ben ghazi benghazi. it was no match for the well trained militants who succeeded in killing chris stevens. the only heroes, tyrone woods and glen dougherty, cia contractors who launched a rescue mission from tripoli even though that wasn t their responsibility. woods and dougherty violated their superiors orders to stand down and they went. they went to the sound of the gunfire, they went to the annex, to that consulate and evacuated i think almost 30 more americans who would have died if left to the hands of those terrorists that attacked the place. they didn t just come to kill stevens that night. they came to kill as many americans as they could, and those two guys stood the line and did an amazing work. if they were on active duty, they would have been awarded the medal of honor. reporter: the west bank is a hot bed for palestinian militant activity.
weapons used to kill stevens and three other americans on 9/11. the fall of muammar qaddafi after four decades of aauthoritarian rule in libya, led to the dissolution of the country s security forces. the disbursal of tens of thousands of small and heavy weapons and rampant lawless inness. in another memo from nebraska of this year nordstrom warned quote al qaeda affiliated groups including al qaeda aqim and other violent extremist groups are likely to take advantage of the ongoing political turmoil. the u.s. government remains concerned that such individuals and groups may use libya as a platform from which to conduct attacks in the region. there is two real aspects of this that we need to look at. one is the events leading up to the attack in and the intelligence failures there. and then what clearly is either a coverup or is gross incompetence following it. state department spokesman mark toner told me the secretary of state will fully address these matters only after the depart
he noted the heavy weapons and the vehicle mountain weapons. these were the weapons used to kill stevens and three other americans on 9/11. the fall of gaddafi after four decades of authoritarian rule led to disbursal of tens of thousands of small and heavy weapons and lawlessness. al-qaeda affiliated group, including al-qaeda in the aqim and other extremist groups are likely to take advantage of the ongoing political turmoil in libya. he added the u.s. government remained concern such individuals and groups may use libya as platform from which to conduct attacks in the region. there are two aspects to look at. one leading up to the attack. or a cover up or gross