over there....
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
kafir091101, 10/20/2012 8:31:16 PM (No. 8948961)
#20:
“What the 0bama administration needs to be pounded on is their response on 9/11 compared to GWB's response to his 9/11.”
Exactly!
Kafir
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
MickTurn, 10/20/2012 8:48:17 PM (No. 8948993)
No, maybe but we could have totally mopped up the terrorists afterwards...but we have a Muslim Loving coward in the WH.
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