Say wha … ?
The September 11th storming of the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt, which led to the seizure of the American flag and its burning on sovereign territory, has an ugly twist: Marines who claim to have guarded the embassy say that the Ambassador to Egypt did not permit them to carry live ammunition. If confirmed to be accurate, the reports will throw the chaotic events in Egypt into a vastly different light.
The initial protest in Cairo was announced by the terrorist group Jamaa Islamiya as early as August 30th. At the protest, a black al Qaeda flag was erected over the embassy. More protests and flag burnings were then held outside the embassy on September 12th, which is a sure sign of an escalation in hostilities. A one-million strong Islamic “Friday of Anger” is planned for September 14th, although it is unclear what the turnout will actually be. […]
As the Washington Free Beacon reports, U.S. Marine Corps blogs reporting the denial of live ammunition were spotted by the international news service Nightwatch. As one Marine corps blogger reported, Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson “neutralized any U.S. military capability that was dedicated to preserve her life and protect the US Embassy.”
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After three years of combat in Korea, Silver Whistle pater was assigned consulate duty in Europe. I can just hear said salty E5 being told he was denied live ammo in his role of consulate security.
I guess this is what we get for putting the “Flower in the gun” people in charge.
…This week is killing my blood pressure.
If it were true, it would be as stupid as say, preemptively apologizing to islamist fanatics for a movie that may or may not exist or may only exist as a youtube trailer, and that’s just not believeable about the masters of smart.
Hole frijoli — this bint denied the Marines live ammo, and to top that off she was ever-so-conveniently absent from the country when she KNEW, because she had been WARNED, that these protests were planned and directed at the American embassy. She just took off, and left everyone else to deal with those backward savages un-freakin’-armed?!
I’m guessing she’ll still be safe and sound and not at her post on Friday. Somewhere a lamppost is pining for this woman’s noose.
In utterly random news, our old ‘friend’ Barrett Brown has been arrested, apparently for posting a YouTube vid yesterday in which he repeatedly threatens an FBI agent by name.
This is a bad idea, life-plan-wise.
I once had guard duty inside the base armory at Headquarters Marine Corps. I had a .45 pistol and one magazine of ammunition. However, under orders, I was not allowed to put the magazine into the pistol unless I first got authorization over the phone from the Officer of the Day. Fortunately, it was an uneventful night.
At least the Cairo embassy had a Marine contingent. Benghazi? Not so much. What the hell were they thinking?
I wonder how many leftards watch Barney carry his bullet in his pocket on Mayberry reruns and don’t realize its a joke.
From John Bradley’s link…
There’s a general sense of stiffening resolves in and around Cellblock 17, anticipating this punk’s arrival.
I was Air Force security cop. I was doing security for a VIP plane one day, and the 2 star whose plane it was had forgotten his ID. He figured he was going in anyway, because some punk E-3 wasn’t going to stop him. I jacked a round into the chamber of my M-16 and put his ass on the pavement. Then I called it in, and assumed my life was over.
I never heard so much as a syllable of criticism over anything I’d done. I got a couple of attaboys and a few remarks about the size of my testicles, but I was just following my orders.
No ammo? What’s the point of having a gun?
” THIS IS MY RIFLE. There are many like it but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I master my life. My rifle, without me is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than any enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will…. ”
Unless the State Department forbids me from keeping live rounds in my rifle and prevents be from guarding my charges and my post. In that case there is nothing to do or say because F.U.B.A.R.
Pablo, I would hope the only way you would have gotten in trouble was if you didn’t do what you did. That’s the procedure, and the two-star knew that.
I just had a depressing thought about this: RSM has proposed that BB is an FBI informant. If some of the other Anonymoids got pissed off at him, wouldn’t a very public arrest be an effective way to get his ass into WITSEC?
I hope this is just my imagination working overtime.
Stacy lives in his own mind a little too much sometimes.
I’d disregard it.
If BB is in WITSEC does that mean we won’t hear from him again? That would be cool.
In another thread I predicted he’d go inside and come out trying to be Chuck Colson.
If he’s WITSEC-bound I’d picture him eventually getting desperate for attention and trying to be Sammy the Bull.
As soon as he starts back on the smack, he’ll start smack talkin’. The boy can’t help hisself.
Cranky-d, I was in peacetime Germany. I’d think that Marines guarding an embassy in what’s damn near an Islamic war zone on 9/11 would have some fucking ammo if I had it back then.
I was afraid of getting mauled by the system, not a mob of savages.
Palaeomerus left out the part about the rules of engagement only allowing you to shoot back after being fired upon
and then only shooting at the attackers’ knees.
“Palaeomerus left out the part about the rules of engagement only allowing you to shoot back after being fired upon
and then only shooting at the attackers’ knees.”
…in the manner of Gen-JISS KONN.
Well then. No wonder Warren Christopher wanted Col. Beckwith’s boys to shoot the Iranian captors in their knees.
KONN!!!!
EDISON!!!
Game over, man. Game over!
Cranky-d, I was in peacetime Germany. I’d think that Marines guarding an embassy in what’s damn near an Islamic war zone on 9/11 would have some fucking ammo if I had it back then.
Don’t you understand? You were given ammunition in Germany because you didn’t need it. You aren’t given ammunition in Libya because you will need it.
Simple logic!