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Benghazi: New Evidence Emerges
The Administration announced after the Benghazi attack that a protest by Muslims had turned violent.
The Administration also stated that there was nothing which could have been done to save the people killed within the consulate.
But the number 2 American official in Libya – Deputy Chief of Mission in Libya Gregory Hicks, who became the Chief of Mission after Ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed – says everyone who worked at the Benghazi consulate thought it was a terrorist attack from the get-go:
Similarly, Democratic Congressman Stephen Lynch agrees that the U.S. talking points after the Benghazi attack were false:
Congressman Daryl Issa notes that the U.S. ignored requests for more security, and theorized that the motive was to underplay the danger from terrorism:
More disturbing are tales of the lack of assistance from the U.S. As CBS News reports:
Throughout the night, sources say Americans on the ground in Libya at times felt helpless and abandoned.
“We relied on Washington for dispassionate assessment,” one eyewitness told CBS News. “Instead, they [Washington officials] were asking us what help we needed. We answered: ‘Send reinforcements!’ ”
But they were told immediate help wasn’t available.
Embassy personnel say they repeatedly asked the Defense Attache on site in Tripoli for military assistance.
“Isn’t there anything available?” one Embassy official says he asked. “But the answer was ‘no.’”
“What about Aviano?” the official pressed, referencing the NATO air base with US assets in northeastern Italy. “No,” was the answer.
Two of the four Americans killed that night died hours after the first attack began…
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Counterterrorism sources and internal emails reviewed by CBS News express frustration that key responders were ready to deploy, but were not called upon to help in the attack. National Security Council Spokesman Tommy Vietor told CBS News the CSG was not needed.
But most devastating of all is Hicks’ testimony that the U.S. prevented rescuers from reaching Benghazi. As CBS News reports:
The deputy of slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens has told congressional investigators that a team of Special Forces prepared to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks was forbidden from doing so by U.S. Special Operations Command Africa.
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Hicks told investigators that SOCAFRICA commander Lt. Col. Gibson and his team were on their way to board a C-130 from Tripoli for Benghazi prior to an attack on a second U.S. compound “when [Col. Gibson] got a phone call from SOCAFRICA which said, ‘you can’t go now, you don’t have the authority to go now.’ And so they missed the flight … They were told not to board the flight, so they missed it.”
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Hicks told congressional investigators that if the U.S. had quickly sent a military aircraft over Benghazi, it might have saved American lives. The U.S. Souda Bay Naval Base is an hour’s flight from Libya.
“I believe if we had been able to scramble a fighter or aircraft or two over Benghazi as quickly as possible after the attack commenced, I believe there would not have been a mortar attack on the annex in the morning because I believe the Libyans would have split. They would have been scared to death that we would have gotten a laser on them and killed them,” Hicks testified. Two Americans died in the morning mortar attack.
The Real Story at Benghazi
The U.S. supported opposition which overthrew Libya’s Gadaffi was largely comprised of Al Qaeda terrorists.
According to a 2007 report by West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center’s center, the Libyan city of Benghazi was one of Al Qaeda’s main headquarters – and bases for sending Al Qaeda fighters into Iraq – prior to the overthrow of Gaddafi:
The Hindustan Times reported in 2011:
“There is no question that al Qaeda’s Libyan franchise, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, is a part of the opposition,” Bruce Riedel, former CIA officer and a leading expert on terrorism, told Hindustan Times.
It has always been Qaddafi’s biggest enemy and its stronghold is Benghazi.
Al Qaeda is now largely in control of Libya. Indeed, Al Qaeda flags were flown over the Benghazi courthouse once Gaddafi was toppled.
(Incidentally, Gaddafi was on the verge of invading Benghazi in 2011, 4 years after the West Point report cited Benghazi as a hotbed of Al Qaeda terrorists. Gaddafi claimed – rightly it turns out – that Benghazi was an Al Qaeda stronghold and a main source of the Libyan rebellion. But NATO planes stopped him, and protected Benghazi.)
CNN, the Telegraph, the Washington Times, and many other mainstream sources confirm that Al Qaeda terrorists from Libya have since flooded into Syria to fight the Assad regime.
Mainstream sources also confirm that the Syrian opposition is largely comprised of Al Qaeda terrorists. (Indeed, the New York Times reported last week that virtually all of the rebel fighters are Al Qaeda terrorists.)
The U.S. has been arming the Syrian opposition since 2006. The post-Gaddafi Libyan government is also itself a top funder and arms supplier of the Syrian opposition.
This brings us to the murder of ambassador Stevens …
The Wall Street Journal, Telegraph and other sources confirm that the US consulate in Benghazi was mainly being used for a secret CIA operation.
They say that the State Department presence in Benghazi “provided diplomatic cover” for the previously hidden CIA mission. (WND alleges that it was not a real consulate.)
Reuters notes that the CIA mission involved finding and repurchasing heavy weaponry looted from Libyan government arsenals.
Business Insider reports that Stevens may have been linked with Syrian terrorists:
There’s growing evidence that U.S. agents—particularly murdered ambassador Chris Stevens—were at least aware of heavy weapons moving from Libya to jihadist Syrian rebels.
In March 2011 Stevens became the official U.S. liaison to the al-Qaeda-linked Libyan opposition, working directly with Abdelhakim Belhadj of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group—a group that has now disbanded, with some fighters reportedly participating in the attack that took Stevens’ life.
In November 2011 The Telegraph reported that Belhadj, acting as head of the Tripoli Military Council, “met with Free Syrian Army [FSA] leaders in Istanbul and on the border with Turkey” in an effort by the new Libyan government to provide money and weapons to the growing insurgency in Syria.
Last month The Times of London reported that a Libyan ship “carrying the largest consignment of weapons for Syria … has docked in Turkey.” The shipment reportedly weighed 400 tons and included SA-7 surface-to-air anti-craft missiles and rocket-propelled grenades.
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Reuters reports that Syrian rebels have been using those heavy weapons to shoot down Syrian helicopters and fighter jets.
The ship’s captain was “a Libyan from Benghazi and the head of an organization called the Libyan National Council for Relief and Support,” which was presumably established by the new government.
That means that Ambassador Stevens had only one person—Belhadj—between himself and the Benghazi man who brought heavy weapons to Syria.
Furthermore, we know that jihadists are the best fighters in the Syrian opposition, but where did they come from?
Last week The Telegraph reported that a FSA commander called them “Libyans” when he explained that the FSA doesn’t “want these extremist people here.”
And if the new Libyan government was sending seasoned Islamic fighters and 400 tons of heavy weapons to Syria through a port in southern Turkey—a deal brokered by Stevens’ primary Libyan contact during the Libyan revolution—then the governments of Turkey and the U.S. surely knew about it.
Furthermore there was a CIA post in Benghazi, located 1.2 miles from the U.S. consulate, used as “a base for, among other things, collecting information on the proliferation of weaponry looted from Libyan government arsenals, including surface-to-air missiles” … and that its security features “were more advanced than those at rented villa where Stevens died.”
And we know that the CIA has been funneling weapons to the rebels in southern Turkey. The question is whether the CIA has been involved in handing out the heavy weapons from Libya.
In other words, ambassador Stevens may have been a key player in deploying Libyan terrorists and arms to fight the Syrian government.
Other sources also claim that the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was mainly being used as a CIA operation to ship fighters and arms to Syria.
Many have speculated that – if normal security measures weren’t taken to protect the Benghazi consulate or to rescue ambassador Stevens – it was because the CIA was trying to keep an extremely low profile to protect its cover of being a normal State Department operation.
That is what I think really happened at Benghazi.
Was CIA Chief David Petraeus’ Firing Due to Benghazi?
CIA boss David Petraeus suddenly resigned, admitting to an affair. But Petraeus was scheduled to testify under oath the next week before power House and Senate committees regarding the Benghazi consulate. Many speculate that it wasn’t an affair – but the desire to avoid testifying on Benghazi – which was the real reason for Petraeus’ sudden resignation.
The Big Picture
Whatever the scope of the CIA’s operation in Benghazi – and whatever the real reason for the resignation of the CIA chief – the key is our historical and ongoing foreign policy.
For decades, the U.S. has backed terrorists for geopolitical ends. For decades, the U.S. has backed the most radical, fundamentalist, violent Muslims.
The U.S. government has been consistently planning regime change in Syria, Libya and Iran for 20 years, and dreamed of regime change – using false flag terror – for 50 years.
Obama has simply re-packaged Bush and the Neocons’ “war on terror” as a series of humanitarian wars.
Liberals rightfully lambast Bush for getting us into the disastrous Iraq war.
But Obama has in fact launched wars in Libya, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan … and up to 35 African nations (and see this).
Obama – citing a Nixon administration official’s justification for invading Cambodia – has claimed his power extends into every country in the world … well beyond those where we are engaged in hostilities.
Obama has dramatically escalated the use of drone assassinations, which are creating many more terrorists than they are killing. The former chief military prosecutor at Guantanamo says that Obama’s drone surge is as damaging to our country as Bush’s torture program. I think he’s actually underestimating damage from the program, as drones have become the number 1 recruiting tool for Al Qaeda (especially since children are now being targeted for drone assassination … Oh, and torture is still happening on Obama’s watch; background).
And the Obama administration has probably supported even more terrorists – in Libya, Syria and elsewhere – than Bush. See this, this, this, this and this.
In other words, both GOP and Dem politicians are supporting destability, terrorism and war.
Those are the deeper truths regarding Benghazi.
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russians play chest. hillary and the mack daddy got thier ass handed to them. you dont can a bunch of us flag officers and get away with it. and the loss of a ton sp ops and seals since. theres a war going on. i have got a neph and son in the seals. aint happy.fyi
He had Seal Team 6 killed. The entire team were put on a Chinook and Al Qeada knew exactly the flight path. This was to silence people for the fake Bin Laden capture farce. Stevens was CIA and was silenced because he knew too much. They have tried to silence the survivors.
The CIA, State Dept people, intel and military have to know now, regardless of your politics, that Obama will leave you there to die or WILL set you up to be killed or smeared like that stupid shit Petreaus. The people at CIA, State and the Pentagon need to wake the F up. Petreaus needs to literally commit hari kari. Coward f**k.
If indeed there was a Seal Team 6 that actually killed OBL.... I think the whole killing of OBL was a bullshit fabrication. If that was a fabrication then 'killing' the Seal Team all at once quickly after the incident was a complete stroke of genius. Everyone bought it hook, line, and sinker and no one but a few nutters on ZH and me even think its bullshit.
Truth is treason in the Empire of lies.
I ain't a fan of most conspiracy theories, but you do have me thinking "hmmmm"
Agree completely.
So when the fuck does the military defend the Oath and coup?
"Oath"? The enlisted oath includes obeying the President. The oath of officers does not. Unfortunately, in my limited experience, officers, more so then enlisted, are very obiedent to the chain of command.
The Benghazi mess shows this very clearly. The lower ranks, including officers, were very willing to attempt a resuce. The higher ranks were obidient to the command above them. The rumors are that a few commanders did indeed decide to act on their own, but, were relieved of command by junior officers (for not following order). The staff of these commands, all senior officers, followed the orders of the junior commander.
In my opinion, for better or worse, the US military will not interfere in the politics of the US.
Enlisted are obliged to obey only "legal" orders. Of course that's a bit of a tough call at times and a very dangerous one.
"Russians play chest"? Fuck is that?
Its what the vodka is kept in.
What a mess.
You know, there's MSM debate going on about sexual abuse/RAPE in the US Military and all the idiots in the idiot box can do is stick to the idiot narrative that the soldiers and in some cases their chain of command need to improve the culture in the ranks.
Really? How are they supposed to do that fighting profit-wars-for-psychopaths who've claimed the deed to the planet?
This Benghazi story will be memory holed so fast by MSM. Just watch. The lack of air support will be "investigated" into a non story and anyway, the killers were "al qeada", so, there you go. Nothing more to see here. Just more casualties in this war on Terra.
And all her brown children.
Whatever the truth about Benghazi: all you have to know is it probably involves something so highly reprehensible only power hungry war profiteering psychopaths would have been behind it.
Its the way of the world, nothing to get too excited about.
Fuck you MSM and your War Profiteering Psychopath Bosses!
Now, on to the Cleveland Triple Abduction Story. Where's Katie Couric when you need her to interview the crying family members?
Edit: thanks GW +1
But if i have three daughters who join the service, US Army statistics show that only one of the three will be raped during her time in the military by her fellow warriors, so thats a plus right?
Ahh you are a little govt disinformation troll. Operation Mockingbird is trying to change the Benghazi news to this women in uniform being raped. They probably should not be there. They should have sidearms in case some guy tries that and they can shoot them. Go away disinformation troll.
Freddie i'm just a guy in the uk who calls out myopic amrican cliche's when i see em, sorry to dissapoint your paranoid mind but you aint important enough to get trolled.
Say something racist about obama that'll get your ego basking in upvotes and give you that warm squishy feeling inside, y'know the same one you get when mommy lets you sleep in her bed.
PS.
The whole bengazi thing is blowback from selling weapons to jihadi's.
Every usa govt does it and then denies it or obfuscates it with other newscycles, nicaragua/iran contra/mujahedeen/ISI..... them wars dont start themselves y'know.
'American' soldiers do not rape. They have sex.
Is that a veiled reference to the un war crimes act which america refuses to sign as its troops would be held accountable for any rapes comitted by them during their time stationed in another country.
Ironic really, for someone who dislikes americanisms,you sure seem to use em' a lot.
The only thing which matters is the fact we were attacked and we did nothing. Why?
sosoome, yes, we were attacked, but remember, we were over there to acquire weapons, to give to guys to ship to a foreign country to then launch an attack on another country. It is not exactly like we were out washing the car.
Live by the sword die by the sword.
Because dead men tell no tales.
That was the beauty of the USS Liberty: against all odds it refused to die. And though the survivors were threatened, intimidated, slandered and marginalized for years, the tale has been told extensively. It is a great lesson in what our government is capable of with respect to those who put their lives on the line to serve it and what lies and deceit it will use to cover up.
OK, None of us know the whole truth. That said, anyone who saw the Rice interviews could clearly see that "she dost protest too much". Add to that the upcoming testimony from very credible, high-placed witnesses and it appears that this is a FUBAR, politically-driven cover-up that is potentially on the scale of Watergate, and at a minimum equal to the Iran-Contra affair.
It is an opportunity for everyone to judge who within the media are honestly seeking the truth and who are so politically ideologically bound that the truth no longer matters to them.
There have been many postings by Washington that I personally feel are over the top and lacking a fundamental assessment of relative risk. That said, Washington, you have (for what its worth) just gained an enormour amount of credibility with this reader by posting this expose on Bengahzi. We can disagree on the relative importance of things, but what is of utmost most importance is that we all seek to understand the truth. Too many feel the end justifies the means. No, the truth is paramount. For this reason, I have a great amount of respect for you, Washington!
I think Benghazi is going to be the least of the Oreo's problems in the coming months after reading this.
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/05/multiple-obama-birth-certificates-surf...
Not that we are surprised, but now there are multiple copies of Barack Hussein Obama’s “real” birth certificate that are surfacing and they are clearly indicating fraud. In a rare move, the Alabama Democrat Party has submitted an amicus brief in the McInnish Goode v Chapman Appeal case. The reason being is most likely because the Alabama Supreme Court has Chief Justice Roy Moore presiding over it. The Alabama Democrat Party just submitted a completely different birth certificate than the one that was posted at the White House website in 2011.
Larry Klayman, the plaintiff’s counsel submitted the forgery of Barack Hussein Obama’s birth certificate that was posted to whitehouse.gov on 4-27-2001 (seen below). Fogbow/Jack Ryan obot group produced another bogus one. Still a third birth certificate has been submitted by Alabama Democrats to the Supreme Court.
http://www.slideshare.net/whitehouse/birth-certificatelongform
Remember, this court is being presided over by Chief Justice Roy Moore, who supported Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, when he believed Obama to be a usurper and denied following orders to deploy to Iraq until Obama proved his eligibility as part of keeping his oath (ironically Lakin was not supported by Mr. Oathkeeper Stewart Rhodes). Another justice on the court by the name of Tom Parker will also hear the case. He has stated in a previous case:
“McInnish has attached certain documentation to his mandamus petition, which, if presented to the appropriate forum as part of a proper evidentiary presentation, would raise serious questions about the authenticity of both the “short form” and the “long form” birth certificates of President Barack Hussein Obama that have been made public.”
While the Alabama Democrats attacked the merits of the appeal, calling the evidence by McInnish “inadmissible and not worthy of belief,” they also stated “A county sheriff from Arizona is not an ‘official source’ of anything in Alabama.”
But what stands out in their brief is something very new, Barack Hussein Obama’s long form birth certificate that has a different backing, something never before seen. It’s on page 33 in the document below.
SCOAL 2013-04-24 McInnish|Goode v Chapman APPEAL – ADP Amicus Brief
Apparently there are hundreds of layers to this one. According to Adobe expert Mara Zebest, who has explained how layers work and demonstrates the layers of the forged birth certificate here, said,
Notice there is no raised seal, which must be on the document to be official. Notice the differences below:
The Birther Report provided this PDF copy, which was e-filed by the Alabama Democrat Party with the Alabama Supreme Court. Notice that the diamond pattern is not found on this e-filing.
Obama Birth Certificate No Seal – Alabama Supreme Court – Fogbow Upload – 4/24/2013
Pixel Patriot analyzed the document and demonstrated that the security paper background extended on the right side farther than the visible area of the PDF copy.
My fellow Americans, the Democrats are telling on themselves left and right. They are openly lying to you about the man in the Oval Office and everyone thinks there is something more important? I don’t think so. Yes Benghazi is important. Yes, Fast and Furious is important. However, it appears that for the first time we have a man in the White House that we cannot really say is even from this country and apparently there is some serious felonies taking place in attempts to cover up what should be the biggest story covered in America and that is to expose a usurper to the office of President of the United States.
In case you are still thinking this doesn’t matter, might I suggest you consider how this would impact things, versus impeachment for Benghazi or Fast and Furious? Understand that this would potentially nullify every law he has signed, every executive order he has given, and every Supreme Court appointment he has made. While many are saying that Benghazi is bigger than Watergate, and it most definitely is, the Obama eligibility issue is bigger than all Obama’s scandals, in my opinion, because of the tentacles around things that it affects.
Of course, all we need is 'another' real birth certificate to surface and the US people will rise up and kick him out of office....ROFLMAO
Man, i wish my meds were as strong as yours..........
Go away! We are trying to have an intelligent conversation here.
It took the Obama supporters long enough to chime in. I guess a legal case in Alabama (yes I know insert redneck joke here) with supporting evidence is unintelligent.
Sorry troll try again.
Just FYI, "Raised Seal" is not a current document requirement (at least in TX). Many notary seals are now stamps - but the wording, dating and loggin requirements remain.
Interesting aside on birth certificate law in general in Hawaii.
http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/07/sheriff-joe-obama-birth-certificate-na...
What is most telling in the last part is the history of Hawaii law. No one had to witness a birth in order to obtain a birth certificate in Hawaii. As has been reported, many Japanese people who were not citizens obtained birth records for their children. All they had to be were residents, not citizens, to obtain the birth records for their children.
From 1955-1982 this was the case because birth registry could be obtained by an adult simply coming in and filling out the paperwork. They provided unsworn testimony and there was no investigation to see if the testimony was truthful.
“It appears that in the case of Hawaii law, any person can obtain a birth certificate if any adult or their parents can prove that they resided in Hawaii for one year and paid taxes,” he said. “There is no requirement to show that the child itself was actually born in Hawaii or on U.S. soil.”
It is also possible that Obama was indeed born in Hawaii but then got Indonesian citizenship when adopted by a step father. Could be that the fake birth certificate was created to obscure a change in citizenship which could have derailed BO's presidential ambitions.
I'm sure that document issue you bring up will be debated upon in the court hearing. Frankly I don't know what the law was or currently is in Hawaii.
dude gotta' b gagging on this. Self-hating coming to a climax, ...
- Ned
I see you have learned how to block the arrows little pig.
Al Qaeda has a flag?
Like in Libya, Al Qaeda flags now fly in Syria
http://worldmathaba.net/items/1224-like-in-libya-al-qaeda-flags-now-fly-...
Actually, the "Administration" said that the "protest" was because of the stupid video that no one had ever seen, that the Cairo Embassy had pre-apoligized about, then it became a protest.
I guess that a peaceful protest (after all, the "Religion of Peace") includes Kalashnikovz and mortars.
or not
- Ned
For decades, the U.S. has backed the most radical, fundamentalist, violent Muslims.
The enemy of the enemy is my friend. The Soviet Union was our enemy and thus the unseemly relationships. I don't think it's anymore complicated than that GW.
Typical obfuscation when powerful people are busted comtting crime, corruption, and/or malfeasance to minimize it's negative impact: "We already knew about that," or "That's not news."
now that... is indeed - late! ...ned\newman shoulda been all over this one!
Soviet Union?
Barry Soetoro Lied, Americans Died.
His main witnesses to the ME gun-running, moving arms out of Libya to Syria, were silenced.
Really how do you think he governs,by principles or beliefs......LOL
States do not have permanent friends or permanent enemies, only permanent interests.
Obama/bush/clinton serve those interests, if they did not they would be replaced.
You may argue that he tries to mollify the excesses of those interests.
=Dem
You may argue that he tries to profit from the excesses of those interests.
=Repub
I share your suspicions. My guess is that the Special Ops were not allowed to fly to Bengahzi because the powers did not want to risk exposing the CIA gun-running from Libya to Syria. A bad judgment call in retrospect.
Or perhaps the administration feared a "Blackhawk Down"-type event on the eve of the election if regular troops were ambushed on the ground there in addition to more expendable "contractors"?
Clinton did that courtesy of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). The Army in Somalia had been asking for M1s amd M2s for months. The CBC said tanks could not be used against Africans. Clinton escalates the humanitarian operation and the troops have no back up. This is why that happened.
that swhy ethiopia sent intanks afeter the yanks paid the russians for them.
After reading a couple of the links farther down, your theory is beginning to make a lot of sense.
"He said when they started observing the consulate, it was already under attack and on fire. He remembered seeing a crowd of dozens if not hundreds of fighters outside the consulate and noted dryly, ” if this was a protest, it would have been a protest for all ages.”
http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/audio-benghazi-drone-operator-to...
"Shaffer said the question now is what precisely Obama did or didn’t do in the moments he saw the attack unfolding. The CIA reportedly made three urgent requests for military backup that were each denied.
“He, only he, could issue a directive to Secretary of Defense Panetta to do something. That’s the only place it could be done,” Shaffer said.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said last week the military did not intervene because they did not have enough information about what was happening on the ground."
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/10/28/retired-lt-col-my-sources-say...
Were they afraid that if more troops were sent in, they could be overrun as well by the terrorists who they claimed were not a problem anymore - just before the election?
Is this also why Susan Rice was ordered to give obviously over-the-top - and quite sophmoric btw - interviews because they felt they needed to create a story that was as far removed as possible from the reality that perhaps hundreds of terrorists attacked the consulate?
Did they do so with the full understanding that the MSM would play along since re-electing Obama was to them of far greater importance than getting at and reporting the truth?
Does this type of dishonesty and complicity lead to a society where trust in governmental institutions and the media is irreparably damaged as in; if they lied about this, how can I have any confidence they are not lying about everything else?
After Mogadishu there was Mosul where 2 blackhawks went down in the fall of 2003. The 101st didn't have control of the city, there were "celebratory protests" involving hundreds of locals, and a couple of infantry platoons drove out in unarmored humvees and did what needed to be done. In the decade since that event- the US has had no shortage of search and rescue experience in hostile environments.
Even if Leon was suffering flashbacks of his OMB days in 1993 and curled up on floor crying for mommy, there would have been no shortage of advisors who were well aware of how American experience had improved since the last time Leon and his ilk were fucking up on the taxpayers' dime and costing the soldiers' blood.
When your buff narratives start to include mention of the 'embedded' Mossad sharpshooters and agent provocateurs involved in all of the situations which you comment upon here...
I will lend credence to your storyline. Till then... (zero 'condescension' -from this end anyways - bud... still lookin for a place to meet half way.)
My guy didn't come across any Mossad sharpshooters by the time they got there- but then he was sitting on his ass somewhere else when something interfered with the helicopters ability to remain airborne, but it's interesting that BS-machine promoted them all to some sort of special rapid response unit. The devil is in the details.
I'm sure there will be an opportunity to explore one of your favorite subject areas at greater length, since we share in interest in rooting out "evil" or preventing it from gaining a foothold where it doesn't belong.
Good point
B.L.O.W.B.A.C.K.