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  • Diplomatic, western posts targeted repeatedly in Benghazi in run-up to deadly assault

    09/15/2012 3:41:02 AM PDT · by nuconvert · 56 replies
    FOX ^ | Sept. 15, 2012 | Catherine Herridge
    While the Obama administration says there was no actionable intelligence that could have prevented the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, there was a heightened threat in the region due to at least four attacks on diplomatic and western targets leading up to the murder of the U.S. ambassador. "This (the U.S. Consulate) was a place that was targeted months before with an IED (improvised explosive device)," Congressman Mike Rogers, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who has been briefed on the attack and investigation, told Fox News. "It's clearly a target that they wanted to hit and they...
  • Consulate attack planned as 2-part militant assault, Libyan official says (NOT the movie)

    09/13/2012 4:17:21 PM PDT · by bronxville · 5 replies
    Fox News ^ | 09-13-2012 | Catherine Herridge
    A Libyan official said Thursday that the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was a planned, two-part operation that included a raid on a supposedly secret safe house -- an account that comports with what a top U.S. lawmaker told Fox News a day earlier. On Wednesday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers told Fox News that the strike was a "coordinated, military-style" operation. Wanis al-Sharef, eastern Libya's deputy interior minister, then said on Thursday the attacks were suspected to have been timed to mark the 9/11 anniversary and that the militants used civilians protesting an anti-Islam film...