{"id":38224,"date":"2013-10-31T13:26:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T17:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38224"},"modified":"2013-10-31T13:46:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T17:46:17","slug":"two-military-personnel-awarded-medals-for-benghazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38224","title":{"rendered":"Two “military personnel” awarded medals for Benghazi"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Washington Times<\/a> today, Rowan Scarborough reveals that two special forces operators volunteered to make the 400 mile journey to Benghazi from Tripoli to help rescue folks at the consulate on September 11th, 2012, despite Obama Administration claims that there were no forces in the vicinity who could arrive in a timely manner to defend the consulate;<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But sources directly familiar with the attack tell The Washington Times that a unit of eight special operators \u2014 mostly Delta Force and Green Beret members \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019 existence inside Libya was secret.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At the time of the al Qaeda attacks, the military was setting up a terrorist-hunting unit in Tripoli that included U.S. Special Operations Command\u2019s super-secret Delta Force and Green Berets, the sources say.<\/p>\n

Gregory Hicks, who was deputy chief of station in Tripoli, sent the reinforcements in conjunction with the CIA. On a night when Mr. Panetta decided he did not have enough information to commit troops, Mr. Hicks decided he did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It looks like the administration’s whole story is falling apart. Must be one of those non-scandals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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