TIMELINE OF EVENTS: HOW THE RESCUE OPERATION UNFOLDED

TIMELINE OF EVENTS: HOW THE RESCUE OPERATION UNFOLDED

9.40pm - CIA officials in 'The Annex' get a distress call from the consulate saying they are under attack.
10.05pm - Armed only with handguns, team of about six CIA security officers leave their base for the public diplomatic mission compound.
10.30pm - With bullets whistling overhead, the CIA team move into the compound after unsuccessfully trying to get heavy weapons and help from local Libyan allies.
11.10pm - A Defense Department drone, which had been on an unrelated mission some distance away, arrived in Benghazi to help officials on the ground gather information.
11.30pm - U.S. personnel who had been working or staying at the mission all accounted for, except for Ambassador Stevens.
11.40pm - Driving back to the secure base, the evacuees come under further fire.
12am - The installation itself comes under fire from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades.
12am - A CIA security team based in Tripoli, which included two U.S. military officers, lands at Benghazi airport and begins plotting how to locate the missing ambassador.
1am - The patchy attacks on the base begin to die down after 90 minutes of fierce fighting.
4am - The reinforcements from Tripoli take a convoy of vehicles to the CIA base to prepare for evacuation.
4.30am - a fresh round of mortar attacks is launched on the base, killing two U.S. security officers.
5.30 - A heavily armed Libyan military unit arrive at the CIA base to help evacuate the compound of U.S. personnel to the Benghazi airport.
From 6am - Roughly 30 Americans, as well as the bodies of Stevens and the other three Americans killed during the attacks, were loaded on planes and flown out of the city, several U.S. officials said.

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