Routine change of command?
The date:
Ex-Commander in Afghanistan Eyed for Africa
By ERIC SCHMITT and THOM SHANKER
Published: September 19, 2012
WASHINGTON — Gen. David M. Rodriguez, a former top Army commander in Afghanistan, has been chosen by the Pentagon to take charge of the military’s Africa Command, which in the wake of the Arab Spring has become one of the Defense Department’s most challenging theaters of operation.
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So a little over a week after the attack the routine change of command happens.