Documenting the worst betrayal in US history. Sources include @HouseBenghazi @KenTimmerman @SharylAttkisson Mitchell Zuckoff @BenghaziAttacks @BradleyPodliska
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Benghazi Notes retweeted
Next Friday the 26th on @The_Watch_Floor I’m going to name the overall general of this unit that came to our support for the first time. He was never thanked by our government which is wrong on so many levels.
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At about 6:00AM, the #Benghazi GRS Team Lead called Tanto on the radio to let him know the 50-vehicle militia convoy was coming in soon. He instructed Tanto to ID them to ensure they were friendly, which seemed strange because there wasn't much he could do if they weren't. (1/4)
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Tanto then signaled at the field across the road as an enemy position. The commander understood and sent a Technical with a 4-man fire team to the field. Within minutes they pulled out two men who had been hiding in the brush and flex-cuffed them. (3/4)
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Tanto didn't know if the apprehended men were spotters for the enemy mortar team or conducting reconnaissance, but at least he knew he hadn't been imagining voices coming from the field all night. (4/4)
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Jack descended from Building D, collected his things, then came out to the truck and helped load Rone's body onto the bed. He was stunned when he recognized that the second body was his long-time friend Bub. Jack had not been informed earlier that Bub had been killed. (2/4)
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As the Americans prepared to leave Building C, Oz was alert but Ubben was unconscious on a stretcher and was loaded into the back of a hatchback. Even with the stretcher pushed all the way in, Ubben's feet hung out the back. (3/4)
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Before the stretcher-bearers loaded Oz into the hatchback, he looked up at Jack and told him "Rone shielded me. He saved my life." (4/4)
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As the Sept. 12 sun approached the horizon, a call from the Team Lead came for all operators to come down from the rooftops to collect their belongings for the evacuation. (1/4)
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Benghazi Notes retweeted
11 Sep 2025
Truth over comfort. Always.
When the final mortars hit Benghazi, there was no script. No ceremony. Just brutal choices, brotherhood, and loss.
Rone and Bub weren’t carried off that roof with dignity. They were thrown. That’s what happened. And now folks want Medal of Honor for it.
13 years later, I’m not telling war stories. I’m setting the record straight.
Watch the full interview on the Shawn Ryan Show.
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11 Sep 2025
John "Tig" Tiegen reflects on the final mortar attack in Benghazi as we mark the 13th anniversary today. Watch the full now.
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While both Oz and Ubben were inside being treated for their injuries, the Tripoli-based Team Leader for all GRS operators ordered all to stay near Building C so everyone could see each other's location. This made no sense to Tig, who wanted to be in a more defensive position in the case of another attack, but he obeyed the order and stayed near Building C in what he considered to be a no-man's-land. A call came over the radio that a 50-vehicle militia convoy was coming to guard the evacuation and escort Americans to the airport. Jack was sure he wasn't the only one who didn't have full confidence that the convoy was friendly and may instead be planning a final attack. (1/2)
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A flatbed truck was brought in to transport the bodies of Rone and Bub. Tig moved toward the Building C ladder to help. He intended to bring a heavy strap to help lower the bodies from the roof, but was stopped by the D-boys Jolly and Halbruner who told him "We got this." Jack and Tig looked in horror as the D-boys brought Rone's body to the edge of the parapet, then dropped it 15 ft onto the marble patio floor. Tig looked away, but could never erase the sickening sound of the impact from his memories. The D-boys took the same approach with Bub's body and dropped it from the roof. His abdomen was sliced open when it hit a bush on the way down. Tig told himself angrily that both men deserved better with plenty of time to bring them down carefully. (2/2)
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Benghazi Notes retweeted
Jun 12
Back to Benghazi | Episode 2: The Annex
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Around the time Tig had confirmed that Bub had died, others from Team Tripoli including D-boys Tate Jolly and David Halbruner climbed to the roof. One helped Oz walk toward the ladder, then asked if he could climb down on his own. He replied "Yeah, I guess I'll have to." Oz slipped and then caught himself while climbing down the ladder by clinging onto it with his right hand alone. He then walked inside Building C under his own power, where a medic tended to some of his wounds and laid him down on a couch. (1/4)
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Tig went back to Rone's body, placed a hand on Rone's chest and said an impromptu prayer: "God, watch over him. Guide him to where he needs to be. Take care of his family." He then went over to Bub, placed a hand on Bub's chest and said the same prayer. (3/4)
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A call from a case officer came over the radio asking for Rone to come into Building C to help treat Oz's wounds. After no response, the call for Rone to help was repeated. "Hey!" Tig replied. "Rone's gone. He's not with us anymore." (4/4)
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Benghazi Notes retweeted
Jun 12
We Found the Mortar Team. Nobody Came for Them.
Later today on @The_Watch_Floor, Dave "Boon" Benton and I continue our Back to Benghazi series as we return to the CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya.
Before that episode is released, I want to remind the public of a fact that should outrage every American: Not one member of the 10-man mortar team that attacked the CIA Annex on September 12, 2012, murdering our brothers Tyrone Woods and Glenn Doherty, has ever been brought to justice.
Read that again.
Not one.
Not a single member of the mortar team has been captured, prosecuted, or held accountable.
What makes this even more remarkable is that these men are NOT unknown.
The mortar team belonged to the Ali Hassan al-Jaber Cell, operating inside the Rafallah al-Sahati Brigade, an organization that emerged from the 17 February Martyrs Brigade. The group's leader was Mohammed al-Gharabi, a senior al-Qaeda commander in Benghazi at the time of the attacks.
And where is al-Gharabi today?
Still free.
He was briefly detained last year, but as has become standard practice in Tripoli, al-Qaeda-linked figures objected, and he was released shortly thereafter.
The terrorists on the mortar team were:
• Adnan Hassan Ahmed al-Awjali
• Ahmed Ramadan Mahmoud Abdel Ati
• Musab Ramadan Mahmoud Abdel Ati
• Abdul Qader Abdullah Ali al-Balqasim
• Ramadan Mahmoud Abdel Ati al-Barghathi
• Salem Mahmoud Abdel-Ati al-Barghathi
• Zakaria Ramadan Mahmoud al-Barghathi
• Fawzi Nassif Hassan al-Sharif
• Ali Abdullah Ramadan al-Sharkasi
• Imran Hamad al-Sheikh
Fourteen years later, Ty and Bub remain gone. The men accused of killing them remain free. Not because they were never identified. Not because the FBI was never provided their identities. But because nobody made bringing them to justice a priority.
Today's episode is not just about what happened at the Annex. It is about what did NOT happen afterward. Justice delayed is one thing. Every member of the mortar team remaining free is another. That is not delay. That is failure.
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In a direct contradiction to @BarackObama and @HillaryClinton's "video protest" narrative, the @StateDept was told by a #Benghazi witness in real-time that mortar attackers must have had significant training, and that they were not "persons off the street." (1/3)
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Wissam bin-Humaid's delaying of Team Tripoli at the airport and then overseeing their transportation to the CIA Annex by Libya Shield Two ensured that all Americans were congregated inside there simultaneously and that the timing of the mortar assault could be orchestrated. (3/3)
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