WASHINGTON – "Greg, we are under attack," were the last words whistleblower U.S. diplomat Gregory Hicks, present in Libya at the time of the Benghazi terrorist attack, recalled U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens saying to him in a desperate phone call moments before Stevens was killed.
"We were under attack, and we were on our own," Hicks said today in emotionally charged testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Hicks, who was in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, during the attack, summarized the failure of the Obama administration to bring in military resources to save Stevens and the other three Americans killed in an attack that began late in the evening of Sept. 11, 2012, and continued into the early morning hours of the next day.
The other witnesses were Eric Nordstrom, formerly the regional security officer in Libya, and Mark Thompson, a former Marine and official with the State Department's Counterterrorism Bureau.
Hicks, the deputy chief of mission in Libya at the time of the Benghazi attack, reconstructed today a minute-by-minute account of the attack.
He described it as a four-phase assault that began around 9:45 p.m. local time in Libya and lasted until dawn the next day.
http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/benghazi-whistleblower-we-were-on-our-own/
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