Where does it say the gunships were on the scene or in the air over Benghazi?
The article states:
“There were two AC-130Us deployed to Libya in March as part of Operation Unified Protector.”
Sorry, you are right to point out. This is a continous and fluid reporting situation.
The original reporting from FoxNews Jennifer Griffin has the ‘target sighted’ quote.
This is further confirmation that yes, from the AC-130U Gunship. And the specific request for aid from the gunship.
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, nor do any other reports. The situation is bad enough without junk blogging like this being passed off as news.
sounds like these gunships were in Sigonella and their mission dating back to March had been to support the anti-Qadaffi militia
There is no indication they were capable or authorized to intervene in Libya without the consent of the Libyan govt (or NATO if they are NATO assets), against potential Libyan nationals rioting against one of our consulates (still a plausible explanation in the early hours of the fray/fog of war) to rescue a US Ambassador and CIA contract personnel
It would be great to know that Jack Ryan could get them re-tasked and over there in an hour but there can more bureaucracy than that in making up plan as you go along
Could strong leadership by a real POTUS like George Bush or Ronald Reagan have overcome this with some top level phone calls? Possibly yes.
But a pussy-whipped lead-from-behind axxhole like obama doing something presidential to save people who weren't supposed to get caught doing what they were doing? Nahhhh.
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.
Bloggers like hits, I guess.