Richard Fernandez at Belmont has links and comments to/about this:
The two former SEALS, Tyrone Woods, 41, and Glen Doherty, 42, were
not employed by the State Department diplomatic security office and
instead were what is known as personal service contractors who had other
duties related to security, the officials said.
They stepped into action, however, when Stevens became separated from
the small security detail normally assigned to protect him when he
traveled from the more fortified embassy in Tripoli to Benghazi, the
officials said.
Re the security firm who "became separated": The firm had been selected because they were amenable to State
Department Rules of Engagement which specified that the guards have no
bullets in their guns.
He also posts this, from Kipling:
There were thirty million English who talked of England’s might,
There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed for the night.
They had neither food nor money, they had neither service nor trade;
They were only shiftless soldiers, the last of the Light Brigade.
They felt that life was fleeting; they knew not that art was long,
That though they were dying of famine, they lived in deathless song.
They asked for a little money to keep the wolf from the door;
And the thirty million English sent twenty pounds and four!
The poor little army departed, limping and lean and forlorn.
And the heart of the Master-singer grew hot with “the scorn of scorn.”
And he wrote for them wonderful verses that swept the land like flame,
Till the fatted souls of the English were scourged with the thing called Shame.
Shame? No. There’s none of that any more.
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