Posted on 10/13/2012 6:35:21 AM PDT by RummyChick
When British diplomats abandoned their offices in Benghazi over the summer after the British ambassador’s motorcade was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades, their security detail left its weapons and vehicles in the custody of the U.S. consulate in that eastern Libyan city.
Now that cache of weapons is missing amid signs that the Islamist militants suspected in the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. consulate and a nearby annex remain active, despite Libyan government demands that they disband.
The June 11 attack on British Ambassador Sir Dominic Asquith as he drove through Benghazi is among a list of 230 security incidents, 48 in Benghazi alone, that U.S. officials compiled to show how dangerous Libya had become. Two of Asquith’s security guards were wounded in the attack. In contrast to the Americans, who remained in Benghazi, the British determined that the city was too dangerous and closed their offices.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/10/12/3864521/british-say-weapons-they-left.html#storylink=cpy
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/10/12/3864521/british-say-weapons-they-left.html#storylink=cpy
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
Looks to me like Justice and State are at ‘war’ with the CIA.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2943865/posts
Looks to me like the radicals are trying to wipe out more American patriots.
At least those gun loving troglodyte cowboy Americans won’t have them............now that’s a relief......
another story:
British Guns Accounted For After Benghazi Consulate Attack
12/10/2012 11:55:00
Britih Foreign Office diplomats withdrew from the Libyan city in June following an assassination attempt on the British ambassador but reached an agreement with the US to leave weapons and vehicles at the American compound.
The lightly-guarded US site was overrun by Islamist militants in an attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans last month.
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The Foreign Office has confirmed to the UK daily newspaper The Daily Telegraph that the equipment is still unaccounted for a month after the Benghazi assault.
Dozens of attackers tore through the American compound during the September 11 attack and since then Libyans have often roamed freely through its remains, raising the possibility that the British weapons have already been looted.
Details of the agreement between the British and American diplomatic security teams emerged during a Congressional hearing into the Benghazi attack on Wednesday.
Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Wood, the leader of a US special forces team in Libya, said a deal had been made where the British would “leave their weapons and vehicles on our compound in Benghazi”.
“They would come back and at times withdraw their weapons and vehicles and then return them and leave,” he said.
Britain’s decision to remove diplomats from the eastern Libyan city was repeatedly raised during the hearing, as Republicans demanded to know why the US had stayed even when its close ally had decided the situation was no longer safe.
Lt Col Wood said that the withdrawal of British diplomats and Red Cross workers should have been a warning to US diplomats. “I almost expected the attack to come. We were the last flag flying, it was a matter of time,” he said.
Sir Dominic Dominic Asquith, Britain’s envoy to Libya, survived a rocket attack on his on his convoy as it drove through Benghazi on June 11 but two of his bodyguards were injured. The ambush prompted the Foreign Office to close its office and remove British staff.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman would not give details of the British equipment in Benghazi. “Following the suspension of our office in Benghazi the US consulate agreed to store some equipment on our behalf. We are working with the US to establish what, if anything, has happened to this equipment,” she said.
The US State Department did not return a request by the newspaper for comment.
Meanwhile, the mother of one of the Americans killed in Benghazi said she was “repeatedly lied to” by the Obama administration and given no details about her son’s death.
Pat Smith, whose son Sean died alongside Mr Stevens, told CNN: “’I look at TV and I see bloody hand prints on walls, thinking: ‘My God, is that my son’s? I don’t know if he was shot. I don’t know - I don’t know.”
Ask Cutter the Liar or Carney the Liar or Biden the Liar or Schultz the Liar. DNC = Liars.
The headline is wrong. It should read UNACCOUNTED FOR.
When Romney is president and planes start falling from the sky, then you will hear about it.
re: That is just incredible incompetence.
It is beyond incompetence. I am not one for conspiracy theories, but this was so outrageously stupid that I can’t help but wonder if the murder of our ambassador and the three others was allowed to happen for some reason for which I can’t fathom.
I believe you have the correct answer.
I think CIA is going to have to get dragged in since Hillary is desperate to keep the blame off of State. Biden, at the debate, screwed the pooch and forced the WH to dig a moat, walling them off from CIA/State. So ... now Hillary is fighting for her political life and she won’t go down easy. Bill has already assembled a legal team and they are informally going through State cables, etc. since Hillary is probably going to have to testify at some point. It’s a ‘Rat fight and I’d enjoy it a whole lot more if 4 Americans weren’t dead and if our national security hadn’t been compromised. We’re going to get attacked here at home again the way things are headed.
When an administration intentionally tramples the US Constitution, rewards illegal activity, is so unbelievably screwing up the nation, attacks achievement, and lies constantly, there can be little thinking people can believe but that it may be intentional.
“It is beyond incompetence. I am not one for conspiracy theories, but this was so outrageously stupid that I can’t help but wonder if the murder of our ambassador and the three others was allowed to happen for some reason for which I can’t fathom.”
Here is one possibility that is entirely plausible given what we know at this point:
They have our arms.
We want them back before they blow up a plane with them.
We make a deal.
Give us the arms.
We give you the Blind Sheik (along with God knows what else)
To sell this to the American Public we have to stage a kidnapping.
It helps get Obama reelected. It serves a muliple purposes.
But as the whacko operation unfolds - it goes wrong - because you can’t trust a Muzzie.
I believe this CIA FUBAR involves missing arms and the Blind Sheik. Stevens and 3 others are collateral damage.
Perhaps the suddenly found Stevens journal was planted to shift focus to the the State Department.
Nothing will convince me this was not the planned outcome. God help us.
They'd better disband, or we'll really have to start pussyfooting around and delaying doing anything about it and then lying about it and blaming everybody else.
Yeah, I wondered about that but that is what it was. lol
Taliban are inside the building . That’s what Eric Nordstrom said in his testimony.
We had a relatively stable Middle East....except for the Israel situation -but even that was sort of under control.
Until Obama.
Then countries started to fall like dominoes.
Is Jordan next?
It was kinda like Vince Foster's "suicide". It should serve as a teachable moment for the obama worshipers and the Clinton worshipers but it won't. Why? Because they do not possess the intelligence to comprehend ... well anything.
My question is: Why in heck would anybody take that job?
Your reports are ignored.
You're the first one under the bus when it starts raining on Hillary.
Your life is at risk.
The pay can't be that great.
Where's the upside?
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