American killed in Libya was on State Department intelligence operation

Published time: September 14, 2012 16:14
Edited time: September 14, 2012 20:15
Glen Doherty, a former U.S. Navy SEAL, was among four Americans killed in an attack on a diplomatic mission in Benghazi Libya on Sept. 11, 2012. (Photo courtesy Doherty Family)

One of the four Americans killed in Libya earlier this week when an American diplomatic mission was stormed on September 11 had been deployed by the US State Department on an intelligence gathering operation to find and destroy dangerous weapons.

Glen Doherty, a 42-year-old former Navy SEAL, told ABC News only one month before his death that he had been contracted by the State Department to travel overseas in an effort to locate and eliminate MANPADS shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles. The US government had feared that as many as thousands of the high-powered warheads had fallen into the hands of both rebels and regime fighters after former leader Muammar Gaddafi was executed earlier this year amid months of chaos in region.

In Libya, Doherty said, he had been contracted to travel through the region and search for MANPADs, then destroy them by bashing them with a hammer or running them over in his vehicle, ABC reports. He detailed his mission with the network in August while still located in the United States.

Doherty was killed along with three others, including US ambassador Christopher Stevens, on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center in New York eleven years earlier.

“I never thought he’d be another victim of 9/11,” his sister Katie Quigley tells The Boston Globe. At the time of his death, Quigley adds she believes her brother "was protecting the ambassador and also helping the wounded.”

The State Department did not offer any comment in regards to Doherty’s involvement in efforts to dismantle the MANPADS, but directed the media to an earlier statement from State Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro that read the US was looking at "every possible tool to mitigate the threat."

"He died serving with men he respected, protecting the freedoms we enjoy as Americans and doing something he loved," former SEAL and friend Brandon Webb tells NBC.

In the three days since Doherty’s death, mobs have swarmed diplomatic establishments held by the US overseas, including facilities in Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen. American authorities are investigating a man thought to be responsible for the film "Innocence of Muslims,” an American-made movie deemed disrespectful to Islam and considered the catalyst in the rash of attacks.

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Geronimo O.K. 17.09.2012 14:14

Boysie (unregistered) wrote in #5
Why is it - that ispite of all the evidence over the past eleven years (vis-a-vis) -
Muslims had nothing to do with 9/11 
This must be the joke of the century.

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A.Patriot (unregistered) 16.09.2012 22:14

This is the 2nd. recent high level assassination of Israeli/USA Al Qaeda envoys. The first was the infamous Saudi Spy Prince Bandar, now Ambassador Stevens. Both appeared to be the main enlisters of Al Qaeda fighters in Saudi Arabia and now in Libya to travel via CIA provided transportation to the Israeli/USA terrorist base inside Turkey near the Syrian border where they are armed and escorted into Syria to murder as many Syrians as they can as well as carry out various bombing of Islamic Shrines, Christian Churches, Hospitals and Schools all designed by the Mossad/CIA to blame on Assad's Syrian Army troops.

Ambas sador Stevens would have been the one handing out huge bags of freshly minted 100 dollar US currency to potential recruits willing to murder Syrians and the two Al Qaeda branches located in Benghazi would have no reason to attack him but being a non-Muslim they wouldn't necessarily protect him either.

Along with Ambassador Stevens direct envoy enlistment and work with the Libyan Al Qaeda branches, he appears to have been linked to the CIA and was likely a liaison of the CIA with the Seal member assigned as his personal bodyguard. Such suggests Ambassador Stevens wasn't just a USA State Ambassador but a high value asset.

The Israeli and USA officials were all grins and giggles over the alleged Israeli assassinations of Iranian scientists, now all fake crocodile tears over Ambassador Stevens.

It appears a non-West State has deployed its State assets to surgically strike both of those high level Saudi/USA Al Qaeda envoys thereby collapsing their funnelling more foreign fighters into Syria.

It was only a matter of time before non-West States would be provoked into doing the same with the surgical assassination of high level targets after repeated episodes by Israel and USA who then laughing at the non-West States as being helpless afterwards.

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teddyformusic 16.09.2012 18:20

realJew (unregistered) wrote in #8Whole world hates USA and Israel and rightly so. =============== ==================== ==================== ==================== ================ Th e rightly famous and respected Jew -- NOAM CHOMSKY -- has said: -------------------- "The Greatest Threats to Peace in the World are the USA and ISRAEL"............. ...................i t follows in the path of Martin Luther King, Jr.............the american civil rights and Anti-war leader saying: ..................." I Must with Great Shame and Sadness say that the Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World is My Own Country and Government".........  note that When King began to Focus more and more on the Foreign Policies of the USA -- beyond "racial" concerns and connecting racial concerns with what he concluded was america's RACIST foreign Policy of Empire ---- and he began to talk more and more against vietnam war.....etc......... ......he was killed.........

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