Survivors of a terrorist siege in a Benghazi U.S. compound, which was the subject of Michael Bay's latest film "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi," said that God protected them.
In a press conference interview, one of the survivors, former Army Ranger Kris "Tanto" Paranto, shared his story of the incident and how he felt a supernatural kind of protection around him as the battle raged between U.S. soldiers and terrorists in the area.
"That night when I was shooting, the scene where we got attacked at the consulate. I was out in the open. I'm shooting back, and they're 'snap snap' going. Ain't nothing touching me. I could feel it," Paranto said according to the Christian Post. "You could just feel a warm force-field. It's really a cocoon around you, like 'I'm good. Nobody's going to hit me.'"
The film is based on a 2014 book by Mitchell Zuckoff titled "13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi," which tells the tale of CIA contractors who saved 32 American workers in a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Egypt.
The story also tells of the deaths of U.S. Amb. Christopher Stevens, Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods, Glen Doherty, and State Dept. computer expert Sean Smith.
Paranto insists that, with the amount of fire the group received that night, their survival was nothing short of a miracle. He also spoke of an instance when an unknown man ran up to him during the battle and assisted him in mounting a counter-attack against the enemy.
Bay's film "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi" was released in Jan. 13, 2016, and stars actors John Krasinski, James Badge Dale, Pablo Schreiber, Max Martini and Toby Stephens. The movie has received mixed reviews, with Rotten Tomatoes giving the film a score of 59 percent based on 123 reviews.
