Benghazi office of Libya Foreign Ministry hit by bomb on anniversary of Sept. 11 attack on U.S. Consulate
Posted: September 11, 2013 Filed under: Breaking News, War Room | Tags: al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Benghazi, Central Bank of Libya, Libya, List of diplomatic missions of the United States, September 11 attacks, United States 1 Comment
Updated 8:14 a.m. ET – TRIPOLI, Libya – A powerful car bomb exploded Wednesday near Libya’s Foreign Ministry building in the heart of the eastern coastal city of Benghazi, security officials said, exactly one year after an attack there killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. The early morning blast targeted a building that once housed the U.S. Consulate under the rule of King Idris, who former Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi overthrew in a 1969 bloodless coup. The explosion caused no serious casualties, though several passers-by were slightly wounded, officials said. Read the rest of this entry »
CIA running arms smuggling team in Benghazi when consulate was attacked
Posted: August 2, 2013 Filed under: War Room | Tags: Arms trafficking, Benghazi, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, CNN, Libya, List of diplomatic missions of the United States, Polygraph Leave a commentThe CIA has been subjecting operatives to monthly polygraph tests in an attempt to suppress details of a US arms smuggling operation in Benghazi that was ongoing when its ambassador was killed by a mob in the city last year, according to reports.
Up to 35 CIA operatives were working in the city during the attack last September on the US consulate that resulted in the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans, according toCNN.
The circumstances of the attack are a subject of deep division in the US with some Congressional leaders pressing for a wide-ranging investigation into suspicions that the government has withheld details of its activities in the Libyan city…
NYT on Why It Ignored Libya Debacle: ‘There Were Six Better Stories’
Posted: October 11, 2012 Filed under: War Room | Tags: Libya, List of diplomatic missions of the United States, Los Angeles Times, Margaret Sullivan, New York Times, Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post Leave a comment
Modern, Reliable, State-of-the-Art Reporting at the New York Times
In a surprise, New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan criticized her paper in a Thursday afternoon blog post for downplaying the congressional hearings into the deadly attacks on the U.S. consulate in Libya. The Times made the interesting decision to put the second day of hearings on page 3 Thursday, in the International section, as opposed to the National section, which begins in the middle of the paper. In contrast, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal both put the hearings on the front page, while the Los Angeles Times carried original reporting from Libya not the hearings on the front page.Sullivan asked the Timess editors why they chose to ignore the story in their main section and soon got a response: “there were six better stories.”
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