New information .. U.S. ambassador killed in Benghazi strangled inside toilet

November 5
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Canaan / rebounds / channel revealed "ABC" American new information regarding the murder of the American ambassador in the Libyan city of Benghazi, Chris Stevens last month.

The channel said it had obtained information indicating that the U.S. ambassador had left the embassy for the night of his murder to bid farewell to a Turkish diplomat at half past eight in the evening, according to local time, where the streets were empty at the time.

After about an hour, add the channel, was heard in the room in the complex security operations large explosions coincided with the entry of militants into the compound.

Ambassador Stevens and his assistant Sean Smith (director of information management at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), and a security personnel, they decided to hide in a fortified place. When you are assured that the militants are searching for them after they burned the place, go and his ambassador to hide in one of the toilets, where they open a window for the purpose of inhaling the air due to heavy smoke, but it was not enough, as they began to feel suffocated.

The relay channel that began when the American ambassador and his feeling of suffocation, they decided to flee, but the ambassador and his assistant were not able to do so.

The public debate in the U.S. Congress about the photographs to a U.S. facility in the second semi-secret Libyan city of Benghazi has highlighted the complex was considered safer from the headquarters of the U.S. mission where he died U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens last month.

When officials from the U.S. State Department lists the series of events that took place in the night that killed Stevens and three other Americans in an armed attack and offered pictures Alttguetha satellites for the two facilities the Americas rose Republican Rep. Jason Hawicz, accusing them of disclosing confidential information.

He Hawicz during a hearing last Wednesday of the Oversight Committee and Government Reform in the U.S. House of Representatives: "When I was in Libya I was asked specifically not to talk to and I should not talk never what you are doing you are viewing today." Confirmed assistant in Congress that the MP was talking about the second site.

And the existence of the second compound in the back of widespread reports that spoke about the violence that took place in Benghazi on September 11 and was commonly referred to as a "safe house" or "supplement" the U.S. Consulate temporary.

The officials said the U.S. State Department at this meeting that the photographs are not a secret.

Although U.S. officials had made ​​public statements passing from the complex, but they did not provide a lot of information about the purpose of it before the attack Benghazi, which has become the subject of a controversial partisan severe in Washington in recent weeks leading up to the U.S. presidential elections, which take place on the sixth of November, and the focus of multiple investigations conducted by the State and the American Congress.

Reuters said that she has learned, however, some new details about it from U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue and the ongoing official investigations.

They described the second facility as a significant and complex series primarily inhabited by diplomats and intelligence officers. Among their tasks is a priority program involving a large number of agencies to monitor the whereabouts of rockets fired from the shoulder and other weapons deployed after the Libyan uprising in 2011. And coordinates the program office political and military affairs of the U.S. State Department.

The complex includes a "security team" quick reaction consisted of seven men, U.S. officials said in their testimony that he went to the temporary consulate after Stevens and others exposed to the attack there.

The distance between the compilers estimated at about two kilometers.

A number of U.S. officials that the second component of the complex of several buildings, including accommodation for members of the U.S. was protected better than the temporary consulate where he died Stevens and Sean Smith, communications expert.

The officials said that after exposure to the consulate attack began at 21:40 withdrew individuals Americans and the Libyans car to the site where the second repelled two waves of attacks and not a single wave.

She informed Charlene Lamb, a senior official in the Office of Diplomatic Security Council of the U.S. State Department U.S. lawmakers said that after a short time of the arrival of the consulate withdrew from the interim to the second location, "presented himself to supplement intermittent fire for a period of time."

Lamb said that in the early morning of September 12 and after that a U.S. security team arrived reinforcing coming from Tripoli to the second location, "began Supplement exposed to mortar hit the compound with three direct hits."

Defenses and withstood the second location substantially Unlike temporary consulate has not seen intrusive. However, killing two security officials there are two sessions of Glenn and Tyrone Woods in what U.S. officials that bad luck hit by a mortar round. Provided the rest of the individuals in the end to Benghazi airport.

To say that the second location was its relatively sophisticated defensive measures would raise more questions about why he did not enhance security in the nearby consulate in Benghazi.

And defended the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and senior U.S. officials about the security measures adopted in the U.S. Consulate, though these claims have been exposed to a violent attack by Republicans at the hearing held by the Oversight Committee and Government Reform on Wednesday.

He said officials were investigating the attack, said there is evidence that the U.S. administration did not want was to highlight the security presence at the consulate which is temporary and the interface to the U.S. presence in the city of Benghazi to give the impression that U.S. dealings with Libya normal.

Officials said that because of Benghazi City is lawless and violent and has a strong presence of the Islamists has included security measures at the complex II cameras and sensors as the security force found there included Americans, a great deal of training, such as sessions and Woods, who were killed in an attack by mortars and were of Special Forces of the U.S. Navy.