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Topic: US only ´advises´ against traveling to Benghazi while other countries say get out ´immediately´ from Libyan city as ´imminent and specific´ terror threat emerges |
US only ´advises´ against traveling to Benghazi while other countries say get out ´immediately´ from Libyan city as ´imminent and specific´ terror threat emerges
Associated Press, Daily Mail, by Staff
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 1/24/2013 4:58:56 PM
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| The State Department has only ´advised´ Americans against traveling to the Libyan city of Benghazi even after Britain, Germany and the Netherlands today urged their citizens to immediately leave the in response to what was described as an imminent threat against Westerners. The US pointed to a travel advisory issued earlier this month and did not strengthen its warning even after the European countries issued statements variously describing the threat as specific and imminent but none gave details as to its exact nature. The warnings come a day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testified to Congress about
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jubilationtcornpone, 1/24/2013 5:08:09 PM (No. 9137269)
Thanks for the advisory. What does it matter?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
sternben, 1/24/2013 5:11:18 PM (No. 9137278)
I guess I´ll skip Bengazi and go to Las Vegas instead.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
sternben, 1/24/2013 5:12:11 PM (No. 9137281)
Left out the "h".
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Mike PHX, 1/24/2013 5:20:42 PM (No. 9137297)
"And, please, if you run into Ambassador Stevens, please ask him to check in. We haven´t heard from him in months!"
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 1/24/2013 5:47:02 PM (No. 9137360)
Isn´t it ironic that hillary said, yesterday, that security matters are left to the professionals? And the four professionals who apparently made the benghazi decisions are on paid leave only because she thinks they cannot be fired outright?
If nothing else, the one thing that I took away from her testimony is that while she traveled a million miles, and visited 114 countries, no one at State was in charge of the store. That was shocking. And more shocking was the unearned praise heaped on her by the bootlicking democrats and even a few republicans.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Dante, 1/24/2013 5:47:45 PM (No. 9137363)
As usual, the worthless Zero administration chooses the world of their own delusions over the reality slapping them in the face.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 1/24/2013 5:57:46 PM (No. 9137389)
After all that has happened, I can´t believe that there are still westerners there in the Benghazi area. They have to be liberals. Conservatives can´t be that dumb can they?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
nonsense, 1/24/2013 6:01:17 PM (No. 9137396)
Just more proof that America´s Leaders hate Americans. Didn´t someone important just put his hand on a bible and swear to "protect and defend". Of course, "what does it matter"...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
gabula, 1/24/2013 6:07:59 PM (No. 9137407)
Oh probably another "cable" she didn´t read. and to the above poster, "to the best of my ability"..... guess since what is, is, we have to parse every word!!!!
Gabula
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
neanderthal, 1/24/2013 6:42:56 PM (No. 9137449)
What difference does it make?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 1/24/2013 7:52:54 PM (No. 9137552)
Actually, the Under Secretary of State for security and counter-terrorism was quite busy in her co-responsibilities for Human Rights. She was busy with Hillary protecting the ever popular rights of the LGBT community in Muslim countries. Check the State Department site for Maria Otero.
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