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Hillary’s opening statement on Benghazi: “I take responsibility”

Allahpundit — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:31:24 +0000

The buck stops here-ish.

As was true the first time she issued a mea culpa over Benghazi, in no way will she accept actual responsibility for what happened replete with specifics about her own failings. That could damage her presidential prospects. A vacant buck-stops-here statement, by contrast, will enhance them because the American public likes when its politicians engage [...]

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House intel chair: We knew “something big” was coming before Algerian hostage crisis

Ed Morrissey — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:01:47 +0000

"Just like the Benghazi event, we had lots of threat streams..."

Did the US get caught by surprise by the al-Qaeda attack on an Algerian natural-gas facility? Not entirely, as ABC News reports. While the US government insisted that AQ has been “decimated,” the House Intelligence Committee had been alerted to “lots of threat streams” about pending attacks in the North Africa region. Unfortunately, we didn’t [...]

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CBS: Algeria hostage situation “deteriorating”; Update: Terrorists claim helicopter strafing killed 34 hostages

Ed Morrissey — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:37:23 +0000

20 escaped, including Americans.

CBS reports that the hostage situation at an Algerian natural-gas facility may be deteriorating — but for whom? Twenty hostages have escaped, according to the AP, including some of the Americans, but the Algerian military wounded two Japanese hostages in an attempt to end the standoff with Islamist terrorists. Al Jazeera spoke with the terrorists, [...]

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Report: Multiple Americans among hostages held by jihadis after BP plant is seized over France’s Mali intervention; Update: Malian government asked U.S. to intervene last week

Allahpundit — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:13:45 +0000

Crisis.

The number of Americans could be as high as seven but the State Department hasn’t specified yet. Two workers, one British and one French, are reportedly already dead. Algeria’s a clever choice of targets, not only because France is using the country’s airspace for strikes in Mali but because putting Algerians at risk over French [...]

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