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Illuminating the Structure: Intelligence in the Development of CT Strategy Peter J. Munson Tue, 11/13/2012 - 5:30am

From the outset, the U.S. treated Al Qaeda as a military objective instead of an organization to be understood, penetrated, and permanently dismantled. 

Not a Mob... a Battle

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 6:48pm

Spencer Ackerman provides a good first summation of an extended, coordinated attack that killed the US Ambassador to Libya at the Danger Room blog.

 

It was not a simple mob that attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Tuesday, killing four Americans. Benghazi was the scene of a pitched battle, one in which unknown Libyan assailants besieged American diplomats with small-arms fire for over four hours, repelling several attempts by U.S. personnel to regain control of it.

Nor was what happened in Benghazi a simple story of Americans assaulted by the Libyans they helped to liberate from Moammar Gadhafi last year, American officials say. Libyan security forces and a sympathetic local militia helped the Americans to suppress the attack and get the diplomats inside to safety.

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