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Attack on Benghazi Consulate 'Unprecedented,' State Department Official Says
ABC News ^ | October 9, 2012 | DANA HUGHES and LUIS MARTINEZ

Posted on 10/10/2012 4:52:10 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

The size and "lethality" of the attack on the U.S. consulate compound in Benghazi, Libya, that left Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead was "unprecedented," a senior State Department official said today.

Senior State Department officials today gave the most detailed account to-date of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, which killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other diplomats. One official said the nature of the assault was unparalleled in recent history.

"The lethality and number of armed people is unprecedented," one of the officials said. "There was no attack anywhere in Libya -- Tripoli or Benghazi -- like this, So it is unprecedented and would be very, very hard to find a precedent like that in recent diplomatic history."

Though the timeline of events outlined on the call was similar to the last official account of the incident, which was given on Sept. 12, some stark differences and new details were revealed.....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi; clintonvsamerica; embassymurders; impeachnow; libya; obamacoverup; octobersurprise; statedepartment; statedeptvsamerica; treason; waronterror
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Bttt


21 posted on 10/10/2012 6:02:23 AM PDT by uncitizen
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; All

Does anyone know what time hearings will be today?


22 posted on 10/10/2012 6:13:29 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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23 posted on 10/10/2012 6:27:41 AM PDT by newheart (The greatest trick the left ever pulled was convincing the world it was not a religion.)
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To: kabar

Or the attacks against two of our African embassys in the 90’s.


24 posted on 10/10/2012 6:44:03 AM PDT by anoldafvet (One million people attended Obama's inauguration, 14 of them missed work)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

What happened between 10 pm and 4 am?

The official timeline shows a huge gap in which NOTHING apparently happened.

And nixon was fried for a few minutes gap in a tape.


25 posted on 10/10/2012 6:46:54 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (You didn't build that. The private sector is doing fine. We tried our plan and it worked.)
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To: mazda77

May the truth be liberated from the committee’s witnesses lips.


26 posted on 10/10/2012 6:48:53 AM PDT by LibertyOh
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Question: Were arms supplied by the 0bama Administration to Libyan rebels used in the attack and assasination of Ambassador Stevens?


27 posted on 10/10/2012 6:50:27 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (You didn't build that. The private sector is doing fine. We tried our plan and it worked.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

ABC and the Administration needs a nice training film.

http://www.fandango.com/movie-trailer/55daysatpeking-trailer/v293/1_1715/

and its good advice in that clip too!


28 posted on 10/10/2012 7:22:01 AM PDT by Bidimus1
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To: Sacajaweau

Thanks for the history of “unprecedented” attacks. I almost always forget about wiki. I’m surprised this bit hasn’t been purged.


29 posted on 10/10/2012 7:41:28 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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