Benghazi Airport Case Study

Next, I am going to portray what the media thinks about the Benghazi attacks. Since the United States has helped the Libyan revolution, Libya has been a hot zone full of extreme radical Islamists loaded down with heavy artillery such as machine guns, mortars and rocket propelled grenades. To make it look as if the U.S involvement has been successful the Obama administration has sought out a plan of “normalization,” which means scaling down the security forces near the Embassy and Consulate to make it look like everything is okay. The security forces that had been in Libya, a sixteen man team of ex-Navy SEALs and Green Berets, was pulled out just a month before the attack. Christopher Stevens and the State Department regional security director

On September 11th, 2012, the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya was attacked. During the attack, around 150 men killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and another diplomat. A few hours later, the CIA annex was attacked and two more were killed. At the start of the attack, news had reached the United States. Later that night and into the morning, Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense at the time, was informed. When the president was informed, however is not known. The question of who was responsible came up quickly. When asked, White House officials, including Hillary Clinton, responded that the attack was spurred on by an anti-Muslim video on YouTube. The owner of the video was taken into custody. However, the truthfulness

As a Native New Yorker having witnessed the 911 tragedy, the day after appeared to be the downfall of ARC reputation. Not only did they not respond as quickly to the pentagon tragedy, ARC disaster relief fund had also appeared limited. There was a Liberty Fund set up by the ARC, which raised approximately $543 million in pledge money (Ferrell, Fraedrich & Ferrell, 2015). According to Ferrell, Fraedrich and Ferrell (2015) text, only a third of the Liberty Fund relief monies was distributed to the victims and families of 9/11/01 tragedy. This created an ethical uproar as donors believed all funds received would go entirely towards the relief for victims and family of 911 (Ferrell, Fraedrich & Ferrell, 2015).

On September of 1994, Timothy McVeigh began plotting on destroying the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. With him, he had two accomplices Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier. Early on Michael Fortier knew he didn't want to go through with this so he backed out, but Terry Nichols continued. Nichol's said it was because McVeigh threatened to kill his family if he didn't help. People say McVeigh picked the Murrah Federal building it provided excellent camera angles for the media to get its coverage. Also, McVeigh would use this attack as a platform to get his anti-government message out to the public.

At 10:45, one Thursday morning, the gunshots erupted through the town of Chattanooga. Gunshots exploded from the inside of a car with Mohammed directed at the U.S army recruiting center. A clerk, Fred Wright, heard the pops from a nearby auto parts store, then saw the staff fleeing to the brush (Truesdell 48). Members of the staff cried out, "Call 911, someone is shooting at us!"(Truesdell 48). The shooter disappeared from the scene, and he was found ten miles away aiming and firing at the Navy Operational Support Center and the Marine Corps Reserve Center (Truesdell 48). Abdulazeez was more than prepared when he crashed his car into a gate and, wearing a body armor vest, advanced with his weapons, and on foot he advanced toward Marines who were conducting an inventory of equipment (Truesdell 48). Four bodies collapsed to the ground. The four men courageously died before Abdulazeez was killed by a police sniper; later, a Navy man died due to his injuries (Truesdell 48). Unquestionably, this was a tragedy that should not have happened. It left many with the question of why.

The Oklahoma City Bombing of 1995 is known to be the “worst act of homegrown [domestic] terrorism in the nation’s history” (FBI, 2010). On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, parked a rented box truck outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. No one knew that, “inside the vehicle was a powerful bomb made out of a deadly cocktail of agricultural fertilizer, diesel fuel, and other chemicals” (FBI, 2010). Before he exited the vehicle and headed towards his getaway car, he ignited two timed fuses – at exactly 9:02AM, the bomb exploded. The explosion killed 168 people, 19 of those being children, and injured nearly 650 (Scott, 2013).

The reporter stated the children told their father they don’t know the last time they took a bath and whenever she bathed them the bath water was completely dirty. The reporter stated the children are underweight even though their mother receives food stamps. According to the reporter, all three children had sores around their mouths, in their heads, on their backs and buttocks, and on their arms and legs. Ms. Ballard stated she called to ask Brittany it was. The reporter stated Ms. Smith told her she did not know and had not seen anything on the children. Ms. Ballard stated she and the children’s father took them to be seen at a hospital on 07/05/15 and the children were diagnosed with Infantago. The reporter stated she later called Ms. Smith back to ask her for the boy’s insurance card in order to take them to see a doctor and pick up their prescriptions but she refused and did not give it to Mr.

On September 11,2012, 4 American’s lost their lives just because one person didn’t make the right decision.Secretary Clinton repeatedly said that the Benghazi attack was a terrorist attack and that the film had nothing to do with the attack,but she told America that the film caused the attack.Dozens of terrorist stormed Ambassador Stevens safehouse. The military asked permission to go and help the Ambassador but was denied,they tried 3 times but was denied every time.Although people say a video caused the attack,the attack could be caused by multiple reasons like the propaganda video,Hillary Clinton’s refusal to acknowledge the security issues, or an Islamists group going after a 9/11 style terrorist attack on the U.S Consulate.

At 5:04 AM the seven-man team arrived at the Annex. By 5:15 am the final phase of the attacked occurred. The enemies used small-arms fire, RPG 's, and mortar rounds. Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were exchanging gun fire on the roof with the adversaries when they took a direct mortar hit, both were killed. This also subsequently created a fire in which severely injured a security officer and a DS special agent. This meant the evacuation from the Annex was essential, even though the attack lasted a mere 11 minutes, and then slowly dissolute. At 6:00 a.m. A greatly armed Libyan militia arrived at the Annex to aid in evacuating all U.S. personnel from the Annex. Thirty-tree minutes later, they left the Annex and headed towards the airport. At 7:30 a.m. the first plane

The article, “Full Measure: Benghazi rescue interrupted?” by Sinclair Broadcast Group discusses new information surrounding the mystery of the Benghazi controversy of which why there no outside U.S. military to rescue to help as terrorists battered two compounds and the four Americans inside over nearly eight long hours. The four Americans that were killed during the Battle of Benghazi which are Ambassador Chris Stevens and diplomat Sean Smith, along with Glen Doherty and Ty Woods, both former Navy SEALs. The Benghazi is where a terrorist attack that took place on 2012 when Islamic militants attacked the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, killing U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and U.S. Foreign Service Information Management

At the Charlie-1 gate, there was some action going on there. People a part of the British specialist protective detail was there delivering some vehicles and weapons at the

Benghazi, an unstable city in Libya is known as one of the most dangerous places in the world. The US government has many outposts throughout the world but only two are placed in areas where safety is unheard of. These hideouts are in Tripoli and Benghazi, Libya. The Benghazi facility was underfunded and did not meet safety requirements. This was a topic of the past presidential debate. Hillary Clinton was scrutinized of her poor decision making leading to lost American lives. Many attacks like this have happened over the years but because it was so close to the election it was blown out of proportion. The 13 hours that the men at the Annex went through was horrible and could've been prevented. Hidden in middle of the city is a CIA outpost called, ¨The Annex.¨ There was also a diplomatic compound a mile away which protected the US Ambassador when he visited for a week from Tripoli. He was in town for business for moammar gadhafiś weapons and what to do with them. The compound ambassador Chris Stevens was staying at was hardly secure

Evan moved his Pontiac swiftly and surreptitiously through the back roads as he made his return to Alex’s place. He wasn’t sure if Michael was still in the vicinity and he had no idea of just what he would do if he was. A shootout, he supposed was how it would play out, but if that would be the case; he thought it might be smart to stop off for reinforcements. He could rob one of the local gun stores. That would surely hit two birds with one stone, allowing him to arm himself to the teeth while simultaneously letting Michael know where to find him. Naw, won’t work, Evan thought. As soon as I set those alarms off, I’ll have not only Michael to deal with but at least a hundred troopers as well who will be looking for payback.

The squad loaded into their three Humvees with PFC Coleman in the lead vehicle, his memory was good and they found Storage Plus. The squad unloaded from the vehicles, there were eight men in the squad. Sergeant Torres set up security around the entrance to the facility while he and PFC Coleman checked everything out. The office was closed and the doors locked and there didn’t seem to be a living soul around. They decided to climb the

Although the 160th Headquarters and majority of the battalions were located at Fort Campbell, Kentucky 2nd Battalion had been on loan to the Special Forces command on Fort Bragg at the time the event happened. Essentially leaving the Battalion stranded with no mission because they had no aircraft, they were then made responsible for the maintenance and care of the aircraft in the underground facilities that kept most of the pilots and mechanics busy. Others were given the opportunity to join their Special Forces brethren and become snake eaters. The commander of 2nd Battalion was Lieutenant Colonel Forest Zane he’d been in aviation his entire career which spanned twenty-two years so far. He knew that prior to the event he was stuck in a rut in his career and should have advanced to full bird colonel by now. He’s had a DUI when he was a Major which was largely covered up by his command back then, normally he would have been kicked out of the Army for it. The DUI had followed him and continued to affect his advancement. He also knew, that prior to the event, he was on his