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Working in tactical operation center immediately activated the imminent danger notification system. >> state department official lamb was working that night in washington. so she could follow the events in real-time. >> also alerted the quick reaction security team stationed nearby. libyan 17th brigade, embassy in tripoli and the diplomatic security command center in washington. >> back here in the main residence, the special agent reportedly comes here and gets ambassador stevens from his bedroom and brings him along with sean smith to this room in the safe haven. really aside from medicine a...

Threat from al-qaeda is waning. >> today, al-qaeda is on appeal. usama bin laden is no more. [ applause ] >> then the next day, october 9, the state department provides off-camera a blow-by-blow account of the benghazi attack. reporters learn the compound was overwhelmed by an organized assault. fighters armed with machine guns, mortars an possibly rocket-propelled grenades. october 10. congress holds contentious hearing on the attack in libya. americans learn that the state department officials despite being warned of escalating attacks refuse to beef up security in libya. >> shocking revelat...

Protest the obama administration would later suggest escalated to a deadly riot. joiningsteins in the main residence building is information management officer sean smith and four diplomatic security special agents. another agent at the nearby tactical operation center. all the agents are armed with pistols. 9:40 p.m., the amateur video apparently captures the first movement outside the compound. the mad mob of attackers break through here. the main gate, a weak point in defense of the mission. then they move on here. they understaff the militia bay racks and they storm the place, torch it. li...

Uben struggles up a small ladder to the roof of the building and collapses, he radios the other agents. another u.s. agent in full combat gear i merges from the tactical operation center wit. he gets the two agents up there out and three get to armored vehicle. they drive a short distance to the residence. taking turns they crawl in residence on their hands and knees, feeling their way through the building to try to find their two colleagues. they find smith, they pull him out of the building. he is dead. now remember, the crack site security team is gone but the small unit of security at the ...

Nice place there and out buildings as well. >> bret: not a lot of security. >> like in my residence. not a fortress. >> bret: inside the walls are four buildings. one is a large residence with a number of bedrooms in it. another residence had a can tina where the staff eats. just across the way, is what they call the tactical operations center. filled with offices for security staff. phones, and security monitors. finally the barracks, small house by the main gate of the compound. it will house libyan security force. >> libya, october 20, 2011. colonel gaddafi is captured and killed by rebels ...