Libya rescue squad ran into fierce, accurate ambush

CNBC ^ | 9/12/12 | Alastair Macdonald; Editing by Andrew Osborn

[Kartographer]

A squad of U.S. troops dispatched by helicopter across the Libyan desert to rescue besieged diplomats from Benghazi on Wednesday ran into a fierce overnight ambush that left a further two Americans dead, Libyan officials told Reuters.

Accounts of the mayhem at the U.S. consulate, where the ambassador and a fourth American died after a chaotic protest over a film insulting to Islam, remain patchy. But two Libyan officials, including the commander of a security force which escorted the U.S. rescuers, said a later assault on a supposedly safe refuge for the diplomats appeared professionally executed.

[The_Media_never_lie]

A squad is only 8 men. Suicide mission. God bless these brave troups.

Who sent them in? Mogadishu revisited?

[Sivad]

“Leading from behind”

Or leading from Las Vegas
Or leading from the scampaign trail
Or leading from a fundraiser
Or leading from the sandtrap next to 12th green

Leading from behind = The Obama Doctrine
(I’m sure you concur)

[willyd]

You mean whose gutsy call was it?

[Neidermeyer]

"How can we guarantee 10,000 dead Libyans by morning?"

I don't know if this can carrier launch but it would get their attention...

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Indeed.