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U.S. description of Benghazi attacks, at first cautious, changed after 3 days

In the first 48 hours after the deadly Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. diplomatic outposts in Libya, senior Obama administration officials strongly alluded to a terrorist assault and repeatedly declined to link it to an anti-Muslim video that drew protests elsewhere in the region, transcripts of briefings show. | 10/18/12 19:20:36 By - By Hannah Allam and Jonathan S. Landay

Benghazi consulate attack couldn’t have been stopped, security official testifies

Higher walls and a half-dozen extra guards couldn’t have stopped the Sept. 11 assault by scores of attackers on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that left the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans dead, the State Department’s former security chief for Libya told Congress Wednesday at a hearing surcharged with election-year politics. | 10/10/12 19:50:17 By - By Jonathan S. Landay

State Department rejected request for beefed-up security in Libya, official says

The State Department withdrew U.S. security personnel from Libya just weeks before suspected Islamist extremists killed the U.S. ambassador there despite warnings from the U.S. Embassy that the Libyan government couldn’t protect foreign diplomats, according to an email released Tuesday. | 10/09/12 19:06:32 By - By Jonathan S. Landay

Romney foreign-policy speech takes tough tone but proposes few changes

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney slammed his rival’s international strategy as weak Monday in a speech at Virginia Military Institute. But many of the remarks in his critique didn’t pass the truth test, and despite his tough tone, the foreign-policy positions he outlined hewed close to those already held by President Barack Obama. | 10/08/12 18:38:08 By - By Lindsay Wise and Jonathan S. Landay

Pakistan freed of anti-terrorism obligations; U.S. billions flow instead

The Obama administration has refused for the first time to declare that Pakistan is making progress toward ending alleged military support for Islamic militant groups or preventing al Qaida, the Afghan Taliban or other extremists from staging attacks in Afghanistan. | 10/05/12 18:54:52 By - By Jonathan S. Landay

State Department delay cited in seeking Pentagon protection for FBI agents in Libya

The State Department took nearly three weeks to formally request U.S. military protection for FBI agents assigned to investigate the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which killed the U.S. ambassador to that country and three other Americans, according to a senior U.S. official and a person familiar with the matter. | 10/04/12 20:38:18 By - By Matthew Schofield and Jonathan S. Landay

Records: California GOP’s Maldonado raised thousands on day of party family firm deducted from federal taxes

California Republican congressional candidate Abel Maldonado Jr. raised $35,500 for a state re-election race on the same day as a party in his honor that his family’s business later claimed as a business expense on its federal income tax return, state election finance records show. | 10/03/12 16:56:05 By - By Jonathan S. Landay

Intelligence office says it got Libya attack wrong, not White House

Extremists from groups linked to al Qaida struck the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in a “deliberate and organized terrorist attack,” the top U.S. intelligence agency said Friday, as it took responsibility for the Obama administration’s initial claims that the deadly assault grew from a spontaneous protest against an anti-Islam video. | 09/28/12 19:22:50 By - By Jonathan S. Landay and Lesley Clark

At UN, Netanyahu calls for ‘clear red line’ on Iran

Armed with a cartoon-like picture of a smoldering bomb, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Thursday on the world to set a “clear red line” on Iran’s enrichment of uranium, warning that Iran must be stopped before it accumulates enough material to produce warhead fuel. | 09/27/12 21:06:47 By - By Jonathan S. Landay and Hannah Allam

Clinton ties North African militants to attack on U.S. diplomats

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday tied the attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya to the creation of an al Qaida haven in Mali, adding that Islamist militants there pose a threat to democratic transitions throughout northern Africa. | 09/26/12 21:10:44 By - By Hannah Allam and Jonathan S. Landay

Ahmadinejad: We are ready to defend ourselves

On what is expected to be his last visit to the United States as president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday offered an expansive view of his nation’s place in history while dismissing Israel’s long-term viability as a state and its threat to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities. | 09/24/12 18:19:14 By - By James Asher and Jonathan S. Landay

U.S. official calls Benghazi consulate assault ‘terrorist attack’ amid tough questioning over security

The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that last week’s assault on the U.S. consulate compound in Benghazi that left the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans dead was a “terrorist attack” apparently launched by local Islamic militants and foreigners linked to al Qaida’s leadership or regional allies. | 09/19/12 20:32:14 By - By Jonathan S. Landay

U.S., Libyan officials offer vastly different version of Benghazi consulate attack that killed 4

U.S. and Libyan officials are giving significantly different accounts of the gunfire and rocket-propelled grenade attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans. | 09/17/12 18:51:23 By - By Jonathan S. Landay

U.S. push to put diplomats in danger zones challenges security

The Bush administration called it “transformational diplomacy,” an initiative that sent U.S. diplomats into war zones and other trouble spots to promote democracy and U.S. interests. But this week’s attacks on U.S. missions across the Muslim world and the killing of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya highlight the deadly risks and high costs involved. | 09/14/12 19:53:03 By - By Jonathan S. Landay

Islamists targeted U.S. diplomats with gunfire, RPGs in planned assault, witness says

The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other American officials died in a coordinated assault on the U.S. consulate by gunmen firing assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades and carrying the black flag of an Islamic extremist group, the property’s landlord said Wednesday. | 09/14/12 00:01:38 By - Nancy A. Youssef, Suliman Ali Zway and Jonathan S. Landay

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