On CNN last night, Arwa Damon reported that Libyan officials are now claiming that they had been trying to tell us, to highlight, to raise our attention to the growing threat to western interests from extremists in Benghazi. In the last few months/weeks (I forget which she said) there has been an attack on a British convoy, an attack on the convoy of the head of the UN mission, and an attack on the compound of the ICRC. The ICRC evacuated Bengazi back to Tripoli. The Libyans claim that they have been asking for our help in clamping down on these extremists.
I wonder if as much media attention will be paid to claims like these as they have to Romney's very appropriate statement, which the left wrongly call a gaffe.
"The {Libyan security} guard was interviewed Thursday in the hospital where he is being treated for five shrapnel wounds in one leg and two bullet wounds in the other."
Isn't this equivalent to handing the guard a death sentence? NANCY A. YOUSSEF AND SULIMAN ALI ZWAY reporters