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Ayman mohyeldin is live in benghazi this morning. the investigation, i know all of your sources are indicating premeditation. the white house and the state department and even the intelligence sources on our end here in washington really pushing back hard saying they don't have evidence to back up the libyan claims. what do you hear? >> well, at this particular time it is difficult to marry the two together but what seems to possibly have happened is a hybrid of the two situations. as you mentioned, the libyan officials here on the ground are saying categorically that this was a preplanned att...

Rejected this attack. we've spoke to people from all walks of life, civil society and government. they're surprised, disappointed and angry. they say it does not represent libya's interests or the libyan people. there's a march this friday called save benghazi to get the people who fought for the revolution to come out and reclaim the city that many people here forgot over the last several months. the key issue really for the government that's now in place is trying to maintain law and ompl order. this is a city and country that has a security vacuum. in this city alone there are 25 to 30 mili...

You mentioned, where they were trying to better their lives but unfortunately their lives ended very -- at a very young age. andrea. >> atia abuoy in kabul. >> the attacks in benghazi, amman moya dean. we've seen what susan rice said to david gregory on "meet the press" saying this was spontaneous and what the libyan officials said to you, this was a planned attack with al qaeda influence? >> that's correct. libyan officials are not holding back the idea that two things happened here. one a group of foreign elements entered libya over the last several months as a result of the security vacuum ...

Having said that then, with the spontaneous outbreak of anger and pro-est that happened outside the u.s. consulate on tuesday, september 11th, they may have felt that was the right time to strike. there was a sense of chaos, sympathy to these protesters, the security at the compound may have been a little bit more lax they decided to strike at that precise moment. right now, what we are hearing, according to libyan officials is this was something that was set in the motion. people here on the ground wanted to exploit the security vacuum to carry out ate tack and something thatting anered many ...

Missions including the british ambassador or diplomat here and other foreigners. for them that was an indication something brewing, troubling taking place in post-revolutionary libya. the time and the specifics of when an attack might have been put in motion to be carried out against the u.s. facility is the central question as to whether or not this was in the eyes of u.s. officials a preplanned attack or as a result of a spontaneous outburst of anger. we've heard u.s. officials say they had no actionable intelligence. the central question between the libyan and u.s. officials as we understan...