photographs, out of the vehicle. they knew what they were doing and it was an assassination attempt. as i could see it i could see the adversary growing longer. we were the last thing on the target list. >> in the past year there had been more than 230 security incidents in libya. it was apparent toowood that terrorists are working on increasingly bigger plots. >> i had seen instances prior to that. i a i saw a series of things building towards additional attacks. >> that's why wood and eric nordstrom the regional security officer implored the state department to keep woods sst force in libya beyond the scheduled august departure. >> we weren't requesting additional. we were requesting to keep the security we had. that was being taken away.