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The Washington Times
| 8 months ago
Ever since the deadly and destructive Sept. 11, 2012, anti-American attacks in Egypt , Tunisia , Libya , Lebanon , Pakistan , Iraq , Afghanistan and more than two dozen other countries, the Obama White House has sought to lay blame on someone else.
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Hundreds of Libyan protesters stormed the headquarters of Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia in a backlash after last week's attack on the US consulate. Security forces were also involved and took over several militia bases, evicting many militia...
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CNN
| 8 months ago
Pro-democracy protesters overtake Islamist group's HQ in Benghazi From Arwa Damon, CNN updated 6:33 PM EDT, Fri September 21, 2012 Benghazi, Libya (CNN) -- Ten days after four Americans were killed in their Libyan city, hundreds of pro-democracy...
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CNSNews.com
| 8 months ago
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) would not say whether Congress should investigate why no Marines were stationed at the diplomatic posts in Libya, where a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed, and who made that decision, saying...
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Daily Nation
| 8 months ago
Libya Thousands of Libyans rallied against militias in the tense city of Benghazi on Friday, drowning out a protest by radical Salafists furious over a film and cartoons deemed offensive to Islam. "No to armed formations" and "Yes to the Libya army"...
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Associated Press
| 8 months ago
The heavily armed extremists who laid siege to the U.S. Consulate in Libya used military-style tactics that may have steered Americans toward a waiting ambush, U.S. officials said Friday as they pieced together details about how the compound was...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 8 months ago
Breaking News Libyans march against Islamist militias in Benghazi Thousands of Libyans marched in Benghazi on Friday in support of democracy and against the Islamist militias that Washington blames for an attack on the US consulate last week that...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Mohammad Hannon/AP The Obama administration has described last week's assault on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya , as a terrorist attack and announced a panel to investigate the events that took the lives of the ambassador and three other...
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Vail Daily News
| 8 months ago
I have long wondered if Mitt Romney has the smarts to be a good president of the United States. For awhile, I thought that he just had a habit of saying unfortunate things while speaking off the cuff in unscripted moments. After two or three such...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Libya (AP) Around 30,000 Libyans marched through the eastern city of Benghazi on Friday in an unprecedented protest to demand the disbanding of powerful militias in the wake of last week's attack that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
The attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was an act of terror that may have involved al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, a White House spokesman said...Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and members of his staff died in an attack on the...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Mohammad Hannon/AP Night-time in Benghazi is not for the faint-hearted. The rattle of gunfire shatters the small-hours silence outside the Tibesti hotel, where bigwigs and the city's few remaining foreigners are holed up. Outside, guards from a mix...
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CNN
| 8 months ago
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday she has "absolutely no information or reason to believe there is any basis" to suggest that U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Steven s believed he was on an al Qaeda hit list. The remark came after a...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
Protesters have been trying to reach American consulates in cities such as Peshawar and Karachi, Jackie reports...The Guardian , which is live blogging , adds that "an employee from Pakistan's Ary News has been killed," according to local news...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
A State Department panel will probe the U.S. Consulate attack in Libya that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. "I am launching an accountability review board that will be chaired by Ambassador Thomas...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Tunisia banned all demonstrations on Friday and Western missions across the Arab world went on high alert amid fears of new violence over a US-made film mocking Islam and cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in a French magazine. France closed its...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Call the main Guardian and Observer switchboard: +44 (0)20 3353 2000 Sort by: Latest first Oldest first Auto update: On Off Updates: Peace march planned in Benghazi A peace march against the Islamic brigade believed to be responsible for last week's...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
The attack on the American consulate in Benghazi may have been led by a former inmate of Guantanamo Bay who was sent back to Libya by George W Bush, who was then president. US intelligence officials believe that Sufyan Ben Qumu, one of the leaders of...
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Israel National News
| 8 months ago
Tunisia and Egypt announced, Thursday, that demonstrations would not be allowed opposite American missions, as they were last week...Undersecretary of State William Burns visited Libya on Thursday. He told Libyan leaders that last week's murder of...
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War In Context
| 8 months ago
Ansar Al-Sharia on collision course with Save Benghazi' rally by News Sources on September 20, 2012 The Libya Herald reports : The Ansar Al-Sharia brigade has declared its intention to organise a mass protest in Benghazi's Shajara Square this Friday,...
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CNN
| 8 months ago
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday she has "absolutely no information or reason to believe there is any basis" to suggest that U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Steven s believed he was on an al Qaeda hit list. The remark came after a...
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Epoch Times
| 8 months ago
Burns (L) and Mohamed Yusuf Al Magariaf, president of Libya's ruling General National Congress (R), attend a ceremony to honour late U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, on Sept. 20, 2012, in Tripoli. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP/GettyImages) The killing of...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday she was forming a panel to investigate the attack. Much of the current debate centers around whether the attack was spontaneous or planned. Libya's President Mohammed el-Megarif says he believes the...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others in Benghazi, Libya on September 12, 2012. The gunman were protesting a little known film by an American amateur filmmaker that angered Muslims as it was deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammad. Libya,...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Libya (AP) The deputy U.S. secretary of state attended a memorial service in Tripoli on Thursday for the American ambassador to Libya and three consulate staffers killed in Benghazi last week. The visit by William Burns , the highest-ranking diplomat...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
It is self-evident that what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack, the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, told reporters traveling on Air Force One on Thursday. Our embassy was attacked violently and the result was four deaths of...
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Kuwait Times
| 8 months ago
Deputy US Secretary of State William Burns flew to Libya yesterday amid tight security for a ceremony to honour ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans who were killed in Benghazi last week. Burns met Foreign Minister Ashur Ben Khayal on...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Libya apologised on Thursday to visiting US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns for an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi in which American ambassador Christopher Stevens died. Burns was holding talks in Tripoli with Libyan leaders, including...
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NY Daily News
| 8 months ago
Ambassador Chris Stevens, killed in Libya consulate attack, believed he was on Al Qaeda hit list U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and the three other Americans killed in an assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi will be mourned in Tripoli by U.S. and...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns flew into Tripoli on Thursday for meetings with Libyan officials and a ceremony in honor of four Americans, including the ambassador, killed in Benghazi. Burns met with Foreign Minister Ashur Ben Khayal on...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
Libya ambassador feared he was on hit list Updated New evidence today suggesting that last week's attack on the Libya consulate was a planned terrorist attack. CNN, citing an unnamed source, reported that slain U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens had "...
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Sky News
| 8 months ago
Intelligence sources believe that the deadly attack on an American consulate in Libya was directly linked to al Qaeda, with a former Guantanamo inmate involved, according to US media reports. Fox News said officials had revealed the connection on the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
A Libyan official quit his job on Wednesday highlighting tensions in the security establishment after a deadly attack killed four Americans, including the ambassador, in Benghazi. "There are problems at the ministry of interior and disputes between...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said FBI investigators were in Tripoli to join the investigation into attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi...Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and members of his staff died after militants attacked the...
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The Olympian
| 8 months ago
Ambassador Chris Stevens, who died in an attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last week, was someone who understood the power of America's freedom and openness to transcend differences and disarm enemies. That's why he spent much of his time...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Libyans tried to save US Ambassador Chris Stevens after finding him in a locked, smoke-filled room following last week's attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, according to amateur video footage obtained Tuesday by AFP. "Is there a doctor around?
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
The Italian government said it was exercising "maximum vigilance" at its foreign embassies given the wave of unrest sweeping across the Middle East...Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and other members of his staff died last week when the U.S.
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
A State Department official refused Monday to call an attack on a US mission in Libya in which four Americans were killed "an act of terror," saying a full investigation had to be completed first. US and Libyan officials have offered widely differing...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
A breakdown of events since the diffusion of a film considered offensive to Islam which prompted violent anti-US protests around the Muslim world. At the US consulate in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three more...
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Denver Post
| 8 months ago
U.S. and Libyan officials are giving significantly different accounts of the gunfire and rocket-propelled-grenade attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans last week. The Obama...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Agencies Al-Bakoush shows a video he took of the body of Stevens being carried out of a small dark room in the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Libya has sacked its security chiefs for Benghazi after a deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in the eastern...
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Newsbusters
| 8 months ago
Keep up the good work, Rachel, even when it's not at all what you intended. Rachel Maddow helpfully provided Mitt Romney with plenty of damning information for use against President Obama in their upcoming debates. (Video clip after page break) Turns...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
FoxNews.com The Obama administration is walking a tightrope on its explanation over what led to the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya -- sticking to its claim that the attack was "spontaneous" while allowing that the situation may have...
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The Independent
| 8 months ago
News in pictures From the blogs Fame can be a blessing and a curse...Interactive Newsprint is a UK-based research project that will be demonstrating there interactive pa... A producer obsessed with robots goes to a festival with a toy theme but...
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The independent
| 8 months ago
American diplomats were warned of possible violent unrest in Benghazi three days before the killings of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three members of his team, Libyan security officials say. The claim came as the country's interim President,...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
The Daily Star They are armed I am not going to fight a losing battle and kill my men over a demolished shrine, said Fawzi Abd al-Aali, the former Libyan interior minister, before he resigned last August. He was referring to the armed Salafist groups...
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Reuters
| 8 months ago
Topics Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya, leaves after a meeting with Libya's Justice Minister Ali Ashour discussing cooperation between the two countries on issues of human rights, in Tripoli June 27, 2012. Stevens and three embassy...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Libyans tried to rescue Ambassador Chris Stevens , cheering "God is great" and rushing him to a hospital after they discovered him still clinging to life inside the U.S. Consulate , according to witnesses and a new video that emerged Monday from last...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others in Benghazi, Libya on September 12, 2012. The gunman were protesting a little known film by an American amateur filmmaker that angered Muslims as it was deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammad. Libya,...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Middle East editor, in Benghazi and in Islamabad Bodyguards surround Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as he denounces the anti-Islam film to protesters in Beirut. Photograph: Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon...
