Benghazi: Squadron Member Says ‘We Could Have Been There’:
"A member of a squadron at the U.S. Aviano Air Base in northeastern Italy the night of the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans tells Fox News, “We could have been there.”
His team was alerted a “real world mission was going down,” added the witness, who was on the ground at Aviano the night of the attack but asked to remain anonymous.
“There were people everywhere,” said the whistleblower.
“That flight line was full of people, and we were all ready to go” to Benghazi.
U.S. planes were armed and prepared to deploy to Libya, which sits hundreds of miles away from Aviano, where fellow Americans were under attack by jihadists, noted the witness, adding that Benghazi could have been reached within a few hours.
He said his squadron was briefed on the attack, but the order to deploy never came.
“The whole night we were told that we are waiting on a call,” declared the U.S. service member..."
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