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In a new revelation that former UN Ambassador John Bolton called "stunning," one of the Benghazi whistleblowers said that the body of Ambassador Chris Stevens was brought to a hospital under the control of terror group Ansar al-Shariah, which was later blamed for the attack on the U.S. Consulate. He said that there were discussions at one point on whether a team needed to be assembled to rescue Stevens from the hospital.
Hicks: Ansar al-Sharia Attempted to Bait Rescue Team Into Ambush
Hicks claimed this was most likely Ansar al-Sharia attempting to bait the rescue team into a trap:
GREGORY HICKS: [...] After the announcement of Chris’s passing military escort and vehicles arrived at the airport. So the decision was made for them to go to the annex. one of the, before I got the call from the prime minister we had received several phone calls on the phone that had been with the ambassador saying that we know where the ambassador is. Please, you can come get him. And our local staff engaged on those phone calls admirably. Asking very, very good, outstanding even open-ended questions about where was he? Trying to discern whether he was alive, whether they even had the ambassador, whether that person was with the ambassador. Send a picture. Could we talk to the ambassador? Because we knew separately from David that the ambassador was in a hospital. That we believe was under Ansar al-Sharia’s call. We suspected we were being baited into a trap and so we did not want to go send our people into an ambush. And we didn’t. We sent them to the annex. [...]
Originally posted by TheBlackTiger
I'm confused by this whole situation.
Why is it that foreign terrorism is being played down, while domestic terrorism is the big thing?
This situation was clearly mishandled, but to what end? In a climate where it seems like the media and government wants everyone to be terrified, what good was it to hide this? What was the goal?
Originally posted by IAMTAT
Hicks also said they were concerned that since they believed the hospital was under terrorist control, that they may have been being set up for an ambush, should they rush to retrieve him.
Obama claimed that the Libyan security forces "fought back against the attackers." He also claimed that Libyan civilians attempted to aid Ambassador Stevens by transporting him to the hospital: Libyan security personnel fought back against the attackers alongside Americans. Libyans helped some of our diplomats find safety, and they carried Ambassador Stevens’s body to the hospital, where we tragically learned that he had died.
Originally posted by TheBlackTiger
I'm confused by this whole situation.
Why is it that foreign terrorism is being played down, while domestic terrorism is the big thing?
This situation was clearly mishandled, but to what end? In a climate where it seems like the media and government wants everyone to be terrified, what good was it to hide this? What was the goal?
Originally posted by NickDC202
reply to post by IAMTAT
If you look at my post history about the savages who US officials claimed were trying to save Ambassador Stevens, I am somewhat sad to say that I was spot-on in my analysis of this act of terror.... the reason I am somewhat sad that I was correct is that as someone with a degree in political science and journalism, the fabrications that were presented as truth in the "official" story were way too obviously untrue to anyone with a similar education and a keen knowledge of geopolitical affairs...
Originally posted by TheBlackTiger
I'm confused by this whole situation.
Why is it that foreign terrorism is being played down, while domestic terrorism is the big thing?
U.S. State Dept FUNDED & TRAINED Benghazi Terrorist, Ansar al Sharia
..."You want to know what bothered me so much about being assigned in Libya? It's not the hardships, it's not the gunfire, it's not the threats. It's dealing & fighting against the people, the programs & the personnel who were supposed to be supporting me. And I added to it by saying, 'Jim (Bacigalupo) for me, it's as if the Taliban is on the inside of the building."...
Originally posted by Helious
Very true yet what would you wager the chances are that anyone is convicted of a crime and pays the price that should be paid for this outrage? This administration stonewalled Congress in Fast and Furious and has even featured Holder lecturing others about gun violence and also the ultimate kick in the teeth, Obama telling Mexicans in Mexico, Americans are responsible for their gun troubles.
Whistleblower Gregory Hicks briefed Sec State Clinton at 2AM on Benghazi terror attacks
According to testimony today, Hicks claims that shortly after that phone call, at 2AM Benghazi time, he briefed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Hicks says that during the briefing, he referred to the incident as a terrorist attack, and that at no time was it referred to as anything else.
He also updated her on the search for Ambassador Stevens who was then still missing and believed to be in a terrorist-controlled hospital. So, that night, while Chris Stevens was still MIA, Hillary had already been informed that the attack on the compound was terrorist oriented.
Originally posted by Rulkiewicz
reply to post by NickDC202
Maybe they didn't know he was already dead before he arrived at the hospital?