British Firm Secured Benghazi Consulate Contract With Little Experience -- The Telegraph
A small British firm based in south Wales had secured a contract to provide security for American diplomatic facilities in Benghazi despite having only a few months experience in the country.
Sources have told the Daily Telegraph that just five unarmed locally hired Libyans were placed on duty at the compound on eight-hour shifts under a deal that fell outside the State Department's global security contracting system.
Blue Mountain, the Camarthen firm that won a $387,000 (£241,000) one year contract from the US State Department to protect the compound in May, sent just one British employee, recruited from the celebrity bodyguard circuit, to oversee the work.
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My Comment: What a mess .... and the blame rests in the State Department. On a side note .... a few days ago I posted the following report ....
.... CNS got hold of what qualifications are needed to be hired as guard at a U.S. Libyan diplomat post. Sighhhh .... Amb. Stevens did not have a chance.
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