The team then decided to return to the annex with the survivors and Smith's body. Ricks accused the network of covering the story more than it needed to be. At least 75 people were killed in militia clashes in Benghazi on May 16 and 17, and 140 were injured. On September 11, 2012, the Islamic militant group, Ansar al-Sharia, attacked the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya. Share this via Printer. Share this via Telegram [113] It was later reported that 3 operatives from the group did take part in the attack. [50] Just four days later, a similar bomb was thrown at a four-vehicle convoy carrying the United Nations Special Envoy to Libya, exploding twelve feet (3.7m) from the United Nations envoy's vehicle without injuring anyone. Watch highlights from the House hearing about an attack in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012, when Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary of state. When Johnson pressed her to explain why, in the immediate aftermath, no one from the State Department had asked American evacuees if there had been a protest before the attack, Clinton replied: With all due respect, the fact is, we had four dead Americans! June 17, 2014. [60][61], On June 18, 2012, the Tunisian Consulate in Benghazi was attacked by individuals affiliated with Ansar al-Sharia, allegedly because of "attacks by Tunisian artists against Islam". For example, Hassan al-Bakush, a young journalist with a local TV station, survived two assassination attempts in Benghazi this May. "Many Libyans believe that unrest in their country is in part the work of Gaddafi's loyalists who want to undermine efforts to rebuild the country after last year's ruinous civil war," said the AP. [39] During the war, elite counterterrorist operators from the United States Delta Force were deployed to Libya as analysts, instructing the rebels on specifics about weapons and tactics. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, intelligence about who carried it out and why was contradictory, the report found. [234], Robert Gates, former CIA director and Defense Secretary under Republican Presidents and then President Obama, said that some critics of the government's response have a "cartoonish" view of military capabilities. By the end of 2012, Eric J. Boswell, the Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security, resigned under pressure, while three others were suspended. There are three Coptic Churches in Libya, one in Tripoli, one in Benghazi, and one in Misurata. [40]:31, On the day of the attack, two consulate security guards spotted a man in a Libyan police uniform taking pictures of the consulate with his cell phone from a nearby building that was under construction. 30,000 Libyans marched through Benghazi condemning Ansar al-Sharia, which had been formed during the 2011 Libyan civil war to topple Muammar Gaddafi. But that has now changed: The victims now include journalists and activists who opposed former dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi during the 2011 uprising, but who dare to criticize the militias, Libya's new masters. 6 of 30 7 of 30 A man looks at documents at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. An error occurred while subscribing your email address. The government formed a "National Mobile Force" for the purpose of evicting illegal militias. 2:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (8:30 p.m. Benghazi time): U.S. In May, retired Gen. Khalifa Haftar took matters into his own hands, launching "Operation Dignity" -- an armed campaign aimed at fighting Islamist militia "terrorists," and thus ending the bloodshed. [65], The desire of the State Department to maintain a low profile in Benghazi has been cited as the reason why the State Department circumvented their own Overseas Security Policy Board (OSPB) standards for diplomatic security. Hayes argues that there's "the real Benghazi" the actual city in Libya, a place where things of real concern like the 9/11/12 attack happen and "#Benghazi," which he defines as "the world . [228] Representative Mike Rogers (R-MI), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who on September 13 said that the attacks had all the hallmarks of a coordinated attack by al-Qaeda,[229] has questioned whether there were any protests at all in Benghazi, saying: "I have seen no information that shows that there was a protest going on as you have seen around any other embassy at the time. On May 19, militias said to be from the western city of Zintan joined Haftar's campaign and attacked the parliament building in Tripoli, resulting in at least four dead and 90 injured. [232][233] Romney was accused by the Obama campaign of trying to exploit the attacks for political gain, leading the father of Ambassador Stevens to call for both campaigns to avoid making it a campaign issue. [51], In May 2012, an Al-Qaida affiliate calling itself the "Brigades of the Imprisoned Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman" claimed responsibility for an attack on the International Red Cross (ICRC) office in Benghazi. At least 48 people were killed in ensuing clashes, which have yielded neither an investigation nor any prosecutions. The GNC also failed to reverse a 2012 law that grants immunity from prosecution for acts "promoting or protecting the [2011] revolution," which in practice propagated a culture of impunity and selective justice. The State Department said that some time between 10:15 p.m. and 11:20 p.m . Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton loomed large in the House Republican probe of the deaths of the U.S. ambassador to Libya in the Benghazi attack. Using these talking points as a guide, Rice stated: Based on the best information we have to date, what our assessment is as of the present is in fact what began spontaneously in Benghazi as a reaction to what had transpired some hours earlier in Cairo where, of course, as you know, there was a violent protest outside of our embassysparked by this hateful video. [58], British Ambassador to Libya Dominic Asquith survived an assassination attempt in Benghazi on June 10, 2012. On September 12, U.S. President Barack Obama condemned "this outrageous attack" on U.S. diplomatic facilities[173] and stated that "since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. 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And the growing impunity only fuels the violence. Chris Hondros. [75] He hit the alarm and started shouting, "Attack! This assessment may change as additional information is collected and analyzed and as currently available information continues to be evaluated. Freedom of Information Act requests have been made since the attack. There are indications that extremists participated in the violent demonstrations. A taxi driver in Tripoli told me recently he "hated Qaddafi," but wished for a Qaddafi to bring back some order. [123][124] Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi had called for release of the Blind Sheikh in his inaugural address. 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Sensitive documents remained missing, including documents listing the names of Libyans working with the Americans, and documents relating to oil contracts. Diplomatic security agent David Ubben located Smith,[85] who was unconscious and later declared dead, but the team was unable to find Stevens in the smoke-filled building. and cars are engulfed in flames after being set on fire inside the U.S. consulate compound in Benghazi, Libya . And make no mistake, justice will be done. "[212] When Romney challenged Obama, asking "You said in the Rose Garden the day after the attack, it was an act of terror. [162][163] At least 10 people were killed and dozens more wounded as militiamen fired on demonstrators at the headquarters of Sahaty Brigade, a pro-government militia "operating under the authority of the ministry of defence". [186][187][188][189][190], Since Rice's five television appearances, there have been persistent accusations that she had intentionally and repeatedly lied. The first shots exploded around 9:40 p.m. On Sept. 11, 2012, a group of local fighters, AK-47s in hand, burst through the fortified front gate of a US outpost in Benghazi, Libya. Please give now to support our work. "Citizen groups," mostly former soldiers and lumpenproletariat, joined in and began guerrilla actions against Libya Dawn in Benghazi. [129][130], However, this assessment contradicted the assessment of CIA analysts, which through September 16 maintained that "the demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo," at which violent protesters had scaled the embassy walls. The four men were killed on Sept. 11, 2012, when a coalition of extremists attacked U.S. facilities in Benghazi. [167], Handling the militias had been difficult as the government had been forced to rely on some of them for protection and security. Libyan security forces used water cannons and rubber bullets against the crowds, resulting in a number of injuries. [119][120][121] CNN,[119] the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,[122] Commentary Magazine[121] and The Daily Telegraph[120] have listed this group as a chief suspect. [59] The British Foreign Office withdrew all consular staff from Benghazi in late June 2012. Our Sources. This nostalgic thinking is not unique, and could derail Libya's progress. These accusations were widely shared across various blogs and social media platforms. [219] The incident prompted Republican Rep. Allen West to claim that the illness was a ruse intended to avoid testifying. [113] Furthermore, an intercepted phone call from the Benghazi area immediately after the attack reportedly linked senior Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar to the attack. | Getty Images By Josh Gerstein 10/10/2017 03 . No casualties were reported. 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After the attack, all diplomatic staff were moved to the capital, Tripoli, with nonessential personnel to be flown out of Libya. "[214], On October 19, 2012, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) came under fire from intelligence officials in the Obama administration when he posted, on a public website, 166 pages of sensitive but unclassified State Department communications related to Libya. Follow on Twitter @hananHRW, Lebanons Failure on the Right to Electricity, Digital Targeting and Its Offline Consequences for LGBT People in the Middle East and North Africa, Human Rights Watch defends the rights of people in close to 100 countries worldwide, spotlighting abuses and bringing perpetrators to justice. Popular protests against the militias have only led to more bloodshed. The latest incident took place on 28 November 2017, when Zawiyat Sheikha Radiya Mosque - a historic Sufi site in the capital Tripoli - was torched by unknown attackers. [249][250] In an interview with the Associated Press, Fox News' White House correspondent Ed Henry suggested that he thought Benghazi was being covered too much by the network. Other ways to share [22] In her role as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton subsequently took responsibility for the security lapses. [247][248], On November 26, 2012, journalist Tom Ricks went on Fox News' Happening Now with Jon Scott to discuss the attack. Total figures of victims are hard to come by under the current situation of lawlessness. State Department officials said they do not know who took Stevens to the hospital or transported the body to the airport and into U.S. In a phone call with the Egyptian prime minister Kandil the day after the attack, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said "we know the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. [40]:58[44], There was some baseless speculation that the diplomatic post in Benghazi was used by the CIA to smuggle weapons from Libya to anti-Assad rebels in Syria. [162][163] Some militia members accused the protestors of being Gaddafi loyalists, looking to disarm the militias in the wake of the revolution. April 27, 2011 / 4:03 PM / CBS/AP. For example, the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee "did not conclude that Rice or any other government official acted in bad faith or intentionally misled the American people," according to the Associated Press. He blamed the police and interior ministry's lack of authority to conduct arrests for the stalled justice process, but assured us the investigations were "ongoing.". [83][84] The Regional Security Office sounded the alarm and called to the Benghazi CIA annex and the embassy in Tripoli. And at the same time, we expect the world to cooperate with us to confront to what is meant out of this kind of act of cowardice. This investigation also failed to find any evidence of wrongdoing by senior Obama administration officials. [13][14] The Libyan Government condemned the attacks and took steps to disband the militias. At the same time, a JSOC operator was using a hand-held device displaying images from a Predator drone above, which had been sent by the DOD's US Africa Command after request. The CIA, which made up most of the U.S. government's presence in Benghazi, had a ten-member security team at its annex and the State Department believed that this team would assist the consulate in the event of an attack. Previous reports have found that requests for security improvements were not acted upon in Washington. It was clearly designed to be an attack. The fighter planes based in Aviano were unarmed and no aerial refueling planes were within a 10-hour flight to the base. "[230] According to critics, the consulate site should have been secured better both before and after the attack. 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