Car Bombing In Libya Kills At Least 15 Outside Benghazi Hospital
Libya officials say 15 people were killed, including three children, when a car bomb exploded in the eastern city of Benghazi Monday.
Libya officials say 15 people were killed, including three children, when a car bomb exploded in the eastern city of Benghazi Monday.
The U.S. is basically an overcompensating, attention-seeking brat.
“The fact is they’re terrorists, they’re extremists, they have designs on overthrowing existing governments, even these new Islamist governments.”
A report out Tuesday night details the State Department’s failings surrounding the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya. “System failures” and “management deficiencies.”
Ayotte says she will hold the nomination until all of her questions have been answered. A harsher tone from the GOP after recent hedging.
The potential secretary of state nominee aims to win hearts and minds on Capitol Hill. Rice and McCain will sit down Tuesday, joined by Ayotte and Graham.
Perhaps the Fox News producers didn’t care for writer Tom Ricks’s accusations that the network is “operating as the wing of the Republican Party.” (via https:)
An extremist Salafist militia posted pictures of a group of men it had captured over the weekend. The men are being threatened with mutilation and execution.
Sometimes Congressional hearings are enlightening exercises in which lawmakers get to the bottom of difficult issues. Thursday’s Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the Benghazi terrorist attack was not one of those hearings.
The candidate doesn’t want to talk Benghazi. But conservatives, and his surrogates, do.
A tale of two side-issues.
Former Ambassador to India Tim Roemer says Romney can’t pass the commander in chief test.
A quick reversal of spin-room bravado. “You’d think an ‘offensive’ would include more than a web video,” snipes an Obama aide.
Libya.
Says GOP efforts to politicize deaths of four Americans is a “disgrace.”
The Secretary of State commented to CNN that she was taking responsibility for the lack of security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi before the attacks.
Clinton gave her first major remarks on Libya since Oct. 3 this morning. House Republicans still not satisfied.
Hillary Clinton’s State Department stonewalls a victim’s mother, while tossing the White House under the bus. But is the press giving Libya big enough play?
Though it runs a little long, the Heritage Foundation’s excellently crafted new video is worth a watch for anybody who’s a fan of political attack ads — or wondering why the Obama Administration is facing so much criticism in the aftermath of the Benghazi attack.
Boots on the ground would break with Obama’s policy. “While drones and drone attacks are worthwhile…”
He made the case for Libya intervention, now he says he knew all along. Prediction: He will not acknowledge the contradiction.
American fast-food chains were vandalized and set ablaze Friday in Tripoli. Part of the ongoing unrest in the Middle East over a U.S. filmmaker’s offensive Muhammed movie.
The White House press secretary addressed a report in the British press that the U.S. had prior intelligence of an attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya saying the report was false.
It’s Bachmann’s week as Islamic fundamentalism is once again a hot-button issue.
At a Virginia rally, the Republican tries to honor the slain diplomats in Libya, but a protester won’t stop yelling. “I would offer a moment of silence but one gentleman doesn’t want to be silent,” Romney says.
“This is not how we thank who helped us when we needed help the most.” This time, the peaceful demonstrations were in Tripoli. (See photos from Benghazi, where attacks left four Americans dead, including popular U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.)
Mysteries swirl over an anti-Islamic movie.
A peaceful demonstration from Benghazi, the Libyan city where a U.S. ambassador was killed in a consulate attack Tuesday. “Chris Stevens was a friend to all Libyans.” (via facebook.com)
The clumsy dubbing suggests that the footage comes from different films entirely. And there’s no way that it cost $5 million to make.
The president said he would work with the Libyan government in “bringing to justice the killers that attacked our people.”