We’re Here to Kill Americans’: Benghazi Witness Reveals Terrorists’ Chilling Objective
A British security officer hired to
train Libyan guards at the U.S. compound in Benghazi is saying publicly
for the first time what the terrorists’ chilling objective was in last year’s deadly attacks.
“They said, ‘We’re here to kill Americans, not Libyans,’” recalled “Morgan Jones,” a pseudonym to protect his safety, in a new “60 Minutes” interview set to air Sunday.
Jones — who said he was annoyed the
State Department had prohibited his guards from carrying guns — got a
call from one of his men after the attack began.
“I could hear gunshots, and I — and he
said, ‘There’s men coming into the mission,’” said Jones, who was living
nearby. “His voice, he was — he was scared. You could tell he was
really scared, and he was running. I could tell he was running.”
Jones said his mind went directly to
his American friends, the State Department agents pinned down inside the
compound, CBS News reported. Incredibly, one of them incredibly
answered his phone in the midst of the attack.
“I said, ‘What’s going on?’ He said,
‘We’re getting attacked.’ And I said, ‘How many?’ And he said, ‘They’re
all over the compound,’” Jones said. “And — I was shocked. I didn’t know
what to say. And I said, ‘Well, just keep fighting. I’m on my way.’”
Then Morgan got the word — the terrorists weren’t there for his Libyan guards.
“They said, ‘We’re here to kill
Americans, not Libyans,’ so they’d give them a good beating, pistol-whip
them, beat them with their rifles and let them go,” Jones told “60
Minutes.”
U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens
and three other Americans were killed in the attack on the mission and a
nearby annex. An independent investigation of Benghazi found the
mission security was grossly inadequate and requests for additional
security weren’t approved at State Department headquarters, CBS News
said.
Here’s a report from CBS News:
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