that s not what we are talking about here. correct. i think the correct term for it is embassy property it wasn t fortified. libya october 20th, 2011, colonel qaddafi is captured and killed by rebels in his home town. with qaddafi gone even stevens officially named ambassador. he will come to benghazi often. the state department upgrades the physical security at that property. charlene lamb of the state department. we extended the height of the owed outer wall with mason ry concrete barbed wire. inside the large residents fortified safe haven is built. you enter through a heavy metal grill with several locks on it. tell me about the safe haven. bars on the windows. building a jail cell you are going to get inside. it s a delay until you can get
since moammar qaddafi fell including portable surface to air missiles, martha. martha: a lot of speculation that that is exactly what the two former seals were looking for, they were trying to round up exactly those weapons. what is the datess on the hunt for these terrorists who carried out the deadly raid in benghazi that night, peter. reporter: we know that there is a short list of possible commander s of the attack and -pt leadeof the leader of an shar al sharis was on it. they won t confirm that. they caught up with him and he said he was trying to break up a traffic jam at the consulate and was participating in the raid but the attack was tied to the anti-islamic video and members of his group are good people with good goals which are trying to implement islamic law.
presence from benghazi. they are capitalizing on the proceed tpeuf ration of weapons after the fall of moammar qaddafi. this attack on the u.s. consulate june 6th with an ied planted in the ledge of the perimeter wall is described to fox as a probing attack to measure the u.s. response. this incident coupled with attacks on the international red cross and this rpg attack on the british ambassador in benghazi also in june suggests a pattern to drive western influence from that city, part of the broader effort by the al-qaida affiliate and ansar al sharia to establish in libya. the policies of leading from behind are now compounded by the policies of leading from afar which goes right to your point of pushing the cia and other people out of their areas so there can be sang which are reareas for them. i think that is an accurate assessment that they are trying to create more sanctuary areas
suggested that although that extra security was asked for the department of state felt that it won t look good, that we re supposed to be presenting the front that things are getting better in libya, we helped to overthrow moammar qaddafi and al-qaida is on the run. so how do you put that in front of the safety of your people at the consulate and say, well we actually want libyan guards there now. we want to pull our guys out and make it look like things are going well. i hope when senator lieberman when he has his committee hearing will get to the bottom of it. that was security people talking to security people at the department of state. the ambassador and others were expressing concerns about what was happening in libya, that the radical islamists are trying to undermine this government, they are conducting violent attacks to separate western influences from that government. also i m convinced, although i don t know for certain that he probably was also discussing the security co
well, let s take two examples. in the first place when we have not responded to attacks against us or against our personnel overseas what s happened? they ve been the next step is an even bigger attack. cobart towers we didn t respond to that. the usscole bombing we didn t respond to that. al-qaida grew and grew, first world trade bombing we didn t respond to that. al-qaida came back a second time to the world trade center. by doing nothing and not being tough and not row tal kwraeuting, what we ve told them, free reign, go and do it again. i want to contrast that to the reagan administration when a disco tech in germany knee was bombed with a lot of american military personnel. what did my boss ronald reagan do? he went and bombed libya. as a result moammar qaddafi hadn t been heard from for 20 years after that. when somebody attacks us and kills our people we retaliate