Via Weasel Zippers, more evidence that Obama let Americans out to dry die in Benghazi
Via Fox News:
Sources who have debriefed the team that was at the CIA annex the night of the attack in Benghazi say that the CIA operators from the Global Response Staff, or GRS, were equipped with Mark 48 machine guns and had two types of laser capability. Each weapon had both a “passive” as well as a “visible” laser that could be used against the Libyan attackers.
The presence of laser capability on the roof of the CIA annex confirms what Fox News sources that night in Benghazi originally said, which is that they had laser capability and for 5 hours and 15 minutes were wondering where the usual overhead air support was, especially since, according to this source, they radioed from the annex beginning as early as midnight asking for it.
The presence of lasers raises more questions about why air support was not sent to Benghazi even protectively once it became clear that the fighting had followed the CIA rescue team back to the annex.
U.S. military officials say they “thought the fighting was over” after the team left the consulate and that there was a lull in the fighting.
Fox News has learned the guns were fitted with PEQ-15 lasers. The “passive” laser is not visible to the naked eye but can help team members identify hostile forces when the shooter is wearing NODS, or Night Observation Device attached to their helmet. The visible laser system places a red dot on the attacker and warns the attacker not to shoot, encouraging them to flee the scene.
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Dave C
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Some have tried to make the case that the reports of lasers referred to the visible kind, not the kind used to guide air-dropped weapons.
The visible red-dot lasers might be a deterrent to non-combatants, but does anybody really believe beleaguered US personnel, stranded on a rooftop and facing overwhelming numbers of insurgents would waste their time aiming red dots at them?
It seems to me that the men on the rooftops were illuminating a target they couldn’t eliminate with the weapons they had on hand, keeping faith with a nation that under any other circumstances would have kept faith with them, and provided the air support that would most likely have saved their lives.