by Datechguy | January 22nd, 2013
ReadabilityBenghazi, "Fast and Furious on Steroids?"
Chip Jones has asked the $64,000 question concerning Benghazi:
Therefore, the question that is simply asked and objectively answered, without placing any of the SF or CIA operatives at mortal risk is a simple one. You see, the Kalashnikov rifle chambers a 7.62 mm round. The US M-4 rifle chambers a 5.56 mm round. What is widely reported and accepted is that at least two of the TDY Green Berets who were assigned by the CIA as ARSO’s (assistant regional safety officers) were badly wounded and were treated for multiple gunshot wounds after they rescued over 20 civilian CIA workers from the compound.
The single question that needs to be asked is: “Were the rounds taken out of the wounded ARSO’s 7.62 mm or 5.56 mm?” And when the answer comes back “5.56 mm”, it opens the door to the proof that the cover up was meant to hide the fact that the Obama administration had been caught once again arming offshore groups that did not have the interests of our country at heart. It would open the door to proof that Benghazi was “Fast and Furious on Steroids.”
Rest assured if it turns out that Benghazi was “fast and furious on steroids” we can be sure that the MSM be all over it sometime around the end of the 2nd Biden Term.
Chip Jones has asked the $64,000 question concerning Benghazi:
Therefore, the question that is simply asked and objectively answered, without placing any of the SF or CIA operatives at mortal risk is a simple one. You see, the Kalashnikov rifle chambers a 7.62 mm round. The US M-4 rifle chambers a 5.56 mm round. What is widely reported and accepted is that at least two of the TDY Green Berets who were assigned by the CIA as ARSO’s (assistant regional safety officers) were badly wounded and were treated for multiple gunshot wounds after they rescued over 20 civilian CIA workers from the compound.
The single question that needs to be asked is: “Were the rounds taken out of the wounded ARSO’s 7.62 mm or 5.56 mm?” And when the answer comes back “5.56 mm”, it opens the door to the proof that the cover up was meant to hide the fact that the Obama administration had been caught once again arming offshore groups that did not have the interests of our country at heart. It would open the door to proof that Benghazi was “Fast and Furious on Steroids.”
Rest assured if it turns out that Benghazi was “fast and furious on steroids” we can be sure that the MSM be all over it sometime around the end of the 2nd Biden Term.
[...] [via Transterrestrial and Da Tech Guy] [...]
[...] Yesterday I linked to Chip Jones’ piece on Benghazi, he has a follow-up that’s pretty provocative: [...]
please translate this for someone who knows absolutely nothing about guns or bullets. thanks
[...] Was it Fast and Furious on steroids? [...]
[...] #BENGHAZI update: Benghazi, “Fast and Furious on Steroids?” [...]
An Ak 74 chambers a 5.56 round.
While it might be an interesting question, I’m not sure it would prove anything specific. After all, it could have been any NATO standard weapon in 5.56 that fired the rounds, and several of our NATO allies were boots on the ground in Libya. Conversely, if I were running a covert arms supply deal with any of formerly Soviet supplied nations, I would assume the AK 47 or 74 would be the appropriate choice, since it gives me plausible denial. I’ve seen speculation that the Annex warehouse was storing and shipping Kaddaffi’s weapons to the rebels in Syria via Turkey, thus the Ambassador’s late day meeting with his Turkish counterpart at the Annex. That line of inquiry is likely to bear more fruit.
[...] there are questions about who supplied the arms to the attackers, and other allegations, that I doubt will be answered [...]
I put no amount of skulduggery as too slimy for the Obama administration to accomplish, but there is a problem with the assumptions.
Since the 1970s Kalashnikovs have been produced a using the 5.45 x 39 mm round, whose bullet is much more similar in size to the US/NATO 5.56 x 45mm round than the 7.62x39mm The 7.62x39mm chambered Kalashnikovs still exist and are manufactured, but the newer chambering is widely used as well.
Also, rifle rounds tend to penetrate through an unprotected body, and even with body armor can either penetrate completely through or fragment, making determination of what it was very difficult. I suppose one might be able to determine the type of round used by the types of metal in the fragments, if there were any recovered.
And finally, as noted elsewhere, many terrorists and drug cartels have for years acquired US made M-16 type weapons. I would bet that a significant portion of the actual/genuine automatic and select fire American made weapons that the Mexican drug cartels have acquired came via the Mexican military, via corruption and defections. Certainly not from “gun shows” or US FFLs along the border.