[An Nahar] President Barack Obama Wednesday tapped a new ambassador to Libya, six months after the previous U.S. envoy was killed in a brutal militant attack which shocked America to its core.
The announcement that career diplomat Deborah Jones is set to replace slain ambassador, Chris Stevens, came as the Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was in Washington for talks with senior officials.
Jones, who will have to be confirmed by Senate, carries a huge emotional weight into her new post with the scars of the September 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi still raw in the American psyche.
Stevens, a popular diplomat both at home and in the Middle East, was killed along with three other American staff during an hours-long heavily-armed attack on the Benghazi compound and a nearby annex.
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