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An urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the US consulate and subsequent attack hours later on the annex itself was denied by the CIA who also told the CIA operators twice to "stand down" rather than help
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On September 11, 2012, the eleventh anniversary of the 9-11-01 terror attacks on the U.S. ...
Libya
"We were really the last flag flying in Benghazi. It was almost inevitable the consulate would be attacked. Everybody else had left," the South Carolina Republican said, referring to the Red Cross pulling out and the British consulate closing becau
While Hillary Clinton jumps on a live hand grenade for the Benghazi attack, the White House has leaked to the AP its latest spin on the situation in Libya.
On Sept. 11, scores of men with automatic weapons and RPGs launched a night assault on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, and set the building ablaze.
Bombing other countries and killing mere suspects in order to look strong and avoid criticism from Republicans is patently illegal
Ray McGovern: My Take
If you prefer charade to reality, inquisition to investigation, trees over forest – the House Government Oversight Committee hearing last Tuesday on “Security Failures of Benghazi” was the thing for you.
The White House, under political pressure to respond forcefully to the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, is readying strike forces and drones but first has to find a target.
The White House has put special operations strike forces on standby and moved drones into the skies above Africa, ready to strike militant targets from Libya to Mali — if investigators can find the al-Qaida-linked group
The Pentagon and State Dept are speeding efforts to help the Libyan government create a commando force to combat Islamic extremists like the ones who killed the American ambassador in Libya and help counter fractious militias,
September 10 was a normal day in Benghazi for Ambassador Chris Stevens.
ABC News has obtained an internal State Department email from May 3, 2012, indicating that the State Department denied a request from the security team at the Embassy of Libya to retain a DC-3 airplane in the country to better conduct their duties.
The US is laying the groundwork for operations to kill or capture militants implicated in the deadly attack on a diplomatic mission in Libya as the weak Libyan government appears unable to arrest or even question fighters involved to the assault.
"It's only been a year and the idea of democracy and political parties is difficult for people to absorb. The people have not responded to this imported, packaged democracy. We don't accept it. We have a religion that needs to be taken into account,"
The motive, according to well-placed sources in the North African country, was to stop Gaddafi being interrogated about his highly suspicious links with Sarkozy, who was President of France at the time.
Deadly Attack in Libya Was Major Blow to C.I.A. Efforts ...
Libyan President Magarief said the controversial film that mocked Islam's Prophet Muhammad and ignited protests throughout the Muslim world had "nothing to do" with the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi,
CIA Forced to Evacuate Spies After Consulate Sacked
Among the more than 2 dozen American personnel evacuated from the city after the assault on the American mission and a nearby annex were about 12 CIA operatives and contractors, who played a crucial role in conducting surveillance and
An Islamist militia was driven out of the city of Benghazi early on Saturday in a surge of protest against the armed groups that control large parts of Libya more than a year after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
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 over
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The Muslim eruption reflects a deep popular anger and blowback from US intervention in both Libya and Afghanistan
A year after Libyan rebels killed Gaddafi, ushering in a new democratic era, Libya’s central government still exercises so little authority that Abu Hameida sees little peril in refusing an order from the Interior Ministry in Tripoli that he step dow
A video on youtube has surfaced showing unknown Libyans help a what appears to be the late U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens after the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was attacked.
Rice Terms Attack 'Spontaneous' Response to Cairo Protest
Official Repeatedly Warned About Deteriorating Security
As the political blather about the recent events in Libya shows, most Democrats and Republicans seem to forget history. Or to be more accurate, they selectively choose the history that is favorable to their politics and discard the history that is u
The U.S. is sending more spies, Marines and drones to Libya, trying to speed the search for those who killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans...
