Thread: US officer got no reply to cables asking more security for Benghazi
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Old 10-09-2012, 04:19 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho View Post
Right... a video that was released the same day as the attack... in a region that 6% of the population even has internet access...

Then there's this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...a-attacks.html
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He added that there were no protesters at the consulate before the assault, which he told the TV station came in two waves - the first involving rocket-propelled grenades on the consulate then with mortars at a safe house.
Adds to my confusion as to how additional security personnel were supposed to have made a difference. Unless Nordstrom had requested an infantry platoon to secure the town. Three or four or ten additional agents could not have caught the RPG's or mortars.
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