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US military units put on alert as security situation deteriorates in Libyan capital
FoxNews.com ^ | 5-10-2013 | Jennifer Griffin, Justin Fishel

Posted on 05/10/2013 9:45:50 AM PDT by topher

The U.S. military has alerted two elite military units in Europe to be on standby if needed to respond to a deteriorating security situation in Tripoli, Fox News has learned.

In recent days both the U.S. embassy and British embassy in Libya have removed non-essential staff from their embassies.

A specialized Marine unit based in Moron, Spain, is in the process of being repositioned closer to Libya; and in Stuttgart, Germany, a special operations force assigned to AFRICOM has been placed on heightened alert.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: africom; britishembassy; embassy; islam; jihad; libya; libyadeterioration; libyafallingapart; libyawarning; muslim; tripoli; usembassy; wagthedog
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To: topher

Can’t help but wonder what happened to the US Marine Corps Battalion Landing Team that is on station in the Mediterranean Sea 24/7/365. Commonly called the Med Cruise when I was in the Corps. A complete and functioning battalion with infantry, artillery, Force Recon, helicopter landing ship, LST’s, tank company etc. A complete self contained little army to take care of things like Benghazi.


41 posted on 05/10/2013 10:18:19 AM PDT by Flint
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To: topher
I posted this on a different thread but it applies here also.

Send McCain back over there to cleanup the mess he created.


42 posted on 05/10/2013 10:18:54 AM PDT by McGruff (You are either with us or you are with the RINOs.)
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To: Pan_Yan

they should just put the city on lockdown and tell everyone to stay home.


43 posted on 05/10/2013 10:19:25 AM PDT by CJ Wolf
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To: jjotto

Thanks, I knew that I was just pointing out they could have reached the annex on Sept 11 also and the people who said different are Full of S it


44 posted on 05/10/2013 10:19:46 AM PDT by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: topher
I hope this time they will have KC-135/KC-10 Tankers available and hopefully have Aircraft Carrier Task Force steaming into the area.

Oh, hell no! Stand down! STAND DOWN!

There is no terrorism and there are no terrorists! Terrorism no longer exists! King Barky the First defeated them all!

45 posted on 05/10/2013 10:21:28 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: MestaMachine
Makes me think our Military has done an end run around the obama crowd. Praises for Our Girls and Boys! Thank You Lord for each one!
46 posted on 05/10/2013 10:21:55 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: topher

Thank You topher!


47 posted on 05/10/2013 10:23:00 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: topher
Some will say House hearings caused this

It's the sequester! The sequester, I tell ya!

Damn those wascally wepublicans!

48 posted on 05/10/2013 10:23:22 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Mr. Lucky
With Syria supposedly using WMD's, it seems we should have some assets in the Mediterrean just for that reason.

Let alone if our INTEL folks tell us thinks are heating up.

And we should have had them on 9/11/2012.

If Reagan was still president, I am sure Benghazi would have went down quite differently...

49 posted on 05/10/2013 10:23:49 AM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: crosslink

And that’s really secondary anyway, as we know that stand-down orders were given to known forces that were nearer.


50 posted on 05/10/2013 10:23:58 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: CMB_polarization
They know they screwed up Benghazi, and now have to put on a dog and pony show ....

..... which does not in any way deviate from, or invalidate, or embarrass, any of the horse-manure they've been shoveling for the last six months.

This should be good (reaches for microwave popcorn) ....

51 posted on 05/10/2013 10:25:20 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: left that other site

LOL!


52 posted on 05/10/2013 10:25:42 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Go Galt!)
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To: jjotto

Yes and shortly after several of the men in command “Retired”


53 posted on 05/10/2013 10:27:05 AM PDT by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: topher

Damn the Sequester!
That’s it, yeah, the sequester...we don’t have the money to respond. We’ll have to evacuate our embassy staff rickshaws.


54 posted on 05/10/2013 10:27:57 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: McGruff

Holy crap! That’s Stevens right behind McCain....One more reason I despise this man.


55 posted on 05/10/2013 10:28:21 AM PDT by Eagle of Liberty (Be the Enemy Within the Enemy Within...)
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To: topher

oh yeah?
Why?
so we can go in and make suckie face with the brotherhood?


56 posted on 05/10/2013 10:37:12 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (I'll surrender my guns alright - bullets first)
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To: topher

The enire middle East is deteriorating.


57 posted on 05/10/2013 10:39:46 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: CMB_polarization

Love it!


58 posted on 05/10/2013 10:43:06 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: left that other site

LOL!


59 posted on 05/10/2013 10:44:51 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: topher

Distraction, watch what happens next.

Shtf soon!!


60 posted on 05/10/2013 10:44:53 AM PDT by seeker41 (Take back your country before it is too late-STOP islamic expansion in the USA)
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