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• After Clinton, Obama takes Benghazi responsibility

  October 16, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama assumed responsibility Tuesday for the deadly terror attack in Libya last month that killed four Americans just hours after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham …

• Clinton takes Benghazi responsibility; GOP unmoved

  October 16, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s pre-election bid to shoulder blame over the deadly terror attack in Libya failed to silence GOP criticism that President Barack Obama … 1

• Clinton: I’m responsible for consulate security

  October 16, 2012 in Nation/World LIMA, Peru (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton repeated on Tuesday her statement taking sole responsibility for security at all of America’s diplomatic missions, an attempt to … 6

• Clinton says consulate security her responsibility

  October 15, 2012 in Nation/World LIMA, Peru (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is taking responsibility for security at the U.S. consulate in Libya where an assault by extremists on the anniversary …

• Clinton in Peru amid questions about Libya

  October 15, 2012 in Nation/World LIMA, Peru (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday embarked on her first overseas trip since last month’s deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, traveling … 1

• White House mulls how to strike over Libya attack

  October 15, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has put special operations strike forces on standby and moved drones into the skies above Africa, ready to strike militant targets from Libya to … 1

• Clinton: US must stick by Arab world’s democracies

  October 12, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, addressing criticism of the Obama administration’s handling of a deadly attack on U.S. consulate in Libya, on Friday defended the need …

• Sec’y Clinton: Still no clear picture of Benghazi

  October 12, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — As Republicans heap criticism on Vice President Joe Biden for claiming “we weren’t told” about requests for extra security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Secretary of …

• US names new top diplomat to Libya

  October 11, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The new top U.S. diplomat for Libya has arrived in the county to assume temporary control of the embassy in Tripoli after last month’s deadly attack on …

• Republicans hammer State witnesses on Libya attack

  October 10, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Four weeks before the election, Republicans used a politically charged House hearing to confront State Department officials about security at the U.S. Consulate in Libya and assail … 3

• Ex-head of military team in Libya: security weak

  October 10, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The former head of a 16-member U.S. military team in Libya said Wednesday the consulate in Benghazi, where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed, …

• State: never felt Libya attack due to film protest

  October 10, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department now says it never believed the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was a film protest gone awry, giving congressional … 5

• State Dept. description of attack in sync with GOP

  October 10, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department now says it never believed the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was a film protest gone awry, giving congressional …

• State Dept. description of attack in sync with GOP

  October 9, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says it never concluded that an attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya was simply a protest gone awry, a statement that places …

• US officials: We didn’t link Libya attack to video

  October 9, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Tuesday it never concluded that the consulate attack in Libya stemmed from protests over an American-made video ridiculing Islam, raising further questions about …

• US official in Libya said he wanted more security

  October 9, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — A top State Department security official in Libya told a congressional investigator that he had argued unsuccessfully for more security in the weeks before Ambassador Chris Stevens …

• Panetta, Allen to reassure NATO on insider attacks

  October 8, 2012 in Nation/World BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO defense leaders gathering here this week remain committed to the war in Afghanistan, according to U.S. and alliance officials, but there are growing signs that the …

• State Dept extended US security team in Libya

  October 8, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, requested — and received — a four-month extension of a 16-member security team, a February request that showed just how dangerous …

• Romney: US should be more assertive on world stage

  October 8, 2012 in Nation/World LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) — Republican Mitt Romney said Monday the risk of conflict in the Middle East “is higher now” than it was when President Barack Obama took office. He … 5

• Romney: US should be more assertive on world stage

  October 7, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is proposing the U.S. take a more assertive role in Syria, put conditions on aid to Egypt and tighten sanctions on Iran … 2

• FBI came to Benghazi and left in past 24 hours

  October 4, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — A team of FBI agents arrived in Benghazi, Libya, to investigate the assault against the U.S. Consulate and left after about 12 hours on the ground as …

• FBI came and went to Benghazi in past 24 hours

  October 4, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — A team of FBI agents arrived in Benghazi, Libya, to investigate the assault against the U.S. Consulate and left after about 12 hours on the ground as … 2

• State Dept opens Benghazi consulate attack probe

  October 3, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Past investigations into attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions have blamed both the administration and Congress for failing to spend enough money to ensure that the overseas facilities …

• White House widening covert war in North Africa

  October 2, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Small teams of special operations forces arrived at American embassies throughout North Africa in the months before militants launched the fiery attack that killed the U.S. ambassador … 1

• House committee: Security requests denied in Libya

  October 2, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite two explosions and dozens of other security threats, U.S. officials in Washington turned down repeated pleas from American diplomats in Libya to increase security at the …

• Romney presses foreign policy criticism anew

  October 1, 2012 in Nation/World BURLINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Amid violent flare-ups in the Middle East, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is trying to prove his own readiness to be commander in chief and force … 3

• State Dep’t rejects call for UN ambassador to quit

  October 1, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Monday rejected a demand from a senior Republican lawmaker that the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to resign. Rep. Peter King of … 3

• US officials explain Libya attack intelligence

  September 28, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials sought to explain Friday why the Obama administration’s understanding of the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is “evolving.” Facing a … 1

• FBI agents staying away from Benghazi for now

  September 28, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — For security reasons, FBI agents are staying away from the Libyan city where a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed, two law enforcement officials said … 3

• Egypt’s Morsi assumes major role in Mideast

  September 26, 2012 in Nation/World UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Egypt’s new President Mohammed Morsi assigned himself the heavyweight’s role in the Middle East on Wednesday, declaring in his first speech to the United Nations that …

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