Benghazi whistleblower Greg Hicks said Friday that he is "horrified" that people are making comparisons between the attacks on the embassies in Baghdad and Benghazi, and he wants them to stop.
He also told Fox News' "Fox and Friends" he is concerned about what will happen to Americans in Iraq following the U.S. airstrike that killed top Iranian Gen. Qassam Soleimani and urged them to leave.
"I would ask that anyone who even thinks along those lines would stop immediately," Hicks, the former deputy chief of missions at the U.S. embassy in Libya, told Fox News' "Fox and Friends" about people drawing lines between the two attacks.
"Such comparisons only bring pain to the families of those who lost their lives and to those who survived that terrifying incident," he added. "There is no comparison between the two events. The event in Baghdad was a demonstration, an unarmed, yet violent demonstration that was clearly planned as an information operation by the Iranians and their Iraqi allies.
Meanwhile, the State Department is urging Americans to leave Iraq, and Hicks agreed they are in danger and should heed the warnings.
"People who are not affiliated with the Department of State or other branches of the United States government are basically on their own or reliant upon the government of Iraq to protect them," said Hicks. "We saw in the incident around our embassy in the last couple of days that the government of Iraq is, perhaps not capable or perhaps in certain situations unwilling to provide the kind of security that Americans should receive."
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