Obama Administration Used UNARMED GUARDS at Benghazi Consulate Despite Previous Terror Attacks
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, October 15, 2012, 8:11 AM
There were four previous Islamist attacks in Benghazi since June. One of the attacks was at the US Consulate. Yet the Obama Administration refused to provide even “standard” security at the consulate compound.
Despite the prior attacks, the Obama State Department used UNARMED GUARDS to protect ambassador at Benghazi consulate.
The unarmed guards were no match for the al-Qaeda linked terrorists who stormed the consulate with RPG’s and automatic weapons.
The Telegraph reported:
Sources have told the Daily Telegraph that just five unarmed locally hired Libyans were placed on duty at the compound on eight-hour shifts under a deal that fell outside the State Department’s global security contracting system.
Blue Mountain, the Camarthen firm that won a $387,000 (£241,000) one year contract from the US State Department to protect the compound in May, sent just one British employee, recruited from the celebrity bodyguard circuit, to oversee the work.
The compound was overrun by a mob of Islamic extremists on the morning of September 12 in an apparent planned attack that resulted in the death by asphyxiation of the ambassador, Chris Stevens.
Blue Mountain, which is run by a former member of the SAS, received paper work to operate in Libya last year following the collapse of Col Muammar Gaddafi’s regime. It worked on short term contacts to guard an expatriate housing compound and a five-star hotel in Tripoli before landing the prestigious US deal.
Other firms in the security industry expressed surprise that Blue Mountain had won a large, high profile contract from the US government. One industry executive said the level of service Blue Mountain provided did not appear adequate to the risks presented by a lawless city.
When the consulate was attacked on 9-11 these security guards ran off.
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dw dude commented:
would the president feel comfortable having secret service agents who were armed only with tasers? that’s a rhetorical question…this man is nefarious. the murders are a direct result of policies put in place under his administration and approved directly by the dear leader. can’t blame anyone else…
Bigkahuna commented:
What moron would ever let security guards anywhere in the Middle East be unarmed? Surely not one worthy of the whitehouse.
Reaganite Republican commented:
Perhaps now Obama will be willing to arm them with Silly String and Nerf baseball bats
Liz commented:
Conscience ignorance at best. You almost have to assume our administration wanted this man dead. Why? How long do we have to tolerate this incompetence? Justice.
David Milstein commented:
We want the truth!
BenghaziTruthersUnite.com
Granny commented:
Either this is the single most incompetent and willfully negligent regime in the history of the United States of America or this was deliberate
mercador commented:
#4 That is exactly what I was thinking. Why would The Zero want this man dead. There has to be something there.
American Daughter commented:
The unarmed guards were no match for the al-Qaeda linked terrorists [or federal agents] who stormed the consulate [a citizen's home] with RPG’s and automatic weapons.
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Obama keeps making the case of why we need pols who are bound down by the chains of the Constitution. The 2d Am. is needed more than ever.
Opus#6@AmericanPerspective commented:
Aren’t these unarmed “guards” the ones who took pictures of the compound prior to the attacks, and pointed out embassy staff to attackers during the terrorist attack? With friends like these….
Grandma Perkins commented:
It will be years before there is a “Benghazi Commission Report.”
donh commented:
They posted cardboard scarecrow cut outs of Mr Bean at the front gate…> http://nasl.ezitsolutions.com/userfiles/images/bean-large.jpg
theBuckWheat commented:
If the lack of security for our ambassador was a deliberate act by management, the obvious question would be: to what end? Given the civil environment this particular ambassador was operating in, it was certainly a foreseeable event that he would be attacked or abducted.
I would not normally entertain further speculation of of respect for honest people at State, however, in a different cabinet department, we had an operation to deliberately allow firearms to fall into the hands of Mexican drug gangs in the hopes that the level of deaths in Mexico would justify this administration to abridge and maybe even nullify the Second Amendment. And we have an ongoing coverup of that treason.
If this administration is willing to allow hundreds of Mexicans to die to further a domestic political goal, what is the life of one ambassador if it furthers some goal, but what? It must be a goal tied to the election, but again what, some type of October surprise?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Limousine Barry commented:
I can’t be bothered with American’s security! I have donors to milk and voters to bilk!
Who cares about Dead Americans? I don’t! I have an $896,666,666.50 to salvage!
It’s the most expensive campaign is history. And, I am losing! I could care less about Dead Americans and burned embassies!
I hope I can slander Mitt Romney with the Race Card in Tuesday’s Debate. I really sucked in the last debate!
My donor’s think I am a mental midget and they want their donations back! I really need to sling dung on Mitt Romney in this debate! If not, I might lose my limo and my job!
If you like the way I let Americans get killed and our building burned then vote for me!
And, this is very important! Send me $30,666.99 before midnight. My campaign is broke! Absentee ballots are not cheap to print! Good day.
Jackie Moss commented:
The saddest thing is that the president can’t get Americans to rally ’round after this attack like Bush did after 911.
scituate_tgr commented:
I guess I’m more surprised that there where four attacks on the consulate since June, now reported by the foreign press. I never heard any such attacks ever being reported…the lapdog, water carrying, leg humping MSM doing what they do best I guess.
dwd commented:
Sounds a lot like our border patrol agents who aren’t allowed to shoot live ammo.
Sure doesn’t inspire feelings of safety
snap boy commented:
Blue Mountain must be owned by an Obama bundler…
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