The Benghazi scandal is real. 

The Obama administration and groups like Media Matters for America would like to use Dylan Davies to smear the entire story as a hoax. As if the four bodies and charred remains of the consulate compound weren’t real. As if mountains of well sourced evidence wasn’t available.

We know this much. On September 11th,  2012 Al Qaeda terrorists who were part of Ansar al Sharia Brigades launched a coordinated attack on a woefully insecure U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi that served as a front for a secret CIA operation that involved collecting weapons. The Obama administration knew  and hid this information from the American people until after the Presidential election. 

That’s a scandal. It’s about six scandals rolled into one. Nothing Dylan Davies said changes that.

That being said, this is the most devastating evidence I’ve seen that Dylan Davies lied in his book The Embassy House.

Until now, the claim that Davies was lying was based on unseen FBI reports supplied by unnamed sources. Most people have accepted this as proof he was lying but nobody’s really seen the reports

However, comparing the Incident Report that The Daily Beast reported on on November 2nd with Dylan Davies’s own book revealing a huge inconsistency.

Two publicly available documents. Two completely different stories.

As has been reported before, in the book Davies says he personally went to the hospital the night of the attack. In the incident report, Davies learns info from someone who’s been to the hospital.

Two different stories but which is true?

The devil is in the details.

In the incident report, while describing what he’d learned from someone who’d been to hospital, the report says that the Managing Director was not told about the death of Ambassador Stevens:

I phoned my Managing Director and told him what I’d seen as I trust him implicitly, and I knew he would not pass this information on. However I kept quiet about the Ambassadors death as I knew there would be huge repercussions.

Since the Incident Report came from Blue Mountain and it was an important matter, I assume that the Managing Director saw the report.

Therefore, I assume that Davies did not, in fact, tell him about Steven’s death at that time.

Otherwise, Blue Mountain submitted a report with a knowingly false statement about a more or less irrellevant detail. It wouldn’t matter if Davies had told his boss Stevens was dead. There’s no discernable reason to lie about it.

However, in the book The Embassy House, Dylan Davies not only says that he told the Managing Director about Steven’s death but there’s an entire dramatic conversation about it where he tells him about the death, emphasizes it, is asked whether he’s sure and then confirms it again. This is from page 216-217:

I did the only thing I could think of: I pulled out my phone and called Robert. He was my boss, but more important, he was a father figure and a man of unrivaled experience. Plus I knew we could converse in Welsh, so that if anyone was listening in they wouldn’t have a clue what we were on about.

“Listen, it is one hundred percent confirmed that Ambassador Stevens is dead,” I blurted out, just as soon as he’d answered. “The U.S. ambassador has been killed.”

It took a lot to shock a man such as him, but all there was now was a ringing silence on the other end of the line. “Are you absolutely fucking certain?” he asked, eventually. He seemed unable or unwilling to believe it.

“One hundred percent certain.”

Those stories couldn’t be more different and they directly involve another person who could clarify this; the Managing Director of the Blue Mountain Group.

I phoned Blue Mountain and cut me off before I was even able to ask a question. They were polite, though.

Below : the relevant sections of the Incident Report and the book The Embassy House.

Incident Report

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At 0200hrs, I received a call from (REDACTED) who was at the hospital. He said that he had been shot in the leg but he would survive. He then said that he had some really alarming news for me and would come to my villa to discuss. I said “just tell me on the phone” but he refused and told me that this news was too important.

On his arrival he said we- must speak in private. We went into another room, at which point he turned on his phone and showed me a photo of a dead man at the hospital. I knew instantly that the man was the US Ambassador. There did not appear to be any bruising, deformity or gunshot wounds to the body. The ambassador’s face was black as were his teeth so I thought he must died from smoke inhalation, I could not confirm this however.

(REDACTED) then received a call from a doctor at the hospital demanding the name of the dead American. I told the doctor that I’d never seen the man before and didn’t know his nane; the doctor became irate so I put the phone down.

(REDACTED) had learned that the ambassador had been taken to the hospital by a group of Libyan men and that he was alive on arrival but later passed away. I asked if any other Americans were at the hospital he said yes, a black man who had been shot in the hand. I presumed that this was one of the Ambassadors close protection team as both men were black.

At this stage I feared the worst for the remaining Americans at the compound. I phoned my Managing Director and told him what I’d seen as I trust him implicitly, and I knew he would not pass this information on. However I kept quiet about the Ambassadors death as I knew there would be huge repercussions.

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From The Embassy House

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I glanced at my watch: it was just after 2: 00 A.M. Libya time, 8: 00 P.M. in Washington D.C. The dead man was J. Christopher Stevens, the American ambassador to Libya. Ambassador Stevens was a man who had spoken fluent Arabic and who loved this part of the world and its people. He was a man who had done so much to bring the U.S. administration over to support the Libyan rebels, as they had battled Gaddafi loyalist forces. And this was the thanks he had got— to be burned to death and left in some shitty Libyan hospital, alongside those who had killed him.

I had never felt so angry or enraged in my life. I was burning up inside. I didn’t know what to do. It was the worst moment of my entire life.

I was beyond reason. I did the only thing I could think of: I pulled out my phone and called Robert. He was my boss, but more important, he was a father figure and a man of unrivaled experience. Plus I knew we could converse in Welsh, so that if anyone was listening in they wouldn’t have a clue what we were on about.

“Listen, it is one hundred percent confirmed that Ambassador Stevens is dead,” I blurted out, just as soon as he’d answered. “The U.S. ambassador has been killed.”

It took a lot to shock a man such as him, but all there was now was a ringing silence on the other end of the line. “Are you absolutely fucking certain?” he asked, eventually. He seemed unable or unwilling to believe it.

“One hundred percent certain.”

I told him we had the photo to prove it, and that I’d send it on from Zahid’s phone. Silence again. Then: “What about all the other Americans?” “I figure they’ve all got to be dead. I can’t get hold of anyone. The main man is dead. Surely, that must mean all of them are dead. They’d have fought to protect him to the last man  .  .  .”

“Right, you’ve got to make a run for it,” Robert told me. “If you don’t hear anything either way within thirty minutes get the hell out. Stay in the villa in the meantime, stay calm, but be ready to run. Let’s see how things unfold in the next thirty mins, okay?” “Yeah. Okay.”

Robert presumed I was still in the villa. I’d chosen not to tell him that I was in a car with two of my guards driving away from the hospital. And I didn’t tell him that lying low was the last thing I had in mind.

Jones, Morgan; Lewis, Damien (2023-10-29). The Embassy House: The Explosive Eyewitness Account of the Libyan Embassy Siege by the Soldier Who Was There (pp. 216-217). Threshold Editions. Kindle Edition. 

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