There, they waited – futilely – for an armed escort of Libyan special forces personnel who were supposed to take them from the Benghazi airport to the CIA annex. Abu Khattala has pleaded not guilty to 18 charges including conspiracy to support terrorism, murder, attempted murder and damaging U.S. facilities. Edwards said the CIA team was directed to retrieve a wounded Westerner reportedly at a Benghazi hospital who possibly could be Stevens. A leader of a Benghazi-based militia at the airport had refused to take the CIA team members to the hospital, possibly for their own safety, but agreed to take them to the annex, Edwards told jurors. “I remember it made a stream of blood from the bodies all the way to the ramp of the plane.”

Source: National Post October 11, 2017 14:24 UTC