Jun 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
A burned truck is seen at the First Infantry Brigade base in Benghazi. Excerpted from The Guardian: Gunmen staged overnight attacks on at least six security buildings and outposts throughout Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, killing five soldiers, military officials said on Saturday. The assaults, which included snipers, rocket-propelled grenades and explosives thrown on to rooftops, came ...
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Jun 12, 2013 No Comments ›› spratico
Naharnet.com - Italian diplomats in Tripoli escaped from their booby-trapped car before it exploded during a shopping trip in the Libyan capital on Tuesday, officials said. "The Italian diplomats got out of their car in the district of Zawiet al-Dahmani to shop when they noticed a wire hanging beneath the vehicle," a diplomat said. The driver called ...
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Jun 10, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES Washington is preoccupied with the political decisions surrounding last year’s attack in Benghazi, but nine months later the who and why of the terrorist assault that left four Americans dead remains shrouded in mystery. Some analysts say Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was the target, while others believe he may have been an opportunistic ...
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Jun 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House official says President Barack Obama will name former aide Samantha Power as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Power will replace Susan Rice, who will take over as Obama's national security adviser. The official says Obama will announce both appointments from the White House Wednesday afternoon. Power is a longtime ...
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May 27, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS wo former Navy SEALs killed in the terror attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi will be honored with plaques at a San Diego veteran's memorial Monday. 42-year-old Glen Doherty and 41-year-old Tyrone Woods, both from San Diego, will be remembered in a special ceremony at the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial, Fox 5 ...
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May 23, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WEEKLY STANDARD As the investigation into the Obama administration’s handling of the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi intensifies, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are seeking to conduct transcribed interviews with thirteen top State Department officials in the coming weeks in order to learn more. Those named in the letter include a wide range of ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY BEAST At a secret February ceremony at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., the chief of the CIA’s base in Benghazi the night of the 9/11 anniversary attacks there was awarded one of the agency’s highest intelligence medals, according to U.S. military and intelligence officials.The honor given behind closed doors to “Bob,” the ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY BEAST Following the attack in Benghazi, senior State Department officials close to Hillary Clinton ordered the removal of a mid-level official who had no role in security decisions and has never been told the charges against him. He is now accusing Clinton’s team of scapegoating him for the failures that led to ...
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WEEKLY STANDARD The Obama administration’s editing of the Benghazi talking points not only obscured what really happened in Libya on September 11, 2012, it also confused the events of earlier that day in Cairo, Egypt. The editing process specifically removed any hint that “jihadists” were encouraged to “break into” the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from BBC A car bomb explosion near a hospital in the Libyan city of Benghazi has killed several people, officials say. Defence ministry official in Benghazi Saleh al-Bargathi said nine people died, including two children. However, other sources spoke of three deaths. The blast follows a string of bombings in the eastern city in recent days. Security remains ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via Investor's Business Daily: Libya: At least a dozen rewrites of the Benghazi talking points were made, with all references to al-Qaida and prior attacks removed at the direction of the secretary of state's office. The astonishing thing about the administration's Benghazi cover-up is that it actually thought it could get away with it. But each lie ...
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May 10, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Fox News: The U.S. military has alerted two elite military units in Europe to be on standby if needed to respond to a deteriorating security situation in Tripoli, Fox News has learned. In recent days both the U.S. embassy and British embassy in Libya have removed non-essential staff from their embassies. A specialized ...
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May 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS - Amb. Chris Stevens--murdered by terrorists in Benghazi, Libya on the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks—was at the poorly secured State Department facility in that city that day at least in part because Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wanted to convert the department compound there into a permanent outpost and ...
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May 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS -- Elements of the February 17 Martyrs Brigade, the Libyan militia hired by the U.S. State Department to station members as residents inside the U.S. compound in Benghazi and to protect the U.S. diplomats there, were “complicit” in the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack that killed Amb. Chris Stevens and three other ...
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May 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
I guess its no big deal to her. The 4 dead Americans are white!
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May 8, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS – Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Counterterrorism Mark Thompson, a Benghazi whistleblower and “primary player” at the State Department was not interviewed by their Accountability Review Board (ARB) regarding the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack, it was revealed during a House hearing on Wednesday. Thompson, who on the night of the ...
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