The “movie” was an excuse and the attack on our Libyan consulate was planned, claims one paper. The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been the result of a serious
Instead of questioning President Barack Obama about the intelligence and security failures that led to the deaths of four diplomatic personnel in Libya Tuesday, the media has focused its ire on a California private citizen. The filmmaker allegedly behind the
Today, the Independent is reporting shocking details about the attack on the Libyan consulate that resulted in the death of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. The details are so explosive that they will result in a Congressional investigation. In
Jimmy Carter sounds more confident in his assessment of our ally status with Egypt than the White House and State Department, who are currently publicly contradicting each other over the matter. (Gaffe?) President Carter spoke to Drake University in Des Moines and
The Cairo Embassy’s controversial statement about “abuse” of free speech was written by a senior public affairs officer and approved by the Chargé d’affaires. A draft of the statement was sent to the State Department; officials there recommended against it
President Obama compared his campaign volunteers to the murdered consulate staff in Libya at a Wednesday stump speech in Las Vegas: “And obviously [our] hearts are broken for the families but I wanted to encourage those folks at the State Dept.
Did the State Department ban Marines from carrying ammo at the U.S. embassy in Cairo? That’s what some are reporting, as well as claiming our Ambassador to Egypt, Anne Patterson, had forbidden it. U.S. Marines defending the American embassy in
The mainstream media are laboring hard to turn Gov. Mitt Romney’s strong defense of American interests and values into a “gaffe” that reflects the Obama campaign’s claim that Romney is somehow not ready for the foreign policy duties of the
US President Barack Obama said the killers of the American ambassador to Libya would be brought to justice, as the United States dispatched two destroyers and a unit of Marines to Libya. Tuesday’s assault on the Benghazi consulate followed a
During an interview aired on “60 Minutes,” President Obama attempted to deflect some of the heat off himself and onto the staff at the the U.S. embassy in Cairo. When he’s not throwing scapegoats under the bus he’s comparing his
Today, speaking about the despicable and stomach-wrenching attacks by Islamists on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and our embassy in Cairo, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked: “How could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city
MSM was furious with Mitt Romney today after he issued a strongly-worded condemnation of the state department’s initial apology and today criticized the Obama administration for attempting to placate our attackers. Romney didn’t apologize. He condemned. More importantly, he led.
On a target date like the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, it is quite the jaw-dropping revelation to learn that there were no Marines guarding the U. S. consulate where Chris Stevens, our ambassador to Libya, was brutally murdered yesterday: Marine Corps spokeswoman
(WaPo) — U.S. Ambassador to Libya John Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed Tuesday in an assault on the American consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi, the White House said. In a statement issued by the White
The U.S. embassy in Cairo issued apologetic statements on 9/11–both before and during attacks by a radical mob. Those statements, condemning the supposed abuse of free speech by Americans who had criticized Islam, were later disavowed by the White House–though
Early reports of the militant attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed our Ambassador, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans offer a confusing picture of the facts surrounding these murders. CBS News is reporting that Ambassador Stevens
US ambassador Chris Stevens had hailed the Libyan revolt that overthrew Moamer Kadhafi, but now appears to have been struck down in a rocket attack by forces unleashed after the strongman’s fall. Stevens was killed in an attack on the
(AP) US ambassador killed in consulate attack in LibyaBy ESAM MOHAMED and MAGGIE MICHAELAssociated PressTRIPOLI, LibyaThe U.S. ambassador to Libya and three American members of his staff were killed in the attack on the U.S. consulate in the eastern city
Following a White House disavowal of apologies by the U.S. embassy in Egypt on 9/11 for insulting Islam–a disavowal which was itself soon contradicted by the State Department–the embassy has begun deleting tweets from its Twitter feed (@USEmbassyCairo). The embassy–and
For the second time in as many weeks, the State Department has contradicted President Barack Obama, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton re-affirmed the apologetic stance disavowed earlier this evening by the White House in reacting to the storming of
The Obama Administration is letting Israel twist slowly in the wind. The Israeli government, desperately trying to convince the U.S. government to draw a line in the sand that Iran must not cross, is pleading to a president deaf, unconcerned,
Egypt’s ruling party, the extremist Muslim Brotherhood, blasted the United States after an angry Islamist mob stormed the U.S. embassy’s walls and shredded an American flag over alleged offenses in a film that no one can name. Said the spokesman
The Democratic National Convention, reeling from today’s chaotic fiasco surrounding the reinsertion of pro-Israel, pro-God language into the party platform, has announced that President Obama personally intervened to ensure that that language was revived. But Politico is now reporting that
Pipeline operator TransCanada on Wednesday offered to re-route its planned Keystone XL pipeline to avoid environmentally sensitive areas as it carries oil from Canada’s tar sands to US refineries. The new route was designed based on feedback from Nebraska’s environmental
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the number of farmers’ markets is up by 9.6% from last year, and in 2011, the number of farmers’ markets had increased by 17% from 2010. USDA administration states, “Farmers markets are a
