Subject: Lasers Used in Benghazi
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Fox News has learned the guns were fitted with PEQ-15 lasers. The
passive laser is not visible to the naked eye but can help team members
identify hostile forces when the shooter is wearing NODS, or Night Observation
Device attached to their helmet. The visible laser system places a red dot on
the attacker and warns the attacker not to shoot, encouraging them to flee the
scene. U.S. troops often use the visible laser to scare children or other
civilians who find themselves in the middle of combat activity. When civilians
see the laser they often back off in order not to be shot.
The GRS team that was present at the CIA annex provided security
for the CIA station, as they do around the world. They are highly trained in
countersurveillance, close target reconnaissance and in depth reconnaissance.
Enemy fighters have learned in Afghanistan and Iraq to use their cell phones to
follow or intercept these passive lasers without having night vision or NODS.
The Annex team also had Ground Laser Designators, or GLD. This
kind of laser equipment emits code and signal when there is overhead air
support, unmanned aerial surveillance, drones or Spectre gunships, for
instance.
A source present the night of the attack says that the GRS team
that was defending the annex asked where the air support was at midnight.
Former SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed 5 hours and 15 minutes
later.
The military is preparing a timeline from the night of the
Benghazi attack and plans to outline what assets were available to commanders
in the region, including AFRICOM commander General Carter Ham, who was visiting
Washington, D.C., on September 11 and was in the Pentagon overseeing the
operation that night.
Pentagon spokesman George Little says, On the night of the attack
on American personnel and facilities in Benghazi, there were no armed unmanned
aerial vehicles over Libya, and there were no AC-130s anywhere close.
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