New Details: How The Benghazi Rescue Effort Happened: Response Was Within 24 Minutes

Posted by | November 1, 2012 22:58 | Filed under: Top Stories


A new timeline has emerged about how the Obama administration acted to save lives in Benghazi.

Officials say that U.S. forces from Europe and Fort Bragg in North Carolina were dispatched in an effort to help, but they arrived too late. Officials considered sending U.S. warplanes from Italy, but it was decided dropping bombs would lead to civilian casualties.

But, contrary to what conservatives have tried to put forth, the CIA was not asked to “stand down.”

CIA officials in Washington strongly deny there was any order not to mount a rescue mission. And the source tells NPR there was never an order to stay put. It was all about getting ready, not delaying. Within 24 minutes, the American and Libyan team moved out toward the consulate.

The convoy drove along an indirect route to avoid hostile militias, and the Americans and Libyans hustled along on foot for the last half mile, arriving an hour after the call for help.

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