U.S. Knew For Years Of Benghazi Extremism -- Washington Times
Senior State Department, defense and intelligence officials were well aware that Benghazi and its surrounding area harbored al Qaeda-linked extremists long before the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in the eastern Libyan city.
Benghazi became famous last year as the birthplace of the revolution that swept Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi from power.
But in recent interviews with The Washington Times, several former high-level officials explained that eastern Libya was notorious in Washington’s counterterrorism community for more than a decade as a hub for jihadists leaving for or returning from insurgencies abroad.
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My Comment: It has been 3 months since the U.S. consulate attack in Benghazi .... and the more that we learn about the events that led up to the attack, the more that we are beginning to realize that this was a disaster just waiting to happen. I suspect that we are going to learn even more in the weeks and months to come.
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