Officials believe embassy attack in Libya was coordinated

J.J. Green
wtop.com
September 12, 2012

Intelligence experts and U.S. government officials are starting to view the attack in Libya that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others in Benghazi as a coordinated attack.

Sources at the Pentagon and the State Department are discussing the possibility that it was a planned operation.

Several developments seem to support the possibility. The incident does not appear to be a random mob scene, but rather an opportunity that militants seized, sources say. The attackers used a rocket-propelled grenade, a weapon not traditionally carried by protesters, but commonly used by terrorists.

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This article was posted: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at 11:54 am

Tags: foreign affairs, terrorism, war

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