WASHINGTON — A member of the House Benghazi committee says the military is better prepared now for an attack in Africa than it was when a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya was attacked in 2012, killing four Americans.
Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia was at the U.S. Africa Command in Germany during a Nov. 20 attack on a luxury hotel in Mali that killed 20 people.
Westmoreland told The Associated Press that watching U.S. officials respond to the Mali attack showed him that “the military is much better prepared now than what they were in 2012 to go in and prepare a mission and possibly go in and rescue Americans.”
Westmoreland called that a positive development but said it also shows “deficiencies” in U.S. capabilities during the Benghazi attacks.
