Saturday, October 27, 2012

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: Benghazi Attack: Libyan Witnesses Recount Organized Assault

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Benghazi Attack: Libyan Witnesses Recount Organized Assault
Oct 28th 2012, 01:11

TRIPOLI, Libya -- It began around nightfall on Sept. 11 with around 150 bearded gunmen, some wearing the Afghan-style tunics favored by Islamic militants, sealing off the streets leading to the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. They set up roadblocks with pick-up trucks mounted with heavy machine guns, according to witnesses.

The trucks bore the logo of Ansar al-Shariah, a powerful local group of Islamist militants who worked with the municipal government to manage security in Benghazi, the main city in eastern Libya and birthplace of the uprising last year that ousted Moammar Gadhafi after a 42-year dictatorship.

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