al-Qaeda in
revolution in
U.S. relations with
Libya Shield Force
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIGF)
Libyan Military Intelligence
Libyan Preventive Security Services
LIGF. See Libyan Islamic Fighting Group
link up
London embassy
M4 5.56 assault rifle
Main State
Majbiri, Abdulaziz
MANPADs (man-portable air-defense systems)
Al-Marfa Shipping and Maritime Services Company
Marine Corps
marine security guards. See MSGs
Martin, Ian
martyrdom
al-Masri, Abu-Yahya
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Maurel, Art
MBC (Moroccan Broadcasting Company)
Mcanelly, James
McElhattan, Dale “Chip”
Mecca
media. See also social media
assassination attempts and
not invited to awards ceremony
protests and demonstrations and
Special Mission attack and
Stevens and
Meehan, Dan
Meloy, Francis E., Jr.
Mercedes G-Wagons
military operations on urban terrain. See MOUT
militias. See also specific militias
at Benina International Airport
checkpoints
Islamic
Miller, Bill
Ministry of Defense attack
Mitsubishi Pajeros
Mobile Security Deployments (MSDs)
Mogadishu, Somalia
Monrovia, Liberia
Moore, George Curtis
Moroccan Broadcasting Company. See MBC
mortars, 82-PM 82 mm
mosques
MOUT (military operations on urban terrain)
MSDs. See Mobile Security Deployments
MSGs (marine security guards)
Mubarak, Hosni
Mueller, Mr.
Muhammad, Prophet
Mukhabarat al-Jamahiriya
music
Muslim Brotherhood
Nairobi embassy bombing (1998)
Nasser (guard)
National Security Agency (NSA)
National Transitional Council (NTC)
NATO intervention
Near Eastern Affairs Bureau
Netanyahu, Benjamin
New York Field Office (NYFO)
NGOs. See nongovernmental organizations
NIACT (night action) precedence situational reports (SITREPs)
Noel, Cleo A., Jr.
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
Nordstrom, Eric
NSA. See National Security Agency
NTC. See National Transitional Council
NYFO. See New York Field Office
Obama, Barack
O’Connor, Daniel Emmett
Office of Security
mission
Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (S/CT)
OGAs (other government agencies)
oh-shit moments
Olson, Eric T.
Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act (1986)
Operation Bojinka
Operation Desert Storm (1991)
Operation El Dorado Canyon (1986)
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Operation Papa Noel (2011)
Operation Unified Protector
opportunistic transition
other government agencies. See OGAs
Pakistan
Palestinian Authority
Pan Am Flight 103 (1988)
Panama
Panetta, Leon
patient assessment
Pearl, Daniel
persona non grata (PNG)
personal security detail (PSD)
Pickering, Thomas
PKM machine guns
PNG (persona non grata)
PSD. See personal security detail
Qaddafi, Al-Saadi
Qaddafi, Muammar
anniversary of rise to power
death of
Idris overthrown by
overthrow of
rule of
terrorism and
Qaddafi, Saif al-Islam
al-Qaeda
in Kabul and Karachi
leadership of
in Libya
links to
al-Qaeda in the Maghreb
revenue source for
tactics of
Quick Reaction Force (QRF)
radio communications. See Special Mission Benghazi
radio surveillance kit
Rahman, Omar Abdel
REACT plan
Reagan, Ronald
real time
regional security officers (RSOs)
local counterparts of
posts
tasks and responsibilities of
regional specialists
Remotely Operated Video-Enhanced Receiver. See ROVER
RESPONSE mode
Riner, Jeff
Rommel, Erwin
ROVER (Remotely Operated Video-Enhanced Receiver)
RPGs
in Annex attack
in Asquith assassination attempt
in Special Mission attack
RSOs. See regional security officers
Saber, Gamal
SAC. See special agent in charge
SAD. See Special Activities Division
Salafists
salibiyeen (crusaders)
Sandbox
SAS. See Special Air Service
SBS. See Special Boat Service
SCIF. See Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities
SCO19 (Specialist Firearms Command)
Scorpions
S/CT. See Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism
SD SAC (secretary’s Personal Protection Detail)
SDNY. See Southern District of New York
SEALs
Secure Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet)
security engineering officers (SEOs)
Seitz, Edward J.
senior watch officer (SWO)
Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIF)
SEOs. See security engineering officers
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
anniversary of
impacts of
Serena Hotel
Shah of Iran
Sharia law
al-Sharif, Wanis
Shultz, George P.
SIOC. See Strategic Information and Operations Center
SIPRNet. See Secure Internet Protocol Router Network
site security teams (SSTs)
SITREPs. See NIACT (night action) precedence situational reports
situation reports
Khartoum embassy
Special Mission Benghazi
SME. See subject matter expert
Smith, Sean
attackers’ search for
body of
Obama on
in safe haven
search and rescue attempts for
during Special Mission attack
smokin’ and jokin’
snipers
weapons of
SO1 (London Metropolitan Police’s Dignitary Protection Squad)
SO6 (Diplomatic Protection Group)
SO14 (Royal Family Protective Unit)
social media
SOG. See Special Operations Group
Southern District of New York (SDNY)
Special Activities Division (SAD)
special agent in charge (SAC)
special agents. See DS agents
Special Air Service (SAS)
Special Boat Service (SBS)
Special Forces Operational Detachment–Delta. See Delta Force
Special Miss
ion Benghazi. See also TOC
AFRICOM response to attack
aftermath of attack
alleyway at
the Annex and
assessment and response to attack
attack on
battle for
Blue Mountain Libya during attack
Bravo-1 gate of
breakout and travel to Annex
casualties from attack
celebrations after attack
Charlie-1 gate of
Charlie-3 gate of
CIA response to attack
Clinton’s response to attack
compound
Department of Defense response to attack
Department of State response to attack
diplomatic section of
drone during attack on
DS agents’ residence at
evacuation of
February 17 militia during attack
fires at
goal of attack
as hardship post
IED events at
kill zone at
lack of assistance for attack
lack of countersurveillance at
location of
looters at
media and attack on
meeting on security concerns for
Ministry of Defense attack on
news of attack
notifications and response to attack
penetration and destruction of villa
pool at
radio communications during attack
radio communications during breakout
relations with other consulates
rescue sortie to
residence and grounds of
roof of
RPGs in attack
safe haven at
security at
security requests for
situation reports
Smith during attack
spray painted slogans at
staffing at
surveillance cameras at
surveillance of
Tripoli embassy’s response to attack
true story of
VICTOR building (code for villa)
Woods, T., and attack on
Special Operations Group (SOG)
special-purpose equipment
spies
SS Maria Dolores
SSAs. See supervisory special agents
SSC. See Supreme Security Committee
SSTs. See site security teams
Stafford, Joseph D., III
Stevens, John Christopher
Akin and
at the Annex
arrival in Benghazi
attackers’ search for
body of
clothes and effects of
DS agents’ relationship with
itinerary and meetings of
kidnapping of
Libyans’ relationship with
life and career of
media and
meet and greets with
news of death of
Obama on
phone calls made by
policies of
in safe haven
safeguarding during attack
search and rescue attempts for
security concerns of
surveillance of
Tripoli embassy and
visits to Benghazi
Strategic Information and Operations Center (SIOC)
subject matter expert (SME)
suicide bombers. See also USS Cole bombing
sulcha (agreement on forgiveness)
Sullivan, Stephen Eric
supervisory special agents (SSAs)
Supreme Security Committee (SSC)
survivors’ guilt
swarm attacks
SWO. See senior watch officer
SY. See Office of Security
Syria
T., Dr.
Tactical Combat Casualty Care training (TCCC)
tactical operations center. See TOC
Taliban
tangos (slang for terrorists)
Tanzania embassy bombing (1998)
TDY (temporary duty)
tea, sweet
Tehran embassy seizure (1979)
Telford, Sid
temporary duty. See TDY
terrorism
allies in war on terror
Global War on Terror
international
Qaddafi, M., and
tactics of
weapons of
Tet Offensive
Thomas, David Nigel
threat levels
Tibesty Hotel
TOC (tactical operations center)
during Special Mission attack
Toyota Land Cruisers
Trident Response Group
Tripoli embassy
CIA at
communications with
departure from
Interests Section in
rescue sortie from
response to Special Mission attack
security for
Stevens and
Tripoli International Airport
Tripoli Task Force
at the Annex
Tunisia
Ubayd (guard)
Umma Party
UN General Assembly (UNGA)
UN Security Council resolution
UNGA. See UN General Assembly
United States (U.S.)
airstrikes on Benghazi
global mission of
relations with Libya
USS Cole bombing (2000)
USSOCOM (U.S. Special Operations Command)
UTA Airlines Flight 772 bombing (1989)
VBIED (vehicle-borne improvised explosive device)
Venezia Café
VICTOR building (code for villa)
Vienna Convention
Vietnam
Vincent, Josh
Voice of Wisdom Coalition
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Waring, Robert O.
watchers
weapons. See also specific weapons
destruction of
safe
of snipers
of terrorism
trafficking
weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
Westmoreland, General
Wood, Andrew
Woods, Charles
Woods, Tyrone (“Ty”)
during Annex attack
death and body of
life and career of
Obama on
Special Mission attack and
World Trade Center bombing (1993)
World War II
X (choke point)
getting out of
reconnoitering
Yacone, James
Yemen
government in
USS Cole bombing
Yousef (pasha of Tripoli)
Yousef, Ramzi
al-Zawahiri, Ayman
al-Zawahiri, Mohammed
Zeid, Ziad Abu
Zintan militia
The DS shield.
A long history of attacks against U.S. embassies and diplomatic posts is evident in this photo, taken from the inside of the third floor at the embassy in Saigon, showing the damage inflicted by a Viet Cong B-40 rocket to the sunscreen (designed as a blast barrier) during the 1968 Tet Offensive. (Courtesy of Steve Bray)
Beirut—April 18, 1983: Marines and Lebanese security personnel seen here in front of the U.S. embassy, which was destroyed by a suicide truck bomb. (Courtesy of U.S. Department of Defense)
Special Agent Al Golacinski (in blazer) mixes with locals at an arms bazaar in Afghanistan, while investigating the assassination of U.S. Ambassador Adolph Dubs. (Courtesy of Al Golacinski)
Special Agent Scot “Doc” Folensbee, one of the DS “Dirty Harrys,” seen here in El Salvador during the height of the civil war. (Courtesy of Scot Fol
ensbee)
August 1998: The U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in the aftermath of the August 7, 1998, al-Qaeda suicide bombing. Eleven Tanzanians, including seven Foreign Service Nationals, died in the blast, and seventy-two others were wounded. The same day, al-Qaeda suicide bombers launched another near-simultaneous attack on the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, which killed 218 and wounded nearly 5,000 others. (Courtesy of DS Records)
A DS agent sits behind the wheel of his follow car—communications gear and 12-gauge shotgun at the ready—during a dignitary protection detail in New York City in 1999. (Courtesy of Samuel M. Katz)
DS Special Agent Todd Keil, at right with lapel button, watches protectively over U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright after she confers with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat in Gaza. Protecting the secretary of state, as well as non–head-of-state foreign dignitaries, is one of the many domestic and global missions of the Diplomatic Security Service. (Courtesy of U.S. Department of State)
Prior to the September 11, 2001, attacks against the United States, MSD provided unique training to embassy security staff and Marine Security Guards at embassies around the world. MSD’s size and scope increased dramatically in the years following the attack and the U.S. lead in the Global War on Terror. (Courtesy of Samuel M. Katz)
Global Responsibilities: A DS special agent (second from right) leads the U.S. Embassy Baghdad Helicopter Insertion Rapid Response Team on a training mission in Baghdad’s International Zone. The team’s medics, marksman, and protective security specialists work with ground tactical support teams to respond to critical incidents, such as a motorcade in trouble in the Red Zone. (Courtesy of U.S. Department of State)
Two Diplomatic Security special agents preparing for a dynamic-entry exercise during a training course for Mobile Security Deployments teams. (Courtesy of U.S. Department of State)
The U.S. embassy in Tripoli, Libya, that was abandoned in 1980. (Courtesy of Dan Meehan)
Long before the Arab Spring the complexion of security in Libya was dictated by a secular dictator, cutthroat intelligence services, and Qaddafi’s own presidential guard—female security guards, as seen here in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, protecting the Libyan strongman, during an African Union Summit in July 2008. (Courtesy of U.S. Air Force / Tech. Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock)
The Libyan Strongman, seen here at the 12th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 2, 2009, Col. Muammar Qaddafi. Qaddafi had been a champion of international terrorism but had battled fundamentalist Islamic forces inside his own country. (Courtesy of U.S. Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jesse B. Awalt/Released)
Jamie Smith (right) stands with a local guide during the effort to oust Qaddafi. (Courtesy of Jamie Smith)
Rami el-Obeidi, responsible for foreign intelligence for the National Transitional Council of Libya, photographed during the fight to oust Qaddafi. (Courtesy of Rami el-Obeidi)