Were U.S. Marines In The U.S. Embassy In Cairo Barred From Carrying Live Ammunition?

Photo: Amb. Anne Patterson / Wikimedia Commons

What’s Worse: No Marines, or (Possibly) Unarmed Marines? -- Time

Senior U.S. officials decline to discuss it, but it’s clear there were no U.S. Marines protecting U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and his beleaguered staff at the Benghazi consulate Tuesday night. Marines are routinely posted to U.S. diplomatic outposts around the world, but the “interim” facility in Benghazi apparently was defended only by a handful of U.S. security officers and local hires. The Marines have let it be known that the two unidentified U.S. officials who died at Benghazi were not Marines.

As any Marine’ll tell you, if there had been Marines at Benghazi, they’d be among those killed.

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Update: REPORTS: No Live Ammo for Marines -- Washington Free Beacon

My Comment: If true .... this is unbelievable. Ambassador Anne Patterson is already in trouble with the statement that her office issued during the height of the riots on Tuesday .... now this report. She is trouble.