The US intelligence community said Friday that a deadly assault on a US consulate in Libya was a planned attack linked to Al-Qaeda but it stressed that "many unanswered questions" remained.| There are always unanswered questions. The question is, are the important questions answered well enough to start doing something about it? |
| We're not still clinging to the idea of a spontaneous uprising, are we? |
President Barack Obama
They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them...
's administration has offered varied explanations as to who may have been behind the September 11 attack on the American diplomatic mission in the eastern city of Benghazi, drawing criticism from Republican opponents weeks before a US presidential election.
| Also from one or two professional journalists and a boatload of pajama-clad ones. Not to mention all sorts of people on Facebook. This thing is not what you might call controlled. |
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called the assault a "terrorist attack," with the Pentagon chief also suggesting that it took days for the US government to conclude Death Eaters had launched an orchestrated assault.
"As we learned more about the attack, we revised our initial assessment to reflect new information indicating that it was a deliberate and organized terrorist attack carried out by krazed killers," Turner explained.