U.S. Official": Benghazi Consulate Was "Terrorist Attack"

U.S. Official Says Benghazi Consulate Was "Terrorist Attack" -- Reuters

(Reuters) - The assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last week in which four Americans died was a "terrorist attack" that may have had an al Qaeda connection, a top U.S. counterterrorism official told Congress on Wednesday.

Rocket-propelled grenades and mortars struck the consulate on September 11, the anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the United States. U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans died.

"They were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy," Matthew Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said in response to a question at a Senate hearing.

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Update: Obama official: Benghazi was a terrorist attack -- The Cable/Foreign Policy

My Comment: I guess in these subsequent meetings, US officials learned the facts.