Murdered FSO Sean Smith, “Assuming we don’t die tonight. We saw one of our ‘police’ that guard the compound taking pictures.”
From a Wired Danger Room report, it appears Sean Smith, who was among those killed in Benghazi was in IT and also an online gamer.
On Tuesday, Sean Smith, a Foreign Service Information Management Officer assigned to the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, typed a message to the director of his online gaming guild: ”Assuming we don’t die tonight. We saw one of our ‘police’ that guard the compound taking pictures.” The consulate was under siege, and within hours, a mob would attack, killing Smith along with three others, including the U.S. ambassador.
Wired links to the director of his online gaming guild, who cites this recent message from Smith.
(12:54:09 PM) vile_rat: assuming we don’t die tonight. We saw one of our ‘police’ that guard the compound taking pictures
We knew that Vile Rat was in Benghazi; he told us. He commented on how they use guns to celebrate weddings and how there was a constant susurrus of weaponry in the background. He was in situ to provide IT services for the consulate, which meant he was on the net all the time, hanging out with us on Jabber as usual and talking about internet spaceship games.
That would make sense given reports of a possible coordinated attack.
Intelligence experts and U.S. government officials are starting to view the attack in Libya that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others in Benghazi as a coordinated attack.
Several sources have said they believe it was a planned operation and have pointed out several developments that seem to support the possibility.
The President has ratcheted up security at embassies worldwide because of the incident.
Meanwhile, Sen. Ben Nelson believes they have the markings of an al Qaeda revenge attack.
A member of the Senate intelligence committee on Wednesday raised the possibility that attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions in the Middle East and North Africa this week were connected to al Qaeda.
Sen. Bill Nelson, Florida Democrat, said the attacks “have the markings of revenge by al Qaeda.” He said they could be connected to the killing in June of Abu Yahya al-Libi, a top leader of the terrorist network.
I resent him sending only 50 Marines, to a huge mess he has cultivated. Send a little more than you need. Shock and awe.
It is people like you that give the US a
bad rap. The regime changed occurred
MONTHS AGO and the killings yesterday was due to an AMERICAN that
posted a anti-Muslim video that started
this mess! Let’s not
forget this – apparently, this American’s
heart was not in the right place and it
started a chain reaction to some heartless
citizens in Libya!!! Ambassador Stevens
was for peace – let’s focus on that!!!
Right.
This happened on 9/11 by TOTAL coincidence!
What a dupe.
Your comment is totally asinine and reflects your profound stupidity about what really happened, i.e. a carefully coordinated attack on our consulate by Al Qaeda with the complicity of the Libyan government, such as it is, thanks to your hero our Muslim / Marxist president.
Are you aware that the Democrats made 21 references to the killing of Bin Laden at their nominating convention? You may be right about irresponsible Americans, led by Barack Obama.
You are about as dumb as it gets.
Maria you wanna see some shock and awe
well girlfriend send your sons and daughters over there
and you can join other mothers and be
part of the shock and awe when your sons
and daughters come back in body bags or
come home crippled and riddeled with
mental diseases and perhaps kill themselves latter after they found themselves unable to live and cope any loger. I hate warmongers like u that act like our troops are disposable.
There seem to be fingerprints all over this pointing to the perp.
I think maybe his name is Al something….
Thank goodness President Obama, and Sec. Clinton are running this show, and not GWB, McCain, Palin, Willard, Bolton, et al. We would have bombed Iran by now. Equally fortunate is that Willard has publicly and clearly demonstrated his total lack of fitness to be POTUS. Until at least 2017, we can rest assured that grownups, and not the Tealiban clown car, are in charge of foreign affairs. It is shocking that Smirking Willard is the best candidate the Tealiban could come up with. Although, the rats are now fleeing the sinking ship. With any luck, you patriots will still be on board.
Question Mr. Schilling. . .if you don’t like it here, why don’t you leave and go over to live with your fellow terrorists in the Middle East? Obviously from your comments, you can’t stand living in the United States of America so just leave, because you will see come November that there are many many more of us “Patriots” then there are of you terrorists!
P.S. Take Barry Soetoro, aka Harrison J. Bounel, aka Barack Hussein Obama with you!
Yeah, Mr. Schilling, the country is in
the best of hands…huh?
Man, you need to get a grip, sir.
Our Ambassador is DEAD. His body is being dragged through the streets.
The only this that our affirmative action POTUS has done is jet on over to Las Vegas for a fund raiser. WOW. Real leadership there.
When (not if, sir) Gov. Romney is the POTUS, at least I won’t worry about whether he loves this country or not.
I do know that the present POTUS kisses the butts of every muslim leader in the world when he’s not bowing to them and it hasn’t done our country SQUAT.
Ah, our poo-smearing troll is back in full form.
ANYbody with a brain knew that the Smart Power(tm) idiots were fostering the radicalization of the Mid-East.
It was not just predictABLE, it was predictED.
Moron.
I’m glad to see things are going so well under Barry and Hillary. I mean, the rioters only dragged Chris Stevens’ corpse through the streets instead of sodomizing it. Huzzah.
Should read: The only thing that our affirmative action POTUS has done is jet on over to Las Vegas for a fund raiser.
That was a great article posted by Sean’s online gamer friend…it brings it home because we all know people like him.
Screw these damn, blind, suck up politicians and their lack of understanding. There has been a war ongoing since the 70′s and the MSM and pols don’t acknowledge it at OUR peril.
No, no! The LightWorker made them our friends.
They love us, as you can see.
This was merely an overseas workplace incident. A lone wolf (pack) attack. On 9/11. With Al Qaeda flags…
Somewhere I heard that by actual count, during the DNC the “killed Osama” ball was spiked 21 times.
And I read the mob in Egypt was chanting, “We are billions of Osamas”.
Coincidences are sooooo odd….
What does “spiked” mean?
R.I.P Sean Smith, My thoughts are with The family and his friends. ~God Bless
The President is not responsible for security in every building in the world.
As I understand these situations, the ambassador is usually at fault. They are always wanting less security, because too much security insults the host country. Sometimes, it don’t turn out too well.
Crazy, even for you, Dingy!
“Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson “did not permit U.S. Marine guards to carry live ammunition,” according to multiple reports on U.S. Marine Corps blogs spotted by Nightwatch. “She neutralized any U.S. military capability that was dedicated to preserve her life and protect the US Embassy.”
Whose foreign policy is this, Dingy?
Who does Patterson serve and report to?
Whose policy is it to apologize to Islamists?
The issue is, is the ambassador responsible for site security? And do they downplay security for other ends?
You could have just said, “I stand corrected”. That’s the classy thing to do.
By the way, my original info comes from a SEAL.
You are delusional, Dingy.
On any number of levels.
And I’m the Admiral of SEALS. (Some people will believe anything…)
And of course I spoke too soon. Delightful people over there.
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