Omahan in Benghazi in 2012 faults CIA station chief’s stand-down order

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Kris Paronto of Omaha was a security contractor in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012 when terrorists attacked a U.S. diplomatic compound. He gives his account of the attack in a new book.


POSTED: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2014 12:30 AM

By Steve Liewer / World-Herald staff writer

Gazing into the leafy backyard of his Omaha home, Kris Paronto can almost forget the ghosts of Benghazi.

For many Americans, the facts of the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya’s second-largest city on Sept. 11, 2012, remain murky, overshadowed by the Beltway debate over who is to blame for the deaths of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans that night.

Paronto, 43, wants to change that. He was there — one of six private contractors hired by the CIA to provide security at its Benghazi annex, less than a mile from the diplomatic compound where the attack occurred.

Paronto and the four other surviving members of the Annex Security Team have told their story in a new book, “13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi,” co-written by Boston University journalism professor Mitchell Zuckoff.

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