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famousdayandyear:
October 27, 2012
Ruh-roh: was General Ham ordered to #StandDown & relieved of his command when he tried to deploy forces to Benghazi? [Darleen Click]

Rumor? could be but it sounds plausible enough …

    I heard a story today from someone inside the military that I trust entirely. The story was in reference to General Ham that Panetta referenced in the quote below.

        “(The) basic principle is that you don’t deploy forces into harm’s way without knowing what’s going on; without having some real-time information about what’s taking place,” Panetta told Pentagon reporters. “And as a result of not having that kind of information, the commander who was on the ground in that area, Gen. Ham, Gen. Dempsey and I felt very strongly that we could not put forces at risk in that situation.”

    The information I heard today was that General Ham as head of Africom received the same e-mails the White House received requesting help/support as the attack was taking place. General Ham immediately had a rapid response unit ready and communicated to the Pentagon that he had a unit ready.

    General Ham then received the order to stand down. His response was to screw it, he was going to help anyhow. Within 30 seconds to a minute after making the move to respond, his second in command apprehended General Ham and told him that he was now relieved of his command.

    The story continues that now General Rodiguez would take General Ham’s place as the head of Africon.

    I found this story when I got home after hearing this story.

        President Barack Obama will nominate Army Gen. David Rodriguez to succeed Gen. Carter Ham as commander of U.S. Africa Command and Marine Lt. Gen. John Paxton to succeed Gen. Joseph Dunford as assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Thursday.

    General Rodigues Nominated as Head of Africon

    As I was typing this I heard John Bolton on Greta say that there are conflicting reports of General Ham’s comments on this tragedy and why a rapid response unit was not deployed. Bolton says someone needs to find out what Ham was saying on 9/11/12.

    Interesting to say the least.

http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=44819

Rapunzel:
First General Ham and today the Admiral of the Middle East task force... I don't like this.

Lando Lincoln:
This gets uglier by the day.  The desperate attempts to keep a lid on this until November 7 are failing, it seems to me.

Bigun:

--- Quote from: R²apunzel on October 27, 2012, 07:45:33 pm ---First General Ham and today the Admiral of the Middle East task force... I don't like this.

--- End quote ---

Did you see this from yesterday?

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/print-friendly/50586

Didn't pay a lot of attention to it yesterday but today's events make it FAR more compelling reading!

Rapunzel:

--- Quote from: Bigun on October 27, 2012, 07:53:33 pm ---Did you see this from yesterday?

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/print-friendly/50586

Didn't pay a lot of attention to it yesterday but today's events make it FAR more compelling reading!

--- End quote ---

No, I hadn't seen it - you should repost this as it's own thread.

This toward the end is scary:

Russia has now moved their contingent of S-400 missiles into much of Syria in anticipation of NATO establishing an “air cap” over Syria. A ten-mile “buffer zone” along Syria’s border has been created for Syrian refugees, but it also acts as a catalyst for the encroachment into Syrian territory. It sets the stage for further advancement and erosion of Syrian land, incrementally, of course.

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