IT'S TIME....Pt.1

Down and Dirty on the Libyan attack....

  On Tuesday a multi pronged attack by heavily armed gunmen against American soil occurred in Benghazi, Libya. This tactically successful operation was enacted in three phases. First around 1400 a small group of lightly armed gunmen arrived in front of the embassy and began milling around the exterior walls of the compound, as if they were waiting on something or someone. These men were shortly joined by a large group of "unarmed" men angry over "The innocence of Muslims"; anti islamic video  published by an American Jew in California. The muslim men began shooting into the air, throwing rocks, and chanting in a show of force directed towards the embassy. At this point the libyan security force reportedly advised the ambassador that a evacuation of the embassy was a necessity but their advice supposedly fell upon deaf ears. At roughly 2130 a large group of heavily armed men with belt fed weapons and RPG's arrived on the scene in armored vehicles increasing the crown number to over two hundred (not the thousands reported in the media). At seeing the crowd size  "The Libyan security guards were forced to pull out of the site due to their small numbers" Quote from Libyan interior minister; leaving the defense of the compound in the hands of a small number of state department security team members.

     At seeing the Libyan guards retreating phase two began because shortly thereafter a barrage of automatic weapons fire and grenades assaulted the compound; with no one to defend it the crowd stormed in. During this time Ambassador Chris Stevens and State dept analyst Sean Smith became separated from their evacuation group due to a storm of grenades raining down inside the compound. The ensuing search for them by Libyan security had to be called of due to smoke and fire inside the buildings thus leaving them to likely die by asphyxiation.

   

     By 2215 the remaining thirty American and Libyan staffers were successfully evac'd to the "secret" safe house located in the city's equestrian park while a joint US/Libyan quick reaction force was sent from Tripoli to provide additional support. The QRF's arrival at the safe house coincided with the third phase of the assault kicking off when a gun battle erupted as the additional forces were pulling up to the safe house to evac the staffers to the airport. The ensuing gun battle was hard fought with the heavily armed and prepared QRF taking the fight but at the cost of two more american lives. Glen Doherty and Tyrone S. Woods, both prior Seals who came in with the QRF, lost their lives providing cover for the retreating civilians. Thus bringing the total of American casualties to four dead, and fourteen wounded.

I waited to write about this incident until my overwhelming anger had rescinded and i could extract enough intel to get a firm grasp on the situation. Now you know exactly what happened.....the big question is WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?


Cont. Monday w/ Pt. 2

Shot (not) over
-Jak

Gracias: Secret Squirrel