Obama Administration Officials Say Attack in Libya May Have Been Planned
The Obama administration suspects that the fiery attack in Libya that killed the
American ambassador and three other diplomats may have been planned rather than
a spontaneous mob getting out of control, American officials said Wednesday.
Officials in Washington studying the events of the past 24 hours have focused on
the differences between the protests on the American embassy in Cairo and the
attack on the consulate in Benghazi, the Libyan city where Ambassador J.
Christopher Stevens and the other Americans were killed.
The protesters in Cairo appeared to be a genuinely spontaneous unarmed mob
angered by an anti-Islam video produced in the United States. By contrast, it
appeared the attackers in Benghazi were armed with mortars and rocket-propelled
grenades. Intelligence reports are inconclusive at this point, officials said,
but indications suggest the possibility that an organized group had either been
waiting for an opportunity to exploit like the protests over the video or
perhaps even generated the protests as a cover for their attack.
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