U.S. ambassador killed after
chaotic, hours-long siege
The Ticket - 9 hrs ago
Gunfire, a burning building, "heavy, dark smoke"
that separated Chris Stevens, the late U.S.
ambassador to Libya, from a security officer:
American officials painted a harrowing picture late
Wednesday of the assault on the U.S. Consulate
in Benghazi that left the widely respected
diplomat and three others dead. The officials,
speaking to reporters on a conference call
arranged by the State Department, shared what
they readily acknowledged were incomplete
details subject to change as a clearer picture
emerges from the bloody raid.
The early details sketch out a chaotic situation in
which apparently outgunned U.S. and Libyan
security personnel fought for hours to retake the
diplomatic compound in the eastern Libyan city
from unknown gunmen and lost the ambassador.
The account was provided to reporters on the
condition that the officials giving it not be
identified.
At about 10 p.m. local time in Benghazi, the
compound housing the American diplomatic
mission came under fire "from unidentified Libyan
extremists," one of the officials said. Just 15
minutes later, the attackers had breached the
perimeter and trained their fire on the main
building, setting it ablaze.
Inside were Stevens, a regional security officer
and Sean Smith, an information management
officer with the State Department who was also
killed. (Overall, the compound had about 25 to 30
people in it.)
"They became separated from each other due to
the heavy, dark smoke while they were trying to
evacuate the burning building," one official said.
The security officer and others returned into the
burning building to find the ambassador and
Smith. "This was really quite a heroic effort."
"At that time, they found Sean. He was already
dead, and they pulled him from the building," the
official said. "They were unable, however, to
locate Chris before they were driven from the
building due to the heavy fire and smoke and the
continuing small arms fire."
At 10:45 p.m., security personnel tried to retake
the main building but were repelled. At 11:20
p.m., U.S. and Libyan security forces were able to
retake the main building, evacuating personnel
they found there to an annex. That annex came
under fire at midnight, an onslaught that lasted
two hours and claimed the lives of two more
Americans and wounded another two. By 2:30
a.m., Libyan forces helped the Americans to take
control.
"At some point in all of this—and frankly, we do
not know when—we believe that Ambassador
Stevens got out of the building and was taken to
a hospital in Benghazi. We do not have any
information what his condition was at that time.
His body was later returned to U.S. personnel at
the Benghazi airport," an official said. "I think it
was already dawn in Libya."
"There are reports out there that I cannot confirm
that he was brought to the hospital by Libyans
who found him," the official said. "Obviously, he
had to get there somehow. No Americans were
responsible for that."
"We were not able to see him until his body was
returned to us at the airport," an official said
when asked to confirm whether Stevens died
from smoke inhalation. "You can imagine that we
will not be able to say anything about the cause
of death until we've had a chance to perform an
autopsy."
American authorities brought in a chartered
aircraft from Tripoli to Benghazi to evacuate all of
the Americans to Tripoli. From there, they were
evacuated to Germany.
The officials repeatedly ducked questions about
Stevens' security arrangements. And they offered
no details about the protests that reportedly
came before the attack.
But they disputed the notion that he was under-
protected.
"There was no information and there were no
threat streams to indicate that we were
insufficiently postured," one official said.
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Its not only in nigeria anonymous source give press inside information.

when did the seige start and when did it end?

why did no news media cover it?

first time i heard of the movie was yesterday, btw.

Apparently from 10 pm till 2.30 am according to the news.
It may be because it was at night or the zone was too hot for the media crew.

one would have thought there'd be at least a news alert to the effect of "US embassy in libya under attack- this breaking news will be updated as more information becomes available" or something like that.


as it were, i just heard early in the morning that the libyan ambassador had been killed over a movie.


sounds surreal.

lord have mercy.

It would seem america is playing the incident down, even the embassy official that spoke to the reporter spoke under the condition of anonymity.
I suspect they intended to play politics with it being election year, they want to control what is released to the public to prevent uproar or blame game n the government for not acting early enough to place alert or gather intel from huge amount budgeted for security.

smh, lord have mercy.

seems the attack was planned though, using the movie as a cover.

but, i could be wrong.

So what next?
What will bring the dead back?
2 Saddams and 2 Osamas?

Obviously this was a planned well coordinated attack and not a random protest about the movie.
Interestingly, that is all there is to all these so called Islamic terrorists.
Arab hostilities with america started after they established a jewish state at the expense of palestinian. Five countries even attacked isreal in the six days war. Ever since then, several secretly state sponsored militant groups have started attacking american interests and ally and use religion as cover.

Egypt has been experiencing religious disturbances for sometime now. I guess it may be spreading.