When the US Consulate in Benghazi was attacked on September 11 of this year, a second compound, termed a “CIA safehouse” was hit at roughly the same time. Indeed, officials say they were attacked en route to the safehouse multiple times, despite its existence supposedly being a closely guarded secret.
Officials are adding to the details about it today, suggesting the safehouse was far bigger than previously acknowledged, and that the number of CIA agents in Benghazi “clear outnumbered” the US diplomats there.
It was also revealed that two of the slain Americans, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, who were reported slain at the consulate actually weren’t there, and instead died during the attack on the safehouse.
The safehouse was the CIA operating area for the State Department’s ongoing effort to track down shoulder-mounted surface-to-air missiles looted from Libya in the wake of last year’s NATO-backed regime change. Looted arms from Libya have showed up across northern Africa, as far south as Mali, and even in the Gaza Strip. There has been little indication that there has been much progress in located the looted weapons.
Good post, Jason.
I do not think we yet know half the dirty business that the US was up to in Benghazi and the rest of Libya.
And what is especially disgusting is that Stevens, the ambassador, is described in the MSM as a "hero" and often in the "alternative" media as an "innocent" American. Innocent he is not. He was one of the main planners of the war on Libya which has now killed tens of thousands. Therefore he is a mass murderer. And the war was unconstitutional. Therefore he committed treason. Innocent, he was not.
The war brought down the government of Gaddafi which had the highest Human Development Index (a number assigned by the UN to every country) in all of Africa. The HDI is a single number that rates health care, education, gender equity and standard of living. Of all the dictators in the area – and there are/were many – Gaddafi certainly did the most for his people and to boot, as it turned out, he did not have much of an army – mostly light weapons. And the US brought him down because he was not obedient.
Bad fighting bad. It is good.