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Envoy describes night of Benghazi attack
WASHINGTON — Minutes after Greg Hicks learned that the perimeter of the U.S. mission in Benghazi had been breached by men with guns, he punched a cellphone number to reach Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, his immediate boss, who was at the scene....
Tags: Politics, Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Military, United Nations, Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Republicans say military could have done more in Benghazi
WASHINGTON — The latest chapter in the political battle over the killing of four Americans in Libya is unfolding this week, with Republicans pointing to the testimony of a State Department official as evidence that the U.S. military could have...
Tags: Government, Adam B. Schiff, Central Intelligence Agency, Politics, The Washington Post
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Old animosities thrive in post-Kadafi Libya
ZINTAN, Libya — The prized scion of Moammar Kadafi is a prisoner of tribesmen in these mountains of scrub and ocher rock. The rebels who captured him after the 2011 civil war that toppled his father have refused to turn him over to the central...
Tags: Government, Politics, Substance Abuse, International Criminal Court, Muammar Gaddafi
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Arab hip-hop's El Rass takes on rap and revolution
BEIRUT — When Mazen El Sayed, a.k.a. El Rass, picks up a microphone, his provocative phrasings may lock in on any number of targets: Islamic clerics, the West, Arab regimes, social inequities. "We are all made from the same steel," the Lebanese hip-...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Poetry, Journalism, Music, Beirut (Lebanon)
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Libya ordered to surrender former Kadafi spy chief
Libya must hand over its former intelligence chief under ousted strongman Moammar Kadafi, the International Criminal Court has ordered. The push to surrender Abdullah Senussi is the latest turn in the tug-of-war over where Kadafi insiders will stand...
Tags: Justice System, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, International Criminal Court, Muammar Gaddafi
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Panel faults security failures in Benghazi attacks
WASHINGTON — The State Department was guilty of "systematic failures" in security that made the deadly Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. mission in Libya possible, a high-level investigative panel concluded in an unflinching examination made...
Tags: U.S. Embassy, Muammar Gaddafi, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Wars and Interventions, Benghazi
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Death toll rises as protests rage over Muhammad-mocking video
World NowThe death toll ticked higher Friday as protests swept the world over a video insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad, with reports emerging of casualties in Tunisia, Lebanon, Sudan and Yemen as outraged protesters clashed with police around United States... -
Syria-related clashes again break out in Lebanon
World NowClashes between opponents and supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad left two people dead in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.... -
1 killed in Lebanon in anti-U.S. protest; smoke near Tunis embassy
World NowOne person was killed in Tripoli and many others injured, including security forces, during Friday protests in the northern Lebanese city against a movie insulting to the Prophet Muhammad, according to the official Lebanese National News Agency.... -
About 50 Marines heading to Libya to increase security at embassy
World NowIn the wake of the deadly attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya, the Pentagon ordered a team of around 50 Marines to fly to Libyan capital to beef up security at the embassy there, according to two U.S. officials.... -
Kadafi spy chief sent to Libya amid worries about fair trial
World NowMauritania shipped the man who served as spy chief to deposed Libyan strongman Moammar Kadafi off to Libya on Wednesday, where the Libyan prime minister assured reporters he would get a fair trial, according to local and international media.... -
Libyan lawmakers choose ex-diplomat as prime minister
World NowLibyan lawmakers selected Ali Zidan as prime minister on Sunday night, giving the former human rights lawyer and diplomat responsibility for forming the volatile nation’s first government since the revolution that toppled Moammar Kadafi....
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