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Happened to our ambassador and our consulate in libya was as a result of a protest over an offensive movie, ask them why they think that. thats the first version of events we heard. that does not seem to explain what happened that night or by the facts or the more facts we get. one of the known local militants group which is maybe just an up umbrella group named a vaguely worded team of at least participation if not responsibility for the attack on the consulate. "the guardian" newspaper is repo...

An organized attack on the consulate." an organized attack. anybody who tells you that what happened to our ambassador and our consulate in libya was as a result of a protest over an offensive movie, ask them why they think that. thats the first version of events we heard. that does not seem to explain what happened that night or by the facts or the more facts we get. one of the known local militants group which is maybe just an up umbrella group named a vaguely worded team of at least participa...

Fact which may be even more significant, that this was the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. it may have been planned all along for that specific day, shep. >> shepard: jonathan, so many different conflicting, frankly, reports about how exactly our ambassador died. >> and one of the problems here, shep, is that there is a period of several hours between the last time ambassador stevens was seen by any other staff in that consulate and the time in which his body was returned to u.s. personnel at b...

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>> 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...

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