I think it was a Carter type bungle. I find it strange that 30 plus people escaped yet the ambassador was found separated from the group and dead. I think it was a kidnap attempt on the ambassador to put pressure on the administration to release the blind sheik. Rescue attempt went really bad, leaving the ambassador dead. I want to hear from the 30+ people who were rescued and from the rest of the team sent in to rescue them. No way it was only the 2 ex seals.
LameCherry explains it this way
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2012/09/obamas-analgate.html
Say in your town, you have a neighbor running for office who decides to help out your local bank executive who is down on his luck by staging a fake bank robbery, whereby both will get something out of it......in the politician in fake rescue and the exec in “misplaced money” the not caught robbers got away with. They bring the local cops in for a cut, and all is going as planned.
Ok, now as these two are plotting, some local mafia overhear some donut eaters discussing this.
The mafia thugs report this to their boss, who is paying off some higher up cops, who all decide that, “You know I don't like small timers coming into my action and not cutting me in. Let's say we shoot these bastards and take all the money”.
So the exec and politco show up for the drama with the cops, and who shows up but, a herd of mafia and donut eater brass, who take the money bags from the shocked duo, shoot them, and file the reports of “some of the robbers got away with the money”, and the don then launders the cash and all are happy, except Anderson Cooper.