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Security Fears Hobble Inquiry of Libya Attack
New York Times ^ | Sept. 27, 2012 | By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, ERIC SCHMITT and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
Posted on Friday, September 28, 2012 2:02:19 AM by Brad from Tennessee
BENGHAZI, Libya Sixteen days after the death of four Americans in an attack on a United States diplomatic mission here, fears about the near-total lack of security have kept F.B.I. agents from visiting the scene of the killings and forced them to try to piece together the complicated crime from Tripoli, more than 400 miles away.
Investigators are so worried about the tenuous security, people involved in the investigation say, that they have been unwilling to risk taking some potential Libyan witnesses into the American Embassy in Tripoli. Instead, the investigators have resorted to the awkward solution of questioning some witnesses in cars outside the embassy, which is operating under emergency staffing and was evacuated of even more diplomats on Thursday because of a heightened security alert.
Its a cavalcade of obstacles right now, said a senior American law enforcement official who is receiving regular updates on the Benghazi investigation and who described the crime scene, which has been trampled on, looted and burned, as so badly degraded that even once F.B.I. agents do eventually gain access itll be very difficult to see what evidence can be attributed to the bad guys. . .”
(Excerpt) Read more at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/world/africa/libya-attack-investigation-hobbled-by-security-fears.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0
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