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Good morning. Day 2 of the Benghazi trial has begun. Here is Day 1 coverage: nytimes.com/2017/10/02/us/politics/benghazi-trial-ambassador.html
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Scott Wickland, the State Dept security officer who was with Ambassador Stevens and Sean Smith, has resumed testifying.
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Wickland is picking up with the narrative of himself taking refuge on the roof of the burning villa and describing how rescuers reached him
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Wickland describes others going into the burning building. Found Sean Smith's lifeless body, couldn't find Stevens, decided to leave.
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Wickland describes driving armored vehicle from mission to nearby CIA annex, hit with bomb, sprayed with gunfire, plowing through roadblock
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After Wickland described mortar attack and getting to airport to leave Libya, direct ends.
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In cross, Khattala's lawyer asks about other security threats/suspicions. She wants to introduce thought many could have been responsible.
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Prosecution objected that some of what he knows is hearsay/irrelevant. Judge places some limits on what defense may elicit from him.
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On cross defense tried to plant seeds that maybe attack was an inside job. On redirect prosecution tried to quash doubts. Wickland excused.
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Peter Sullivan, Ambassador Chris Stevens' brother in law, briefly testifies to introduce to record a pic of Stevens meeting w/ some Libyans
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State Dept Security Agent Dave Ubben takes stand. He helped Wickland escape from Benghazi mission, then wounded in CIA annex mortar attack.
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Ubben now describing the initial attack on the mission from his perspective - out by pool when cry of alarm on radio signals something wrong
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Judge wraps up for the day. Ubben's narrative has reached getting to the CIA annex but it's before the mortar attack. He'll pick up tmrw.
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