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So the country is on high alert and americans are told to be cognizant of their personal security and that includes the consulate compound. theyre telling turkey to remove its troops stationed near mosul. theyve summoned the ambassador back to baghdad. how is turkey responding to that? >> reporter: you know, its interesting. what were hearing from the turkish authorities is that they did have permission to go in not only from the local government there but from the central government as well. ...

At the same time the alert goes out at the state department announcing an attack, the cia security team taking heavy fire heads to the consulate. 10:30 p.m. libya time, ambassador stevens and diplomat sean smith take refuge in the consulate compound. the militants set fire to the consulate. the smoke killing ambassador smith in minutes. meanwhile back in washington, d.c. at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. defense secretary leon panetta, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff martin dempsey attending a pr...

No one responds. at the same time the alert goes out at the state department announcing an attack, the cia security team taking heavy fire heads to the consulate. 10:30 p.m. libya time, ambassador stevens and diplomat sean smith take refuge in the consulate compound. the militants set fire to the consulate. the smoke killing ambassador smith in minutes. meanwhile back in washington, d.c. at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. defense secretary leon panetta, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff martin demps...

Of or chess straighting the attacks on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, today was his second court appearance. according to court documents filed by the justice department, khattala described as being motivated by an extremist ideology provided u.s. interrogators with volume tear statements corroborating key facts. evidence that khattala expressed concern and opposition to the presence of an american facility in benghazi in the days leading up to the attack and night of the attack, he entered the...

Arwa damon is in beirut. you were in benghazi. you were there on the scene within a few days of the killing of ambassador stevens and the three other americans. we all remember you found together with your team over there found ambassador stevens diary. just remind our viewers what you saw there. because based on everything i remember talking to you at the time, it was pretty clear to you this was a sophisticated attack. it wasnt some sort of spontaneous demonstration that occurred similar to wh...

Information that this cable reveals. a number of explanations come to mind. to me its the ide log call explanation that the war on -- ideological explanation that war on terror is over and al-qaeda is defeated. >> multiple sources on the ground tell fox news low level improvements made at the consulate compound, adding barbed wire. separately in column at the "washington times" retired admiral who once commanded pacific fleet criticized administration lack of action when the consulate came under...

Into the night on september 11th, the white house national security staff was receiving updates that the second wave of the attack had begun with mortar strikes on the annex what we now know to be the cia outpost a mile from the consulate compound. the status reads in part quote d.s. reports the chief of mission personnel in benghazi is under attack by mortar fire. there are reports of injuries to come staff. military experts tell fox the mortar fire is literally the smoking gun piece of evidenc...

Analysts still arent sure exactly what led to that attack on the compound in benghazi, and if mitt romney tries to claim otherwise, hes going against our most senior intelligence people. >> well, governor romney seems to be making the point that it had nothing to do with the video, the anti-islamic video that came out of los angeles. did it have something to do with that according to best intel zm. >> chris, let me tell you what i heard from the intelligence officials and then you and your viewe...

Working in tactical operation center immediately activated the imminent danger notification system. >> state department official lamb was working that night in washington. so she could follow the events in real-time. >> also alerted the quick reaction security team stationed nearby. libyan 17th brigade, embassy in tripoli and the diplomatic security command center in washington. >> back here in the main residence, the special agent reportedly comes here and gets ambassador stevens from his bedro...

>> there was a lot of information. >> bret: we begin the story in the winter of 2011. a year before wood arrives in libya. colonel is still in power. the u.s. state department withdraws the personnel from the capital. sick weeks later, april 5, 2011, it sends stevens with a 12-man team by chartered boat to benghazi. now under rebel control. as special representative to the rebels. stevens set up shop in hotel. june 1, 2011, car bomb explodes in a parking lot in front of the hotel. in august, ste...