(The Independent) -- The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been the result of a serious and continuing security breach, The Independent can reveal.
American officials believe the attack was planned, but Chris Stevens had been back in the country only a short while and the details of his visit to Benghazi, where he and his staff died, were meant to be confidential.
The US administration is now facing a crisis in Libya. Sensitive documents have gone missing from the consulate in Benghazi and the supposedly secret location of the "safe house" in the city, where the staff had retreated, came under sustained mortar attack. Other such refuges across the country are no longer deemed "safe".
Some of the missing papers from the consulate are said to list names of Libyans who are working with Americans, putting them potentially at risk from extremist groups, while some of the other documents are said to relate to oil contracts.
According to senior diplomatic sources, the US State Department had credible information 48 hours before mobs charged the consulate in Benghazi, and the embassy in Cairo, that American missions may be targeted, but no warnings were given for diplomats to go on high alert and "lockdown", under which movement is severely restricted.
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5 comments:
and yet Team Nobama is sending out the troops and telling the uninformed or uninterested that it was unplanned.
Get this man out of office NOW. He should be impeached over this.
Warning letter was posted right in the Jerusalem Post. As Mike Huckabee noted if the US is lacking in intelligence all they need to do is read the Jerusalem Post.
Embassy officials are now destroying classified info at the American Embassy in Beirut. Must be taking the threats seriously now. Beirut? Hmmmmm seems I've heard of that place before.
this admin. thinks they can "sweet talk" the arabs. what a joke. retire obama NOW...the sooner the better.
They could have "sweet talked" the secular Arabs Mubarak and Qaddafi all day long with the almight $ (AKA "aid".) Those "evil dictators" had no problem "vaporizing" the militants or imprisioning them. Even would slip the US intelligence they were hearing.
Now the Arab "conservatives" (AKA extremists) are in charge and they have no interest in money only bringing in an Islamic government and Sharia law.
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