The release of the blind sheik was the purpose of the attempted kidnapping of the American Ambassador in Lybia. I personally think it was set up and approved by the US but two patriotic ex soldiers got involved and messed it up for Obama’s plans.
I suspect that if you dig deep enough you will find Clinton and Obama fingerprints on this operation too.
I don’t think Benghazi was necessarily set up in advance (although there was probably some suspicion or fear, at least locally on the part of the staff, that something might happen), but I think when it happened, the decision was made to tolerate it and just consider the deaths of the ambassador and his aide to be “bumps in the road.”
But you’re right. Obama went to bed and probably gave orders that he shouldn’t be disturbed once he knew that the place was destroyed and the ambassador was probably dead, not expecting two honest Americans to come in to attempt to protect both American lives and American property. They messed up his scenario, whatever it was, and that’s why Hillary had to hit her head, other people had to disappear, etc.
The blind sheik was no doubt one of the objectives of the attackers, however, because the Egyptians who rioted earlier that day had also been demanding his release.
According to a couple of AQ members who were captured fleeing from the French, there were at least 2 Egyptians in the multi-national AQ group that attacked the gas refinery. I think there was only one actual Algerian.