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Ambassador Stevens killed at site with no Marines
politico ^ | 9/12/12 | PHILIP EWING and JONATHAN ALLEN

Posted on 09/12/2012 3:21:13 PM PDT by ColdOne

The consulate where the American ambassador to Libya was killed on Tuesday is an “interim facility” not protected by the contingent of Marines that safeguards embassies, POLITICO has learned.

Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed with three other Americans in an attack on the U.S. consulate in the city of Benghazi, where Libyan rebels ousted strongman Moammar Qadhafi last year.

Marine Corps spokeswoman Capt. Kendra Motz said that Marines were not posted to the consulate, unlike the embassy in the capital, Tripoli.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arabspring; chrisstevens; libya; obamawar
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To: ClearCase_guy

There was a really good article about Sean Smith on Free Republic by the guy he was online with moments before Smith was murdered. I found it using Sean Smith as the keyword.You might find it interesting. I did.


41 posted on 09/12/2012 5:58:10 PM PDT by heylady (“Sometimes I wish I could be a Democrat and then I remember I have a soul.”( Deb))
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To: ColdOne

I’ve been asking all day , who are these 2 Americans that were killed ? Marines ? Have their names been released ?


42 posted on 09/12/2012 7:29:29 PM PDT by katykelly
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To: Nifster

Fool?

Malignancy, siding with Muslims.


43 posted on 09/12/2012 8:41:03 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah

granted a malignant narcissist


44 posted on 09/12/2012 8:50:14 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: ColdOne

Placemark.


45 posted on 09/12/2012 9:26:40 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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