Posted By Bob Owens On October 26,
2012 @ 9:50 am In Politics @ PJMedia
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.
An AC-130U flies in a counter-clockwise “pivot turn”
around the target, with the weapons all aimed out the left side of the
aircraft.
There are two state-of-the-art fire-control systems
(FCSs) in a AC-130U, using television sensors,infrared sensors, and synthetic
aperture strike radar. These fire control systems can see through the dark of
night, clouds, and smoke.
The two FCSs on the AC-130U control a 25mm Gatling
gun for area suppression, a precision 40mm cannon, and a 105mm cannon which can
engage hard targets.
What this means is that we have the forces in the
air and on the ground to have stopped the attack at any point, eliminating the
terrorists and saving American lives.
Update (Bryan):
Here is an AC-130 engaging in a live fire exercise. The crackling sound you
hear is its extreme rate of fire.
Update: BlackFive
confirmed with a retired Delta operator: The fact that ground personnel
were painting the target says there was a Spectre on station.
Having spent a good bit of time nursing a GLD
(ground Laser Designator) in several garden spots around the world, something from
the report jumped out at me
One of the former SEALs was actively painting the
target. That means that Specter WAS ON STATION! Probably an
AC130U. A ground laser designator is not a briefing pointer laser.
You do not “paint” a target until the weapons system/designator is synched;
which means that the AC130 was on station.
Only two places could have called off the attack at
that point; the WH situation command (based on POTUS direction) or AFRICOM
commander based on information directly from the target area.
If the AC130 never left Sigonella (as Panetta says) that means that the Predator that was filming the whole thing was armed.
If that SEAL was actively “painting” a target;
something was on station to engage! And the decision to stand down goes
directly to POTUS!
Article printed from The PJ Tatler: http://pjmedia.com/tatler
URL to article: http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/10/26/ac-130u-gunship-was-on-scene-in-benghazi-obama-admin-refused-to-let-it-fire/
[There are many Spectra videos on YouTube;
you might want to check them out.
This, I would think, goes back to Valerie
Jarrett. She was the person who advised against the bin Laden assault three
times before Hillary stepped in and gave Barry his balls back. This would be
just the kind of operation she would think would be too risky. This is the kind
of operation that would result in collateral damage that could be photographed
and disseminated to the administration's detriment, as she would
suppose. As opposed to a drone strike where no one sees the effects at
ground zero. No pictures, no problem.
And then two weeks of that
"video" crap! I guess he really thinks we're mushrooms. Keep them in
the dark and feed them shit.
Also I've been monitoring Huffington and
The Daily Beast. They haven't been covering this story at all, not even enough
to cover for the administration. For sites farther to the Left the reading is
all about the horror of drone strikes on the peaceful goat herders of
Waziristan. Well horrible when they aren't shooting school girls in the head.
Weird, I would think.]
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