US only ´advises´ against traveling to Benghazi while other countries say get out ´immediately´

Associated Press, Daily Mail ^ | 1/24/13 | Staff

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The State Department has only ´advised´ Americans against traveling to the Libyan city of Benghazi even after Britain, Germany and the Netherlands today urged their citizens to immediately leave the in response to what was described as an imminent threat against Westerners. The US pointed to a travel advisory issued earlier this month and did not strengthen its warning even after the European countries issued statements variously describing the threat as specific and imminent but none gave details as to its exact nature. The warnings come a day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testified to Congress about

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Full title: US only ´advises´ against traveling to Benghazi while other countries say get out ´immediately´ from Libyan city as ´imminent and specific´ terror threat emerges

[skeeter]

If some Americans are nabbed and offered in a swap for the Blind Sheik, it still won't be the State Dept’s fault, will it.

[AD from SpringBay]

I believe the sentiment you are looking for is something along the lines of, “Who cares and why is it important?”

[skeeter]

Yes, what does it matter at this point if a few Americans get wacked?

[petitfour]

“What difference does it make?” Whether at home or abroad, you are merely a bump in the road to the agenda. We need more death in order to have Peace.

[Secret Agent Man]

When asked why, the Secretary of State said “Advises, Get out Immediately, WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?!”

[Prospero]

TCM showed "Flight of the Phoenix" (1965), this afternoon, and that fictional crew would have been glad to have arrived in Benghazi.

Under the present circumstances, why would any American be traveling there? Do you have to go through there to visit the ruins of Carthage, or something?

Really, though. Can someone enlighten me as to just what the attraction might be?

[ptsal]

For Pete's sake....there are four dead bodies...those folks had mothers and families...

Somehow Mz. Hillary needs to step up and give more of an explanation than "What difference does it make?".

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Well, for one thing, these four individuals are dead.... that's a starter.