Originally Posted by
Less Hair
You can connect the dots yourself. In a nutshell:
Strike package takes off from the UK in public view.
Elements still manage to arrive early over target and hit G's family.
Early french reports about secret overflight get silenced after hours.
French get preferred US treatment soon after.
With regard to the French getting preferred treatment after the attack,
that might have been the US trying to appease the french since the ACCIDENTALLY bombed (or very near misses)there embassy on that raid in Tripoli!