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Afghanistan, iraq and syria, that s 11 countries. right. bill: what are we missing? libya. that was september 11th that was al qaeda affiliate. what al qaeda does, think about it as you re setting up a mcdonald s franchise. they go into a country. the first stage is to organize. they get the real estate. they have got the training camps. they set up shop. then they start recruiting locally. once they have recruited then they go operational. that is the stage that al qaeda in libya was this summer. there was a report, in fact a defense department report prepared by the library of congress saying al qaeda in libya had reached those first two stages. they had organized, they had recruited and they were getting ready to go operational. in other words to have a big splash attack. al qaeda, these affiliates don t call themselves al qaeda until they go operational. that is stage we were in libya in august. so to not have any preparation or additional security in, on the anniversary of sep ....
Got our hands on an e-mail he sent where he revealed the government of libya was not able to forget the american diplomatic mission and described benghazi as, quote, not an environment where posts should be directed to normalize operations and reduce security resources in accordance with an artificial timetable. special forces security team left libya in august, a few weeks before the attack, and the state department so far is saying they never heard anyone on the ground ask for that team to stay longer. but the leader of that team, lieutenant colonel andrew wood from the utah army national guard, told cbs this week that shortly after he arrived in libya in february, there was pressure from the state department to reduce the amount of security. we ll hear more from him today since he is scheduled to testify as well. back to you. brian: so many facets to this. you have t cover-up, you have what did we know ahead of time? security concerns. people coming forward with no ax ....
Good morning to you. you don t know this man, right. no, i don t. bill: what would he have done in libya? what would i know? he led up, the sf security team that was deployed out there i believe from early this year, probably february of this year. so, you know, six or seven months. they took off in august. they left libya in august. now the fact that they had a 16 person sf team out there, along with additional personnel from state for that period of time, it tells you that they understood this was a kay attic, dangerous, pseudo war zone. it was very, very unstable. and, again we have to remember, these people were primarily based in tripoli and benghazi, where the attack took place is about a thousand kilometers of bad dessert highway away. it is a outpost in completely different part of this country, cut off and very remote from tripoli and ....
That left four americans dead are taking action. the house oversight commission is launching a new investigation and demanding that top security officials appear. peter doocy has the latest. reporter: shannon, the hearing you are talking about, noon wednesday, is billed as a look into the security failures of benghazi. among the witnesses will be lieutenant colonel andrew wood, the head security official at the u.s. consulate in benghazi, the leader of a 16-man special forces security team, a team that was instructed to leave libya in august, weeks before the deadly september 11 raid that killed ambassador chris stichs, information specialist sean smith and glen dohertyy and tyrone woods. andrew wood is a green beret with the utah army national guard. he told cbs, it is unbelievable to him that the state department decreased security in libya when they did because he showed them ....
Soon hold a nuclear test in an attempt to save face and flex its military might. greg palkot is in north korea s capital with the latest tonight and we ll join him shortly as satellite conditions permit. well, an extreme weather alert first and what forecasters are now saying will be a very rough day tomorrow. we ll have all the details on tomorrow s very difficult afternoon which is expected in the midwest. but almost three years after he supposedly had just months to live, the lockerbie bomber is in the hospital tonight. that s according to his brother who says the bomber is getting a blood transfusion. the united kingdom sent him back to libya in august of 2009 after doctors said he was dying of prostate cancer. he was convicted of the 1988 bombing of pan am flight 103 over lockerbie, scotland. the attack killed 259 people, most of them americans. the white house says the united states will increase what it calls nonlethal aid to opposition forces in syria. ....