They're private contractors, mostly former Navy SEALs and Marines, working as
part of a Global Response Team. It's a diplomatically named team of mercenaries
ready to do anything necessary to accomplish their mission. Sometimes it means
killing. Sometimes it means planning operations. Sometimes it means working
clandestinely. Sometimes it means dying. On Sept. 11, 2012, it meant protecting
the occupants of the American compound in Benghazi, a diplomatic outpost under
the wing of the American embassy in Tripoli
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Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was in the compound that day. He had come to
Benghazi from Tripoli to cut the ribbon for an American-themed room in a Libyan
school run by a Libyan who had rescued an American pilot shot down during
Libya's 2011 revolution
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Diplomatic Security agents, employees of the State Department assigned to
protect ambassadors and their staffs. Less than a mile away, at the compound's
annex, the men hired to help were monitoring events in nearby Egypt that
forecast trouble in other Muslim countries. None of their intelligence suggested
local anger in Benghazi over a YouTube video clip from an anti-Muslim movie.
When the call came in early evening that the nearby compound was under attack,
the annex team grabbed weapons, ammunition, protective armor and night vision
goggles. Eager to get to the compound to turn back the attackers, the men waited
… and waited … and waited. "Hey, we gotta go now! We're losing the initiative,"
one told the man in charge at the annex, identified in "13 Hours" only as "Bob,"
the CIA's highest-ranking staffer in Benghazi. No, he and the others were told,
let Libyan militia assigned to protect Americans handle it. For 20 or more
minutes, engines idling in the armor-plated vehicles that were to take them to
the compound, the men waited. They could see faint glows from burning buildings
and hear chanting from the direction of the compound
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a radio call from inside the compound: "If you guys do not get here, we're going
to die." Knowing that disobeying the order to stand down might cost them their
jobs, the frustrated global response team members jumped in their vehicles and
sped to the compound. They found it under attack by insurgents who had easily
entered the front gate, sprayed gunfire in every direction, and used stored
diesel fuel to set fire to the compound buildings. In one of the buildings
Ambassador Stevens hid with two aides in a fortified room dubbed the safe haven
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as the room was from gunfire and explosives, it wasn't built to withstand the
heat and choking smoke from the diesel-fueled fires inside the building. He died
there, along with one of the aides. The other managed to break out after the
fighting subsided, but when he returned to search for his companions, he was
driven back by the dense smoke and heat. Zuckoff tells the story of the attack
in Gatling-gun style, writing from the eyes and minds of one defender to
another. To aid the reader, he introduces the cast in a prologue, complete with
pictures. Although switching from one viewpoint to another sometimes proves
perplexing, the defenders soon endear themselves to the reader, making the story
even more tragic when death arrives. The 13 hours the compound was under siege
encompassed three forays, the initial attack when insurgents breached security
and set aflame the buildings, a second attack from outside the compound after
the annex defenders had arrived and a third assault, this one from a barrage of
mortar fire. The political barrage came much later, and Zuckoff only mentions in
passing the heat the Obama administration endured after initially categorizing
the attack as a protest by a street mob angry over an anti-Muslim video
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shows it was much more than that, a well-planned military-style attack against a
United States outpost on Sept. 11, a fateful day in American history. In doing
so, it sets the record straight for historians to ponder. Lee Coppola is a
former print and TV journalist, a former federal prosecutor and the former dean
of St. Bonaventure University's Jandoli Journalism School.
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