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AC-130U Gunship was On-Scene in Benghazi, Obama Admin Refused to Let It Fire (Updated)
If you don’t get torches-and-pitchforks irate about this, you are not an American:
The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Specter gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights. The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours — enough time for any planes based in Sigonella Air base, just 480 miles away, to arrive. Fox News has also learned that two separate Tier One Special operations forces were told to wait, among them Delta Force operators.
There were two AC-130Us deployed to Libya in March as part of Operation Unified Protector.
The AC-130U is a very effective third-generation fire-support aircraft, capable of continuous and extremely accurate fire onto multiple targets. It has been used numerous times in Iraq and Afghanistan to save pinned-down allied forces, and has even been credited with the surrender of the Taliban city of Kunduz
It was purpose-built for a select number of specific mission types, including point-defense against enemy attack. It was literally built for the kind of mission it could have engaged in over Benghazi, if the administration had let it fire. As the excerpt above clearly shows, we had assets on the ground “painting” the targets with the laser.






Absolute muddjuice
October 27th, 2012
I’m sick about all this. Where’s the official inquiry? Where the call for answers? Where’s the media? Where’s congress?
I’m mad. Very mad………
persecutor
October 27th, 2012
MSM will ignore this for as long as they can and then act shocked like Lt. Renault that there was an asset in the sky that could have saved some of the 4 (but it’ll be Pannetta’s fault, not the dumb bastard’s)!
Gotta save Zero!
I wanna puke.
truthsayer221
October 27th, 2012
The repeated lies and promises to “get to the bottom of this” are prime examples of where the “bottom” really is!
Bloodless Coup
October 27th, 2012
Why are you surprized?
Obama has done everything short of standing up on a chair, lighting his hair on fire, and screaming at the top of his lungs ALLAH AKBAR!!!
pissedpatriot30
October 27th, 2012
Loading MSM coverup:
████████████▒▒▒▒ 95%
♫ ♫ Tra la la
伕 伝 仔 伞 亷 (Thank you commrade O’Bama)
bomba phone
October 27th, 2012
he’s already got his dem votes bought with OPM AND they don’t read anyway
but he AIN’T got enuff!!!!!!!!!!!
MADJACK
October 27th, 2012
Obama’s day of reckoning is coming very soon!
He wouldn’t fire on anything down in Benghazi because he did not want to kill any of his fellow muslims.
Americans on the other hand Obama said, who cares!
Obama is pure evil.
Ten Megaton
October 27th, 2012
This should be enough to run that jugg-eared breed out of the White House and straight to Leavenworth.
Ten Megaton
October 27th, 2012
Make gravel out of boulders you skinny mother fucker.
iota ofa cracker
October 27th, 2012
Hey Obama, gutsy call huh?
Menderman
October 27th, 2012
The AC-130 is an awesome machine. If Obama sent in just 1 Spector, Chris Stevans, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty would be alive today. Obama cared more about his free airplane than he did about saving the lives of real Americans.
Obama can rot in hell with ted kennedy.
Take a look at what an AC-130 is capable of:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a66c065501
Houston
October 27th, 2012
I have seen rumors the Russians organized and backed the group that hit the consulate and the safe house. Makes you wonder if the WH knew this and didn’t want some Russian bodies found in the chaos.
This is a total cover-up. Congress has to act and this HAS to be brought out. Obama and this administration are busted lying to the US, falsely imprisoning an innocent citizen as a fall guy for their charade and trying to redirect from the true cause. The rumor THE WIFE and I read about comes back to arms for Syria.
Russia is not only still a threat, they are actively engaging our people. The cold war is starting back up thanks to Putin and our weakness.
Doc
October 27th, 2012
SOOOO who in our govt. has enough balls to do anything about it. Congressman Issa can’t do it all by himself.
cfm990
October 27th, 2012
Right now, I don’t give a flying Phuck, what your political inclination is. This, should it prove true, is a hangable offense. I want this bastard strapped, injected, and dumped in a landfill. And, while were at it, toss Jarrett on top of him.
I HATE THESE EVIL COCK SUCKERS!!!
dba_vagabond_trader
October 27th, 2012
So who turned this disaster political? The CinC who was too damned scared of how it would look for his re-election chances to rescue our people from a supposedly extinguished terrorist threat? What a lowlife p.o.s. Beneath contempt.
Menderman
October 27th, 2012
http://www.vadeker.net/humanite/apercu/AfghaniTornado.jpg
Nutjob
October 27th, 2012
If the muslim brotherhood were in the embassy, Barry would’ve probably called in Seal team 6……..to rescue them.
Brian in BC
October 27th, 2012
And from Stars and Stripes, General Ham of AFRICOM is being replaced
http://www.stripes.com/news/obama-to-nominate-army-gen-rodriguez-to-lead-africom-1.193564
This simply has to be another piece of the puzzle. Did he refuse to stand-down the defence or did he resign due to the order to stand-down?
Hello MSM, can we PLEASE do our jobs so at least the 47% know what they are voting for?
Nutjob
October 27th, 2012
Great Pic Menderman,
My co-worker who was in Nam, said he still can’t forget the sound of those when they unleashed their rounds and the ground popping up all around him when they got to close.
The noise and roaring/whirring sound would make a constipated person shit.
Chuck U Farley
October 27th, 2012
Why am I beginning to think this whole thing has been orchestrated by the White House? First Hitlary & Barry refuse to allow both Cairo and Benghazi to arm. Then the Muzzies riot in Cairo over some obscure video that no one has seen. (Were they tipped off?) Then Benghazi Al-Qaeda attacks the US Embassy & Hitlary & Barry immediately go out & claim it was all about the video & throw some poor schlub in jail.
This stinks of a “Fast & Furious” motive to start shutting down ‘hate speech’, starting with the Internet.
Menderman
October 27th, 2012
and don’t forget that they apologized for the video before he attack happened…but they had no idea that an attack might happen…
They built a cover story before the fact…
Mountain Dog
October 27th, 2012
“If that SEAL was actively “painting” a target; something was on station to engage! And the decision to stand down goes directly to POTUS!”
If they don’t charge 0bama with treason, it would prove that our Constitution is no longer valid.
Callmelennie
October 27th, 2012
And one more thing that’s being lost in the discussion
Muslim didn’t know about this video until Obama brought the subject up in the first place to cover their tracks. That’s exactly how community organizers work
Now there really is something that got Muslims riled up, when there was nothing before. Then Obama goes on the offensive against free speech.
So how can a lib vote for Obama and then say he or she has any principles at all?
Anonymous
October 27th, 2012
He watched them die:
http://www.impeachobamacampaign.com/
Anne
October 27th, 2012
What’s worse is that most people are apathetic. Only a country of shitheads could’ve elected Obama.
piston honda
October 27th, 2012
Our Founding Fathers wanted to guarantee a free press. They did so with the assumption that the press would always be somewhat skeptical and adversarial towards the government. However what do we see now? We see a liberal media in bed with a useless administration.
Stirrin the B.S.
October 27th, 2012
@Brian in BC – you are on to something. This is a quote that I copied from another site on the General Ham dismissal and it’s relevance to Benghazi-gate.
“(The) basic principle is that you don’t deploy forces into harm’s way without knowing what’s going on; without having some real-time information about what’s taking place,” Panetta told Pentagon reporters. “And as a result of not having that kind of information, the commander who was on the ground in that area, Gen. Ham, Gen. Dempsey and I felt very strongly that we could not put forces at risk in that situation.”
The information I heard today was that General Ham as head of Africom received the same e-mails the White House received requesting help/support as the attack was taking place. General Ham immediately had a rapid response unit ready and communicated to the Pentagon that he had a unit ready.
General Ham then received the order to stand down. His response was to screw it, he was going to help anyhow. Within 30 seconds to a minute after making the move to respond, his second in command apprehended General Ham and told him that he was now relieved of his command.
The story continues that now General Rodiguez would take General Ham’s place as the head of Africon.
I found this story when I got home after hearing this story.
quote:
President Barack Obama will nominate Army Gen. David Rodriguez to succeed Gen. Carter Ham as commander of U.S. Africa Command and Marine Lt. Gen. John Paxton to succeed Gen. Joseph Dunford as assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced.
StrangernFiction
October 27th, 2012
IfWhen they don’t charge 0bama with treason, itwould provewill be more proof that our Constitution is no longer valid.Bad Brad
October 27th, 2012
One of the Government QARs that comes out to inspect our parts was in the Air Force aboard a Spectre. He says about exactly what the update says. That Seal wouldn’t have been painting that target unless he had something overhead. He says when there’s an emergency like this assets are automatically put in place and somebody up top would have needed to stop the process. This make sense to me. Somebody needs to pay.
GW Bear
October 27th, 2012
This is more than simply treason, it’s sedition against the American people. Hanging is too good for the jug-eared, half-breed bastard.
Frosteetoes
October 27th, 2012
As usual with this administration….move along, nothing to see here.
Bad Brad
October 27th, 2012
Frosteetoes, Even though the main stream media refuses to report this, I would think this would be more than worthy of a Romney Administration investigating and prosecuting. It’s got to be done. Barry might have just fxcked up.
Anne
October 27th, 2012
I’m skeptical that there was an AC-130 available for use there. Appropriate? Yes. Available? No.
Bad Brad
October 27th, 2012
Anne,
“I’m skeptical that there was an AC-130 available for use there”
Your right, there were two of the.
Anne
October 27th, 2012
Wrong. There were two drones there, not two AC-130s.
MaryfromMarin
October 27th, 2012
@Anne–
You were an eyewitness?
Frosteetoes
October 27th, 2012
Fox News has learned that there were two military surveillance drones redirected to Benghazi shortly after the attack on the consulate began. They were already in the vicinity. The second surveillance craft was sent to relieve the first drone, perhaps due to fuel issues. Both were capable of sending real time visuals back to U.S. officials in Washington, D.C. Any U.S. official or agency with the proper clearance, including the White House Situation Room, State Department, CIA, Pentagon and others, could call up that video in real time on their computers.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/26/cia-operators-were-denied-request-for-help-during-benghazi-attack-sources-say/#ixzz2AXQhCEpC
Frosteetoes
October 27th, 2012
..and on the other side of the (3rd)world, Ohio Dems bus in Somoli’s to the polls:
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two volunteer poll workers at an Ohio voting station told Human Events that they observed van loads of Ohio residents born in Somalia — the state is home to the second-largest Somali population in the United States — being driven to the voting station and guided by Democratic interpreters on the voting process. No Republican interpreters were present, according to these volunteers.
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/10/26/is-voter-fraud-being-committed-in-ohio/
MaryfromMarin
October 27th, 2012
@Anne–
There were drones AND AC-130′s.
“There were two AC-130Us deployed to Libya in March as part of Operation Unified Protector.”
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/10/26/ac-130u-gunship-was-on-scene-in-benghazi-obama-admin-refused-to-let-it-fire/
Also reported by Sister Toldjah, Pat Dollard, Ron Paul Forums, Patriots for America, Before It’s News, etc., etc. Take your pick.
Wookiebush
October 27th, 2012
I met General Ham a few months ago. I was really impressed by him. It is sad that Obambi can get away with this crap.
Dear Future President Romney,
arrest everyone in the current administration, and clean out all of the executive branch agencies of their traitorous sympathizers.
Bring back an old Naval tradition for these scumbags,Keelhauling. look it up.
W.
Just A Thought
October 27th, 2012
It looks to me like an insideous, attempted coverup of an equally insideous hit on a whistle-blower, Ambassador Stevens, and two SEALs and a security guy were killed, too, when they got in the way.
Remember, the unscrupulous Clintons have never been adverse to killing Americans who have gotten in their way.
Just A Thought
October 27th, 2012
You haven’t said anything, Mary,
that refutes my original comment.
MaryfromMarin
October 27th, 2012
Who is posting, “Anne” or “Just a Thought”?
Just a Question.
Anne
October 27th, 2012
LOL, you’re easily confused, yet very opinionated.
MaryfromMarin
October 27th, 2012
Confused? I wasn’t the one changing my screen name.
BTW, apologies for the “eyewitness” comment. It was an unnecessary post.
Texas Flood
October 27th, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2gI0R-_8xV4
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Watch how monkeyman gets nervous and starts to squirm and shake as the devil wells up in his eye after being asked a question he hasn’t the balls to answer.
Anne
October 27th, 2012
Interview by Judge Jeanine Pirro on Fox
tonight promises to be heartbreaking.
Bad Brad
October 27th, 2012
Anne:
There were two drones and two AC130′s there. People on the ground don’t paint targets unless fire from above in eminent. what’s the deal???
Mark Zist
October 27th, 2012
If this is true then there is a video that needs to be leaked.
Bad Brad
October 27th, 2012
Anne/All
Read this, it’s new.
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2012/10/bigger-than-watergate-proof-that-the-president-is-lying-about-benghazi.html
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It’s exactly what I was told from a guy that was on a gun ship in theater for the better part of four years.
Callmelennie
October 27th, 2012
So people understand what painting a target means in this circumstance
Here you have a situation where two super warriors are defending against 20 fighters. So they are in a desperate situation to begin with. Now in order to paint the target, one of the SEALS had to put down his weapon .. which cut their defensive fire in HALF! There is only one reason he would do such a dangerous thing.
There MUST have been an airborne weapons platform that was ready to engage AND told the SEAL to paint the target. That is the ONLY reason the SEAL would have put down his weapon and picked up a laser. You have to understand, they were barely holding them off with two shooters
Bad Brad
October 27th, 2012
Callmelennie, and, the asset needs to tell them when to paint so they can sync the laser. This whole thing is sounding slimier all the time. I really wonder if anything will become of it.
Anne
October 27th, 2012
Wrong again. Some might say that,
since you’ve dug yourselves into
a deep enough hole already, y’all
ought to stop digging. Your bogus,
contrived and specious arguments
make you look goofy. Give it a rest.
Callmelennie
October 27th, 2012
Anne, this isn’t a dorm and we’re not college freshmen. Specify where you think we’re wrong. Otherwise, you’re even worth a response
Callmelennie
October 27th, 2012
even not = not even.
Just so you don’t get confused, Annie
FreeMan & Sarah Voting Early & Often
October 27th, 2012
I just played a clip of what the AC-130 can do for FreeLady. And then I showed her the headline to this post.
We had the same feeling and reaction.
Someone have to go to jail over this one. Our guys could have walked out of there.
This is murder, plan and simple.
FreeMan & Sarah Voting Early & Often
October 27th, 2012
*has got to go to jail* edits
Bad Brad
October 27th, 2012
Callmelennie, I started typing almost exactly what you posted and then decided to delete it. When somebody wants to throw out an unqualified statement like this goofball did, it’s not worth it. If she had a serious concern or half a brain she would have included in her post why she thought we were wrong. Hopefully she’s been listening to FOX for about the last hour. But, their probably screwed up too.
Unruly Refugee
October 27th, 2012
0bama is the enemy. Everybody in his cabinet is corrupt and guilty of treason for not breaking away from him and revealing the truth to the people of this nation — the people they are paid to serve. They are sticking knives in all our backs, but more so to the victims who lost their lives because of this traitorous bunch.
I want to see Mitt Romney give the orders for the gallows to be built and the hanging to be televised for all to see what the penalty for treason is in the free world.
This kind of evil corruption has to stop with 0bama. Our children and grandchildren won’t know how to deal with this kind of thing, it has to stop here.
vinnie f
October 27th, 2012
Keelhauling.
300 lashes – Cat o’ nine tails
FreeMan & Sarah Voting Early & Often
October 27th, 2012
Wanna bet the storm is being over hyped to provide cover for Obysmal and Co.?
FreeMan & Sarah Voting Early & Often
October 27th, 2012
Where is the Obama czar on Libia?
Bad Brad
October 27th, 2012
Obama lied, four people died.
FreeMan & Sarah Voting Early & Often
October 27th, 2012
What did he know, when did he know it, what did he do about it? Nothing!
The Doktor
October 28th, 2012
BFH should feel honored that OFA has deemed his blog worthy of an Official OFA Troll(s).
Of course, no actual FACTS are being given by Anne(nother troll) and Just A Thought(less asswipe). Just redirections, lies, and unsubstantiated spews.
Conversely, many here have had military experience and/or friends or family currently serving – something the Asshat-in-Chief never considered and actually AVOIDED (as is the case for most OFA workers).
When people make unsubstantiated statements and someone here asks to either CLARIFY or to be more SPECIFIC, they had better respond. Trolls have been known to be kicked off for not responding. Just a little FYI.
So… what kind of stipend is the OFA giving out lately since the campaign coffers are DRY? Or are they just paying in promises…. again?
Anne fan
October 28th, 2012
Doktor, Better to be thought a fool than to speak and prove it.
We water plants in our garden that are smarter than you are.
Anne fan
October 28th, 2012
“Hopefully she’s been listening to FOX for about the last hour. But, their probably screwed up too.” – Brad
I watched and listened to Fox’s entire broadcast last night, and nobody on those panels said anything about AC-130 Hercules gunships being anywhere in the vicinity of Benghazi. In fact, a retired U. S. Air Force Colonel on one panel said specifically that Hercules gunships were at least two hours flying time away from Benghazi in Italy and in Germany.
My point here is that Brad, lennie and Ann’s other critics don’t know WTF they’re talking about. They’re clueless blowhards and bullshit artists.
(Maybe Brad and lennie suffer from dyslexia and ADD or BWI, blogging while intoxicated. That would explain their bizarre comments. Doktor is just a common, ordinary, run-of-the-mill, garden variety jerk.)
BTW, my weapons of choice would have been Cobra gunships, not Hercules gunships. 8)
Bad Brad
October 28th, 2012
Anne fan:
Let’s see if we can agree on some facts. We do know that their were two AC-130 some where close. There were two Drones overhead. I have not heard any reports about any type of helicopters in the immediate area.
Fox News has reported that one of the security detail painted bad guys at least twice. According to the guys at Blackfive, and a contact I have (see above) targets are not painted until somebody from above tells them to paint it.
The link from Black five is above also.
So our guys on the ground must have been requested to paint the target. Read the Blackfive link.
Big picture. Why the hell on a 9-11 anniversary was our embassy left defenseless? That’s inexcusable in it self.
Hopefully you agree that there are 4 dead Americans that did not need to die. And the blame falls directly at Barry’s feet. Period end of story. Tell me where I’m wrong.
The Doktor
October 28th, 2012
@Anne Fan, “Better to be thought a fool than to speak and prove it.”
Then shut the fuck up, asshole.
Anne fan
October 28th, 2012
Anne Fan, kudos, you’re right. Cobra gunships in support of an air cavalry type assault by boots on the ground would have provided an effective, surgical strike with a minimal risk of collateral damage in that populated area, the latter of which US forces have been trying to avoid since the outset of those skiemishes in the Middle East. With an AC-130 gunship, they would have blown away innocent civilians in a one mile radius.
With 9/11 approaching, Panetta should have had at least one air cavalry unit and Cobras within striking range to protect each and every U.S. installation in the Middle East. Longtime politiical hack Panetta dropped the ball. As did that incompetent twit, Hillary Clinton, who made no preparations whatsoever to protect our embassies. In fact, she diverted funds for security to pay for a launch of the Chevy Volt in Vienna. True story. Google it and check it out. Congressman Mike Kelly was the whistle blower on that one.
The Doktor
October 28th, 2012
Sheesh, you are so stupid, you forgot to change your own name!!
I change my original post to just ONE troll. And a damned idjit troll at that.
Bad Brad
October 28th, 2012
Doc, Can you believe this idiot? What a Moron. Typical Lib. never mind the facts, your wrong. Oh and then lets call names. Oh by the way Anne AC 130 are very accurate in close. I’m done.
Brian
October 28th, 2012
Brad, you have only a rudimentary and flawed knowledge of issues which you have raised, an expertise presumably gleened from watching too many James Bond movies. I would point out your errors and misconceptions if I wasn’t certain that there aren’t any conceivable circumstances under which you will ever admit that you are weong. So why should I bother? You’ve got the retarded Doktor on your side, though.
Bad Brad
October 28th, 2012
The World According to Brian. I’m a defense contractor you ignorant asshole.
Brian
October 28th, 2012
Yeah, right. You wish. In your deams. You’re a LIAR.
Brian
October 28th, 2012
LOL, Brad isn’t even a veteran. Just anoter creepy soldier wannabee.
Anne
October 28th, 2012
Doesn’t take much to push batty Brad over the edge, does it? Sad.
Brad's thinking
October 28th, 2012
But, but, but I still have my G.I. Joe Doll.
Agnes Day
October 28th, 2012
I’ve been trying to draw attention to this series of articles. This may be the source of the information Catherine Herridge of FNC is investigating. It also tracks closely with what Glenn Beck has been saying lately.
Start here: http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/archives/6860
That “video” may have been ordered up by the Obama regime in order to have a ready excuse. The film maker is being held in solitary confinement because he works for the CIA and they don’t want him talking to the press.
Skip the next link, then go here: http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/archives/6938
Key takeaway: Obama is an agent for and funded by the Saudis, and has been from way back. (WHY ELSE would he so obsequiously bow to the Saudi King, like Darth Vader kneeling before the Emperor?) He is deliberately funding the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda and supplying them with weapons and US military support to bring down Mideast regimes and replace them with Sharia states that will form a new Muslim Caliphate.
Finally: http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/archives/7015
The Russians actually seem to be the sane ones in this situation. The claim is that the Russians wanted to expose the Obama-Muslim Brotherhood-Saudi plot and stop the transfer of weapons to the al-Qaeda backed rebels in Syria. They used Iranian proxies in the Benghazi attack. Panetta “didn’t know what was going on” in the sense that he didn’t know if other Iranian assets were in the area that could attack any rescue force sent in. He was trying to avoid another “Blackhawk Down” scenario, but also didn’t want to expose the covert weapons shipping plot.
Now if you read some of this guy’s other posts, you will see that not everything he says comes to pass. Is this tin foil hat stuff? I don’t know, but it connects a lot of dots for me and explains why certain things occurred. If there is evidence to disprove his narrative, let’s hear it. If not, then let’s get this out.
The Doktor
October 28th, 2012
This OFA Troll has gone to “Personas R Us” – BIG TIME. And, while there, bought a big bag of “Nanner-nanner-boo-boo”, which is the Leftist’s major tool in a battle of wits.
MaryfromMarin
October 28th, 2012
@Doktor, @Brad–
I find it interesting that the troll(s) often wait until the post has “gone underground” before posting their strings of insults. And the slip-ups in screen name alterations is obviously endemic.
Bad Brad
October 28th, 2012
Mary: I feel stupid for trying to bring logic into the debate with a troll. Last time. From now on I just slam dunk their ass.
MaryfromMarin
October 28th, 2012
@Brad–
No way should you feel stupid. Amazingly enough, sometimes logic DOES have an effect. It’s always worth a try.
Bad Brad
October 28th, 2012
I’d much rather have an opportunity to meet one of these mouthy bastards face to face.
MaryfromMarin
October 28th, 2012
@Brad–
Well, that could be interesting, too.