US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens was alive when angry Libyans found him after an attack on the consulate building in Benghazi last week, eye witnesses have told the Associated Press.
Reports initially said that by the time anyone got to him, Stevens had died from smoke inhalation. But a group of people reportedly pulled Stevens from the room in the burning consulate building, saw he was still breathing and brought him to a hospital.
He was breathing and his eyelids flickered, one witness said. “I tested his pulse and he was alive,” he said “No doubt. His face was blackened and he was like a paralyzed person.”
Photographs of Stevens’ seemingly lifeless body were taken, but one man present took a video of the Libyans carrying Stevens struggling body to the hospital.
This new account sheds light on the confusion surrounding the incident. Initially reported as a spontaneous demonstrated that turned violent, later reports and US intelligence confirmed two separate things seemed to be happening. On the one hand, Libyan protesters were demonstrating against an anti-Muslim film, recently protested against in Cairo. On the other hand, elements of al-Qaeda planned an all out attack on the building, and used live rounds and grenade launchers amid the dueling offensives.
so what about stevens being killed by a gunshot to the head?
He died of SMOKE INHALATION not shot to the head or any other part of his body for that matter.
what did he say,,what did he say???who did it?usa?huh huh??
That's the story I've consistently heard/read since the beginning. It fact, it was reported that the protesters themselves took him to the hospital where he died of smoke inhalation. Did y'all get that? SMOKE INHALATION not shot wounds or any other physical trauma or injuries.
alive when they found him. Sound familiar???
As always, these events are always managed depending on the political situation. Since it is critical to maintain Libya in the eyes of Americans as good guys, this is the interpretation we will have. According to some other sources, there is a discrepancy of 3-4 hours between the time he was found, and he time he showed up in hospital where he died. It is not likely that the information about his real condition will be made public — this politically does not suit anyone. Unless, as always, some other video shows up. This is one of those situations where the management of perceptions is everything. Now, if such a situation developed in let's say Iran — the shouts of the crowd would not have been interpreted this way. Who knows what really happened.
I read somewhere that Stevens was, pretty much, the US man in Libya. In other words, he was the governor calling the shots in the new colony. Wonder if that had anything to do with the events.
They must have lost their ambulances in the NATO bombing.