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MR2
10-30-2013, 22:29
U.S. military commandos made it to Benghazi (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/30/us-military-commandos-made-it-to-benghazi/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/30/us-military-commandos-made-it-to-benghazi/)

Masked from public view, two of the U.S. military’s elite special operations commandos have been awarded medals for bravery for a mission that further undercuts the Obama administration’s original story about the Benghazi tragedy.

For months, administration officials have claimed no special operations forces were dispatched from outside Libya to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012, al Qaeda terrorist attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission and CIA annex because none was within range.

The Pentagon, under intense public criticism for not coming to the aid of besieged Americans, published an official timeline in November that carefully danced around the issue.

It said time and distance prevented any commandos outside Libya from reaching a CIA compound under attack. The timeline disclosed that a reinforcement flight 400 miles away in Tripoli contained two “DoD personnel” but did not describe who they were. Later, the official State Department report on Benghazi said they were “two U.S. military personnel” — but provided no other details. It made no mention of special operations forces.

But sources directly familiar with the attack tell The Washington Times that a unit of eight special operators — mostly Delta Force and Green Beret members — were in Tripoli the night of the attack, on a counterterrorism mission that involved capturing weapons and wanted terrorists from the streets and helping train Libyan forces.

When word of the Benghazi attack surfaced, two members of that military unit volunteered to be dispatched along with five private security contractors on a hastily arranged flight from Tripoli to rescue Americans in danger, the sources said, speaking only on the condition of anonymity because the special operations forces’ existence inside Libya was secret.

The two special operations forces arrived in time to engage in the final, ferocious firefight between the terrorists and Americans holed up in the CIA annex near the ill-fated diplomatic mission in Benghazi, the sources added.

The two special operators were awarded medals for valor for helping repel a complex attack that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stephens, another American diplomat and two former Navy SEALs, but spared many more potential casualties.

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Beef
10-31-2013, 06:25
The O and Hill are ultimately going to have to explain this whole mess. There are too many people involved that are completely disgusted to keep this from slowly getting out in full.

sinjefe
10-31-2013, 06:32
Not as long as the media refuse to give this one any time

Richard
10-31-2013, 06:42
I was listening to an interview on NPR while out running errands last weekend and they were discussing this one. They would not discuss what organization they were from, but one of them received a Distinguished Service Cross and one received a Navy Cross, which lets you know who they were.

Richard

cat in the hat
10-31-2013, 09:55
Navy Cross? but if it had been a SEAL we would have seen two books and a movie already.

Santo Tomas
10-31-2013, 11:01
This was on 60 minutes few weeks back. Said both were assigned to USASOC.

BMT (RIP)
11-01-2013, 14:57
Both Delta Force operators have been nominated for the Distinguished Service Cross -- the military's second highest medal for valor -- and a Silver Star, sources confirmed to Fox News.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/01/two-us-commandos-involved-in-benghazi-rescue-to-be-privately-honored-for/?intcmp=latestnews


BMT

Saturation
11-01-2013, 15:43
Just saw article about forthcoming book- The Embassy House.
Painful read and much respect for those that fought so bravely.

Article here (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2013/10/embassy_house_excerpt_an_eyewitness_account_of_the _benghazi_attack_that.html) if interested.

Saturation
11-08-2013, 20:24
:mad::mad::mad:
Sigh- same old story of a fraud publishing a book, interviews etc...

Just saw article about forthcoming book- The Embassy House.
Painful read and much respect for those that fought so bravely.

Article here (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2013/10/embassy_house_excerpt_an_eyewitness_account_of_the _benghazi_attack_that.html) if interested.

tonyz
01-19-2014, 09:41
There are a number of threads dealing with Benghazi but did not see links to declassified transcripts posted - see below.

WASHINGTON— The House Armed Services Committee today released a series of recently declassified transcripts of briefings on the September 11th 2012 attack on Americans in Benghazi, Libya. The briefings were conducted by the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations then chaired by Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL), though they were open to all members of the Committee and attended by Members off the Committee. The briefings, which took place over the course of several months, were part of the Committee’s examination of the actions of the military chain of command before, during, and after the attack. A report summarizing the conclusion of the HASC Oversight & Investigations majority Members draw from these briefings is expected to be released later this week.

Read the transcripts linked below

Permalink: http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/2014/1/declassified-transcripts-of-benghazi-briefings-released

http://armedservices.house.gov/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=17D69AFC-744A-43DA-8BEA-D582975C1277