the overseas news has about the local Libyans trying to save and evacuate the Americans, but not the whole story.
This hit was to embarass the local government who is pro American, but I am hoping it backfires, because most Libyans are also pro American.
One Libyan group got them out of the consulate and to the “safe house” only to have the safe house hit with mortar, meaning the bad guys knew exactly where it was. They also helped the Americans who helicoptered there to help get them out.
The bad news is that they knew there were some anti American radicals there, the local government heard rumors that attacks might occur, but the Ambassador went anyway on 911...the other bad news is that the ambassador didn’t have good security with him. that was Hillary and the State Department’s decision, and that is why Obama is trying to pretend he didn’t do anything wrong.
And why did they leave him behind? The initial story is that the fire and smoke were too bad to find him (in the “safe room”) which is possible if there was a major fire and the chaos meant trying to find him might have caused more deaths. I’ll leave that one for more details, and the opinion of a firefighter. I doubt they could have determined he was dead ...it’s hard to do in the dark.
We should talk but I am too new to do private messages. Not sure when I will be eligible to do that or if I will even survive that long here.