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The Hill
| 8 months ago
Pressed about Obama's position on the Benghazi attacks, Carney said the president -- who has not publicly called the assault "terrorism" -- believes that it was indeed a terror attack, "since I said so" last week. "Every step of the way, 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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War In Context
| 8 months ago
It has nothing to do with this attack, said Magarief, noting that the assailants used rocket propelled grenades and mortar fire in the attack. It's a preplanned act of terrorism against American citizens. The remarks came more than one week after...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 8 months ago
Egypt's new President Mohammed Morsi is condemning the U.S.-made video denigrating Islam's Prophet Muhammad as an obscenity. He insists that freedom of expression does not allow for attacks on any religion. Morsi also condemned the violence that...
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Canadian Free Press
| 8 months ago
There is are some puzzling aspects involving the attacks on U.S. embassies in Egypt and Libya. The hysteria that swept through the rioting masses did not seem to make sense at first, not until it became obvious that at least the Libyan attack was...
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Denver Post
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama challenged the Arab world to use its newfound embrace of democracy to ensure protection for freedom of religion and speech and even life, using the last address of his first term to the General Assembly on Tuesday to call for a...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
It is time to marginalize those who even when not resorting to violence use hatred of America, or the West, or Israel as the central principle of politics, Obama said in the fourth such address of his presidency. For that only gives cover, and...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says the attack on the American consulate in Libya was an act of terrorism and says the United States must use foreign aid to bring about lasting change in such places. In a speech Tuesday, Romney said...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama will tell the United Nations Tuesday that the United States will "do what we must" to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, according to excerpts from his speech. He also planned to address the Middle East turmoil sparked...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reassured Egypt's new Islamist president on Monday that the United States would forge ahead with plans to expand economic assistance despite anti-American protests that cast new shadows over U.S. engagement with the...
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Chinadaily
| 8 months ago
China's strengthened ties with developing nations in Latin America are essential for the region's economic growth, a senior official at a UN regional body said Monday. The past decade represents "a significant era not only because of China's growing...
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NY Daily News
| 8 months ago
Pleasant chat turns to serious conversation The President gave Barbara Walters a gift basket then he was asked about Libya. Monday, September 24, 2012, 10:24 PM Donna Svennevik Barack and Michelle Obama make their first joint appearance on The View.'...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has met Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in the most high-level U.S.-Egypt meeting since protesters stormed the U.S...A U.S. official says they spoke Monday night at a New York hotel about the importance of...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
The attack in Libya and the interests of an angry Muslim world...Hand it to the women of The View: On Monday, the hosts of the popular daytime talk show ranged over a variety of issues with the first couple, who used the appearance to portray their...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
Coming off two weeks of tough news cycles for his candidacy criticism that he had mishandled the death of four Americans in Libya; a leaked video from a fund-raiser in which Mr. Romney said he believed that 47 percent of Americans consider themselves...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
In Tahrir Square, the center of Egyptian protests, people watched Mr. Mubarak announce he would not seek office again. You don't understand this part of the world, the Egyptian leader broke in...Mr. Obama, during a tense telephone call the evening of...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 8 months ago
Barack Obama says "there's no doubt" the assault on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans including the US ambassador "wasn't just a mob action" but a sign of extremism in nations lacking stability. His words about the Libya...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
President Obama said the attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya was more than just mob action, but stopped short of labeling the deadly assault in Benghazi as terrorism. "There's no doubt that the kind of weapons that were used, the ongoing assault,...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Newt Gingrich accused the White House of lying about the events that led to the death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya during the recent attack on a diplomatic mission in that country. "This administration has lied to the American people for over a...
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Miami Herald
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama says "there's no doubt" that the assault of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans including the U.S. ambassador "wasn't just a mob action." The White House and administration officials have called...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
Colo. (AP) Mitt Romney led a chorus of Republican criticism of the administration's foreign policy on Monday, accusing President Barack Obama of minimizing the recent killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya as a mere "bump in the road" rather than...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says U.S. foreign policy should not be conducted "at the mercy of events" overseas. He also says the death of a U.S. ambassador in Libya and unrest in the Middle East are more than just bumps in the road.
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Newsbusters
| 8 months ago
NBC's Today show mentioned the Obama campaign's newest attack ad three times on Monday, but not once did they report on developments in the wake of deadly attacks in Libya. Questions are being raised against the Obama State Department's handling of...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
The attack that killed the US ambassador to Libya dealt a huge blow to US intelligence operations because CIA agents and contractors were among the Americans evacuated afterward, The New York Times reported late Sunday. The CIA's intelligence targets...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
An influential US lawmaker cast doubt Sunday over whether there was even an anti-American protest going on when the American ambassador to Libya was killed earlier this month. Envoy Chris Stevens and three other Americans died at the consulate in the...
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The Age
| 8 months ago
A general strike in Bangladesh shut down schools, public transport and businesses, while a few hundred people peacefully marched in Pakistan. Iranian students burned flags in Tehran to protest the recent publication of lewd caricatures of the...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 8 months ago
The Associated Press Here's a look at protests and events on Sunday connected to an anti-Muslim film produced in the United States and vulgar caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in a French satirical weekly. Some 300 Iranian students...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
A leading House Republican is challenging the White House's initial account that the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya was a spontaneous assault tied to protests over an anti-Islam video. President Barack Obama has said extremists used the video...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Hundreds of protesters in Istanbul burnt US and Israeli flags Sunday in a heated reaction against an American film and French cartoons that have sparked dearly riots across the Middle East and North Africa. Around 500 people gathered around the...
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The Hill
| 8 months ago
Speaking on CNN's State of the Union, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said the attack on the consulate was a pre-planned, terrorist action. Rogers said Obama can't worry about any political damage from the attack, which killed U.S...
