Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Washington Crisis Over Yesteday's Libya Attack



Libya Attack Provokes Washington Crisis -- New York Times

WASHINGTON — The violent deaths of four American diplomats in Libya during a heavily armed and possibly planned assault on a flimsily protected consulate facility on the Sept. 11 anniversary provoked a crisis in Washington on Wednesday, confronting the Obama administration with new challenges in the volatile Middle East less than two months before the presidential election.

The killings of the four Americans, including the American ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, also raised basic questions about security and intelligence in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, where the assault took place, as well as other American diplomatic facilities elsewhere in the region, where deep-seated anti-American sentiment remains a potent force despite United States support for the Arab Spring uprisings that have transfixed the region for nearly two years.

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My Comment: Politics as usual in Washington. More info on yesterday's attack can be read here.

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