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As you can imagine, because there's been a war since we left in Benghazi, a lot has changed and not everything is there like it was in 2012. And the interesting thing is the CIA annex is completely gone. It appears to have been divided into at least two compounds. They're building a compound on the left portion of the land, but right now it's really just a wall around it. And then on the right side is still just left in place, a dirt patch. So all the Buildings that were on the CIA annex have been demolished, and they're completely gone. We will put up, though, like, a satellite shot of the annex so you can at least see what it was like at the time. But, you know, life moves on, things move forward, and the buildings are no longer there. Now, it's interesting from our perspective to see them gone, because, as you can imagine, when you work overseas, these compounds are your home. The people inside of it become your family. As I joke and Boone jokes and all the team jokes, we had all of our meals together because we had an amazing cook, but we were very close. So it is kind of strange to see, hey, our home away from home is gone. Especially when it wasn't that long ago. Most of the buildings were still. So it was kind of a stark thing to see because we did not realize every building was demolished when we got there. As you can see, a lot's changed over the years. This used to be the annex, no longer here. So right over here you would have building one, building two, building three, building four. Also there used to be a house here where a family lived, and beyond that was a gas station and then an open field. To my far left here is what we used to call Zombieland. That's where we had the goat farm, and that's where a lot of the attackers were sneaking through to move up to the edge of the gate to attack us. But it was good to see the neighborhood being built up, not just there at the annex, but at the consulate. And then the kind of the route between them. There's a lot more shops and restaurants. There's a lot of activity going on. Nice properties. It already was a nice neighborhood. But just to see good. It wasn't hit by terrorism and war in the way other neighborhoods got hit that we were in Benghazi. So luckily, at least our neighbors from that time did not have as severe impacts as some of the neighborhoods where the actual wars were fought in. So that's at least a good thing to see. So we'll show you the little bit of footage we got from the vacant land and go forward from there. But what we want to do is at least explain a little bit about the ciannics, the team, our GRS team, the global response team, what happened that night. Because a lot of people kind of get confused on the timeline and what happened when. And so I thought, you know, today it'll be a tad boring, but I'm going to go through what happened, and we're going to take just the times from the CCTV footage. You know, it's better than saying, oh yeah, we think something happened at this time. There are cameras, right? There's cameras at the CI annex, there's cameras on the consulate. So luckily the events were recorded in real time with timestamps. So we're just going to do a really good job today of giving you as many of those timestamps as possible. And we also have them at the end of Benghazi. Know thy enemy, if you want to follow along there. But just to help you with the flow of the story, now, obviously episode one focused on the consulate. So we're going to talk mostly today about the annex and the team from the annex. So of course, as you know, they respond to the consulate. So we will touch again a little bit on the consulate. As we told you last time, it was 9:42pm the attacks start at the consulate. And actually right when they started, you know, in their talk, one of the DS officers, Alec, made a direct phone call to the CIA annex and said, hey, we are under attack. There's been a groundbreaking discovery to help us all age healthier. And it's thanks to dolphins. Who doesn't love dolphins? That sounds completely random at first, but the science behind it is actually fascinating. Fatty15 co founder Dr. Stephanie Van Watson discovered the benefits of C15 while doing research with the US Navy to improve the health and welfare of aging dolphins. That research led to the discovery of C15, the first essential fatty acid discovered in over 90 years. As many as one in three people worldwide may have low C15 levels and fragile cells. What caught my attention is really about cellular resistance and long term health. 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And it helps us have a better picture when we look back now at the events, the lessons we can take from it and all those type of things. One thing I want to clarify, though, because there seems to be a lot of confusion about this. When I say it was 9:42pm in Benghazi, that is 3:42pm in Washington D.C. that's 3:42 in the afternoon. There seems to be this strange conspiracy theory out there that this happened at like 3 in the morning. No, it was before 4pm Everyone in DC, if they weren't slackers, should have been at work when this kicked off. Just to make that very clear to everyone, the 3am thing is not factual. Now, as we know from 13 hours, and we're not going to walk through every step of it, the movie does a really good job aligning pretty well with the timeline. But we know the team, all on the annex kind of gets called into their CIA headquarters building on the compound, which we call the scif. And that is where they're told, hey, there's an attack on the consulate. They're asking for backup. And that is when they first hear. But of course, even when they start moving to this meeting, they realize something's going on because you can hear it. We're not that far away. We're less than probably just about a mile away between the two compounds. The next bit of time gets controversial, and it's because the team loads up and they're ready to go within seven minutes. They're at the cars ready to run and they keep getting held up. Now, in real time, they weren't exactly sure what the holdup was. The chief of base, Bob was saying, hey, you're holding because this backup team is coming, and then you're going to link up with them and go together to the consulate, which sounded like a good idea. The problem was the backup team was never coming. So the backup team he was referring to was called the 17th of February Martyrs Brigade. There, as we told you in the last episode, one of these security units under the Muslim Brotherhood that were trying to take over legitimate institutions in Libya from the Libyan people. And so you could have kind of the tears bent and you didn't have to give up weapons and control and all that type of stuff. Right? Long story. So it was headed by a former terrorist, he used to be in prison under Gaddafi's time named Fawzi Bukitif. So Bob calls Fauzi Bou Khatif when he finds out about the attack and he says, what's going on you guys are supposed to secure the consulate, a backup team. And Fouzi says, we don't have anyone available for backup. We're sending you no backup. So Bob is told this on the first phone call from Fauzi. Fauzi had no intentions of sending backup because Fousey had sent about 20 to 25 terrorists to participate in the attack on the consulate. So he obviously doesn't want CIA responding and shooting his people. So Bob never tells this to the team. So there's Bob, there's a team leader for the grs, and then the GRS team. It's Bob and the team leader telling grs, these guys are coming, they're coming, they're coming, and they were never coming. That's an unfortunate thing. And that's where Tig at least was told to stand down when he expressed his frustrations. Others were told to wait. That's where we get a stretch in the timeline where, when you watch the camera, these guys are really just standing around and sitting in the vehicles, prepared. It's actually a frustrating thing to watch. I look forward to the day it's released to the public because I don't think there's anything sensitive. And I do think we're at the point where we should release both the full set of CCTV footages from the consulate and the annex to the American public. It's been well over a decade. The investigation has moved very slow into this event. The FBI didn't even put all the faces out that are on the videos. 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So as you know, they were unable to get their hands on the Ambassador, so they decide to set his compound on fire. This is another misconception among a lot of people. A lot of people think the fire was set immediately. The fire that was set immediately was to the guard shack right inside the main entrance. The fire set at the Ambassador's villa, Villa c was at 10:01pm 19 minutes into the attack. See how we start talking here? Now, wait. If we would have had a faster, more effective response a mile away, that 19 minutes is a whole different story because obviously you would have a response there prior to a fire being started. Now, what else would occur if you arrived earlier? Who knows? But it is true, if the team had arrived there sooner, the fire likely would not have been started. That led to the deaths of Ambassador Stevens and Sean Smith. So when you say that, that is factual. So finally, at 10:05. So this is 23 minutes from when they get the phone call. The State Department officer comes over the radio again, ale and says, if you don't come now, we're all going to die. And CIA's GRS team says, screw it, we're going. And they decide to go, and they get rolling. Now, here's where a few more pieces of confusion come in, but I'd like to explain it so people understand it. So I told you, it's 10:05. The GRS team leaves the CIA annex. Well, right after they leave, the communications officer on the compound says, hey, we never called CIA headquarters or their operations center to even tell them this attack's occurring. So that is when at 1006, they call Washington D.C. and inform the CIA that there is an attack. So at the time, our director is General Petraeus. So he asks the most logical question. If the State Department's under attack, did we send a response team? And then his question was answered is yes, because they waited 25 minutes to inform him of the attack. And then we did send a response team. He thought he was being informed in real time, and he thought we sent a response team immediately. See how we're already starting to get some confusion in his mind, hey, they called, informed us of the attack, and sent a team, not knowing there was even a delay in when he was notified. So just keep that in mind. I told you, the two compounds are very close to each other. Team left 2205, they're already in front of the consulate area by 2207. And they get out of their vehicles and approach a checkpoint that's been set up. Now, this checkpoint is never in this location, so they already know this is a problem. This is likely a checkpoint set up in some way by whoever is involved in this incident. They started engaging with the individuals, talking with the individuals at this checkpoint. They say, you can't move forward. They identify themselves as Ansal Sharia, Benghazi. So we knew immediately an Al Qaeda affiliate was involved. And then shots come from the consulate area towards our team. So the shots weren't from this checkpoint, but they're from the consulate area. And that's when you see in 13 hours. And you it's in all the books. That then TIG, in this case, from the GRS teams, shoots the 40 millimeter grenade launchers at the consulate. Now, this is a very key moment on film because this is when you start seeing the terrorists depart the consulate. Prior to that, they're all over the place. There's so many of them. There's about 80 on the compound, and then there's another 60, 70, 75 terrorists coordinating the streets off around the compound. So this was the first engagement that made the terrorists have this sense of fear and start to run. So it's really interesting to watch it in real time. So again, that was a minute later. So that was at 10:08 that the terrorists were finally engaged for the first time. Now it's at 10 after 10, the CIA in Benghazi finally calls the chief of station in Tripoli and says, hey, there's an attack over at the State Department. We sent a team again. Now the COS thinks, hey, there's an attack. We sent people immediately. He also now doesn't understand anything to do with a delay because he's told about 30 minutes into the attack, something's happening. I just want to be clear why. Some senior leaders had no concept in real time of a delay. It's because they were being notified late. Okay, Just so you know, it wasn't exactly some conspiracy. That's what they remember in real time because that is how it happened. So four minutes after the call, the COs, when you watch a CCTV. So at 10:14, all the terrorists are now off this consulate compound. So all the initial attackers have departed over fear of this obvious response from CIA. Now, just after that quarter after, as most people know, there's a drone. There's this drone that CIA uses that belongs to the Department of Defense at the time, and they originally were using it over Benghazi. Bob started getting complaints from all these Muslim Brotherhood guys that it's too loud and annoying. So he forbid it from being over Benghazi. And so now it was only being used in a city to the east, in Darna. So the drone is in Darna during this time, collecting against a very famous terrorist, Sufian Ben Kumo, former Guantanamo Bay detainee, who also sent about 20 attackers to this event. Now, there is some misinformation out there that Sufian is dead. He is not. So Sufyan Benkumo is very much alive. We do think he is probably one of the top 10 most wanted terrorists for our attack. So if anyone has information on him, we do believe he's in the vicinity of Adana, TURKEY so if anyone can get information to us, or write the State Department rewards for justice, or send a tip to the FBI of his current status and location, we'd really appreciate it because we are not going to stop hunting you down. Sufian. I hope that that's very clear. You can fake your death all you want anyway. CIA constantly moves this bird around to do their work, their collection. CIA then calls through a representative, a DoD representative of their office to get the drone moved. So the request gets put in to move the drone to Benghazi. That's when the drone starts moving again. CIA tasks this bird every single day. It was one of the our collection platforms in Libya. There's a lot of confusion that the DoD took some drone and responded with it in some way. And that's just not how it happened. So anyway, the drone luckily is starting to move over to Benghazi now because State Department has two officers in their talk who can see the cameras. They see, wow, the terrorists have gone. And finally said State Department DS agent can safely kind of leave behind the locked doors and get out into the compound. And so now it's 17 after and we see the first Department of State agent come out to the compound after this attack kicked off. Then back over in Tripoli. As you can imagine, cos Tripoli is like, whoa, there's this attack going on, I have to do something about it. And at the end of the day, the only response that was ever sent to Benghazi that night, the whole night, all 13 hours, however you want to bucket. It was from COS Tripoli, it was from the CIA to the CIA. The CIA responded Benghazi, CIA and Tripoli sent a response. The only organization to do any sort of real response is CIA. And nobody's ever honest about that. He puts together a team. So he actually makes a very risky decision. He says, hey, they're going to need real manpower. So I'm going to give up all of the members of my GRS team except one. He keeps one officer, decides to deploy the rest. He sends a CIA sue who speaks fluent Arabic. So he's like, you can act as the linguist. He wasn't a linguist, but he had the skills. Then there were two DoD officers who sat in CIA spaces and he asked them to join the team as well. And that is who most people now know as the two Delta officers. So they were in Tripoli at the time starting to put together plans to train some of the militias in Tripoli. It was just getting started and kicked off, but they sat in kind of the CIA Annex, just to be clear. So they joined Team Tripoli. So then that's where Team Tripoli comes from. And the impetus for that, it's finally at 10:30 when we can see on the cameras at the consulate, the CIA teams start rolling onto the compound. And then of course all the efforts to help find and rescue the state officers and the Ambassador start. So we won't really get into that. But now we're at the phase where they're trying to rescue who is on the compound. So this rescue operation is going on for about 30 minutes and then the terrorists come and do a second attack on the consulate. So this starts just after 11:00pm now it's also at 11:00pm where President Obama is finally notified that there is an ongoing attack occurring, you know, at the consulate in Benghazi. So Again, start at 9:42pm the president is not notified until 11:00pm and remember, 11:00pm is 5:00pm Everybody's at work, you know, everyone's at their desks and no one for like an hour and 20 minutes could pick up a phone and tell the President there's a terrorist attack going on against Americans and there's a US Ambassador in the middle of it. I just want people to understand how slow all, even just the communications are in this situation, let alone a response. So he only finds out. By the way, it wasn't even an effort to tell him. He is about to go into a pre scheduled meeting with then Secretary of Defense Panetta and then obviously kind of the head of the Joint Chiefs at the time, Dempsey. So he's about to walk in and that's when he's told, hey, there's an attack going on in Benghazi. So it wasn't even any sort of official prepared briefing to him. Now we're going to do a whole separate episode on the DoD response or lack thereof. So we're not going to get into that tonight. But just so you know, now this is kind of when the gears of the DoD start turning slowly. So in other good news is the drone finally now gets over to the top of the consulate, but by then we're pretty much at the end of the second attack on the compound. Here is where something though, interesting happens. So terrorists came to the compound, attacked it, they fled, they stayed in the neighborhood, did a counter attack and then stayed in the neighborhood. Okay? That's why then they are around to ambush the state vehicle when it comes because they're not like fleeing and going miles away. They're fleeing and going 1, 2, 3 compounds down. Some are just standing in the street area because there's restaurants nearby and whatnot. So they know they can just stand there and be fine. So I just want it to be clear that the terrorists are still all around. And so it's something to understand. Now, while the terrorists are around, one of them named Wassam Bin Hamaid gets a phone call. So this phone call comes from an individual in Tripoli. He was running like a militia. He called himself like a colonel in Special Forces. He was none of that. He was kind of this information peddler, but he worked with kind of the DoD officers who were setting up the training for the 1208 force in Tripoli and was kind of one of their contacts in Tripoli. So there's this story that kind of the Delta guys called Special Forces to help them when they arrived in Benghazi. And none of that's true. We did go meet with Special Forces when we were in Libya, and we'll do a whole separate episode on them. But they were never called by anyone from the Department of Defense the night of the attacks. So they called this kind of information peddler who called himself a colonel. Anyway, he makes a call to Benghazi to get a force to meet Team Tripoli and to move them around the city. Who he calls is Wisam Ben Hamed, a terrorist. Right. So Wison Ben Hamed at the time was leading something called the Libya Shield. Again, this is just another one of those quasi government organizations created by the Muslim Brotherhood. So no official organizations would be created. That was their goal and intent. Luckily, long term, it didn't happen that way with sahm. That night was leading Libya's shield. In the years later, though, he did become the head of Al Qaeda in Benghazi. And when he was killed, he was Al Qaeda's head for the city. So he did kind of move up to his senior leadership position in Al Qaeda after the attack. But the night of the attack, he was in Al Qaeda. So he gets this phone call, hey, CIA sending this team to the airport. They're going to need your assistance when they get on the ground. So he says that he's going to kill all of them when they get here. That's the moment the mortar attack plan got set into place. So Al Qaeda planned for months the attack on the consulate. The mortar strike was a plan that really came about in real time because a terrorist saw an opportunity to strike the Americans, hopefully kill them and hopefully get them to leave Benghazi, which he successfully did. So this is now where Psalm starts putting his operational plan into place, which was the mortar strike. And the mortar strike ends up being basically the sixth major attack against Americans that day in the final. So that's where that starts. Now it's 11:17. The Department of State officers leave the consulate. This is then when they get ambushed. And then two minutes later, the CIA leaves, and they have the remains of Sean Smith, and they depart the consulate the other direction. And then they do kind of, you know, as we know, their SDR back to the compound. Now, as this attack was going on, remember, the only terrorist they really interacted with was the member of Ansar Sharia, Benghazi. So they know there's terrorists there. They're assuming Al Qaeda's there. They don't know exactly who the enemy is, so they're making sure the enemy doesn't follow them back to the CIA. Now that we know, the person who was planning the big attack in the CIA was Wassam Ben Hamid. He knew exactly where a compound was. He called it Bob's House. So they didn't know that in real time. So they're doing the safest, smartest way back, not knowing who's actually plotting against the CIA annex. Because remember, Al Qaeda's attacking ends at midnight. Everything after that attack is, for the most part, Wassam Ben Hamed in his Libya Shield. Guys, the last piece of the timeline I want to talk about that occurs at the consulate is when the Reuters photographer shows up. Because this is, again, a really big piece of misinformation. Everybody's like, oh, he's taking pictures of the terrorists all the time. He must be a terrorist. He shows up at 11:21pm I already told you when all the terrorists left the compound. So he is there after the terror slave, after State Department departs and after the CIA's GRS departs. So when he starts taking photos, and we'll give you the first photo off of his camera roll, it's as he's walking up. There's no terrorists left on the compound. So all the pictures, for the most part, that he gets are looters now who are starting to pour onto the compound. So the photojournalist was not a terrorist. He was not involved in the attack, and he was just doing his damn job. Okay, let's get to the annex. Now, the first kind of big movement back to the annex is when the Department of State vehicle arrives. And this would just be a mute point in the timeline if you never watched the video. So this is 11:23, and this car, like, kind of almost like falls into the main gate. It's all shot up, the wheels are barely moving. I mean, it really is something out of a movie. Thank heavens the armor held up and everybody survived in that. But that's how they return to the annex. And of course, the driver had smoke inhalation and so many other things. Then it's 11:38, when CIA now returns the annex. And then as you can imagine, they start setting up in their pre position positions, assuming the attack now is coming to them. So that's where we're going to leave that. Now the good news is this is the same time as well. Remember I said there was a Sue, one of CIA sues that joined Team Tripoli. So as fate would have it, and this is how life works, right? You do the work and then you just get lucky sometimes. Earlier in the same day, he was meeting with a gentleman who owned an airline because CIA wanted to use it just to move around internally in the country. So they're like, we need someone with a jet that we can rent once in a while when we need to go to another part of the country. So they had this initial meeting earlier in the day. So this sue and this owner of the plane. So he now contacts him and says, hey, we have this crisis in Benghazi and I know I just talked to you today, but we need the plane now. And he said, yes. So this is where we broker the private plane. I know it's a little misrepresented in 13 hours, so people don't exactly understand how that worked, but luckily it's someone he had talked to earlier in the day. And he called him up and he said, yes, you can use my plane. So very good news for Team Tripoli. And that's then the plane they take from Tripoli to Benghazi. Now, at the same time, it's very interesting, CIA gets a phone call. So CIA's Chief of Base in Benghazi, Bob, gets a call. He gets a call from a gentleman named Mohamed Al Gharabi. So Muhammad Al Gharabi ran basically a unit inside the 17th of February Martyrs Brigade called Rafala Al Sahati. If you remember from the last episode, this is the group that detained the seven Iranians, but about four of them were Quds Force. So he calls Bob and says, for your safety, come stay at my compound. Of course, Bob has to say no because he knows Quds Force is being held on the compound and didn't want to make CIA also be detainees on the compound. He says no. But obviously in retrospect, now we know Muhammad Al Gharabi was Just doing his status check to make sure. Of course CIA was still in the compound and they were staying there for the near term. Why do we know this? Because when Wassam Bin Hamid decided to put together this mortar strike, at first when we started our investigation, we assumed the mortar team was in the Libya Shield. Right, because that's the organization he runs. If you run in an organization, you would use your own mortar teams, right? No, that's not what happened. Wissam wanted this to be successful, so he decided to call the best mortar team in town. He didn't care if they worked for him or not. The best mortar team in town worked for Muhammad Al Gharabi. So they were in a group called the Al Hasam Al Jaber cell. It was just a branch in Rafala Al Sahati, but they were pretty famous for some of the fighting they did kind of in the Misrata area. So this now is the mortar team has been brought together to put this tack together against our consulate. So we, me and Boone are the only individuals who've actually identified the 10 man mortar team. The US government has not, which is crazy. They actually almost ignore the fact that there's a whole other team that attacked the CIA annex. They only look for the terrorists who did the U.S. consulate. They have not ever tried to even go after any terrorist who attacked the CIA annex that night. And there was three attacks in the CIA annex and they have ignored every single terrorist from that. So I hope that's clear to a lot of people. Now when we talk through these 10 people, one of the most concerning things we found and if people follow us, have read the CIA annex team's letter of concern and in this letter we map out that hey, once it was identified who these 10 members were, it was realized five of them were family members of FBI's key witness in the case of Ahmed Abu Khatala. So Ahmed Abu Khatala is the terrorist the FBI framed to be head of the Benghazi attacks to hide Al Qaeda's role. So as you know, the mastermind is Moktab Al Mukhtar, very famous AQIM commander at the time. If you have a narrative, AQ's not involved in this. You can't have Mukhtar Al Mukhtar be your mastermind. So they picked this low hanging fruit, they framed this guy Katalla as the mastermind, they brought him to the United States, had a whole trial and they paid a Libyan somewhere I think it was $7 million to testify against him. Now this Libyan is a terrorist Himself. We told people previously that he literally kidnapped an intelligence officer, tortured him on film, and killed him in an extrajudicial killing. And he's still wanted in Benghazi for that. But because we have this farce of a trial against this fake mastermind, he gets to live as a millionaire in the United States in Virginia, and not face justice for any of the crimes he committed in Benghazi. So it's a very frustrating situation for us. But again, he knew five members of his own family were on the team that attacked us. So did he tell FBI that? I'm hoping no. But we also have an issue. They were never going to find the terrorists who attacked us at the CIA because they put in this dirty witness. Okay, we're gonna be very honest now. I'm gonna quickly read the names of these terrorists. Again, none of them are on any US Watch list. Nobody's after them except us. So I hope they are very worried because we have friends. So first one is Adnan Hassan Ahmed Al Ajali. So he's from Benghazi, born in 1976. The crazy part is in the past, he was like kind of an H Vac guy for the General Security Service under Gaddafi. So he was in an intelligence organization. The other one is Ahmed Ramadan Mahmoud Abdel adi, born in 1988 in Benghazi. He was a computer scientist and then he went to work at a hospital. So all these people who don't say terrorists work in hospitals. This is going to debunk that fast. Another is Musab Ramadan Mahmoud Abdel Ati. Born in 1990 in Libya. He was a former student in the physics department at the University of Benghazi. Remember, terrorists recruit in engineering programs. Science programs like this is a caliber they're looking for nowadays. The next is Abdul Kader Abdullah Ali Al Bal Qassim. If I mess that up, I don't care. We just want to put you on the X. He was born in 1977 in Ajdabiya. It's just a city south of Benghazi. He was unemployed the day of our attacks, but married. Lucky lady. Next one is Ramadan Mahmoud Abdel Ati Al Bharghi Al Baghee. So he was born in 1964 in Benghazi. He is actually employed with oil refinery in Libya right now. So that was his background, the oil industry. The next is Salah Mahmoud Abdel Ati Al Bagafi. He was born in 1978 in Benghazi. He went to law school at University of Benghazi and worked as a Libyan customs guard. Okay, so another government employee. The next is. Now this terrorist has the same first and last name as one of the terrorists also at the consulate. They are cousins and they both are cousins also with FBI's witness. So the witness also had family members at the consulate, just so you know. So he had more than five family members involved in the attack. So I just want to be clear. There are two terrorists at Benghazi attacks with the first name and same last name, different people. So his name is Zakaria Ramadan Mahmoud Al Barghathi, born in 1993. The next is Fawzi Naseef Hassan Al Sharif, born in 1979 in Benghazi. Oh, he's an accountant. So that's lovely. Also went to the University of Benghazi. He's currently unemployed. So if anyone's looking for a good accountant who can also take a great mortar shop. Hi Fouzi. Okay, the next one is Ali Abdullah Ramadan Al Shazi. Oh, he also, he's born in 1977. Also has a law degree from the University of Benghazi. This is why they can manipulate our legal system so. Well, by the way, the last one is Imran Hamad Al sheik, born in 1987. He was a student at the time of the attack, again going to the University of Benghazi. So that's the 10 man mortar team that killed Tyrone woods and Glen bug Doherty on September 12th at the CIA annex. Again, not one of those names are on any watch list in the United States. And our government is not even attempting to go after them. We provided the government with selectors that belong to these terrorists. Other information that you can use to target them that I'm obviously not going to say publicly. So the terrorists don't know and there's still been no effort, but they continue to financially support their cousin who lives here in America. That's, that's a lovely thing. Now we are finally to the attacks on the CIA annex. The first one happens just 30 minutes after midnight and that one is a little smaller attack. Then a much larger kind of double the number attack happens at 1:11. So we got two attacks and then there's a lull. Now the lull. Luckily for CIA, they know something else is coming so they're preparing in advance for it. This is obviously when the mortar team's setting up, but they're also doing a lot of other kind of preparation things. So one thing first that happens in this time window is at 1am the ambassador gets found by Good Samaritans and he's brought to the hospital. And we're gonna do a whole episode to explain that. Another thing that happens, though, that kind of ties up the terrace is at 1:35 in the morning, Team TR Tripoli lands in Benghazi. So this becomes now a huge focus for Libya Shield because they're like, we have to make sure nobody takes Team Tripoli off of the airport. So that ended up becoming their top priority, to keep them at the airport so they don't depart. Another really interesting thing that happens is 30 minutes later, Team Tripoli gets a piece of misinformation. We actually do believe it came from the terrorist side of the house, not the US Side, because they get information that Ambassador Stevens is at the Al Jalal Hospital. That's a hospital run by the terrorists at the time in Benghazi. Of course, no longer is, but it was then. So think about it. It's almost like they're teeing up to go to a location where terrorists are based, and the ambassador wasn't even there. But when you look at the actual timeline, just five minutes before, a gentleman who had a close relationship with the ambassador, and he worked kind of as like a cultural attache to the consulate, Boubakar Habib hears the ambassador is at the Benghazi Medical center, and he drives over there to check for himself. So do you see how there's real information and there's fake information? But it is an important thing to point out because people forget terrorists do insert deception, even real time during a crisis. So now, for hours, Team Tripoli is held up at the airport. They don't exactly know what's going on. Finally, there is a piece in time where the CIA Su gets the name Wesam Bin Hamid. And he's told in one of the calls, you don't leave until Wassam says so. So at least he starts to understand, hey, there's this individual here holding us. But still, there's kind of no understanding that we're being kept here until this attack's ready, and then they're going to let us go so they can ambush us all at once. So that still isn't in the thinking. The thinking's like, we gotta find the ambassador. Where's the ambassador? And there's kind of no thought that we're going to go into this huge setup at the CIA annex. So it's 4:45am and finally the Libya Shield commander, who's there kind of interacting with Team Tripoli, says, hey, we can take you now to the CIA annex. So his name is Fatih Al Obaidi. So he's a commander in a branch of the Libya Shield. He isn't actually under Wasam Bin Hamad, he's under assassination, separate branch. We don't actually think he was specifically witting of the mortar attack. They honestly use their own commander, it seems in this way as a useful idiot. That's just my opinion. You can ask him otherwise. So he brings Team Tripoli and the whole movement moves to the CIA annex. So it's 5:05 in the morning, Team Tripoli arrives at the CIA annex. Remember we had three attacks against consulate personnel, two attacks against the CIA, and now Team Tripoli finally arrives, they come in, they have conversations, Obviously we know Bub goes to the roof to see Roan accept, et cetera. Then at 5:16, Wassam bin Hamad calls the team that drove Team Tripoli. So the team is sitting in their cars right outside the CIA annex, and only their commander was allowed to go in. So the commander is in the CIA scif, and he's in there with the two Delta officers and Bob and then of course some of the CIA case officers. So they're all in the CIA SCIF. It's 5616 in the morning, Libya Shield 2 is outside the compound. They get the phone call from Wesam Bin Hamad, and he says, abandon your positions, abort. So the guy he calls says, we can't, our commander is inside. He said, leave your commander go. So they start to move and then of course, the first mortar comes in. Now when the GRS team says these mortars were precise and they were quick. Oh, they were true. Now again, we got the times exactly off the camera. So it was six mortars in 73 seconds. Okay, so we're gonna walk through each of them and there's a decimal point. Sorry, but just to be as accurate as possible. So the first one hits at 517.40 and it hits the north perimeter wall. The next one's 518.01 again hits the north perimeter wall. It's 518.21. Will we finally get a direct hit on the CIA where the SCIF is? So this is now the building. I just told you that the Delta team is in the chief of station, Fazi Alobaidi, the Libya Shield commander. Then at 5:18.32, the fourth mortar hits the exact same location. At 518.40, a fifth mortar hits that same north perimeter wall. And then at 518.53, the sixth mortar and the third direct impact hits the CIA's skiff okay? That is how quick the mortars came in. And again, it is because it was the best team in Benghazi, the best team in Benghazi that the US Government is not tracking down and not intending to capture or kill. Just going to be very clear with you. So you can get away with killing CIA officers and FBI won't do crap about it. So I hope that's the lesson you took from today's episode. Now, there are a lot of other pieces that went into this. Of course, we said the DoD response. We'll talk about that separately. We do want to explain to you kind of the rescue of the ambassador's body. So we'll have an episode on that. And then as most people know in the movie, there is now a rescue force that comes. Now, a lot of misinformation has gone out. People have even said this rescue force is Libya's shield. It was not. And so we're gonna actually do an episode and tell you who the rescue force is and for the first time name the commander who led that force. Because he's never even gotten a thank you for helping coming in and bringing Americans to the airport. He's unfortunately deceased now, but I still think we should honor his memory. So I hope this second episode of the series opened your eyes and helped you see a little bit more of what was happening on the ground. And we look forward to seeing you next week. Thanks for being here on the watch floor.