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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUS Consulate in Benghazi was not given the standard security contract
1513: Frank Gardner BBC Security Correspondent
says: "The BBC has been told that the US Consulate in Benghazi which was fatally attacked and gutted on Tuesday was not given the standard security contract offered to most US diplomatic missions in the Middle East. The consulate's walls were breached in just 15 minutes, guards were outgunned and overwhelmed and 4 US personnel were killed, including the Ambassador, Chris Stevens."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19600542
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)possibly wrongly, that these are private contracts.
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)Its markedly cheaper and really has not shown itself to be any more risk. Would the same number of Marines made a difference in Benghazi?
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)is that there was "no standard contract" and as such the matching number of marines could have been nil. I do however get your drift.
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)Also seen where it was a temporary site in an office building, vice a built for purpose structure.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I've known too many gov't contractors who have delivered absolutely shitty value for the dollars paid...
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)This could have been a ecnomic decision from a higher HQ or a local one. We also do not know what kind of contract it was. From what has been published, its doubtful short of a large number of troops, it would not have made a difference, uniformed or otherwise.
I submit the contractors gave full measure regardless.