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, a presidential probable for Democrats, has said that she never fully believed that the Benghazi terror attack was triggered by a protest over a movie that insults Islam's most revered figure of Prophet Mohammed.
The surprising remark from the former secretary of state came even as the State Department had pushed that narrative for days when she was at the helm.
In a sit-down interview with Fox News, Clinton suggested Tuesday that she had doubts from the outset about the theory of connecting the anti-Islam movie and the deadly attack on the US mission in Benghazi that killed four Americans including Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
"This was the fog of war," Clinton said, as she was asked about the administration's disputed explanation of the strike that marred her record as the top American diplomat.
It also poses one of the biggest hurdles in the way of the likely Democrat presidential hopeful to run for the post in 2016.
"My own assessment careened from the video had something to do with it, the video had nothing to do with it -- it may have affected some people, it didn't affect other people," she said in the interview with Fox News' Bret Baier and Greta Van Susteren.
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The Fox news suggested that Clinton appeared to "offer a nuanced explanation for how her department came to initially embrace the video explanation".
She said was she personally unsure about what caused the violence. "I was trying to make sense of it," Clinton said, referring to intelligence community talking points citing the video.
The State Department put out a statement immediately after the Sep 11, 2012 attack on a diplomatic and CIA compound citing "inflammatory material posted on the Internet".
In a separate interview with the CNN, Clinton welcomed the capture of a suspected criminal mastermind of the assault, Ahmed Abu Khattala, who was placed in durance vile
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by a US team over the weekend. He was being brought back to the US where he faces criminal prosecution.
In the CNN interview, Clinton said that she was still looking for many answers to solve the mystery behind the attack.
"There are answers, not all of them, not enough, frankly," she said.
"I'm still looking for answers, because it was a confusing and difficult time."
Clinton said the arrest of suspect Khattala in Libya may help the US better understand what prompted the attacks.
"We want to know who was behind it, what the motivation of the leaders and the attackers happened to be," she said. "There are still some unanswered questions. It was, after all, the fog of war."
