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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
Reports from Tripoli late on Thursday indicated that Abu Shagur withdrew his cabinet line-up, which is mainly made up of technocrats. Congress leader Mohammed Magarief said the list had not been approved by Congress and that Abu Shagur should present...
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NY Daily News
| 8 months ago
Consulate in Benghazi in flames during a protest by an armed group said to have been protesting a film being produced in the United States September 11, 2012...Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday to visit the compound where the U.S. ambassador was...
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Seattle Times
| 8 months ago
Consulate and left after about 12 hours on the ground as the hunt for those possibly connected to the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans narrowed to one or two people in an extremist group, U.S. officials said...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
Ambassador Susan Rice told five Sunday shows that the Benghazi attacks were spontaneous mob actions and not premeditated, Fox News has learned, U.S. Their purpose was to help these officials rebut Ambassador Rice's claim in a high-stakes internal...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Ibrahim Alaguri/AP A team of FBI agents has travelled to the Libyan city of Benghazi to investigate the terror attack on the US consulate last month that killed the US ambassador, according to officials. Agents arrived in Benghazi on Wednesday and...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
FBI investigates Benghazi consulate attack in one day Libyans have protested the attack that killed Chris Stevens, the US ambassador to Libya The FBI has confirmed its agents were in Benghazi, Libya, to investigate last month's deadly attack on the...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
FoxNews.com The online newsletter for a militant group linked to the Libya consulate attack boasted that U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed "at the hands of the Lions of Islam." The seven-page newsletter further substantiates that the Sept. 11...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Sabri Elmhedwi/EPA Protesters stormed the chamber of Libya 's parliament on Thursday, preventing MPs from taking their seats to vote on whether to approve a new cabinet. The protest, involving 100 unarmed men from Zawiya, 30 miles west of Tripoli,...
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KSBY
| 8 months ago
The FBI says a team of agents arrived in Benghazi on Wednesday to investigate last month's deadly attack on the U.S. consulate and has already left the city. FBI spokeswoman Kathy Wright says the FBI agents were there just one day...Law enforcement...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
A team of US investigators visited Libya's second city Benghazi on Thursday to examine the site where Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in an attack last month. "An American investigative committee visited the site where...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
FBI agents have still not been granted permission to visit the consulate building where the American ambassador to Libya was killed, three weeks after the attack by militants in the eastern city of Benghazi. An FBI team was dispatched to Libya within...
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The Hindustan Times
| 8 months ago
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed Wednesday to answer lingering questions about last month's deadly attack on a US mission in Libya, seeking to counter a barrage of Republican criticism. "There are continuing questions about what exactly...
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Daily Nation
| 8 months ago
Rating In Summary A massive funeral procession for the three men cut across the town in the wake of afternoon prayers Radical Islamists have killed three Libyan policemen in a raid on their checkpoint near a coastal town east of second city Benghazi,...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Christopher Stevens will be held Oct. 16 at San Francisco City Hall, his family announced Wednesday. More than 700 people are expected to attend the 4:30 p.m. service to honor Stevens, who was killed Sept. 11 when gunmen attacked the U.S. mission in...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
A burnt car is parked at the U.S. consulate, which was attacked and set on fire by gunmen yesterday, in Benghazi (Reuters) More than three weeks after U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in Benghazi, Libya, sensitive...
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Canadian Free Press
| 8 months ago
It certainly is a challenging time for President Barack Obama. He is in a desperate fight to hold his ill-gotten office against a capable opponent, and there is nothing whatsoever in his record to which he can point as redeeming. Some of his criminal...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Libyan militias, operating alongside the Defence Ministry, have deployed their forces around a former stronghold of ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi, officials said on Wednesday, stoking fears of impending fighting. The forces are surrounding parts of...
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Associated Press
| 8 months ago
Past investigations into attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions have blamed both the administration and Congress for failing to spend enough money to ensure that the overseas facilities were safe despite a clear rise in terror threats to American...
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Newsbusters
| 8 months ago
On Tuesday, three weeks after the deadly terrorist strike on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, two House Republicans sent a letter to Obama Secretary of State Hillary Clinton detailing "incidents dating to April" that evidence "a pattern of threats"...
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Al Ahram
| 8 months ago
And it is their failure that has prepared the ground for the militias' success so far. The violence instigated by lawless militias has cast fresh doubt both on the political future of Libya and social stability of the country. Libyan politicians must...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
The Obama administration is targeting militants in Libya for a possible reprisal for the U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi, officials told The New York Times. The Defense Department's top-secret Joint Special Operations Command, working with the CIA...
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Denver Post
| 8 months ago
The United States is laying the groundwork for operations to kill or capture militants suspected in the attack three weeks ago on a diplomatic mission in Libya that led to the death of the U.S. ambassador, said senior military and counterterrorism...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
50 Zeenews Bureau Washington: Hunting for the perpetrators of US Consulate attack in Benghazi, the US intelligence is snooping on various targets within Libya in what could set the stage for US military action within the country, reports emerged...
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
Consulate in eastern Libya that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, a first step toward fulfilling President Obama 's vow to bring the killers to justice, U.S. officials said. The Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command and...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
In Washington, a leading House Republican challenged on Tuesday the administration's version of events on the chaotic night of Sept. 11, suggesting that the attack was planned and that congressional investigators have been told that requests for...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
Libya Libyan militias operating alongside the defense ministry readied their forces Tuesday to advance on a town that remains a bastion of support for the ousted regime of Moammar Gadhafi, stoking fears of an impending battle that has already sent...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
Issa, the Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, participated in a Reddit 'Ask Me Anything' thread on Wednesday. An investigation by a House committee into the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, found 13...
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Denver Post
| 8 months ago
LibyaLibyan militias operating alongside the defense ministry are readying their forces to advance on a city that remains a bastion of support for the ousted regime of Moammar Gadhafi. Militia commander Faraj al-Swehli says dozens of families have...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
U.S. officials say the Obama administration is investigating whether the assault on the U.S. consulate in Libya was a planned terrorist strike to mark the anniversary of 9/11, and not a spontaneous mob enraged over a anti-Islamic YouTube video. (Sept.
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News 24
| 8 months ago
Libyan authorities have approved an FBI visit to Benghazi following a deadly attack on the US mission there, but details of co-operation still need to be ironed out, a senior official said on Tuesday. "We are getting ready for the FBI team to go to...
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
The US embassy in Cairo was fully aware of a possible violent backlash sparked by an anti-Islam film. A cable was sent to Cairo warning of violence prior to the US ambassador's murder in Libya, but wasn't shared with other embassies in the region...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton watch as Chris Stevens' remains are returned to the US at a military base in Maryland. Photograph: Molly Riley/Getty Images Senior Republicans in Congress have written to Hillary Clinton , the US secretary of state,...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
FoxNews.com U.S. diplomats in Libya repeatedly asked the Obama administration for more security in Benghazi in the run-up to the Sept. 11 attack on the consulate but were "denied these resources," two congressional lawmakers said. House oversight...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
Preparing the target packages is the first step in a process that the Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency are taking in preparation for, and in advance of, any orders from President Obama and his top civilian and military advisers to carry out...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
American diplomats in Libya made repeated requests for increased security for the consulate in Benghazi and were turned down by officials in Washington, leaders of a House committee said Tuesday. In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Leaders of a House committee say U.S. diplomats in Libya made repeated requests for increased security in Benghazi but the pleas were denied in Washington. The Oversight and Government Reform Committee officials said Tuesday they received the...
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Newsbusters
| 8 months ago
In the October 1 broadcast of NewsNation with Tamron Hall, a segment featuring former State Department Middle East officer Joel Rubin focused on how the Romney campaign was trying to put all of these things in a big pot hoping that something picks up...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
During a "series of secret meetings in recent months," the White House began to "consider for the first time whether to prepare for unilateral strikes" aimed at terrorist groups operating in North Africa, The Washington Post writes this morning. As...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
A Libyan man holds ammunition to be handed over to the military during a ceremony at Freedom Square in the eastern city of Benghazi on September 29, 2012. Libya: From the mountains of Afghanistan and the streets of Baghdad to the iron cages of...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
The Obama Administration has rejected a demand from a senior Republican lawmaker for the US ambassador to the United Nations to resign. "The Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton believes that Ambassador (Susan) Rice has done a superb job.
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
State Department officials Monday rejected calls for US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice to resign, amid charges she misled Americans over the assault on a US mission in Libya. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "believes that...
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Washington Post
| 8 months ago
Everybody who was in Benghazi and posted there has been withdrawn, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said. She said she knew of no other U.S. government employees in the city to help investigate the attack or perform other work. The...
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Mail Online UK
| 8 months ago
1 October 2012 While officials initially claimed that the strike on the U.S. consulate in Libya was a protest gone wrong, new evidence has suggested that there were obvious clues that terrorism was involved...Confusion over what sparked the Benghazi...
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The New York Times
| 8 months ago
Hager A breakdown of the attack on the American Consulate in Benghazi.| The investigation picks up steam as the State Department and the Pentagon search for answers.
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Allstar/Cinetext While the people of Benghazi were ejecting the Islamist militias from their city last Saturday, another smaller but equally remarkable event was taking place 400 miles away in Tripoli. In the former French embassy, in the old part of...
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Africa Headlines
| 8 months ago
French secret services organised the capture of former Libyan ruler Moamer Kadhafi and may have killed him on then-president Nicolas Sarkozy's orders, British and Italian papers claimed Sunday. And Kadhafi was located thanks to information provided...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
It's the further allegations like it was the Russian's suggestion to kill the pilots that seems to over egg the whole thing. It'll be interesting to see what else the documents attempt to claim going forwards, and hopefully they'll eventually put the...
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Boston Herald
| 8 months ago
The Obama administration has been criticized for initially refusing to acknowledge the assault was the work of al-Qaeda-inspired terrorists, instead insisting it was a spontaneous outburst of violence in a protest over a controversial anti-Islamic...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
A speedy and effective response by newly trained Libyan security guards to a roadside bombing outside the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi in June may have resulted in underestimating the security threat to the personnel stationed there,...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
New York Some Republicans have called for Susan Rice's resignation for 'misinforming' the American people. Photograph: Bebeto Matthews/AP The White House has defended its ambassador to the United Nations , Susan Rice, after criticism from Republicans...
