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the C-110 special ops force maintained for rapid response to emergencies. The force exists for the very purpose of responding to events such as the Benghazi attacks. Why was command of the C-110 transferred from the military’s European command to Ham’s Africa Command in the middle of the attack?
    • Instead of deploying to Libya from their “training” position in Croatia, the C-110 were reportedly told on the night of the Benghazi attacks to begin preparations to return to their normal operating base in Germany. Why was this order given? Why was a special force that exists for the very purpose of an emergency like Benghazi told in the middle of a massive attack on our U.S. mission to return to their normal operating base?
    • Former deputy Libyan ambassador and whistle-blower Gregory Hicks said he contacted AFRICOM the night of the attack but received no support. 13 What justified the lack of support?
    • Representative Westmoreland, chairman of the House Intelligence Subcommittee, commenting on closed-door testimony given to his intelligence committee, told Fox News in November 2013 that State Department employees inside the mission “were not armed, not kitted up and there hadn’t been any shots fired from our side as far as the testimony reveals.” 14 In another interview with Fox News that same month, Westmoreland further stated one of the U.S. security officers was barefoot during the attack while another two were “riding around in a Land Cruiser.” 15 This witness testimony of unarmed personnel directly contradicts the narrative in the ARB report, which specifically claims the personnel inside the compound were armed. The document even describes how the security officers retrieved their weapons. 16 How does the State Department explain these glaring contradictions?
    • U.S. government agencies, including the CIA, have long denied the persistent claim that there was a “stand down” order during the attack. However, CIA agents on the ground in Benghazi testified to lawmakers that they were loaded into vehicles and ready to aid the besieged U.S. special mission on September 11, 2012, but were told by superiors to wait. 17 Were any U.S. personnel ready to mount a rescue operation told to wait? If so, this would further contradict claims made by the State Department’s ARB report, which states that the response team one mile away in the CIA annex was “not delayed by orders from superiors.” 18 How does the State Department explain this discrepancy?
    • It is known that the Libyan rebels looted Muammar Gaddafi’s reserves of man-portable air-defense systems, or MANPADS. Were the antiaircraft missiles in the hands of the Libyan rebels or other jihadists a major threat that impeded the possibility of dispatching U.S. aircraft to aid the American targets during the Benghazi attack? Was the MANPAD proliferation taken into consideration when deciding whether to send air support to Benghazi?
AMBASSADOR STEVENS
    • Was Stevens or his body held hostage at any point. If so, by whom? How was Stevens’ corpse eventually released? Were there negotiations to secure the remains? What promises did we make for Stevens’ body, and to whom? If Stevens’ body were held hostage, why do we not know about it?
    • Thomas Pickering, the State Department’s lead Benghazi investigator and author of the State-sponsored Accountability Review Board report, raised some eyebrows when he refused to deny there was a plan to kidnap Stevens. The response took place at a House Oversight and Government Reform committee hearing on Benghazi in mid-September 2013, when Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), asked Pickering directly about a potential kidnapping plot. Is any U.S. agency in possession of intelligence indicating that the Benghazi attack was a kidnap operation gone awry? Was there a plan to kidnap Stevens and hold him for the exchange of high-level prisoners?
    • Abdallah Dhu al-Bajadin, who was identified by U.S. officials as a