June 19, 2013

Edition: U.S.

US Embassy Attacks

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Board Reviewed Susan Rice's Role In Lead-Up To Africa Embassy Bombings

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 11.29.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Members of an outside review board that investigated the 1998 terrorist bombings at two U.S. embassies in Africa told The Huffington Pos...

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How a Real News Story Became the 'Obama Watched Them Die' Meme

Larry Womack | Posted 12.26.2012 | Media

Read More: Benghazi, Facebook, US Embassy Attacks, Barack Obama, Terrorism, Tumblr, Libya, Benghazi Attack, Libya Attack, State Department, Media News

Because Internet memes apparently now pass for fact checks at Forbes, I suppose somebody must respond. Let's talk about how a CBS report about a rescue effort amid a fury of confusion became an Internet meme about no attempted rescue while everyone watched on the big screen.

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Benghazi Debate Exchange Allows Obama To Dodge Questions

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 10.17.2012 | Politics

Read More: Libya, Video, Elections 2012 Blog, J. Christopher Stevens, Cairo, Jay Carney, 2012 Elections Blog, Egypt, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Benghazi, US Embassy Attacks, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- President Obama never directly answered the questions posed to him Tuesday night about the death of a U.S. ambassador in Benghazi. He di...

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A Dictator Out Of Power, But Not Out Of The Picture

Reuters | Posted 12.01.2012 | World

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By Andrew Hammond SANAA, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Seven months after he reluctantly handed over the presidency, Ali Abdullah Saleh's continui...

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30,000 Protest Against Militias In Benghazi

AP | MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 11.21.2012 | World

Read More: Libya, Video, Benghazi Protests, Innocence of Muslims, Libya Militia Protest, u.s. Embassy Benghazi, Benghazi, Anti-Islam Film, U.S. Embassy Attacks, Libya Militias, World News

BENGHAZI, Libya — Hundreds of protesters angry over last week's killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya stormed the compound of the Islamic extr...

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Top U.S. Official To End Memorial Official In Libya

AP | ESAM MOHAMED | Posted 11.20.2012 | World

Read More: Libya, William Burns, Video, Film Protests, Christopher Stevens, Chris Stevens, U.S. Embassy Attacks, Libya Protests, World News

TRIPOLI, Libya — The deputy U.S. secretary of state attended a memorial service in Tripoli on Thursday for the American ambassador to Libya and ...

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Libya Laments, Apologizes For Chris Steven Death

Reuters | Posted 11.20.2012 | World

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TRIPOLI, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Libya apologised on Thursday to visiting U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns for an attack on the U.S. consula...

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Egypt Denounces U.S. Embassy Breaching

AP | Posted 11.16.2012 | World

Read More: Egypt Protests, Cairo Protests, Video, US Embassy Attacked Cairo, Egypt US Relations, US Embassy Cairo, Cairo Egypt, US Embassy Protests, US Embassy Attacks, World News

CAIRO — Egypt's presidential spokesman says the breaching of the U.S. embassy in Cairo during protests over an anti-Islam film was "unjustified,...

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U.S. Deploys Forces In Midst Of Anti-American Protests

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 09.16.2012 | World

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ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT -- U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the turmoil raging across the Muslim world is likely to continue into the da...

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Sudan Snubs U.S. Marine Deployment Request

Reuters | Posted 11.15.2012 | World

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KHARTOUM, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Sudan has rejected a U.S. request to send a platoon of Marines to bolster security at the U.S. embassy in Khartoum, th...

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Saudi Grand Mufti Condemns Attacks On Embassies

Reuters | Posted 11.15.2012 | World

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RIYADH, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti, the highest religious authority in the birthplace of Islam, on Saturday denounced attacks on...

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Anti-U.S. Protests Spread To Iran, Iraq

AP | OSAMA ALFITORY and HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 11.13.2012 | World

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BENGHAZI, Libya — Heavily armed militants used a protest of an anti-Islam film as a cover and may have had help from inside Libyan security in t...

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Embassies Step Up Security After Libya Attack

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 11.13.2012 | World

Read More: Yemen, Video, Egypt, US Embassy Security, Yemen Embassy Attack, Egypt Embassy Attack, US Embassies Attacked, Libya Embassy Attack, US Embassy Attacks, World News

BERLIN — U.S. embassies across the world ramped up security Thursday following an attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya, as Muslims an...

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Yemen's President Apologizes For Embassy Attack

AP | AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 11.13.2012 | World

SANAA, Yemen -- Yemen's president has apologized to President Barack Obama for the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, by a mob a...

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