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U.S. Senate Report: Benghazi Attacks Were Preventable
[An Nahar] The U.S. government could have prevented deadly attacks on its mission in the Libyan city of Benghazi by fixing "known security shortfalls," a damning Senate report concluded Wednesday.Four American citizens, including Ambassador Chris Stephens, died in the double attack targeting a U.S. diplomatic facility and the nearby CIA annex on September 11, 2012. A Senate Intelligence Committee inquiry held hearings and interviewed dozens of witnesses, against a back-drop of partisan point-scoring from both sides of Washington's political divide. Some Republican politicians accuse President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... of concealing evidence that al- Qaeda-linked jihadi groups were behind the outrage and of failing to properly protect the outpost. Obama's administration initially suggested the attacks were a spontaneous protest by Benghazi residents angered by a privately-made American anti-Islamic film posted online. Wednesday's bipartisan report emphasized the security shortfalls that allowed protesters and armed Death Eaters to storm Stephen's Benghazi compound and to torch the U.S. residence. Posted by: Fred 2014-01-16 |
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