Wednesday, September 12, 2012
CNN: Ambassador killed in rocket attack in Libya UPDATE
Posted by Max Brantley on Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:21 AM
Breaking from CNN:
The United States ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, was killed in a rocket attack on the American consulate in the city of Benghazi on Tuesday, a contractor working at the mission said Wednesday after seeing Stevens's body.
UPDATE: More at NY Times.
UPDATE II: Mitt Romney naturally tried to immediately make political capital of the death and smirked about it in the process. Tone deaf. Unqualified to lead.
UPDATE III FROM CNN:
The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens was planned by attackers who used the protest outside the consulate as a diversion, U.S. sources say.The sources could not say whether the attackers instigated the protest or merely took advantage of it, and they say they don't believe Stevens was specifically targeted. Stevens and three other Americans suffocated trying to escape a fire after a grenade was thrown into the building, a senior U.S. official said.
London terror analysts speculated that Stevens was the victim of a targeted al Qaeda revenge attack. The assault "came to avenge the death of Abu Yaya al-Libi, al Qaeda's second in command killed a few months ago," the analysts said.
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