We will see the Ambassador's body carried through the streets, BUT...

[cthulu2016]

There is video that American TV probably won't show until Fox does, which they surely will.

I am posting this to let everyone know that, according to media reports, the Ambassador was carried to the hospital by some Libyans trying to help him.

I have not studied, or even watched the video. But having seen stills from it of him held aloft and having read in an article about the trip to the hospital I wanted to share the connection I am assuming. If my assumption later turns out to be wrong, then all that will have been lost is a few hours of gut-wrenching emotion, so no loss there.

It seems likely to me that somebody on the RW will try to present the video as equivalent to the Mogadishu (Black Hawk Down) video of soldiers corpses being dragged gleefully through the streets.

So I wanted to let everyone know that the Ambassador's body was carried to the hospital by rescuers.

And as for the exposed flesh, which is jarring at a glance, his shirt is bunched up around his shoulders. (My first glance emotional reaction was that he was naked, but he isn't.)

[trof]

1. Thanks for the heads up.

[skeewee08]

2. Thanks for the info Cthulhu2016

[renate]

3. I'm glad there were people (Libyans? I hope) trying to help him

It's hard to believe anything could defuse this in a meaningful way, but maybe that would help. It's so unspeakably sad but it would be good to know that storming the embassy was the action of a wild-eyed mob and that most Libyans appreciate him, and the United States, for protecting the city from genocide.

[catbyte]

4. NPR radio said that the Libyans were trying to help him. No Iraqi contractor

clusterfuck this time. They said they were attempting to rescue him. I am sure that the despicable right will spin it 180 degrees.

[Cha]

5. Thanks for this, cthulu.

[nolabear]

6. I saw a still. I wish I hadn't. They were clearly trying to help.

He still had a shirt on but it was raised significantly and he was being held under the arms by someone with a cell phone in his (the holder's) mouth, as though he'd grabbed him quickly. The poor man was alive but looked as though he was dying.

I'll say it again. The expressions, the urgency, the positions, they were clearly trying to help.

God, so tragic.

[lamp_shade]

7. Somebody posted earlier that Drudge had pictures.

[cynatnite]

8. I saw one photo on WND. n/t

[karynnj]

9. Very different

The ambassador was being carried to the hospital to rescue him; the non injured soldiers were killed and dragged through the town while people cheered.

The rescuers were obviously Americans there and maybe some Libyans very loyal to us.

Your last paragraph does NOT describe what happened.

[seabeyond]

10. it has already been suggested in one OP. thanks. this needed clarification. nt

[bunnies]

11. Oxy Rush has already done exactly that.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/125194232

[cynatnite]

12. No, we will NOT...

At that point, the shooting subsided, and residents and Libyan security personnel jumped into the destroyed diplomatic compound and attempted to pull the consular staff to safety. Libyans carried Ambassador Stevens' unconscious body from the consulate and drove him to Benghazi Central Hospital, according to Libyans and U.S. officials.

Doctors at the hospital said that staff there tried to revive him, but he was dead upon arrival. A Libyan doctor who treated Ambassador Stevens said the diplomat died of severe asphyxiation and that he tried for 90 minutes to revive him, according to the Associated Press.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444426404577647060576633348.html

The photo at WND (which I will not post here) showed him being carried. He was not being dragged through the street. His body will probably be shipped back to the US to his family.

This notion needs to stop here and now.