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BENGHAZI

Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 28, 2014
More than 50 killed in latest Benghazi, Tripoli clashes
At least 36 people were killed in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, many of them civilian, where Libyan Special Forces and Islamist militants clashed on Saturday night and Sunday morning, medical and security sources said.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 9, 2013
White House has Susan Rice where it wants her
Susan Rice's appointment to be the next U.S. national security adviser is payback for her loyalty to Barack Obama and a thumb in the eyes of her Senate critics.
COMMENTARY / World
May 31, 2013
Harder battle over Benghazi
Many conservatives suspect that the U.S. State Department, with the White House in a supporting role, deceived the public about the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans. This conspiratorial narrative is, in all probability, false.
COMMENTARY / World
May 22, 2013
Five myths about Benghazi
The events surrounding the deaths of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012, look dramatically different depending on your politics. Republicans tend to see a cover-up and a scandal. Democrats see an attempt to damage President Barack Obama and...
Japan Times
WORLD
May 8, 2013
Jets 'held back amid Benghazi attacks'
As the weakly protected U.S. diplomatic compound in eastern Libya came under attack the night of Sept. 11, 2012, the deputy head of the embassy in Tripoli sought in vain to get the Pentagon to scramble fighter jets over Benghazi in a show of force that might have averted a second attack on a nearby CIA...

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