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(New) AC-130U Gunship was On-Scene in Benghazi, Obama Admin Refused to Let It Fire
PJ Tatler ^ | 10-26-2012 | Bob Owen

Posted on 10/26/2012 10:19:39 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot

If you don’t get torches-and-pitchforks irate about this, you are not an American:

The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Specter gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights. The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours — enough time for any planes based in Sigonella Air base, just 480 miles away, to arrive. Fox News has also learned that two separate Tier One Special operations forces were told to wait, among them Delta Force operators.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benghazigate; benghazirescue; benghazistanddown; clintontreason; dnctreason; libya; muslimbrotherhood; panettatreason; treason
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To: Sir Napsalot

This is insane

This is inhuman


101 posted on 10/26/2012 11:27:29 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: billorites

Now they say 2 drones.

Why would they be painting a mortar team with a laser?

AT least one of those drones had hellfire missiles, I would bet anything.


102 posted on 10/26/2012 11:28:23 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: driftdiver
Weren’t they bombing there a while back? I’m sure they didnt do that with permission from Ghadafi.

Did 0bama ask Pockeeston permission to kill bin Laden? Does he ask Pockeeston permission to make drone strikes there? Did 0bama ask Yemen permission to kill Alawki's 16 yr old son with a drone strike?

103 posted on 10/26/2012 11:29:44 AM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: gaijin

Thanks. I wanted to be sure that the information in the article confirmed the headline because it would be a meltdown moment in the cover up. One of the reasons given for not letting aircraft in was that there was a fear of a Mogadishu type incident or ambush. So, if there actually was a gunship on scene and it was told not to fire, all holy hell would break loose!


104 posted on 10/26/2012 11:32:06 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Jane Long
" Puff the Magic Dragon "

Douglas AC-47 Spooky was the plane that got that name... mostly in Vietnam.



Had a vet tell me how it looked and the awe of it at night with the tracers shooting at a mountain in Vietnam.

But, yes, the AC-130 can be called " Puff the Magic Dragon II "
105 posted on 10/26/2012 11:34:01 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: skinkinthegrass
IF they had to, they could land one on a aircraft carrier.


106 posted on 10/26/2012 11:38:06 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: skinkinthegrass

But it was said that the planes were posted to Libya.


107 posted on 10/26/2012 11:38:44 AM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: skinkinthegrass

Correction.... IF they had to, they can land a AC-130 on a Aircraft carrier or take off from a aircraft carrier.


108 posted on 10/26/2012 11:40:25 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: Jack Hydrazine

That is suitably unnecessary.


109 posted on 10/26/2012 11:41:00 AM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

TRANSCRIPT: Presidential debate on foreign policy at Lynn University
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/22/transcript-presidential-debate-on-foreign-policy-at-lynn-university/

Obama “Now with respect to Libya, as I indicated in the last debate, when we received that phone call, I immediately made sure that, number one, that we did everything we could to secure those Americans who were still in harm’s way;”


110 posted on 10/26/2012 11:43:22 AM PDT by Son House (The Economic Boom Heard Around The World => TEA Party 2012)
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To: arrogantsob; skinkinthegrass
What air field were they flying out of, I wonder?

Sigonella NAS, Sicily. 480 miles from Benghazi.

An AC-130 was armed, fueled and ready.

As was a Special Ops team flown in from Germany, on the tarmac, rotors turning.

Plus a squadron of F-18s.

Their "Go" signal never came.

111 posted on 10/26/2012 11:43:24 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA; Ignorance on parade.)
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To: cripplecreek

This also blows away the argument that they had to get permission to move their assets into Libya to do the job.

Increasingly it looks like the regime has to choose between 2 explanations:

1. We are soul-less bastards who didn’t care that 22 people in our complex were going to be gunned down by Islamists.

2. We knew the attack was just a harmless theatrical production so we didn’t need any real protection coming in and screwing up the charade.


112 posted on 10/26/2012 11:43:57 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: arrogantsob

I agree with your sentiment, but there were two Warsaw uprisings. The Jewish Warsaw uprising began April 19, 1943 and Stalin was not in a position to assist them, not that he would have anyway. The uprising you are referring to began August 1, 1944. To Stalin’s eternal damnation, he too, had information that could have saved people, and he did nothing. Just like Obama.


113 posted on 10/26/2012 11:44:09 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: GraceG

Well, his campaign manager is Wile E. Coyote isn’t he?

And new packages are arriving daily from Acme.

It certainly looks like the Intel community is bringing him down, leak by leak.


114 posted on 10/26/2012 11:44:32 AM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: milagro
I heard that, thanks. My heart is so very heavy for them at this time, finally realizing what really happened is bad enough for us to hear, but MY GOD what those families must be feeling.

I WANT PRESIDENT OBAMA BASTARD ARRESTED TODAY, put him in Bidens CHAINS.

CALL a MUTINY. He is no longer fit to command the SHIP OF STATE.

115 posted on 10/26/2012 11:45:11 AM PDT by annieokie (O)
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To: TigersEye

Then there’s always the angle about America asking for permission to defend American territory and American lives.


116 posted on 10/26/2012 11:46:22 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: COBOL2Java

It’s not too late for Americans to insist that everyone associated with this in this administration be denied all current and future security at taxpayers expense.

To those providing security for these traitors here is a tip, when the time comes - DUCK!


117 posted on 10/26/2012 11:48:14 AM PDT by anonsquared
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To: kristinn
The blogger who wrote this has made an irresponsible assumption that the planes were deployed over Benghazi that night. The Fox report doesn’t state that,...

EXCLUSIVE: CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack, sources say Fox News

The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Spectre gunship,...

The security officer sure thought getting one over them was a possibility.

118 posted on 10/26/2012 11:48:40 AM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: Sir Napsalot
Photobucket These used to fly over my house regularly, usually showing up around dusk. For some reason they were flying around in the middle of the day when I took this one. They come from Hurlburt AFB which is on Eglin. I don't see them nearly as often any more.
119 posted on 10/26/2012 11:49:58 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: Sir Napsalot
THIS THREAD IS ON FIRE: Are there automatic sprinklers in place? or do we just

STAND DOWN

120 posted on 10/26/2012 11:50:14 AM PDT by annieokie (O)
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